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by __david__ 7mo ago
Similarly, one of your nephews has a friend with parents that don’t lock their liquor cabinet, which means despite all the laws not allowing sales of alcohol to minors, they still have access to it. I think what your sisters are doing is fi
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by __david__ 9mo ago
Correct. Just ask the Silk Road guy…
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by __david__ 9mo ago
Sometimes when you’re close to something it’s very hard to describe it because you’ve been looking at it from all angles for so long that when someone else approaches it from a different direction it’s hard to see what blind spots they migh
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by __david__ 9mo ago
Interesting, that kind of reminds me of Things In Rings [1]. I haven’t played it yet but it looks pretty good. [1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408547/things-in-rings
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by __david__ 9mo ago
Oh yeah, Unreal was so nice looking. For me, though, that moment was in the Quake prerelease demo (“q1test”). It was clearly polygonal and you could look up and down with the mouse at a very nice high frame rate, which was pretty amazing in
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by __david__ 10mo ago
Worse is that the notification for this “error” telling me I couldn’t back up without OneDrive was behind the little dot in the restart/logout menu in the start menu, which (until now) only showed me that updates were required. Now tha
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by __david__ 10mo ago
Perhaps, but I fear you’re veering way too much into “clever” territory. Remember, this code has to be understandable to the junior members of the team! If you’re not careful you’ll end up with arcane operators, strange magic numbers, and a
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by __david__ 10mo ago
Perhaps my searching skills aren’t great but I don’t see any consumer ssds over 8TB. Can you share a link? It was my understanding that ssds have plateaued due to wattage restriction across SATA and M.2 connections. I’ve only seen large SSD
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by __david__ 11mo ago
But I bet you could really list some rubbish with it…
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by __david__ 11mo ago
I love tcl. My absolute favorite thing about it is that `man tcl` [1] gives a dozen paragraphs that completely describe the language itself. Its simplicity always astounded me since it seems really simplistic but at some level it’s just a
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by __david__ 11mo ago
Another nit, while test and [ are indeed binaries, they are also bash built-ins (for performance, presumably) so bash won’t exec them normally.
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by __david__ 1y ago
I like `tig blame` for this. It has a key (comma, maybe?) that pops back to the file just before the change on the highlighted line so you can quickly work your way backwards through non-changes like you describe. It doesn’t deal with renam
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by __david__ 1y ago
Yep, the original Zork was a big sprawling game. I originally played the (pirate?) pdp version when I was like 6 years old. A few years ago I took one of the c versions (this one one was run through f2c and then cleaned up by Ian Lance Tayl
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by __david__ 1y ago
Their GitHub readme has a section answering this. https://github.com/antlr-ng/antlr-ng#future Basically they feel the main problem with the original antlr is it’s being stifled by its batteries included nature. They’re
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by __david__ 1y ago
GitHub could implement that tomorrow—there’s zero technical reason why they couldn’t have a foreign pull request ui. Unfortunately it’s in their vested interest to keep forks on their platform. If anyone were going to implement that it’d be
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by __david__ 1y ago
> Unless you have a unified interface to search all those projects at once… You mean like Google? I can’t imagine ever searching just GitHub for software… I use a search engine and it’ll point me to GitHub or Gitlab or whatever frontend
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by __david__ 1y ago
No, it’s not: > "Our study did not conclude that the Wow! Signal constituted evidence of a signal emanating from an extraterrestrial civilization. However, null results are instrumental in refining future technosignature searches,&q
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by __david__ 1y ago
It’s still out there and supported. Load this page and then view the source: https://emacsformacos.com/atom/release
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by __david__ 1y ago
> apt modernize-sources Oh nifty, I hand converted all mine a couple years back. It would have been nice to have that then (or know about it?). I do really like the new deb822 format, having the gpg key inline is nice. I do hope that onc
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by __david__ 1y ago
Both C-a and C-b are so commonly used that I don’t like either of them. I ended up going with C-\ since I only rarely use that one.
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by __david__ 1y ago
KVM (keyboard, video, mouse): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch In particular, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM_switch#KVM_over_IP_(IPKVM) It seems they don’t break into someone’s apartmen
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by __david__ 1y ago
Credit cards explicitly do a type of forwarding so that your old subscriptions continue to work if you get a new card. If you ever tell your bank that you've lost your card or had it stolen then they will reissue it differently without
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by __david__ 1y ago
Yeah, Quick Look’s are what brought me to Giant Bomb initially. They aren’t reviews and they take pains to not spoil too much of the game. They give a good feel of what the actual gameplay looks like, which is almost never available from th
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by __david__ 1y ago
I always liked the RP DNS record ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1183 ) but no one seems to know about it or use it any more. The only reason my servers don't have one now is because route53 doesn't support
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by __david__ 1y ago
Its author was supposedly pretty good at algorithms. I think he may have even written a book or four about them. So I suspect it’s decently optimized.
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by __david__ 2y ago
Of course you’re technically right (you can absolutely write buggy code with Rust) but what others are saying (and what I have also anecdotally observed) is that Rust seems to have a much higher probability of new code just working (bug f
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by __david__ 2y ago
The problem is that if you consider Discovery non-canon then it has to follow that Strange New Worlds (which spun off from Discovery) is also non-canon and that would be a shame. It (and Lower Decks) are the only new Trek shows that feel li
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by __david__ 2y ago
They cleared up the TOS Klingons discrepancy in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (Season 4 episode 16, “Divergence”).
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by __david__ 2y ago
The original comment was not about traditional packaging, it was about Nix which is different (and immutable in its own way).
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by __david__ 2y ago
Thanks—that makes sense. I was struggling to come up with an example that would fail but I was just unconsciously assuming the separator wasn’t showing up naturally in the individual parts instead of explicitly considering that as a prerequ

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