It means "You're about to talk about words, but words don't matter."
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sandradodd.com sandradodd.com
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www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
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Antonyms for arbitrary methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized
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www.jobinterviewtools.com www.jobinterviewtools.com
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superuser.com superuser.com
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the beginning of qbittorrent.desktop is:
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if i command xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet i get qbittorrent.desktop result.
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sudo mkdir -p /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/ && echo '{ "URLWhitelist": ["magnet://*"] }' |sudo tee /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/whitelist.json
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annoying: keeps asking every time
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github.com github.com
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby txmt_param = ARGV[0] txmt_path = txmt_param.match("%2F.*&").to_s txmt_path = txmt_path [0...-1] txmt_path_slashed = txmt_path.gsub("%2F","/") txmt_line = txmt_param.match("&line=.*").to_s txmt_line = txmt_line [6..txmt_line.length] vim_params = Array.new vim_params = "--remote-tab-silent" vim_params << " +#{txmt_line}" if txmt_line vim_params << " #{txmt_path_slashed}"
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github.com github.com
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Looks like the source for this is not available to inspect??
and thought maybe it would be the source, but it's a binary :(
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It does this by creating links to specially crafted URLs using custom schemes (ie. "txmt", "subl", "mvim"). I prefer to use standard CLI vim in iTerm.
I have similar problem: want to use regular vim in tilix terminal
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github.com github.com
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Macvim is the only vim supported out of the box? What about the many of us who want to just use standard CLI vim?
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github.com github.com
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This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft's vscode repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration.
almost without a doubt, inspired by: chromium vs. chrome
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github.com github.com
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Or if you need to change the way the string is assembled, you can provide a proc, for example: if defined?(BetterErrors) BetterErrors.editor = proc { |file, line| "vscode://file/%{file}:%{line}" % { file: URI.encode_www_form_component(file), line: line } } end
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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vim-athena doesn't depend on or use any version of GTK+. If you use sudo apt-get build-dep vim-athena, it probably will install GTK+ and GNOME related libraries, because the vim-athena binary package is built from the same source package as vim and other vim-providing packages. In any case, you shouldn't need to build from source, as the binaries provided by vim-athena are already built against Athena and not against GTK+ or other graphical toolkits.
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Fortunately, vim officially supports some GUI's other than GTK+ and Qt, and one such build is officially packaged for Ubuntu. Just install the Athena version of vim, which is provided by the vim-athena package.
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If you built vim against Qt rather than GTK+ and python-complete still isn't working, that suggests the problem isn't actually a consequence of trying to link to both GTK+2 and GTK+3.
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How can I build vim with a gui without gtk?
I had this question too, but didn't know that was the question I had... :)
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However, since you haven't yet provided any details about how you built with Qt (Qt isn't officially supported, so you must have used a third party derivative of vim), and you haven't provided any detailed information about what error messages or malfunctions you're having with python-complete, it's not really possible to tell you how to fix the problem and get vim working with Qt.
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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and the --enable-gui=<gui> e.g. (--enable-gui=gnome for the Gnome Gui).
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How to install VIM with all options/features? - VIM
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If you want to compile youself you can pass the --with-features=huge to the configure script. Note, however, this does not enable the different language bindings because those are mostly optional and also the various GUIs need to enabled specifically, because you can have only one gui.
This explains why the standard vim package on ubuntu doesn't have GUI support (I was going to say because it wouldn't know which GUI you needed, but I think it would based on the Ubuntu variant: GNOME, KDE, etc.) (maybe because it wouldn't know whether you wanted GUI support at all)
I was going to say because it wouldn't know which GUI you needed, but I think it would based on the Ubuntu variant: GNOME, KDE, etc.
found answer to that: https://hyp.is/NyJRxIgqEeuNmWuaScborw/askubuntu.com/questions/345593/how-to-build-vim-with-gui-option-from-sources
so you have to install a different package with GUI support, like vim-gtk or vim-athena
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I have VIM on Mac & CentOS. So, I see people are writing about -xterm_clipboard, -lua, ... Is there an simple way to install it all? or we have to enable options one-by-one and compile/recompile it?
I had similar question... how to get --servername support.
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This package is compiled with the Athena GUI as opposed to GTK+ or Gnome.
