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darklamer
darklamer @ darklamer @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Go into debt if you have to

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  • Of course it is, very effective for forcefully replacing LNG tankers!

    • How do i ask for contributors to my open source projects?

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  • I recommend reading this insightful, sometimes hilarious, sometimes frightening, but almost always educational collection of texts about open source development:

    https://un.curl.dev/

    • Go into debt if you have to

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    • Go into debt if you have to

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    • I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone

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    • What's your favourite chocolate?

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  • For mass produced chocolate with orange, Lindt Excellence Dark Orange Intense is by far the best I know.

    • What trait is a weakness in one profession, but directly translates to a strength in a different profession?

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    • What's a sentence nobody has said in 20 years?

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  • "Will that be smoking or non smoking?" Asked as a restaurant

    I was asked this at a café less than ten minutes ago now.

    • Insiders say cutting-edge graphics are too costly for AAA games

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  • […], particularly when end users tend to despise particularly greedy live service business models.

    Have you considered making your business models … not particularly greedy?

    • Linux is religion

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  • The great Umberto Eco once wrote some wonderful musings about the similarities between different then popular personal computer operating systems and different branches of Christianity. I see that's now 30 years ago this year so now might be a good time for a repost, English translations and Italian original can be found here: https://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html

    • Do you guys read programming books? How do you make the most out of it?

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  • After I had learned programming well enough to do it comfortably in a few different languages, the return on investment for reading most common programming books declined sharply and since then the only programming books I still read are of a very specific kind and the very best of those still remains The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & Pike which still remains a greatly educational and relevant book today, 25 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming

    • when did you stop using dial up internet?

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  • 20 November 1999 was the day I finally got my ISDN connection up and running, a huge improvement over dial-up at the time.

    • Bald Eagle Officially Declared US National Bird After 250 Years

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    • What jobs wouldn't be so bad if the customers were more manageable?

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  • […] people being deliberately vague but getting pissed when you ask them what they mean.

    In my experience, this shows up in every single job ever that involves people.

    • What's the worst present you've ever received?

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  • Why would you not buy a pair?

    How rich are you!?

    • Is using an HDD with an SSD as cache on Linux a good idea?

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  • Doing this with ZFS is called L2ARC and is very easy to set up.

    • westerners, how do you pronounce the letter "w" do you say dablu or double you or just dub or double v?

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  • I also refuse this bizarre English / German / Polish idea that W is a separate letter and not just a fun way to write V.

    • This Week in KDE Plasma: Better fractional scaling

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  • If you then use fractional scaling, Xwayland will render at the fractional of your resolution and will be scaled linearly to your display.

    This has recently been fixed:

    https://release.gnome.org/47/

    • Recommendations on Linux Friendly PDF Software

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  • For "basic edition (rotating pages, etc)", I myself always use pdftk.

    "If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses."

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