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  • Yes, plain vanilla Vim
    Here's help entry (see section 4 if link doesn't redirect to it).
    And it is even more useful with an undo-tree plugin.

  • Yes.. kinda!?
    First point is space requirement, second one is a design issue. They are directly connected, I'm not arguing that.

  • Unless you trying to replace half your system with appimages, appimages take less space in practice .

  • Yes, sizes might be inaccurate - it's been about a year last time I tried snap or flatpak. All I remember is that snap installs around 300 mb gtk3 runtime and it's often 2 or more of them, because different snaps might rely on different gtk versions + other dependencies.
    And I remember that when snap and flatpak compared, allegedly flatpak requires more storage space.

    I am aware that runtime sizes doesn't scale with number of packages past maybe 3-4, but I have only 4 appimages on my system right now and they take ~200 mb, it is absurd that I'd need 10 times more space allocated for the same (or worse) functionality.

  • Appimages cant be easily ran from terminal, you need to link them to your Path.

    On many distros "~/.local/bin" is already in PATH, that's where I put my appimages, then make them executable and it just works.

  • Why I hate snaps/flatpak:

    • 1
      • package/appimage ~80mb
      • snap/flatpak >500mb
    • 2
      • p/a - app + dependencies
      • s/f - app + minimal linux distribution
    • 3

  • At the moment of separation of RSDRP mensheviks were in fact a minority of the party. And intersting enough, it's not the given name, that's what they named their faction after bolsheviks came up with their name.

  • It won't work if we are already their demons.

  • I use Librewolf (Firefox fork with enabled protections against trackers and spyware) with uBlock origin. And I had no issues so far with youtube.

    P.S. Also, couldn't remember the last time I saw "please turn off adblock" nagging on random websites... or an ad...

  • They're supposed to buy an AMD card, obviously. /s

  • We need a better tldr bot and also a tsdfln (too short doesn't feel like a novel) bot.

  • In many cultures around the world nudity in itself isn't considered inappropriate or sexual.

  • Not a language per se, but subsets of languages used for fantasy consoles usually do not implement import functionality. TIC-80, PICO-8, etc. etc. WIKI I wouldn't call that a feature, but it drives you to write less and more space-optimized code.
    Now that I think about it, source code size could be a feature in itself, look at codeGolf-oriented esolangs:

    • Pyth
    • CJam
    • GolfScript
    • Microscript/Microscript II
    • Seriously
    • Rotor
    • Minkolang
    • Gaia
    • Jelly
    • 05AB1E
    • japt
    • and more...
  • While most of the time, I remember my password, I know I could just snap and forget it right there at any point. Happened to me not once. And I'm in my 20s. Sometimes when I forget a password, I just start typing and muscle memory kicks in, sometimes it doesn't. I guess our brains are not optimized to store long random strings of characters. You could use a long sentence as your master password or do as I do:

    Come up with a way to make up a long seemingly random password from a couple words. Then if/when you forget a password, just remember those words and reconstruct password from them.

    • Don't use common dictionary words or anything from popular media, as it could be guessed by attackers.
    • You can write down algorithm on a piece of paper and keep it somewhere safe.
    • Words should be related but not directly:
      • two asteroid names - bad
      • asteroid name and it's greek translation - bad
      • real city name and city name from a book - good
      • two words that both start with S and end with T - good
    • If you forget both words, you should be able to remember/look up at least one of them if you still remember how you came up with the word.
  • Not only that, bcrypt could be run by GPUs and FPGA, that makes it more prone to bruteforcing attacks.

    There are 2 modern alternatives: scrypt and argon2. They both require a substantial amount of memory, so gpu and hardware computation is no longer feasible.

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  • Wikipedia cites this one: Ferguson, George (1976) [1954], "St. Nicholas of Myra or Bari", Signs and Symbols in Christian Art, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, pp. 135–136

    You can "borrow" this version for free: https://archive.org/details/signssymbolsinch0000unse/ The story is at page 81. But there're no more details, just the same short paragraph.

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  • I guess it is a depiction of a miracle of resurrection. It could be saint Nicholas or similar to this story:

    One story tells how during a terrible famine, a malicious butcher lured three little children into his house, where he killed them, placing their remains in a barrel to cure, planning to sell them off as ham. Nicholas, visiting the region to care for the hungry, saw through the butcher's lies and resurrected the pickled children by making the sign of the cross.

  • allegedly was intended as a defensive weapon against in-space attacks by the US space program.

    ??? If it was for in-space attacks, wouldn't it be more logical to mount a gun outside of ship 😆?

    It was intended as a survival aid for emergency landings. It's not a shotgun, but a three barrel pistol (but it can shoot both normal rounds and shells). Another interesting detail - it's buttstock is a folding machete.

    TP-87 was invented by request of A. Leonov after emergency landing of 'Voshod-2' where cosmonauts Leonov and Belyaev had to survive 3 days in wild taiga forest for a rescue team to retrieve them.

  • I can't find in space no any milk for one can; here my coffee, use cream.