... which I would have thought would be a reason for me not to install it, but it turns out it doesn't have many dependencies, and installed just fine, and allowed me to /usr/bin/vim.athena --servername local
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Including the vim package, there appear to be at least six "vim-variants" (not including available documentation, or plugin packages) as well as the main vim package in both the main and universe repositories.
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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If you call ./configure --enable-gui=auto, the build process will automatically build against whichever GUI libraries are available. A cursory glance suggests that gtk2 will be prioritised over gnome2.
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superuser.com superuser.com
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You can use apt-cache search -n vim to search only package names instead of piping the output into grep
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piao-tech.blogspot.com piao-tech.blogspot.com
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Some research led me to the --remote-tab switch that allows to open files as tabs in currently open Vim processes but it seemed to work only with the graphical interface (gvim) and not with the console (vim). But as I made some tests I found this can work with the vim in console mode
That's what I thought too (that it was only available with gvim, which I don't want to use).
But I get this error when I try it with regular vim:
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When programming I like to have a single Vim editor open with all my files as tabs. Until now I was using the ":tabnew" command to open files in the current Vim window as I knew no other way.
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All I needed to do was configure my bash so it will always start vim in server mode if it is not already and to always use the --remote-tab switch when opening files.
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If you prefer not to use tabs and like files to be opened as buffers inside a current running Vim instance then simply replace "--remote-tab-silent" with "--remote-silent" in the above scripts.
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The original concept of Project Athena was that there would be course-specific software developed to use in conjunction with teaching. Today, computers are most frequently used for "horizontal" applications such as e-mail, word processing, communications, and graphics.
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Athena is still in production use at MIT. It works as software (currently a set of Debian packages)[2] that makes a machine a thin client, that will download educational applications from the MIT servers on demand
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It would be very nice if that was consistent across every application.
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The issue is kind of regression/trade-off for keep bundles get loaded same as the declaration order. The only thing this part added is the new BundleBind! command. Sure we should try fix issue by not introduce new feature/concept as possible as we can, but when the concept/complexity is just add a simple command without any argments to the configuration, and the benefit is clean, simple and efficient implementation, IMHO it is worth. That's why I finally chose this solution.
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Here are my thoughts: making vim startup time shorter is GOOD added complexity - BAD my main concern is with the complexity that gets added to get startup time improvements. User has to tag scripts, and then manually BundleBind to get scripts loaded. This seems like too much hassle(manual involvement) to me. Fixing 1 time thing (startup) we're adding many more (like BundleBinding required scripts once they're used) For instance in my case i don't start Vim often because i'm using --remote-tab-silent option. So i'll get no benefit along with complexity (
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github.com github.com
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It is critical you put better_errors only in the development section of your Gemfile. Do NOT run better_errors in production, or on Internet-facing hosts.
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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awk is my weapon of choice when it comes to text processing. Besides, it's syntax is close to C
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$(awk -F= '/^Exec/||/^TryExec/ {print $2;exit}' /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop)
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If still doesn't work. Make desktop file runnable in terminal by changing Terminal=true, and put it inside a bash script. Run the script to catch the error output. Change back when errors are corrected.
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you can use "${@:1}" instead of shift, but that requires bash instead of sh in your #! shebang. IMHO your original shift approach is simpler and better
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Now, if you also want deskopen to pass through any command-line parameters, you can instead use this slightly-modified version: #!/bin/sh desktop_file=$1 shift `grep '^Exec' "${desktop_file}" | sed 's/^Exec=//' | sed 's/%.//'` "$@" &
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Given the deskopen script, you can use a reference to it as the shebang line in a .desktop file
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The "correct" way to install a .desktop file is via desktop-file-install
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This is the only answer that does not require manually parsing the .desktop file, so it's the most sane (and safe) approach.
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It will be useless work when gvfs-open will solve the bug, but in the meantime...
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this is so stupid (that there is no sensible way to run a Desktop file from the terminal)
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gtk-launch <app-name> - where <app-name> is the file name of the .desktop file, with or without the .desktop extension.
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If I do gnome-open foo.desktop it simply opens foo.desktop as a text file. If I make it executable and then run it in bash it simply fails (which is expected, it's clearly not bash script). EDIT: Doing exec /fullpath/foo.desktop gives me a Permission denied message, even if I change ownership to myself. If I make executable and do the same command, the terminal tab I'm using simply closes (I'm guessing it crashes). Finally, if I do sudo exec /fullpath/foo.desktop, I get an error reporting sudo: exec: command not found.
