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Comment · 3 years ago
The term "opensource software" was coined by the OSI founders explicitly to have the meaning they laid out in the Open Source Definition. The term didn't exist before that.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
That's pretty typical for how typography develops. Majuscule and miniscule letters were just two different styles of writing the same letter. But eventually, people started using majuscule (i.e uppercase) letters to give emphasis to the beginning of sentences or certain words, like names.

Italic typefaces were created by Italian type designers to mimic the cursive handwriting of the time. They weren't meant to be mixed with roman style typefaces. However, typesetters who had access to both roman and italic fonts started to use italic for emphasis when typesetting texts in roman type.

And of course blackletter is also just a style that originally tried to mimic earlier handwriting.

Comment · 3 years ago
But any shell that tab completes make targets should also tab complete executables? Just write ./scripts (or whatever) and whack tab.
Comment · 4 years ago
You mean the phone app icon? The symbol that's in the middle of the Whatsapp logo? I think it'll be fine for a while. Probably for as long as physical emergency phones exist.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is about making the same files accessible inside and outside a container. Docker does that by bind mounting files from outside of the container's file tree into it. Bind mounts are just a way to provide a different file path to access an existing directory. It has zero performance cost.

The reason Docker Desktop and similar solutions need to come up with these different complicated solutions is that they want to share files between containers running inside a Linux VM and the host system. So they need some kind of way of syncing the files.

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm assuming you're Australian. In the rest of the world, a tablespoon is 15ml.
Comment · 6 years ago
Sure, although to descend feels a lot more formal than descendre does in French.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm assuming the files were downloaded using Bittorrent or some other file sharing service, and the hashes of the downloaded files were logged on his Mac.
Comment · 10 years ago
Norway uses a lot of electricity for energy intensive industries like aluminium production.
Comment · 12 years ago
"Don't hate the player, hate the game" is a false dichotomy. It's perfectly possible to conclude that the system is rotten and still call out those who take advantage of it in ways which hurt others. The fact that there's money to be made and that it's legal doesn't make it any less sleazy and immoral.
Comment · 12 years ago

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