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by Karellen 4y ago
~/.dotfiles Really? Just as so many utilities are finally moving away from `~/.foo` to `$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/foo` (default `~/.config/foo`) to reduce home directory pollution, does a new tool have to start usin
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Gecko is base-60 a.k.a. sexagesimal Thanks for that. I was very confused as to why the value was about 7% larger than 16,777,216 (2²⁴), and not exactly that. But assuming a binary representation (!) having the subdivisions be slightly
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by Karellen 4y ago
> It’s hard to avoid the idea that my confusion [...] is resolved by noting a principal–agent problem where the PE managers get paid a ton so intermediaries can then report unrealistically rosy assumptions and unrealistically calm return
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by Karellen 4y ago
As it says in TFA: > So to this day whenever a client connects, the first byte it sends is a literal "l" or "B" to inform the server of the client's byte order. Where the byte order doesn't match the X serv
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by Karellen 4y ago
...by default. It's still available as a setting in `xorg.conf`, or on the command line.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> YIMBYs are quite often people who have a perceived narrow financial self-interest in reduced housing prices, Are you suggesting NIMBYs aren't quite often people with a narrow financial self-interest in maintaining above-inflatio
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by Karellen 4y ago
For people who have become involved with national security issues, aren't they often required to deny being involved with national security issues if asked? Would that count?
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by Karellen 4y ago
See also "your carbon footprint" - a fossil fuel industry PR campaign to try to make CO2 emissions a personal issue, diverting attention away from the systemic structural practices which are the root cause of the problem.
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by Karellen 4y ago
> you always just take the (positive) index modulo the size of the area. That's something I'd like in a bunch of languages - a real modulo operator that always returns between 0 and n, even for negative inputs, rather than a re
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Using Porter you don't need to know anything about Supervisor, systemd [...] Using systemd you don't need to know anything about Porter. > One advantage might be the ease of use. [...] Porter abstracts away these things so
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by Karellen 4y ago
What's the advantage of using this over systemd user services? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd/User Again, services are configured with short text-based configuration files.
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by Karellen 4y ago
On the other hand, opiates are generally not readily available everywhere (and the current opioid epidemic in the US is an example of regulations and healthcare providers failing to work as intended, with Purdue Pharma pleading guilty to
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by Karellen 4y ago
> But crucially, then they rigorously specified how those shortcuts and errors must be handled in all cases. If the behaviour of such code is rigorously specified, is it even correct to label them "shortcuts" or "errors&qu
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by Karellen 4y ago
Just verifying that the release binary from github is actually the release binary from github you think it is, should be good enough. The problem with `curl | bash` isn't that the upstream author might be malicious, or have had their w
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Back in the day when "all the world is an i386", If anyone wants a further back in an even earlier day example, see http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/V/vaxocentrism.html
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by Karellen 4y ago
The bug has been updated with a rationale: EDIT 2022-12-20: There are at least 3 cases where this is desirable within a short period of time: Filling password confirmation fields on the same page if we were not able to au
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by Karellen 4y ago
How could Linus have rejected a systemd feature, even one he didn't like? Linus runs the kernel. systemd is not the kernel. They're completely different projects. Yes, systemd runs on Linux (exclusively so) but Linus doesn't
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by Karellen 4y ago
Yes. (Damn, it's hard to find a "list of emoticons" (or even "usenet faq") from back in the day now. So much more recent stuff clogging the search results.) Anyway, this list of emoticons from '94 (according to
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by Karellen 4y ago
According to comments in the .asm file It will generate (14000-14)/14*2 digits. Cannot go further with current precision Which works out to about 500 digits. Maybe it's just reached its limit. https://githu
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by Karellen 4y ago
More info: https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-d... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
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by Karellen 4y ago
I only print around once/month (or less), and I've given up on having my own printer. I get stuff printed at the local library now. Yeah, the per-page costs are relatively high, but I'm not amortising the cost of a printer, I
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by Karellen 4y ago
JSON lines looks kinda interesting, but the newline-delimited thing seems weird. It seems to me that you could write a JSON streaming parser that, if the outer element is an Array, reads and outputs/processes one Array element at a tim
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by Karellen 4y ago
An "Internet Standard" is just a designation that has been given to an RFC that has been blessed in a certain way. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/ for more details, but the set of designations is: * Uncatego
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by Karellen 4y ago
If the syntax allows for a trailing separator, I'd go with opening delimiters and separators on the right, with a trailing separator, and the closing delimiter on its own line. The reasoning behind that is that it produced the cleanest
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by Karellen 4y ago
Service providers provide APIs. Devs build apps that use APIs. Users install apps that use APIs. Users build their workflows around apps that use APIs. Sometimes devs get bored/burn out/get a family/die/get a promotion,
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by Karellen 4y ago
Do you have no flaws?
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by Karellen 4y ago
Where does the author act like they are totally blameless?
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract? Because they believed (erroneously or not) that they already had paid for the thing the contract was about, and were offering a "peppercorn" payment for the signature itself to
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by Karellen 4y ago
> averaging a cost of $200 million per arrest is an insane statistic That depends on the deterrence of having air marshals. The argument sounds like one that gets brought up here regularly, when executives lay off 90% of the sysadmins be
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by Karellen 4y ago
As someone who lives in a country with socialised healthcare, who has occasionally done lightly reckless things in the past, I am happy to pay for other people's recklessness. Or, rather, I am happy that if you end up in hospital for a

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