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Comment Re:Since when did two == several? (Score 1) 27

Couple does not have to mean exactly two.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.merriam-webster.co... :

* 4 : an indefinite small number : few
* also : few â"used with a

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.cambridge.o... :

* two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordlearnersdict...

* couple (of somebody/something) a small number of people or things

Comment Re:Snap packages are great but (Score 2) 139

Disclaimer, I work for Canonical and worked with the VLC devs on the snap.

The snap of VLC is nearer 190MB, not 700MB for data-transfer and on-disk size comparisons. All snaps are loop-mounted squashfs files. What you are "du"ing is the mounted read-only files. The actual snap file is in `/var/lib/snapd/snaps/` and on my system is 189MB. The snap contains not only VLC but a bunch of libraries of course. However the bulk of the space (300MB uncompressed) is taken up by VLC plugins which make the snap a great out of the box experience of many users, whatever their use case.

Sure we need to optimise startup time, and that work is ongoing. We could certainly trim the snap down a bit, and I will be looking at that when I'm back from vacation.

 

Comment zxcvbn (Score 2) 103

I haven't seen zxcvbn mentioned before, a similar look at password strength from 3 years ago.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dropbox.com%2Ftech...

Demo is here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.dropboxusercontent....

Personally I like the output of http://www.kurtm.net/wpa-pskge... for passwords:

o|IRcWY;g_V]C}9'.@]@,]!YF.[Yj{K@QmuFCo%%!=~+ab,e2(pU97{V-)Qm*T

Comment Re:They've been going about it wrong for years (Score 1) 202

A "Swiss watch" means that it follows the 'Ordinance regulating the use of the name "Swiss" on watches', which also includes quartz watches.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

It might be that in your locale it is commonly taken to mean a purely mechanical watch, but that isn't the same the whole world over.

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