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by LukeShu 6y ago
TIL that "cretin" and "Cretan" aren't the same word. I guess I'm glad to know that the etymology is ableist instead of racist.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
To be clear: I did not downvote.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> To be fair, the first edition of the book is from 1986. The first edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools* is from 1986. The first edition of the dragon book wasn't Compilers , it was Principles of Compiler
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by LukeShu 6y ago
That acronym of SCRAM also appears to be a myth. https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/02/18/refresh-putti... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram#Etymology
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by LukeShu 6y ago
For reference for other readers: The statx(2) system call was added in Linux 4.11, released on 2017-04-30. The statx(3) libc wrapper was added in GNU libc 2.28, released on 2018-08-01.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> In fact, RMS' views and statements posted on stallman.org about sexual morality escalated for the worse over the last few years. -- Bradley Kuhn (at-the-time FSF board member), http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog&#x2F
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I'm not up on the details of what happened, and a lot of it seemed a bit like muck-raking to me, but: A lot of people have been advocating for "reconsidering" donations to the FSFE ever since the FSFellowship (formerly the FS
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Wow, I didn't realize how rare it's been for the Senate and the House to both be Republican. Only 7 times since 1955: 104th-106th (1995-2001), 108th-109th (2003-2007), and 114th-115th (2015-2019). (To be fair, during my lifetime,
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Indeed, FY1998, FY1999, FY2000, and F2001 are the only years of since FY1969 for which the federal government ran a surpluss rather than a deficit. George W. Bush, not Clinton, presided over most of FY2001; but he inherited the FY2001 budge
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Wow, that article. After the gentle introduction I rarely made it a paragraph without having a major criticism. He notes a bunch of legitimate but ultimately pretty minor criticisms of mainstream economics[1], has one actually solid argume
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I was going to say, 30 years ago, the 1st edition of the actual Plan 9 wasn't yet released (not until 1992), much less a clone/port of its shell. But it seems that Byron Rakitzis wrote his Unix clone of `rc` in 1991 before Plan 9
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Working from a freely available draft of the C++ 2017 spec: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/n465... In total, it's 1622 pages. Without the cross-references and the
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by LukeShu 6y ago
A dead comment asserts that the reason Plan 9 didn't succeed as "unix 2.0" is because of licensing, and because it only became open source "30 years late". This is an interesting argument and perhaps has merit, but
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Shoot, much of the Go lang team came from Plan 9. And they brought a lot of code and ideas with them. Currently on my mind os `os.FileMode`; here's a comment I wrote in some Go code that interfaces with Python: // A
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Per the screenshot in latter: 1571 page views per hour. That's 26 page views a minute, which is "a few dozen".
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Sure, there's playing demographics, and then there's inserting "the most egregious Mary Sue of all time". I don't think anyone considers Jake Sisko or Nog to be on the level of Wesley Crusher.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Was he really that bad for most if it though? If we ignore the cluster of bad Wesley episodes that only happened because of the 1988 writers' strike?
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I was curious: (10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365) = 564.1 years If I add on "/(human lifetime)", Wolfram Alpha uses 72.6 years, which it attributes to a 2019 UN estimate. ((10 seconds)*(5 million)*(365))/(huma
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Sadly, I don't have a solid book recommendation about the early Internet. But, my favorite Internet history book of all time is "IPng: Internet Protocol Next Generation" edited by Scott O. Bradner and Allison Mankin. It&#x27
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by LukeShu 6y ago
No disrespect toward Ms. Reynolds, certainly! But Mr. Postel had been in that role for 11 years before Ms. Reynolds joined him (1972-1983). Though it turns out that my history is a little fuzzy on the name itself; though Mr. Postel had be
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Today, the "Internet Assigned Numbers Authority" refers to an organization. But for many years it didn't refer to an organization, it was Jon Postel's title.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Since the parent post was from an Emacs user: I have to disagree. As an Emacs user, I've loved having a foot-pedal. The foot-pedal is superfluous in Vi because Vi is already modal; the foot-pedal is great in Emacs because it adds moda
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by LukeShu 6y ago
So does X-keys: https://xkeys.com/xkeys/footpedals/xkfootrear.html (And if you don't mind a crippled non-programmable firmware, you can get it cheaper as a VEC Infinity IN-USB-2, and run a daemon on your lapt
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by LukeShu 6y ago
> Tricky though, because it would have to talk to the keyboard, not the computer. No it wouldn't. It works to press the modifier on one keyboard and the other keys on another keyboard. Source: I have a set of 3 footpedals that I
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Hi HN! I'm one of the engineers working on Telepresence. I've been working on it on-and-off for about 2.5 years (but with about a continuous year of "off" in the middle there). To me, Telepresence is about making Kuber
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What's New in Telepresence 2?(blog.getambassador.io)
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by LukeShu 6y ago
It also shows the "via" if the SRS domain is different than the letter From domain.
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by LukeShu 6y ago
I mentioned that these days I write Go for a living, which involves a lot of: if err := thingThatMightFail(); err != nil { ... } so I was saying that of course I think lots of `if` statements for error handling are re
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by LukeShu 6y ago
Is that really better than if ! wget --quiet --output-document /usr/local/bin/mybinary "$download_url"; then error 'Failed downloading the CLI' exit 1 fi ? I know someone
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by LukeShu 6y ago
GNU Emacs was released in 1985. Other variants of Emacs date back to the 70s.

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