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Yes they have a reputation for merciless shuttering of services, but come on. What is ample time for a company that hired a webdev one time to build them a static website and never…

> I also believe you have to follow the Greek Orthodox religion to be able to visit - they might make some rare exceptions. You need a permit (effectively, a visa) to enter the pen…

I've never seen a moped that you could pedal like a bike even in a photo. As an example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puch_Maxi

The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later) UK MHRA: Dec 2. US FDA: Dec 11. European EMA/EC: Dec 21. Months later? Hyperbole doesn't help your ar…

There is a perception that D has shot its bolt, having been around for quite some time without making a noticeable impact, either by itself or by influencing the mainstream.

This seems to be veering in the direction of the Land of Moved Goalposts and Non-Sequiturs, but I'm game for one more round, because lockdown. It's rather unlikely that the first i…

> Nothing in the documentation hinted that this was a feature of systemd anywhere Nothing except three paragraphs in systemd.service(5) (TimeoutStartSec=, TimeoutStopSec=, TimeoutS…

Cyclists in Amsterdam don't wear helmets as a rule -- YouTube is chock full of videos of Amsterdam bicycle traffic, so you can see for yourself. Therefore, it's not surprising that…

> Armchair analysis based on sparse information That's internet in a nutshell, and HN is not that different despite pretensions to the contrary. What partly redeems it is the bette…

> The Governor claims he never attended a meeting. Wouldn't this be an easy item to fact check by getting records of meeting attendees? That meeting was probably never on the offic…

> Obama not just invaded other countries, he also was bold enough to accept Nobel Peace award for it. I think your timeline is a bit scrambled. Obama got the Nobel Peace (or rather…

> Oddly, the linked keyboard doesn't appear to have a tab key but the Vi source code you found contains them? Am I missing something obvious? Vi has the insert-mode commands for in…

> "How do we close a statement.... errr. Let's spell it backwards". That's on the original Bourne shell and its author's evident love for Algol 68. Wikipedia has a fine summary.

> Sounds like UK… Britannia Hospital?

In those cases, the switched-to architecture could emulate the previous one with acceptable performance. For the hypothetical amd64 -> aarch64 transition, I'm unaware of the existe…

With certs that short-lived, you're just reinventing Kerberos, badly.

A lot of developers can surely get by with a QEMU RISC-V image, which exists and is known to boot at least Fedora.

> Fusion has no toxic or radioactive bioproducts. D-T fusion, which is the easiest to achieve and perhaps sustain, directly produces He nuclei (that is, alpha particles) and rather…

> C++ at least has extern "C" going for it, which disables name mangling. Rust doesn't have that It does, it's called "#[no_mangle]", and together with an extern "C" fn declaration…

Uber's system could obviously brake but not 'emergency brake'? There are two systems in the vehicle. One is the manufacturer's, let's call it System V after Volvo, and the other is…

Ah, a kindred spirit. I detest forced cheerfulness that is so frequently required from public-facing workers. Be neutral. Be professional. Don't be hostile. That's all acceptable. …