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tmtvl

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About tmtvl

Mantis fist practitioner living in Belgium. Daily driving GNU/Linux since 2012. Interested in C, Scheme, Lisp, Perl, and Java.

Reach me at tmt_vdl@gmx.com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49208922

    So what you're saying is instead of spending 1.2B to stop a firm from building wind, the government should leave the firm be so they can keep building wind and invest the 1.2B into…

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    Comment #49191696

    JerryRigEverything on YouTube wasn't particularly impressed with the Cybertruck as it had catastrophic failure at 10,400 pounds of downward force on the hitch.

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    Comment #49189332

    Roughly translating something my grandfather once said: 'a quote is not something to be parroted, but to be pondered'. Unfortunately all the provided quotes are in English, so they…

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    Comment #49173162

    > What exactly is the point of a console at this point? Anti-cheat. Knowing that if you get into a match with other people they won't be running software on their system that gives…

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    Comment #49171480

    Unfortunately most people have a problem with starvation and homelessness, you'd almost swear they're allergic to those things.

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    Comment #49167397

    Per the 1828 Webster Dictionary: an emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

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    Comment #49143233

    > gas syntax which is like nails on a chalkboard That's weird, GNU as should default to AT&T syntax. Maybe the author switched to Intel syntax by adding the .intel_syntax directive…

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    Comment #49138659

    You're right, I'm wrong, my bad. Still I wonder if the software fails to work when paths contain unexpected characters.

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    Comment #49130148

    Only ru_RU? It doesn't get disabled with, say, zh_CN, ko_KR, or anything else where the script is outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (AKA ASCII)?

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    Comment #49096028

    In Common Lisp it'd be: (funcall (funcall (funcall (funcall ; ... ...though I don't think that functions which return functions which return functions which return functions ad inf…

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    Comment #49076799

    Right-wing politics being opposed to environmental action is so weird when back in the day right-wing politicians didn't have such an issue with it (for example this speech by Marg…

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    Comment #49068703

    Agreed: expecting Alphabet not to do the evil greedy thing is like expecting a lion to become a vegetarian, it just isn't going to happen.

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    Comment #49068306

    On a similar note: Godot VLC ( https://github.com/xiSage/godot-vlc >), because let's not pretend we don't remember the Unity terms change controversy.

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    Comment #49067197

    Someone heard about the Medieval Warm Period, looked at the Wikipedia page, saw the temperature data for the Greenland ice sheets and misinterpreted it to mean global temperature. …

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    Comment #49056042

    Or got help from someone else who was better at English.

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    Comment #49051854

    When going home after training I sometimes like to get something to drink at the station and the stands are usually closed so I need to get something from a vending machine. Those …

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    Comment #49046103

    Here in Belgium neither is the case (or maybe I'm just unlucky with my bank and vending machines), but that might just be Belgium being a shithole again.

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    Comment #49042851

    Perhaps because they don't want to have only Dutch landmarks on the notes?

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    Comment #49042627

    > absence of €1 and €2 banknotes The US style? I much prefer the Japanese style instead (where €5 would be a coin instead of a note). When our largest coin is too small to buy a dr…

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    Comment #49021022

    Once the code is complicated you don't need to make it more complicated lest it becomes unmaintainable.

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    Comment #49019576

    Did you reply to the wrong comment? I can't see anything here to do with either Python or hardware.

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    Comment #49019063

    There's no shame in not knowing something or inferring wrong conclusions from facts you do know. From left to right the first 6 keys of the top row are: ',.pyf Which isn't as catch…

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    Comment #48966082

    That doesn't seem likely, the packages are part of OCICL, so it's more likely to have the opposite problem: finding some obscure package you want to try out but which isn't in OCIC…