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- confusing
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- good solution
- shell scripting: portability
- workaround
- clever solution
- I have this problem too
- patching upstream files to work around bug/problem
- desktop launchers (.desktop files)
- shell scripting: shebang line
- should be trivial
- debugging techniques
- wasted effort
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unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com
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I find it convenient to change proxy and other settings through gui window by right-clicking on launcher icon on my desktop. I mostly start slack by clicking desktop launcher, but also want to be able to start it from command line in some cases.
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(xdg-open seems to be supposed to be the universal one...)
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If you really want this, I suggest you write a little function that extracts the executable name from the .desktop file and runs it. Add these lines to your shell's initialization file (e.g. ~/.bashrc): runDesktop () { eval "$(awk -F= '$1=="Exec"{$1=""; print}' "$1")" } Then, you can run your .desktop file with runDesktop ~/Desktop/slack.desktop
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gitlab.gnome.org gitlab.gnome.org
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We could add heuristics like: is the file inside XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications? if not, is the file inside XDG_DATA_HOME/applications? if not, is the file marked as executable? if not, open with the text editor
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Sorry you’re surprised. Issues are filed at about a rate of 1 per day against GLib. Merge requests at a rate of about 1 per 2 days. Each issue or merge request takes a minimum of about 30 minutes (across at least 2 people) to analyse, put together a fix, test it, review it, fix it, review it and merge it. I’d estimate the average is closer to 3 hours than 30 minutes. Even at the fastest rate, it would take 3 working months to clear the backlog of ~1000 issues. I get a small proportion of my working time to spend on GLib (not full time).
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Age of a ticket is completely irrelevant as anyone can request anything but the number of developers is limited. If you'd like to see something implemented, please consider providing a patch. Thanks!
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Sorry if I sounded rude. I am using Gnome on a daily basis and am highly appreciating all the work anyone has put into it. I was just surprised when I found an AskUbuntu post from 2010 linking to this bug.
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Wow 14 years. I still keep stumbling over this issue...
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This issue hasn’t been deemed a high enough priority to be fixed yet. It will be addressed one day, I’m sure. There are many issues in GLib which many people on the internet think are important.
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Hello , since I made a modification in gio-tool (#2098 (closed)) , I seen this issue and decide to give it go. I implemented an unix only solution only for launching a desktop file through gio command, see !1779 (merged)
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In the meantime, people do seem to appreciate a developer spending 2 minutes to reply to comments on old issues, just so they’re not ignored and to manage expectations.
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When one is searching for it on the internet, there are many many people wondering how one can open .desktop files. It seems trivial, since one usually just has to click an item on the launcher so one thinks there must be some way.
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I am wondering if it wasn't faster for maintainers/developers who know the glib code to just provide a fix instead of writing comments on this issue.
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It sounds like a gnome-open (or the equivalent library call) bug. Reassigning.
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I agree that it's bad to have to handle this at the application level
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I have to agree with Raphael here that this should probably be handled in gnome-open, its a pain to have to implement .desktop parsing code in every beagle front end when I can't really think of an instance where the expected behavior wouldn't be to execute the associated command.
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I don't know what nautilus does, but i think when you double click a .desktop file it launches the associated program, i guess they don't use gnome-open then..
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deskbar should probably detect their extension and execute the relevant command as opposed to opening the file for editing.
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- quicker/easier to just solve/implement than to explain/talk about
- well-written
- welcoming contributions
- desktop launchers: launching from command line
- where (which project) do I even report this problem/bug? (whose responsibility is it?)
- issues: priority
- appreciation
- open-source software: progress seems slow
- could be easier / more difficult than it needs to be
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- whose responsibility is it?
- limited developer/engineering resources/time/money
- reasonable behavior
- limited time: not right now (maybe later)
- new feature
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- good explanation
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Thanks for your contribution!
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The commit message should always have some explanation, see https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/CommitMessages.
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github.com github.comjceb/dex3
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The following steps will help you to get to a working systemd/user configuration:
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I consider systemd/user as a good alternative for dex's autostart functionality and switched to it recently. In particular, systemd solves the issue of dex losing control over the started processes which causes processes to live longer than the X session which could cause additional annoyances like reboots taking a lot of time because the system is waiting for the processes to terminate.
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unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com
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Is somehow possible to run a "Desktop Entry" from another "Desktop Entry"?
More generally, my question is: How can I programmatically / from command line, launch a .desktop file?
