darklamer

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I should not be so amazed.

The one thing that amazed me was that it was Erdoğan of all people who eventually found it politically expedient to lift the ban.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Erdoğan unbanned the letters Q, W and X, which can be used for Kurdish texts, in his 2013 reforms, so I think it'd be a bit too soon to re-ban them now already, so that's probably not next.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

It's perfectly fine to continue to write Android apps in Java, doing that will continue to be supported for all foreseeable future and I do it myself for a hobby app that I maintain.

That said, there are good reasons for the increasing popularity of Kotlin, it's certainly a good language that has noticeable advantages over Java.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever in this context, as High Valyrian, as used in the show, has all those things that you enumerated, and more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The first movie I can clearly remember watching in a movie theatre was Mio min Mio, with a very young Christian Bale, and I've never watched it again since then but now you got me curious about doing that:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093543/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

It's a great movie, but watch the original, titled Ronja Rövardotter, instead of the German dubbed version:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088015/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not a joke:

Write your own device driver.

Preferably for some kind of esoteric hardware that you own but no-one else has, but it'd also be a valuable experience to do it for some commonly used piece of hardware for which good Linux drivers already exist.

For any moderately talented programmer this should be a reasonably difficult exercise, which will teach you very valuable lessons about Linux (and be quite fun at the same time).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It would be awesome to get woolly mammoths back in the Alps.

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

That seems a little bit too simple to be true. How do you handle online shopping, where you often are required to provide a mail address, even though you have no wish whatsoever to receive any subsequent marketing mails?

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