Nick_C

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Vim.org problems for 24 hours now
7 points by Nick_C 16y ago|2 comments
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by Nick_C 16y ago
FYI, the bell-labs link seems to be broken.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I see there's a bunch of replies, some with more and more commands through a pipe. Seriously, if you are going to be using a shell, you will be typing a ' char all the time, so probably better to just get used to it rather than go through a
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> Common misconception... a vacuum is actually an incredibly efficient insulator Yes, it is even a very real problem for EVAs and spacecraft. One of the first things the Shuttle does is open up its radiators to help get rid of its inte
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Yes. I used to live a few hundred metres from the track. The noise is incredible, you can hear several kilometres away.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Wow, can't go wrong for that price. Bonus, as it doesn't need a power supply, it uses the USB's. They accept international orders so I've ordered one with free shipping to Australia.
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Faces of tomorrow: a composite person by city(faceoftomorrow.com)
2 points by Nick_C 16y ago|0 comments
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> Half of the houses then didn't indoor bathrooms Just in case anyone gets a wrong impression of life in the 60s, this is not true.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> whatever happens to unused electicity? Re-orient your thinking a little and it will make sense. We're talking AC systems (not a SWER) so it is a closed-loop as far as the electricity is concerned. The electricity doesn't go anywhere
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by Nick_C 16y ago
There was a patch for all architectures, but it got dropped after 3.07 (current is 3.09). Andrew wrote "I don't feel this patch is general enough nor straight-forward enough to make it into rsync." See these for more: http://insights.oe
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Perhaps you could use this for yourself positively, as an example of why agreements in writing are necessary. One co-founder should not be able to decide to take a site down (not technically, but legally). Documentation is a pain, but it i
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I end up on Google's page when I try to open either wikizu.com or crushtease.com . Some sort of redirect happening?
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Turn your webcam on, point your remote control at the camera and press a few buttons. I recently had to do this to figure whether a new remote was working or not. Worked a treat.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> which aren't scraped from elsewhere They used to be scraped from usenet. They may well still be, but I don't have any current evidence. Are they still doing that?
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I always start vim from within xterm (bashrc has already run and aliases are already set up). It just works. I can use :!ll (or ctrl-z and 'll' in the sub-shell) and it just works. Not sure why it wouldn't for you.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
1 ctrl-^ go to buffer 1 2 ctrl-^ go to buffer 2 3 ctrl-^ go to buffer 3 ctrl-^ toggle this buffer with the last one, quickly switching back and forth. [Of course, ctrl-^ is actually just ctrl-6, you don't need to use the shift ke
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by Nick_C 16y ago
This is it. Wish I could upvote you a few dozen points. Really, I think other comments that talk about meditation as being some grand mystical experience are doing a disservice. It's simple. It's easy. You don't need to pay a $1000 to s
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Is that a valid criticism though? I don't run a desktop, just a window manager (scrotwm), and I can still run KDE apps without having to load the entire KDE desktop environment. (Gnome I don't know about, as Slackware doesn't provide Gnom
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I would incline more to libertarian views like this if the full downstream cost of your decision was brought back to you to pay. But it never is. Example where I live: new building is almost all McMansions because the new wealth wants tha
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by Nick_C 16y ago
It's because of covariance of returns. You can construct a portfolio with the same expected return as a single stock, but with much lower expected risk, defined as variance of return. Or a portfolio with higher returns for the same risk.
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Vodafone customer security breach, online details available for a price(smh.com.au)
1 points by Nick_C 16y ago|0 comments
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I don't know their current methodology, but they got a bad rep because they used usenet postings to answer questions. You could find their answers by searching usenet groups. So they were setting themselves up as a Q&A service, when r
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Basically it's resource management, both human and materials. I'll leave the human side out, but recommend Gene Kranz book Failure Is Not an Option for more info on why ground controllers are important. It costs a huge amount of money (i
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by Nick_C 16y ago
I couldn't. It wanted my email address to go any further. I quit then.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
'cro-magnon' has been out of fashion for quite a while, at least in stuff that I read. I haven't seen the term in any decent book for, I dunno, say, several years.
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by Nick_C 16y ago
> A full-featured RSS reader feels a lot like a mailing list Yep. I read all my RSS feeds in my mail client, claws mail. The feeds display on screen just like a mailing list. Plus you get the benefit that most email clients have suc
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Just be aware that using 'set -e', while good advice in general, won't catch everything. Particularly lists and sub-shells may return with the status code of the last command, not the failed command, depending on how they were used. So
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by Nick_C 16y ago
The real problem was noise. Everything was predicated on being able to do cross-continent mach 1+ flights. When the US then Europe closed off faster-than-sound flights over land, that was it. After that, it couldn't make money. Then ev
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by Nick_C 16y ago
*nix systems have a dictionary daemon dictd that can talk to many dictionaries. I remember running a Latin-English/English-Latin dictionary on my Debian system years ago. You could try googling for that and the FreeDict dictionary database
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by Nick_C 16y ago
Online vimeo presentation here: http://vimeo.com/18279777 It starts roughly 13 minutes before DJB actually begins to speak, and you can't fast forward unfortunately.

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