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github.com github.com
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The reason we've avoided registering "Cinnamon" as a desktop name is that it opens up issues with many upstream apps that currently OnlyShowIn=Gnome or Gnome;Unity or just Unity. The relationship Mint has with Gnome and Ubuntu isn't genial enough that we could get them to add Cinnamon to their desktop files, so we would have to distribute and maintain separate duplicate .desktop files just for Cinnamon for these upstream packages.
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You're right, it would solve the Nemo problem perfectly, but break a lot of other things, unfortunately.
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unix.stackexchange.com unix.stackexchange.com
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Also manually adding [Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/zoommtg=ZoomLauncher.desktop to either $HOME/.config/mimeapps.list or $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list does not lead to xdg-open via exo-open recognizing the zoommtg protocol.
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After you modify mimeapps.list, run sudo update-desktop-database.
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A solution is almost indicated in the question: hinder xdg-open from choosing exo-open. A brute-force approach is to copy /usr/bin/xdg-open to /usr/local/bin (/usr/local/bin is earlier in PATH unless PATH has been modified) and to patch it to use open_generic instead of exo_open (unlike the XFCE4-specific exo-open, open_generic does honor xdg mime types)
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forum.garudalinux.org forum.garudalinux.org
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Does running nsgcepa by itself not then run the .desktop which in turn runs that command? Probably not. Desktop launchers are used by e.g. application menus. Executables are the binaries or scripts that can be run by desktop launchers. You can also run executables directly from a command line.
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Does running nsgcepa by itself not then run the .desktop which in turn runs that command?
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Firstly, it's nice to see a well-structured question post!
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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I don't use remote editing much so vim-dirvish is powerful enough to manage my workflow (It's actually faster than netrw ~ the author claims 2x, I feel it's faster than that - it's really instantaneous ⚡) very useful on large codebase/repositories
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I was searching for a solution to this problem too since I actually removed netrw from being loaded in vim completely and replace it with vim-dirvish. This plugin has around 500~ LOC, compared to netrw's (11,000+ LOC).
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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when the link of accessing a workspace appear I only get the popup: "Open xdg-open?" and then nothing happens.
Though in my case it is clicking an mvim:// link from better_errors
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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neither knows what to do with naked domain. So gnome-open http://askubuntu.com works but not gnome-open askubuntu.com. Here is a small function to make it easier to type and accept the stripped down domain name. function go { gnome-open http://$1 ; }
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xdg-email
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xdg-mime query default text/html To find out what application is going to be used
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There's a command that knows about your default browser: xdg-open http://google.com This will also work for every other type of URI (Uniform Resource Identifier), like images - which will automatically open with eog, openoffice documents, and so on, and also on filesystem paths (xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png).
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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Here is a link to install a deb version of chromium, seems like it be easier to use another browser myself.
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Not sure but might be a chromium snap problem. Snaps have very few permissions, can try going to software centre/store and see if you can give more permissions, should just be on/off switch, or might need to use another browser(deb not snap). Chromium might have a deb only version now again, but not sure if for 19.10 or only 20.04.
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xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
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askubuntu.com askubuntu.com
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xdg-open should do the same thing - actually, it will call gnome-open, or kde-open, or whatever, depending on your desktop environment. Thus it's more portable.
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The advantage is that you can use gnome-open for almost all file-types, URIs and directories. It's one command to learn, instead of trying to remember about obscure commands like sensible-browser
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XDG stands for X Desktop Group aka freedesktop.org
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what does xdg stand for? Its hard to remember without knowing that.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Works also on Linux if you install Steam for Windows on Wine.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Poetry is more than end rhymes
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www.kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Support for most major platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, SteamOS)
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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With a trailer this long, I don't have to go through the trouble of playing it...
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www.vocabulary.com www.vocabulary.com
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When you're didactic, you're trying to teach something. Just about everything teachers do is didactic: the same is true of coaches and mentors.
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This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.
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api.rubyonrails.org api.rubyonrails.org
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Note that autosave will only trigger for already-persisted association records if the records themselves have been changed. This is to protect against SystemStackError caused by circular association validations.
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www.metacritic.com www.metacritic.com
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Honestly the critic reviews entire miss the point of this game. The game is a tongue-in-cheek love letter to Japanese quirk/kitsch. The controls are intentionally awkward. The physics are intentionally always just that little bit unpredictable. Watch a few gameplay trailers to get a far more accurate depiction of the chaos that is Nippon Marathon that I ever got from any of the ‘professional’ critic reviews.
