aaronem

78 ms·

721.
by aaronem 13y ago
With enough practice.
722.
by aaronem 13y ago
ESR koans, more like. Has the man ever written anything which lacked barely veiled subtext of "Look how smart I am!" IMHO The Art of Unix Programming has as little of that as anything of his that I've read, but only when
723.
by aaronem 13y ago
This seems to be the current thread on the topic, so I'll mention here in case anyone cares that iOS 5.1.1 does not contain the vulnerability, according to gotofail.com's test for it.
724.
by aaronem 13y ago
There is something better. It's called Org-mode, and it is part of Emacs, although that shouldn't scare you off immediately; I'll talk more about that shortly, but first want to mention some features you might find appealing.
725.
by aaronem 13y ago
> I use tmux with a script so that I can ssh into multiple nodes and broadcast the same commands to them all at the same time. I sometimes need to do this with multiple VMs. I'm really, really not in favor of bash scripting, but I&#
726.
by aaronem 13y ago
Why? As far as I can tell, Emacs, when talking to an X server or otherwise drawing its own windows (i.e., not in a terminal), is a strict superset of tmux.
727.
by aaronem 13y ago
Certainly lends new meaning to the concept of "code smell".
728.
by aaronem 13y ago
That's...not actually all that far.
729.
by aaronem 13y ago
Well, "love" is a strong word, but our society is built in such a way as to provide strong incentives toward doing so, especially for people with low income or little free time or both.
730.
by aaronem 13y ago
I think I remember reading that one. Lucifer's Hammer , right?
731.
by aaronem 13y ago
3.4 million kilometers at closest approach doesn't even equate to "near Earth". But what better can you expect from the New Scientist?
732.
by aaronem 13y ago
Seconded!
733.
by aaronem 13y ago
Oh, conspiracies , sure. You'd think that something called "conspiracy theory" would have more to do with them, wouldn't you? But the sort of person who, when presented with a big list of interests, would briefly consid
734.
by aaronem 13y ago
I'm still surprised, when I bother to think about it, that no eager beaver has come up with the idea that perhaps the US did land on the moon, but only thanks to alien technology reverse-engineered from the remains of 1947 Roswell cr
735.
by aaronem 13y ago
Huh. So, reincarnation exists, and Robert A. Wilson's spirit speaks Russian now. Who knew?
736.
by aaronem 13y ago
Here's a conspiracy theory for you: Pratchett's History Monks exist, and this was their doing. But nothing much happened during those three centuries anyway, not even the horse collar, and such stretches of fallow time come in han
737.
by aaronem 13y ago
I can't think why. Almost all conspiracy theory is compounded of excess credulity, overactive pattern-matching, and reheated leftover California counter-culture convictions regarding the so-called "Establishment".
738.
by aaronem 13y ago
I think the metaphorical sort might be preferable in this case. Real ones are awfully noisy.
739.
by aaronem 13y ago
But carefully.
740.
by aaronem 13y ago
Presumably a hit on any of the "before" keys triggers not just a replacement with the corresponding "after", but another pass through either a subset of the replacement list starting from the key that matched, or the ent
741.
by aaronem 13y ago
Here, this'll save you some time downloading them individually: http://aaron-miller.me/misc/Aaron%27s%20SS2%20mod%20collecti...
742.
by aaronem 13y ago
The graphics are a bit rough even for 1999, but there are a few user-made mods which help a bit with that, and once you get past the looks, the user interface gives a surprisingly high amount of credit to the player -- especially in compari
743.
by aaronem 13y ago
Talking of replacing good design choices with bad ones, how about the antagonists? SHODAN was a compelling character, as full of nuance as of menace; Andrew Ryan and what's-his-face between them just barely managed to add up to cartoon
744.
by aaronem 13y ago
My experience has been that switching the ignition from "run" to "accessory" doesn't risk locking the column, but now that I think about it, dropping the transmission into neutral should suffice -- the only concern
745.
by aaronem 13y ago
It's amazing what some understanding of history can do for you. In particular, it can confer the ability to make surprisingly accurate surmises regarding the behavior of public figures.
746.
by aaronem 13y ago
No one with the experience you describe is just a hobbyist. Nonetheless, I stand by what I said above.
747.
by aaronem 13y ago
I'm not tremendously knowledgeable about automobiles, but in a car with an automatic transaxle, shouldn't dropping it in neutral and switching off the ignition do essentially likewise? I ask because that's how I practice resp
748.
by aaronem 13y ago
At most, it means you're coasting with no power assist for steering or brakes -- you'll need some extra braking distance, but that's what the shoulder is for, and it'll take a bit more than the usual effort to turn the w
749.
by aaronem 13y ago
I don't disagree in the slightest that the software had a deadly bug, or that that bug shouldn't have been allowed to make it into production. But I am surprised no one in this thread has yet identified the real source of the prob
750.
by aaronem 13y ago
> of course Google realizes the importance of not allowing a single entity to control something like our access to the internet Unless Google is that entity, of course.

More ›