Pete_D

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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   Maybe you'd prefer comparing the code of a website to the amount of useful content on the website, which OP also did. Taking "I'm downloading 100mb worth of stuff (83 Moby-Dicks) to read 72kb worth of plaintext" at face
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   What's an SBU? (I tried to search but only found results for Stony Brook University)
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   Pseudo-anglicism(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by Pete_D 8y ago|0 comments
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   This feels like the architectural equivalent of linguistic prescriptivism. If "basic architectural concepts" declare buildings to be "especially hideous", but people are seemingly happy to buy and live in them, what grou
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   What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)(hyperallergic.com)

   39 points by Pete_D 8y ago|34 comments
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   Consider trying rsync instead of scp - I've found it to be faster for multiple small files.
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   "Everything is a file" is a nice idea not taken far enough. The execution is full of frustrating omissions and holes at the edges, e.g.: - unless you are using Plan 9 or gpm, reading mouse events is almost certainly going to be a
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   I certainly remember being surprised when I accidentally cat'd a directory on AIX and it worked. I can't remember exactly what you get back; I think it's a NUL-separated list of the files in it.
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   by Pete_D 8y ago

   John Michael Greer - The Next Ten Billion Years https://www.resilience.org/stories/2013-09-05/the-next-ten-b...
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    > I'd love to have a format that is just HTML + whatever zipped up that browsers and operating systems happily just open in a browser. Does HTML with data URIs meet these criteria?
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    This is why anonymous speech, and institutions and social norms that support it, are an indispensable part of free speech.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Reminds me of a promotion I saw a few years ago where some pizza chain had paired up with a video rental place. You ordered a DVD with your pizza and they were delivered together.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    > When people talk about Git being a “distributed” system, this is primarily the difference they mean. In CVS, you can’t make commits locally. A commit is a submission of code to the central repository, so it’s not something you can do w
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    Scott and Scurvy (2010)(idlewords.com)

    96 points by Pete_D 8y ago|10 comments
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Nit: I would be astonished to hear that any recent clinical trial involving placebos had taken place without all participants knowing that they might be given one. FDA guidelines on informed consent[0]: "Procedures related solely to
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    I always remember this write-up from the original author of GNU grep: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug... . "The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Workaround: https://archive.is/xVmHC
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    :nnoremap <C-z> :term<Return> works for me (tmux in urxvt). Ctrl-Z only gets converted to SIGTSTP if the terminal has ISIG set. For example, try `stty -isig; sleep 5` and try to suspend or interrupt the sleep command.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Also fun: macros can call themselves. So if you want to repeat something across a whole file, it's sometimes easiest to write an infinitely recursive macro and let it error when it bumps up against the bottom of the file.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    If you like these, it's worth skimming `:help index` and `:help option-summary` occasionally. You're likely to find at least one interesting new keybinding or setting.
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    On the IQ question, from the paper ( http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/095679761876805... ): > Intelligence was assessed by asking, “If you could choose your level of intelligence, what level woul
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    I didn't see this mentioned in the article, but you can protect against this in your own scripts by including a -- before user-supplied parameters, which prevents them from being treated as flags. $ rm -- -rf rm: cannot remov
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Times have certainly changed drastically. I remember when Google Talk was announced and the tech crowd of the day embraced it precisely because it didn't have emoticons (or custom fonts and colors, or games, or a host of other featur
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    Bedford and the Normalization of Deviance(rapp.org)

    58 points by Pete_D 8y ago|21 comments
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Ontario, Canada is similar: state-run shops have a monopoly on the sale of alcohol ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquor_Control_Board_of_Ontari... ). They're about to do the same with weed ("in September 2017
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    There could be more to it. There's a hypothesis that microbiome changes could be a contributing factor[0]. Restricting food intake is similar in that it reduces stomach capacity[1], though almost certainly not as drastically as surgery
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    E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The End of Computing Science? (EWD1304) (2000)(cs.utexas.edu)

    2 points by Pete_D 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    I believe the concern here is most likely goitrogens rather than phytoestrogens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitrogen
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    I love Python comprehensions. I want to dislike Python - significant whitespace, weak lambdas, other trivial complaints - but the comprehensions are so nice, especially combined with yield and the iteration protocol, that it's usuall
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    by Pete_D 8y ago

    Common Lisp's LOOP macro is a fearsome beast. http://www.ai.sri.com/~pkarp/loop.html http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_loop...