Pete_D

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by Pete_D 8y ago
If I cared about VHS, I'd probably go for the combo too - separate players means double the number of power outlets, video input cables, and remotes. Bundling a VHS/DVD player together feels more sensible than bundling a TV into a
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by Pete_D 8y ago
> English isn't even in top 4 of world spoken languages By what measurement? Wikipedia gives Mandarin > Spanish > English > Hindi for native speakers[0] and English > Mandarin > Hindi > Spanish for all speakers.[1]
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by Pete_D 8y ago
CentOS 6 (and increasingly Oracle Unbreakable Linux 6) are alive and well in enterprise.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Same. I thought about it after a few surprised reactions, and concluded: I got interested in technology when I was a kid because you could take it apart, tinker with it, understand it. That's less true than it used to be - things in ge
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Anecdote: I had a surgical incision around six inches long glued shut after an operation in the UK. No stitches. I was surprised, but from talking to the nurses it sounded like that was standard procedure. Judging from other comments, the s
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by Pete_D 8y ago
FWIW, that sounds like The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact%2C_the_Truth...
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by Pete_D 8y ago
A bit off topic, but in case you were still looking, may I suggest https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/javascript/ ? That site is my first port of call whenever I need to get a quick overview of a new language.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I assumed OP was using a different definition of art ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/art#Noun ): > 2. ( countable ) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. > She's mastered the art of pr
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Judging from the Wii and the iPad, people will get used to any brand name, no matter how ridiculous it sounds initially.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I use emacs python-mode for this. It's more or less a wrapper around the REPL you'd get by typing "python" at a command line, but with some integration to support sending updated function definitions, tab completion, etc
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Yes. Forums worked this way for years. It was fine.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
This always makes me nervous. If I have some old laptops lying around, how worried should I be about them exploding? Does it only apply if they're in use?
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by Pete_D 8y ago
gdb has checkpoint/restart that uses fork(), though you have to specify the checkpoints manually. https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Checkpoint_002fRes... It has another mode where you can record
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The curious relationship between altitude and suicide (2017)(theconversation.com)
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I didn't - I'd heard it was dangerous since breaking the membrane meant you'd absorb the contents a lot more quickly at the cut edge.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
The full report ( https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6745a1.htm?s_cid=mm... ) says they're using the Standard Occupational Classification system ( https://www.bls.gov/soc/ ).
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Since you say you're on a very low dose, may I suggest gum or lozenges? I tried nicotine patches for focus a while ago and found that even the weakest ones were far too strong.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Another Gwern link: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine Highlight: "Wikipedia summarizes Guillem et al 2005 as "Technically, nicotine is not significantly addictive, as nicotine administered alone does not produce sign
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by Pete_D 8y ago
The man page suggests it's equivalent to "vim -R". I usually use that because "view" seems to ignore my .vimrc for some reason.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I like to keep a bell in my PS1 so I get notifications automatically.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
How about "awk /pattern/"?
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Was it this one? https://web.archive.org/web/20180801143131/http://www.shamus... (archive link because the site seems to be down at the moment)
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I got tired of writing the time specs manually, so now I keep this script in my PATH: #!/bin/sh # print a crontab entry for 2 minutes into the future date -d "+2 minutes" +"%M %H %d %m * /path&#x
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by Pete_D 8y ago
at(1) is great, but you'll still have the problem of a different environment to cron (it copies most of your environment variables and working directory).
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by Pete_D 8y ago
With select/poll, you have to write your own dispatcher, which means you have to care about details like whether you need round-robin to prevent early things in your fdset stopping later things being processed, etc. Also, many of the t
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Even then, it's worse by weight over most timescales. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential : "In the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, methane has a li
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by Pete_D 8y ago
I like mapping jk to ESC for vim/evil-mode, then swapping caps lock and CTRL for the comfy tmux and readline ergonomics. (I've tried readline's vi mode, but I didn't like it.)
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Another approach is taken in the comic "Life on the Infinite Farm" (pdf: https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/farm.pdf ). I'm not sure it's entirely appropriate for children though.
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by Pete_D 8y ago
You don't have to put the redirection at the end, you can write < input.txt filter1 args # ... rest of pipeline (But I agree that the cat version is more readable.)
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by Pete_D 8y ago
Sounds a bit like tedunangst's miniwebproxy[0]. I've been wondering about writing either something like it or a youtube-dl-like "article-dl" for my own use, but haven't quite been annoyed enough into doing it yet. [

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