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Comment · 6 years ago
>designers of Microsoft Windows did not consider co-existance with other OS on the same computer

Why would they? According to Microsoft and many third-party developers who don't know any better, PC and Windows are the same thing.

It's way less painful these days if you're using UEFI. No thanks to MS though.

Comment · 6 years ago
I collect every book that I come across, and I can't count the number of times it's been helpful (one month, or five years later). It doesn't matter if you can't remember the book after a week, fzf is here to help you. If you got interested in a new topic (like the aforementioned Rust), press Ctrl+T and type "rust".

Or you can suppress the impulse and skip getting the book, then either forget the site altogether, or visit it five years later and find that it got shut down four years ago.

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Except that Skype non-accidentally routes your calls through Microsoft's servers, and it was originally a P2P application. End-to-end encryption too started being "complicated", "unfeasible" and "unnecessary" after they acquired the company. Thanks, but no thanks.
Comment · 6 years ago
> what is my ip

    alias my-ip='dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'
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"even on feature phones"? It was perfectly possible at least back in the early 2000's. Where I'm from, we've gone through a lot of different IMs over the years, including XMPP (which I was a big fan of, but started to despise because it had such terrible support for mobile clients). Many J2ME clients had pretty advanced features like group chats and file transfers.
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I live in a city with a vandalism problem. People throw benches into the river, break glass panes, and perform other similar feats just for the fun of it. Oh, and the ubiquitous designer drugs ads on every damn wall.

Well, it _was_ a problem until the government put cameras on every street corner and the police started tracking down and punishing every one of the vandals.

How would gun ownership help with this? I look out of a window at 2 AM and see a couple of guys destroying a bus stop. Should I grab my gun and start shooting at them?

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