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Mozilla wants users to take part in a survey about browser features
  • Yes, it's a fancy way to save a tab. I just leave the tab open. Not a feature I want, so not something I want them to waste limited development time on. It'd be nice if it were through the bookmarks interface, so booarks could save state & history the way tabs do, but that's not what's proposed so I'd rather not have this. PWAs are a workaround to make up for the limitations of bookmarks.

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    GNU-Linux
  • Except Alpine & those based on it, which uses Linux but not GNU libc or GNU coreutils or GNU BASH... Just musl libc & Busybox. I.e. the entire subject of this thread is one of the non-GNU Linuxes.

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    GNU-Linux
  • Yes, I listed sysvinit for that reason. And Musl instead of glibc. GNU is optional in a Linux distro, except for the kernel's use of a GNU license.

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    GNU-Linux
  • Sure, I should have gone further.

    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/GNU BASH/Linux/X11//GTK/GNOME
    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/GNU BASH/Linux/X11/GTK/LXDE
    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/Zsh/Linux/X11/GTK/GNOME
    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/Zsh/Linux/X11/GTK/LXDE
    SysVInit/musl/Busybox/tcsh/Linux/csh
    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/Zsh/Linux/Wayland/QT/KDE Plasma
    Systemd/GNU libc/GNU Coreutils/Zsh/Linux/Wayland/QT/LXQT

    etc, etc.

    There are thousands of combinations of the possible layers needed to make an OS.

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    You got the cheese, the ham, the... wait
  • It's often used as the name for ammonium chloride on black licorice. The ammonium chloride also makes a great soldering iron tip cleaner!

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    You got the cheese, the ham, the... wait
  • I eat them all the time because I have a fucking problem, but I don't enjoy it.

    Aah, like salmiakki (salty licorice). Tastes terrible, but I just can't stop eating them.

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    Country
  • He's the only person in both the Country and Rock & Roll Halls of Fame. He was a Rock musician, not just a country one.

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    xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas
  • Tomato soup in a bread bowl, with cheese. Not quiche, the filling isn't egg-based.

    It's delicious. And since the Italians call just about any round bread with toppings pizza (e.g. Bartolomeo Scappi's pizza was cake with powdered sugar & saffron toppings) it's pizza. As is New England clam chowder in a bread bowl!

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    Just for counting? For speed also?
  • You can do that with a single line. It's a closed, flexible tube with a pressure sensor. Effectively a crude scale. It measures the weight on the axle. Semi trucks weigh a LOT more than passenger vehicles, even ridiculous pickups.

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    The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
  • A thousand Roman paces. A pace is two steps, each about 1m, so 1mi is about 2km. The conversion from paces to meters isn't exact, and definitions have shifted over time.

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    unused is wasted
  • Swap files are useful if you are still on EXT4 or similar. If you're using ZFS or BTRFS or BCacheFS, they have no benefits.

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    xkcd #2898: Orbital Argument
  • No, they orbit around a common barycenter. Even if there were no other bodies in the solar system, that wouldn't be exactly at the center of mass of the sun.

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    Nuclear fusion reaction releases almost twice the energy put in
  • It's the NIF. It's a hydrogen bomb simulator, it's not intended to become a power production mechanism. Roughly 0% of their budget involves researching how to turn single fusion explosions at most every few hours into continuous power output.

    Scales great for getting around nuclear test ban treaties though, much quicker to retest than blowing up Pacific islands.

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