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Comment · 8 days ago
> despite the alleged format compatibility

that never existed. While Microsoft has published a specification of their file formats, the never described how to render them. So a clone cannot make it look like Microsoft Office.

Blame it on Microsoft. Stop the vendor lockin and leave Microsoft today

Comment · 23 days ago
What ist your plan if you die? Do you have a spouse that will be able to read your-and-your-spouses data?
Comment · 1 month ago
Jruby is nice - runs Ruby on a Java Virtual Machine with full concurrency and Ahead Of Time compilation
Comment · 2 months ago
It provides me relief that I am not the only one suffering from Clownfair bot protection running amok. Condolences to you.
Comment · 3 months ago
I want to second this: Unregular use is compelling use case for a laser printer.
Comment · 3 months ago
Are you independent of your government yet?

I am dependend on government not giving subsidies to my competition. I am dependend on them not to raise taxes. I even depend on them for keeping the infrastrukture alive. If I cant trust the state I life in, it is time to move to a different state.

Comment · 4 months ago
Windows does have three libc, likely as a compability layer. their names are:

  * <forgotten something Windows 3.1>
  * msvcrt.dll, 2014
  * ucrt.dll (universal c runtime, since Windows 10)
Comment · 6 months ago
bug reports should be reproducable. They may even be statistically reproduceable. A bug report that cannot be reproduced is worthless.
Comment · 6 months ago
"count" is an incomplete type, the same as "array" is an incomplete type. "count of fruit" would be a complete type, compare to "Array of int64".

SI leaves this underspecified, which causes confusion with dimensionless units.

Comment · 6 months ago
could you please link the beginner handkerchiefs?
Comment · 6 months ago
> LLMs with harnesses are clearly capable of engaging with logical problems that only need text.

All of the LLMs are bad at music. They get intervals wrong. They list unsuited songs.

I would not trust them with any domain until proven otherwise.

Comment · 6 months ago
> [ZoneAlarm] I always found it weird that Linux never really had anything like it.

There was simply no need for it. GNU provided most of the software, spyware was unknown.

Only since comercial vendors package for linux and bring their spyware along, the desire to inspect network rose.

Comment · 6 months ago
Not quite 90s, but

    * sourceforge.org
    * adblockplus the plugin
I am currently getting off youtube for their agressive anti adblocking behavior and I stopped reading Spiegel Online for the same reason years ago.
Comment · 6 months ago
What would need to happen that more players are available for online games?
Comment · 6 months ago
No. Warcraft 3 ist real time strategy, Wesnoth is turn based strategy.

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