Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
Good luck ignoring the next government-issued evacuation order or shelter-in-place order in your region then.
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by Karellen 3y ago
I am curious about the status of legal tender in such regions. If someone were to owe a business a debt above €5,000, does the fact that they legally cannot accept payment in cash mean that they could legally refuse all proffered forms of p
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by Karellen 3y ago
What about network/transaction/gas fees? They're charged by the entity that issues the currency (the network/the miners), for the act of using the currency, which I think could reasonably be classified as a form of tax.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Is piping to /dev/null webscale?
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by Karellen 3y ago
Cool. I'd not seen that one before. I was going to link to Goodhart's Law, but the McNamara fallacy seems broader and more interesting. Thanks.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Does vim follow semver? I don't think vim follows semver, although a lot of old unix software, and also Free Software, would use major version bumps to indicate compatibility breaks. Semver was in many ways the documentation of wh
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by Karellen 3y ago
Doesn't that kind of assume that a) there is only one user b) they are logged in c) they will be able to respond in a timely enough manner to allow other programs to allocate memory shortly edit: d) there will be enough memory to start
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by Karellen 3y ago
A reasonable compromise would be to allow changing defaults whenever there's a major version bump. ripgrep seems to have a major version bump every 18 months or so, which seems a bit excessive. OTOH vim went through 9 versions in 30-so
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by Karellen 3y ago
Not only is hiccough old, it's also new... at least compared to hiccup. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hiccough > Hiccough is a later spelling, and an example of folk etymology. https://en.wiktionary
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by Karellen 3y ago
Just because some people feel that way, I don't think it's right to project that attitude onto another person you don't know without any evidence that they actually do too.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Ugh. I hope there comes a day when using the money hoarded by the rich and influential to invest in the public, does not depend on the rich and influential choosing to do so out of a desire for maximal profits, or even benevolence. One da
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by Karellen 3y ago
A treaty between the breakaway rebels, and the previous claimants to sovereignty, where the previous claimants accept the rebels claims and give up their own, would seem to be a pretty good candidate for the official start date of sovereign
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by Karellen 3y ago
Did the filmmakers really intend for their films to have grain in them, or was it a feature forced upon them by the nature of their tools? If non-grainy film stock had been available for the same price, do you think filmmakers would have
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by Karellen 3y ago
* since direct record keeping began Or, according to indirect proxy measurements, since the first agricultural revolution when humans started relying on stable climates with the invention of farming, and relying on stable sea levels by buil
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by Karellen 3y ago
You conveniently missed off the lines of text above that which explain what "doing this" is: getmicro can use update-alternatives to register micro as a system text editor. For example, this will allow `crontab -e` open
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by Karellen 3y ago
Alternatively, they're just reducing boilerplate. Yes, anything might return an error. Do we need to really write `or error` or whatever everywhere that all we're going to do is pass the error immediately back up the stack? One wa
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Why is there still software asking user to run sudo on something downloaded from the internet? Does it do this? From https://github.com/zyedidia/micro#quick-install-script Quick-install script curl http
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by Karellen 3y ago
The impression I've got from reading a bit around this is that Lars can write great drum parts (especially great Metallica drum parts), and he can them play well enough... with sufficient practice. The trouble is, so I've read, th
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by Karellen 3y ago
When the project I was working on had this problem, the request to build a DSL was based on the idea that each client ought to be able to make their own changes. The client shouldn't have to know a "full" programming language
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by Karellen 3y ago
TDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Dynamical_Time > [TDB] is a relativistic coordinate time scale, intended for astronomical use as a time standard to take account of time dilation when calculating orbit
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by Karellen 3y ago
The thing is, even though I distrust Google a lot, I distrust Microsoft, Oracle and Facebook even less . Even if Bing got 2x better than Google at being able to show me what I actually wanted to find, I'd probably prefer Google for qu
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by Karellen 3y ago
I wonder how much arithmetic is done with integers that can't fit in a 32-bit int? Might it be better to have a tagged 64-bit type where, if the type is an int, one half of the value is a 32-bit int? You could then do arithmetic with 3
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by Karellen 3y ago
"We are made of star stuff" -- Carl Sagan
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by Karellen 3y ago
> if I was lucky enough to stumble upon some great hack to make lots of money, why would I be telling people about it? Because you understand that the number in your bank account isn't the score of some weird game. Having more money
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by Karellen 3y ago
Took me a while to parse that headline. I was trying to figure out what "land-publishing" was. I realise that most typographic style guides recommend not putting spaces around em-dashes which separate clauses in a sentence, but I
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by Karellen 3y ago
> The employer needs 100% of that employee's work, or they wouldn't pay for it. If that were the case, employers would go bankrupt, or at least descend into chaos, whenever anyone took a sick day. > the employer may very muc
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by Karellen 3y ago
That totally ignores the power imbalances between employers and employees. Like how an employee accounts for 1/n of an employer's work capacity (where n can often be large), but an employer typically accounts for 100% of an employ
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by Karellen 3y ago
> It seems the premise is that those with a computer should be able to access others servers wholesale unconditionally. This premise is obviously wrong. Yes, that is obviously wrong. Accessing a website doesn't give you anything lik
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by Karellen 3y ago
> it doesn't matter if you're doing your calculations in meters, feet, miles, kilometers, parsecs, AUs, nanometers, Planck lengths--you'll get the same relative accuracy. Yes, but if I'm working with lengths where I k
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by Karellen 3y ago
> you need to be extremely careful about overflows/underflows. [...] you need to ensure that every intermediate result of your operation gives an in range result. How is that any different from ordinary integer operations/arith

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