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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I second this. If you're only printing occasionally, ink tends to dry out, while toner will still be good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

When I was younger, Norwegians would often travel to Denmark and bring back bright red meat, which was not approved for sale in Norway. Now I finally realize they were just trying to make us leave.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Git is a distributed VCS just like fossil. GitHub never has been an integral part of it; it's just the most popular hosting option. This is like saying you're glad you're using Firefox because everyone complaining that Twitter is down is using Chrome.

Even if you do just GitHub for hosting you can, on account of it being distributed, still work and commit code.

What is more disruptive is that so much code is hosted on GitHub that even if you're not yourself hosting anything there, you risk almost all your dependencies being unavailable to your build pipelines. If you didn't have a cache set up, you're gonna have a bad time.

Too much of their process it's tied in with GitHub. That's what people are complaining about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

What are some good alternatives if it gets shut down? Preferably FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If we're talking about technology that is no longer widely used, it's probably my old HP48SX from the early 90s. Still use it sometimes as a desk calculator, though I have an HP48GX emulator app on my phone as well. Gotta have my RPN.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's probably what it is. I didn't go to school in the US but my kids went to school in Ohio and my impression was that metric was not the primary system of units used in education, though it was taught.

The argument I hear most often from people defending the US customary units is that the units are more intuitive. For example, an inch is about the size of a thumb, or 0 degrees is fucking cold and 100 is fucking hot.

On the whole, people seem receptive to metric, but don't want the hassle or cost to convert. They seem content to use metric where it's important (science, military) and keep the old ways elsewhere.

I currently with in healthcare research and almost everything not patient facing is done in metric, but there are still conversions going on everywhere, leading to data problems that are hard to correct later. People used to thinking in ounces putting those where grams were supposed to go, and so on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Did you go to school in the 70s or 80s? I don't think it's like that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Reminder to vote for any library funding levy in your area. They depend on it to stay open.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Another Darknet Diaries fan here. Very approachable, centered around cyber security and privacy. It's the only one I am currently listening to, but I am going to check out some of the others from this thread.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

What do you mean? RedHat even used to come with an installer localized in their language.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Unless I misunderstood what you said, that's not it either. 50% chance of rain means exactly that: according to their forecast models, there is a 50% change it will rain. Snopes did a writeup of this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

It really depends on how much you can tolerate. I don't know if full time is 40 hours in Germany like it is in the US.

If you have an option to try it for some time and fall back to plan B, why not do that? Then you can tell if the money is worth the extra work time.

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