Re: [DNG] tobacco patch?

2020-05-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
Hi,

Ian Zimmerman writes:

> On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?
>
> It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with quitting.

I think in Europe it's better known as a nicotine patch.

Hope this helps,
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Re: [DNG] tobacco patch? (OT)

2020-05-17 Thread spiralofhope
On Sat, 16 May 2020 18:13:58 -0700
Ian Zimmerman  wrote:

> On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?  
> 
> It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with
> quitting.

Aah.

I would say "nicotine patch".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_patch
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Re: [DNG] tobacco patch?

2020-05-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-05-16 16:51, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?

It's an analogy with a medical device used to help smokers with quitting.

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Ian
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[DNG] tobacco patch?

2020-05-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:30:03AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 
> Runit and s6's process supervisors can also be used as tobacco patches
> for sysvinit.
> 

What do you mean by "tobacco patch"?

-- hendrik

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