Splognosticus

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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I seem to remember a case where files were being uploaded to a server where they were only retained in memory and that qualified as a copyright violation, but I'm having trouble actually finding it.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
The best reason that comes to mind is that the American version is its own separate thing from the original. Tex-Mex and authentic Mexican food for example are both great and I wouldn't want to go without either.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Even if they had successfully made their bags offensive, deliberately offending your customers doesn't sound like a great idea to me.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I've always been of the mind that aliases should be "whatever the user finds convenient." I don't think I've ever seen code that depends on them.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
ShellCheck is right insofar as compatibility is concerned. You can only rely on the shebang supporting one argument. I'd personally just ignore that warning if I were writing for MacOS specifically, but you can configure ShellCheck to
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Probably just because it's there--you can start writing JavaScript without installing anything , same as you used to be able to do with BASIC on 8-bit micros. Then when you consider how much Visual Basic or VBA code there must be in t
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
> it took years to find consensus on pronouncing “azure” Really? That one's a real word. It's got a correct pronounciation[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pronounce+azure&rlz=1C1CHBF_...
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Heh, I think this is a great counter-example. Great product, who cares if it's got a weird name? :)
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Or just maintain the dang thing and leave it alone. I know that's not free, but what the heck even was their original plan for paying for it if it wasn't ad revenue?
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Game Soup[1], Thomas Brush[2] and Code Bullet[3] are three I enjoy. [1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGPMrF9AN_D9BrmSmMeV3hA [2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuHVjteDW9tCb8QqMrtGvwQ [3] h
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I'm disappointed you're getting downvoted, since proper terminal emulation is something I'd like in the Windows console as well.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I remember buying Computer Shopper specifically because it was a giant tome of ads. Whenever it was time to upgrade I poured through it looking for the best deal and ogling all the cool stuff I couldn't justify buying. Now that I thi
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I've got a tablet[1] that uses almost the same CPU. When I got it they were $80 and it's better than it has any right to be at that price, but it performs about like a 2002-ish Pentium except with hardware video acceleration. If I
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Because the sort of person who thinks it's okay to rely on an algorithm to fire people doesn't care about their employees, but cares a lot about not getting called out for it. They think they're clever but I'll be damn
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
I remember reading that technically jaywalking is not illegal in the U.S. either. You just will almost certainly die is all.
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by Splognosticus 7y ago
Could you elaborate on why I'd need this? I dunno about anybody else but I don't have a significant spam problem with Gmail, and the few unsolicited emails I do get are easily dealt with by just reporting them as spam. It's n
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
In a similar vein there is "2500 things Mr. Welch can no longer do in an RPG". https://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
> 100M books? Who knew Dolly Parton was so well read? This has been a project of hers for a very long time. https://imaginationlibrary.com/about-us
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
In retrospect why on Earth did we ever think a company whose motto was "Don't Be Evil" wouldn't be? It's like meeting someone who introduces themselves with, "Hi I'm John and I am definitely not planning t
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
That's not as big a drawback as you might think. There's a guy on YouTube[1] that with a channel fashioned after one of those Saturday morning edutainment shows who debunks hoax videos, and one of the tricks he frequently points o
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
> I also enjoy how baltimoresun.com totally defeats uBlock Origin and brings my computer to its knees. Try blocking sdad.guru. I checked and it's one I've blocked myself, and Google says they're an adblocker-circumvention
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
They're on like their fourth attempt, aren't they? They tried Pen Windows, then Windows CE and its derivatives, then there was the ARM version of Windows 8, and now they're hoping Intel tablets running Windows 10 can become a
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
I wondered the same thing a while ago and my understanding is that these are all covered by the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1][2]. The gist is there's not so much a line you can't cross, but rather that what is illegal is explicitly
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by Splognosticus 8y ago
> There are enough homes in the US, as far as I know. 1.8% of all homes in the U.S. are vacant[1], as compared to 0.17% of the population who are homeless. [1] https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/curre
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by Splognosticus 9y ago
"Normally" would be overstating the problem I think, but it's not as though toxic work environments where people are expected to work unsustainably long hours are exactly uncommon in the tech sector.
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by Splognosticus 11y ago
> I find that surprising, and I'd want to know what exactly is meant by "inner reading voices" - are these voices that people hear, or are they something else? I do this sometimes to shut out distractions. For me it's
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by Splognosticus 11y ago
For GNU tar at least it's not necessary to specify the compression program when extracting--it will auto-detect it. Additionally when creating tar files it has -a, --auto-compress to use the file extension to determine the compression
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by Splognosticus 11y ago
You might also want to take a look at less's input preprocessor, which could be used to automatically colorize source.
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by Splognosticus 12y ago
Would you consider a RSS feed? I'd subscribe to that.
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by Splognosticus 12y ago
You can use default values to avoid the nasty error. ${1:-} will expand to an empty string if your script is called without arguments.

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