Snild · HackerTrans

I hadn't thought about this until I recently saw it (lazily) translated to Swedish literally, where it would traditionally be written more akin to "net fortune".

And yeah, "worth" feels super weird.

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2 months agodiscuss

Don't let Stallman hear you say that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

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2 months agodiscuss

Not to mention the huge amount of people who think git == github.

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3 months agodiscuss

I've never had a problem like that. People don't bother looking it up -- probably because your socioeconomic class is apparent anyway from e.g. the area you live in. AFAIK, the only ones who have ever looked mine up are banks, when I was applying for mortgages.

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3 months agodiscuss

What a hassle!

Here in Sweden, your tax filings are public information; companies can just ask the government what you made last year. I have no idea if they actually do, though, and the data will be somewhat obfuscated if you have extra income on the side.

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5 months agodiscuss

I bought it in late 2013, so 12 years from purchase.

Intel lists the launch date of the CPU (Atom D2500) as Q3'11, making it 14 years old when OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released.

It looks like Intel was releasing Atom CPUs without SSE4.1/4.2 up until 2013, e.g. Atom Z2420.

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5 months agodiscuss

> “you can’t install unless you upgrade your CPU”

To be fair, I recently had to switch distros for my little Atom-based server because of a similar deal:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:X86-64-Architecture-Levels#...

Granted, I only had to convert to Tumbleweed (not trivial, but easier than reinstalling), and the open source nature means there will always be lots of other alternatives, too.

Snild

6 months agodiscuss

Ah.

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6 months agodiscuss

I don't see a problem with that, but for the record, the title on the site is lower-case for me (both browser tab title, and the header when in reader mode).

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7 months agodiscuss

Keep Swedish out of this, you dirty Danes!

Edit: Checked out your profile, correcting myself: "you silly north-Danes!"

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7 months agodiscuss

It exists, hence e.g. AGPL.

But for most open source licenses, that example would be within bounds. The grandparent comment objected to not respecting the license.

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7 months agodiscuss

Sounds kind of like https://asciinema.org/ (which I've never used, but it seems cool).

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7 months agodiscuss

It is, except after rebasing.

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7 months agodiscuss

But that Commit-Id footer has no functional effect. I don't see how it would help me if I have a clone of the repo, and my upstream (in this case, the debian maintainer) rebases.

> Which you won't.

Why not? Doesn't it make sense to be able to track the history of what patches have been applied for a debian package?

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7 months agodiscuss

Rebasing would mean there's no continuous versioning of the "patches on top", which might be undesirable. Also, the history rewriting might make cooperation difficult.

Merges would avoid those problems, but are harder to do if there are lots of conflicts, as you can't fix conflicts patch by patch.

Perhaps a workflow based on merges-of-rebases or rebase-and-overwrite-merge would work, but I don't think it's fair to say "oh just rebase".

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7 months agodiscuss

Not necessarily:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/martyr

> a person who suffers very much or is killed because of their religious or political beliefs, and is often admired because of it

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/martyr

> 2: a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle

Snild

7 months agodiscuss

Sounds interesting. Tell me more?

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8 months agodiscuss

We have that in Sweden and Finland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_...

The principle says that information is non-confidential by default, rather than the other way around.

We can request almost any information held by government agencies, including copies of communication like email and documents.

One thing that has surprised European acquaintances is the fact that this includes government-held info about individuals, e.g. address and tax returns.

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8 months agodiscuss

A terminal maximized on my screen says:

    ~$ echo $((2 * LINES * COLUMNS)) triangles
    34272 triangles

That's nothing for a modern GPU. For example, this benchmark[1] says to expect on the order of 10-800 million tri/s. At the low end of that, you'd have a frame time of 3.427ms -- 292 fps.

The original Playstation could do 180 000 textured polygons per second[2], so it could've managed ~5 fps. Of course, you wouldn't render that many chars at its available output resolutions anyway. :)

[1] https://github.com/ctsilva/triangle-rendering-benchmarks#:~:... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...

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9 months agodiscuss

My favorite is his email on inlining code: https://cbarrete.com/carmack.html

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