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Comment · 7 years ago
I bet they have plans to make a different VM for Kotlin and move away from JVM, should be coming in the next couple of years.
Comment · 7 years ago
You're not alone, that's why the Manyverse client tries really hard not mention Scuttlebutt (but does so in the app description).
Comment · 11 years ago
That's a cheap form of plausible deniability, then.
Comment · 11 years ago
I used to alias `rm` to `rm -i`, until I realized that I just pressed <return><y><return> without thinking.
Comment · 11 years ago
I recently had to reinstall my arch and was pleased to find this repo. It is much easier than installing everything from AUR and trying to keep it consistent. And my fonts look even better now.
Comment · 11 years ago
Yes, the systemd introduction was a special time in Arch land. A lot of systems got broken in those days. The only comparable time I can recall right now is when they dropped GRUB Legacy. People who upgraded carelessly were unable to boot. These are the two single big events in 8 years or so I've been using Arch.
Comment · 12 years ago
While the conclusion is in accordance with what I would expect, I think the study suffers a lot from not having a control group. From these results, there is no telling if participants screwed up in replay, or if they were all just guessing anyway or whatever. This should be redone with at least one sample pair where one of the samples is deliberately reduced in quality is delivered to a subset of the participants.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yes, it seems to fall more on the side of false positives than false negatives. While this is a safe bet, it is also less useful, since the main use case I can think for this is to help me pick up some movies from the plethora of available movies that exist in the world to maybe look for in Netflix etc. I mean, "Take This Waltz" (2012) is not what I'm after if I'm looking for films from Japan. Mildly annoying.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yeah, I saw that on your support site after I asked. Sorry for not checking before, but thanks for answering!
Comment · 12 years ago
Those are nice projects, thanks for telling me about them!
Comment · 12 years ago
I second hhandoko's question: is it open source? Or better yet, is it FLOSS? Also, is an Android version coming anytime soon?
Comment · 12 years ago
> Why would anyone care? Is it a legal binding contract between me and the comany? No. It might be taken into account if we go into court, but if they have it in their TOS that I bought an elephant from them - it will not hold.

That's interesting. Do you have any sources on that? Why do these services even bother having ToS?

Comment · 12 years ago
Skype? Sounds strange to me.
Comment · 12 years ago
It's election time in Brazil right now, and everyone is trying to look good. This might just be our current president and candidate to reelection Dilma Rousseff trying to win over the evironmental cause votes, which is a huge electorate and a huge chunk of Marina Silva's electorate, who holds second place in the current vote intention polls.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yup, I heard the gut-exploding-ddH2O in a lab and a girl in the class eventually did drink a little bit of it and was absolutely fine. A science champion, if you ask me.

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