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m_x··on Ask HN: What is the most expensive off-the-shelf software you have seen?
Petroleum Expert gave 10 licenses for the Move software [1] to my University for an advertised value of 1 872 218 £ [2].

It's not clear, but for what I recall, it wasn't even permanent licenses.

[1] https://www.petex.com/pe-geology/move-suite/

[2] https://phitem.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/presentation/actus-ufr...

m_x··on TOFU: Do You Check?
Aren't SSH host certificates the answer? Why are they not more widely used?
m_x··on The Linux cheat command
As I don't need it that often, I prefer the zero-install `curl cht.sh/tar`.
m_x··on Show HN: Jumprope – Terminal-like commands for the Chrome search bar
For the search use case, I use Firefox search keywords [1]. It avoids a useless redirection through duckduckgo ; I use duckduckgo bangs when I don't have a keyword configured.

You can even add search keywords by right clicking on a search field -> "Add a keyword for this search". It works on intranets and internal knowledge bases too.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...

m_x··on The Zen Anti-Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Speaking of Zen and QM, I think a similar point of view is held by the french philosopher Michel Bitbol[0] in his introduction of QM to the Dalaï Lama : Quantum Theory, a theory with no view of the world ?[1].

Michel Bitbol is quite a thought provoking scholar (at least for me). Unfortunately there aren't many of his books translated in English.

[0] http://michel.bitbol.pagesperso-orange.fr/

[1] https://youtu.be/JzKKuPmk95g?t=2607

m_x··on WinApps: Run Windows apps in Linux as if they were a part of the native OS
This project is about integration with the Gnome desktop. It uses xfreerdp RemoteApp support[1] under the hood (an up to date equivalent of seamlessrdp).

[1] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/RemoteApp