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Hey, if this stops me having to listen to other people's music, I'm all for this.


It's called QuoteUnquote. I'm hoping to get between 10-20 users to test this thing out. I'll probably turn off signups once I get that many users. I'm just looking for people to use this thing and test it, while I (very slowly) add features. It's very basic at this point: it's just a Chrome browser extension that syncs your Kindle highlights then emails you 5 random highlights at 17:25 UTC every day. Once you sign up on the website, there will be a link to download the Chrome extension. Once the Chrome extension is installed, just press the "sync" button on the website and wait for it to grab the highlights.

If you sign up, I'll make sure you get free access to this thing for life (or until the project dies).


Bit of a noob-ish question: But why can't folks just continue to use older versions of the kernel, with the ia64 support?


They can. But bugfixes may not be packported due to lack of developers. Same with drivers for newer hardware which (potentially) could be plugged into an Itanium system.

Worse if such newer code relies on kernel infrastructure that changed in the meanwhile.

For users that don't ever change their setup, there's no issue really.


Maximum satisfaction == no notifications


Hebrew for 2 dots haha


Two double dots


What does the (8) in ping(8) signify?


The section of the system man pages. It's often used to disambiguate a tool from a libc function, when there are two manpages with the same name, but in different sections.


I believe it's an old convention of indicating what section of the manpages describes the command. Section 8 is "superuser and system administration commands".

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/


It's the category for ping's man page (System administration commands and daemons).


Lekker!


How do you pronounce that?


Uh, with difficulty :D For starters, English doesn't have the /y/ vowel or the geminated /tt/ sound…



Correlation vs causation, eh?


There is causation, just not directly from ice cream to vapor lock. It's a diagram with three entities, ice cream -> time to cool -> vapor lock


That's the nature of all situations in which "correlation is not causation".


It actually is causation. There just happens to be a causal step in between.


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