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Tbh I find the 44 critic metascore really appalling so made an account just to leave this review.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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This games a scam. Reviews are fake.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Based on my search, the game might be developed by neptun digital, an Android game called Brain On Physics Drop - Idle Balls Puzzle. It was released on Amazon, on June 29, 2017. Free.Later on Sep 4, 2017 it was put on google play store called Physics Brain Balls - Drop It On Dots. Free.Then in June 2018, its web browser version Love Draw released by Faramel Games. Free.Later here on Jan 9, 2019, Windows port showed up. Paid to play. Apart from all of this, the design of origin is simply modified based on a free game called Brain Dots released in 2015.A port doesn't deserve to be paid, let alone the origin of the port is not original at all.
Not everything needs to be 100% original. People are allowed to charge money for their creations/work. "Porting" a game (probably writing from scratch if they are not the same developer) is not trivial.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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A simple, yet surprisingly mind-boggling puzzle game. Simplicity may be perceived as a negative connotation when it comes to games for many people, but Neon Warp's simplicity actually works in it's favor in the best way possible and becomes one of it's strength.
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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LuftWaffel
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Game for stuffing achievements
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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infringing on Marvel's copyrights
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First off, achievement spam is not a selling point. In fact, this game broke my Steam client because it spams achievements. Whenever I closed it, it froze my client. What am I gonna do with there cheevos anyway? "Look, I got the achievement "Web 1720", am I cool now?"
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auto.howstuffworks.com auto.howstuffworks.com
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This content is not compatible on this device.
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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I get this itch.io message when I try to buy it, "Due to processing fees the minimum amount is 100 cents."
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Tried to buy keyg at its 90% off sales price but no matter what payment method I choose I keep getting a "Due to processing fees the minimum amount is 100 cents."I'm trying to figure out if there is any way around this, and if not then why can you list a game at a price below $1 if it isn't actually possible for it to be bought at said price?
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github.com github.com
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dry-rb.org dry-rb.org
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Default Values
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Cool! I workaround for the fact that Ruby has no undefined type distinct from nil.
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github.com github.com
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www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
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READ the EDIT on the OP before making snide comments. Also, if you get “like a hundred of these a day” maybe somebody should clearly, I said CLEARLY, label the subreddit as employees only. This vitriol for accidentally wandering into a subreddit that would, to most thinking people, appear to be for customers AND employees to discuss the store is ridiculous.BTW, I’ll take everything I’ve said back and apologize and even make a post calling myself an illiterate imbecile if somebody can point me to where it CLEARLY says “employees only” in either the sidebar, subreddit rules, or the post list. The sticky doesn’t count, it is not worded clearly, it just reads as if you don’t want complaints, not “no customers”.
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We are just as in the dark as the customers. We clock in and look at a screen on a scanner and scan the stuff the systems tells us to pick for you. We have no clue how the website worked for you for that order, no clue about billing issues, nada. The system didnt want you to have that item that day. The only thing we can suggest is "try again later". or call 1800walmart and complain to a call taker to see if they can put in a complaint for you. We are peons and know not much more than if you walked in the backroom threw on a vest and did the work yourself. Were not privy to anything and the company doesnt tell us jack shit except how to do the immediate task in front of us until we clock out
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github.com github.com
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github.com github.com
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Or even a simple 1-liner in the Contract that references an AR Model so you don't have to rewrite the validations again in that contract, or have to choose between writing the validations once either in the contract there or in the AR Model?
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how to have validations in model and some in contract/form object without duplicating
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store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com
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Don't let the highly rated reviews fool you, this is one of the worst Steam games I've personally bought and played in years (as of writing this I'm closing in on 4000 games in my Steam library).
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www.walmart.com www.walmart.com
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Dole Mandarin Oranges in Light Syrup, All Natural Fruit, Non-GMO, 15oz CanNot available for curbside
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api.rubyonrails.org api.rubyonrails.org
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Third configurable block to run.
I like how they identify in the description which order things run in: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and last.
Though, it would be more readable to have a list of them, in chronological order, rather than having them listed in alphabetical order.
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Last configurable block to run. Called after frameworks initialize.
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www.fabiofranchino.com www.fabiofranchino.com
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A major update usually means breaking changes in the API therefore a bit of learning is required in order to embrace it in your projects.
