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Comment #45873386
Navigation is supported, with travel times given for walking, ox cart, pack animal and horse. The feature is a bit hidden: you need to click the place marker at the bottom right.
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Comment #45369936
Not having a dependency on a running service can be an excellent reason to use tools like DuckDB.
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Comment #44532295
Vending machines outside is pretty much the standard for ramen restaurants. Most of them will take passmo/suica, which most foreigners are also likely to have since it is also used…
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Comment #42948508
Even with all the GNU tools available there are still a lot of system-specific things that you may need to know: supported C version, supported C++ version, how to invoke the compi…
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Comment #41380265
Let me change that a bit: "it's pretty ubiquitous in the US". It's not common everywhere. My personal observation (in NL) is that with the transition from cash to contactless payme…
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Comment #40509573
What matters is that there is nothing listening on port 80 on the same IP address. That may be hard to control if you are using an environment with shared ingress.
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Comment #38476264
/mnt historically was used as a single mount point. This became problematic when it became common to have multiple temporary mounts, for example a CD-ROM and a USB stick. /media so…
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Comment #38476185
It primarily existed to standardise paths between different Linux distributions. This, along with the LSB, was intended to make it possible to ship software that would work on all …
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Comment #38080985
> Just because the header is set, it doesn’t mean it’ll do anything But they can track proxy metrics for this. For example people using GMail's builtin unsubscribe feature more tha…
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Comment #37985892
uuencode was used for SMTP/Usenet. Base64 became popular as part of MIME if I remember correctly.
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Comment #36982599
It's even worse: you can not access Mail's settings until you have configured an email account in Mail. Before that the settings options is greyed out.
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Comment #36912627
zserio [1] has the former at least. It isn't intended for the same use cases as protobuf/capnproto/flatbutter though; in particular it has no backward or forwards compatibility. Bu…
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Comment #32092463
The WISPr[0] standard was created for this purpose, and is (or was by now?) used by companies such as iPass to their customers to transparently log in to most WiFi hotspots. I don'…
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Comment #31762652
Reading the article they are not generated files, but files that are never touched by developers. Translators will work with those files. I expect that for translators they have a …
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Comment #30809946
At that point your base image is not reproducible, so your improvement is going to be very limited.
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Comment #28340243
WebRTC still requires you to implement your own signalling layer, which is where most of these problems occur. Using XMPP for signalling in combination with WebRTC is very common.
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Comment #28166530
It has probably been 20 years since I did anything with deb and rpm, but I think this still holds true: The deb and rpm formats had a very different philosophy to handling dependen…
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Comment #26122393
Have you tried https://medium.com/feed/@dlorenc ?
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Comment #25032545
https://www.bountysource.com is one. I have used a few times to sponsor features in Weblate.
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Comment #24807957
I would be missing the ability to setup customer access, but only give them limited access to tickets and ticket comments.
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Comment #24798439
kubeadm is very bare bones though; it gives you a running node but you are still responsible for configuring network and storage providers, an ingress controller and probably a loa…
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Comment #22932377
As far as I can see this should be the list of changes: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v2.7.18/Misc/NEWS.d/2...
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Comment #22753741
SEEKING WORK / Remote / Leiden, The Netherlands Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Go, C++, Node, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, SPA, SSR, SQL, REST, GraphQL, Docker, Ku…
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Comment #22483685
Interesting - that data does not quite match my experience; I was expecting a larger percentage to have B or C level diplomas. I wonder if that is due to region (more water and lak…