olosta

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[–] olosta 3 points 1 week ago

You should post this on [email protected]

[–] olosta 33 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Used one for a few years and I loved it:

  • it's precise, you can really aim small UI elements
  • It is paired with actual buttons, index on the nub and thumb on the buttons, so no weird gestures to right click
  • It is very quick to switch from keyboard to mouse, your hands nearly don't move

But, there's no mouse wheel or scroll gesture and maintaining pressure on the nub is maybe more tiring than a trackpad.

[–] olosta 3 points 1 month ago

The cycle is reinforced by people giving the name of their grand parents to their kids.

[–] olosta 3 points 1 month ago

The problem is that the video card is heavier than what the monitor weighted back in the day.

[–] olosta 22 points 1 month ago

While the registrar should have made more to understand the situation before acting, it's important to keep in mind that according to itch.io, the request was not a DMCA takedown but an accusation of "fraud and fishing". There's probably a very large legal exposure for a registrar to let criminal website use their service if they are made aware of it, so reducing their liability is probably their highest priority.

BrandShield is inexcusable for using such a claim as a first step.

[–] olosta 102 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Second degree cousins is not that close though. If every generation has three children, that's 27 persons. I thinks that for most of human history excluding second degree cousins from the acceptable partners pool would have been impossible. Communities were not that big.

[–] olosta 10 points 2 months ago

This is probably on the whole population, so predominantly male immigration is likely the main reason.

The map is not very helpful about what is actually depicted but wikipedia has similar data with a breakdown by age :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_sex_ratio

Qatar for instance is not very high (this is a ratio of number of male over number of female) on the "at birth" and "0-14" age bracket with 1.02. it's actually a bit lower than western countries.

The data is still concerning in some countries with notably larger "at birth" ratio and even an increase in th "0-14" age bracket.

[–] olosta 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No we are not attributing fries to the Belgian, fries are french. The Belgian improved on our invention and make the best fries, but Frenchs invented it.

Content warning, a lot of french: https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond?view=article&id=132:la-veritable-histoire-de-la-frite&catid=77:articles-fond

[–] olosta 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

English is a Germanic language, so Germanic words are fine, foreign just means latin, greek, french...

[–] olosta 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

No there was HPC sku of Windows 2003 and 2008 : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2003#Windows_Compute_Cluster_Server

Microsoft earnestly tried to enter the space with a deployment system, a job scheduler and an MPI implementation. Licenses were quite cheap and they were pushing hard with free consulting and support, but it did not stick.

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