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www.sitepoint.com www.sitepoint.com
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Trying to force this one thing to work for everyone is the worst way to do that.
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medium.com medium.com
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If the only realistic consumer of a package is the monorepo, and you can’t realistically see normal users installing that 1 package out of 138 other packages in that repository, there’s probably no need to have it as a separate package. Ideally it would be better to let a user install 1 package that contains everything, and reduce the overhead.
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become more obscure in functionality to the point where some names literally describe what they do
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It’s an incredibly amount of overhead and waste. Packages increasingly consume more hard drive space, increase installation times
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When you look inside a node_modules directory, there’s likely hundreds if not thousands of packages, even for a relatively basic application.
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Very often in these monorepos, packages are so incredibly specific in functionality, the question then becomes why even have a separate package at all if it’s tightly coupled? Can you use these packages independently or are they tied to specific versions of other packages in the monorepo? It’ll probably be easier to remove the mask and just work as a monolith.
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After all, that’s why it’s in one repository to begin with right?
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There’s typically a complex tree of dependencies, where packages all tend to rely on each other in order to function.
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However, if all of these are hosted in the same repository, you lose a lot of those benefits.
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parallelise development across multiple teams
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There’s several benefits to splitting code into multiple packages, whether it be a library, micro-services or micro-frontends.
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- software trends: JavaScript
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The criticism of small modules is a bit ironic because it runs deeper than many realize.
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But I believe the core philosophy of tiny modules is actually sound and easier to maintain than giant frameworks.
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This isn't to say that on a case by case basis there aren't modules that are grossly overcomplicated.
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I wanted to examine this criticism because I don't agree with it.
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Isaac then continues on to compare that philosophy to Node.js. They are slightly less succinct but still very enlightening.
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he goes on to talk about third party problems and how you're never guaranteed something is written correctly or that even if it is you don't know if it's the most optimal solution
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he goes on to say that simple functions should not be packages because they are too small.
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"Functions Are Not Packages" - Well why not?
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He says that writing the function yourself makes it easy to modify and to fix bugs or improve efficiency.
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so you can learn about the ones you don't.
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Write modules that solve a problem you know
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By treating even small functions like a black box it promotes separation of concerns and allows said black box to evolve independently.
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I would much rather have a "cosine" module than a "trigonometry" module because chances are good I only need a small fraction of the utilities provided by the larger trig module.
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I found this bit a tad ironic considering he's simultaneously admonishing small modules while complaining about how difficult it is to debug other people's code.
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www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
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www.thindifference.com www.thindifference.com
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www.nestintheforest.com www.nestintheforest.com
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Start by asking these 9 Big Life Questions:
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Hasty generalization usually follows the pattern:
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Hasty generalization is the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
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blog.izs.me blog.izs.me
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the Unix Philosophy is a crucial part of the patterns, opinions, and culture of Node.js
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All too often, people get hung up on the wrong aspects of the Unix Philosophy, and miss the forest for the trees
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Those sorts of complaints are like saying that someone is not a buddhist unless they speak Pali.
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In the real world, we are faced with the completely unfair constraint of being human while writing programs and while debugging them, and none of these costs can ever be reduced to zero.
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Simplicity is better than anything.
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Compatibility is better than purity.
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Focus is better than features.
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Working is better than perfect.
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It is about balancing the twin needs of writing good software, and writing any software at all.
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It’s a practical set of advice for trading a moderate increase in development cost for a much larger reduction in maintenance costs.
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Nothing about the Unix Philosophy explicitly relates to a culture of software sharing. However, it should be no mystery that it comes from the software community where we argue at length about the best way to make our programs properly Free. Software that is developed according to these principles is easier to share, reuse, repurpose, and maintain.
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The Unix Philosophy is an ideology of pragmatism.
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valme.io valme.io
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There's a joke in philosophy that goes like this: The First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher. The Second Law of Philosophy: They're both wrong.
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Let's define idealism as a rigid belief system in which you live your life based upon a morality as it is "supposed to be" or "should be,"
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let's define pragmatism as doing what is practical, regardless of how you things are supposed to be or should be
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partnersinfire.com partnersinfire.com
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www.treehousesociety.org www.treehousesociety.org
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.orgIdeology3
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An ideology (/ˌʌɪdɪˈɒlədʒi/) is a set of beliefs or philosophies attributed to a person or group of persons
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more recent use treats the term as mainly condemnatory
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.orgVetting1
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