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plg94··on English Wikipedia drove out fringe editors over two decades
Not "these days". The first wiki (https://wiki.c2.com/), and thus the term "wiki", actually predate Wikipedia by a few years.
plg94··on Hidden manuals: gittutorial, giteveryday, gitglossary, gitworkflow
why use some 3rd party site when you have the official and always up-to-date https://git-scm.com/docs/giteveryday ?
plg94··on This is what the year actually looks like (2018)
Mapping the months to numbers, January is 1 and December is 12, and a real clock puts 12/0 on top, not 1.
plg94··on The X220 ThinkPad
I think there are mods to replace the TFT with a FHD IPS panel, but it's not exactly easy to do without breaking something.
plg94··on The X220 ThinkPad
I recently had to replace the fan because the motor died, and agree, that's a really big hassle. If you want to unscrew/remove the whole fan from the motherboard, you have to lift off the whole heatsink assembly from the board+cpu, meaning you also have to re-apply thermal paste every time you clean the fan. Far from ideal. But the most difficult part was finding a screwdriver for the VGA port (it screws into the case).
plg94··on How many people have ever lived on Earth?
There was once a married couple, Jan Davis and Mark Lee who both flew on STS-47, a 7 day mission to Spacelab in 1992. Not saying sex did happen, but this would be the incident with the highest probability.
plg94··on Wronger Than Wrong
Just because we cannot determine something doesn't mean it's non-deterministic. The question of the existence of free will is very similar – if not equivalent – to the existence of real randomness. I.e. a dice roll may be deterministic if you just know the right set of complicated equations for gravity, air resistance, turbulence etc.
plg94··on The fastest rm command and one of the fastest cp commands
For Linux there's [trash-cli](https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/). Doesn't seem to work for MacOS per this issue (https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli/issues/284), but it suggests to use https://hasseg.org/trash/
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