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My first computer whole RAM could fit in L1 of a single core (128k)

They add 100 to the 486, but they got 585.99999999.... so they called it Pentium xD

I glad that I moved to green pastures... Aka Debian.

If Ubuntu, the most widely used distro, is doing this, it's conceivable that other distros will follow. (Maintainers: "It solved some problems Ubuntu was having, so it will probably solve them for us, too.")

Yea, like when Ubuntu switched from System V init to Upstart. Or when they created Mir to replace X. Or when they created Snap for distro-independent packages. Or when they forked GNOME into Unity.

...man, when did Ubuntu start losing every battle they fought?


When they started slipping ads into aptitude. I think that's when most of us started giving Canonical the side-eye

This sort of crap keeps getting upstreamed into Debian.

Consider devuan for your next machine. I've switched almost all my linux boxes to it, and it's great.


Up voted for Devuan. Getting services to work is a hassle but really easy after using the same template for start/stops.

KDE had it. And I missed it a lot.

plotter languages have the same concept.

Which ones? I've just skimmed through docs for HP-GL, DMPL and Gerber, but I can't see anything.

And the eye cones not are sharp filter, they overlap ranges with mid-low sensibility. That must be nought to someone with Tetrachromacy to percibe something different on a RGB screen.

> More precisely, she had an additional cone type L′, intermediate between M and L in its responsivity, and showed 3 dimensional (M, L′, and L components) color discrimination for wavelengths 546–670 nm (to which the fourth type, S, is insensitive). Source: Wikipedia


Adam Smith is laughing from his tomb.


> Yeah, I live in Spain and probably once again we'll have restrictions on AC in the summer just like at the start of the Ukraine war. Hopefully, we can avoid actual blackouts.

I live on Spain . What the hell restrictions are you talking about ?


This did happen in summer of 2022, but only in public buildings, private households were not affected, so the OP's point seems a bit overly dramatic. Given that AC usage is highest when solar production is also highest, this seems highly unlikely given the solar build-out of the last 4 years.

That included offices though so work was difficult.

I guess private homes weren’t included because of the difficulty of enforcement.



Just re-encode it to Jpeg XL without loss of quality, and use less space.

This is probably the neatest feature of JPEG XL. Although, creating a thumbnail by literally truncating the image bytestream is a close second in 'neat' factor.

Interesting... could be used to store multiple git repos and do a full text search across the multiple repos ?

in theory yes. you just need to do the full text search across the databases. pgit doesnt support it but at the end its just postgres under the hood.

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