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by aaronem 12y ago
I don't exactly love Angular either (though I do use it), but you can criticize it without descending to outright misrepresentation, as with the claim that you have to order view directives in a particular way or things break. That&#x2
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This is almost an argument. But when a given nation's citizens attack the sovereignty of another nation, and their own government declines to curtail such behavior, this qualifies as an implicit endorsement. That's why people call
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I think the concept of natural rights, such as that to free speech, is a lovely idea, whose only drawback is that it's not in any sense grounded in reality. I think the Chinese government, being sovereign, has the power to legislate it
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China has sovereignty over Chinese citizens. If you believe there is righteous reason to circumvent Chinese sovereignty with the collusion of some subjects of the Chinese regime, then you are supporting Internet terrorism. (The problem with
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Content blocking only does so much, as evidenced by the existence of tools specifically designed for its circumvention, and presumably effective at same. And of course it's up to the website owner whose content they host. They don&#x27
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Well, no. The Chinese government is telling the world with this attack that, if you choose to interfere with Chinese sovereignty by means of the Internet, or to enable those who would do that, then there’s a cost. Note the way the attack is
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If you’ve never had or lived around outdoor cats, you’re almost certainly not infected.
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“Sacrifice” is common scientific parlance for the killing of experimental animals.
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Why would you want to install _any_ editor on a router? If you can ssh into it, you can use Tramp to edit files on it in your full-sized Emacs session, and save what must be scarce storage space on the router besides.
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Tramp’s experience gets better when you configure Emacs to keep autosave files somewhere other than alongside their parent in the same directory - unlike the file you’re actually editing, which is indeed only transferred on save or revert,
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Learn about Tramp, and for tasks complex enough to need a proper editor, you can edit those files in the same Emacs session you use for everything else. That's what I do with my RPi, for example -- it can pipe edits over an ssh session
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Easier just to learn enough of vi to get around. I mean, if I need a more familiar editor, I'm just going. to visit the file remotely via Tramp, and for simple stuff like quick config edits on remote machines, quicker just to use vi or
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Thanks! Now I can play with it on my IIe, too.
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I'd enjoy it more if it ended with a link to a P-Lisp disk image. After all that buildup, that lack is a real letdown.
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Yes, the world can change. The trouble is that it's impossible reliably to predict what change will result from a given action. The other trouble is that it's impossible reliably to predict what action will result from a given a
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"How many divisions has [cyberspace]?"
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Who doesn’t?
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You what? No one introduced the word "deserve" here but you.
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Or, you know, don't compromise your principles to marry. Why give yourself almost certain cause for regret? Your trousers will cool off sooner or later. When they do, you'll see the matter much differently.
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You’d think, wouldn’t you? But I’ve worked professionally with codebases in something like a half-dozen languages by now, and I’m here to tell you that you’d be wrong. The lower bound of code quality is limited not by choice of language, bu
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Linux already does plenty to bring Linux users back to Windows. What’s this going to hurt?
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I’d go with publication order; while the person who introduced me to the series insisted, nearly to the point of violence, on starting with Guards, Guards! , I don’t see where it helped, as the earlier books are quite good if somewhat diff
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Well, anything with an electrical connection to anything else is a potential "annihilator" of that latter thing. It's only USB's ubiquity, and its ability to supply significant current to a downstream device, which are c
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When I sit down to work on a laptop, I want to open my laptop and start working. I don't even think about a charger until three or four hours have gone by. Your farrago of impedimenta is alien to me, but no doubt if I had something lik
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Well, I'm not going to all that trouble specifically to use a Mac; both the headset and the USB battery long predate the MBP. (And USB headsets have never made much sense to me in the first place, regardless of the machine with which t
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If that works for you, then great! You might consider the same cheat I use for charging, which is to keep a small but reasonably capacious USB battery [1] in my bag, and top it up via USB whenever I happen to have a port free. Since it&#x27
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I suppose it depends on how you define "essential", or perhaps "serious work". Granted, most of what I do with my MBP is modern full-stack stuff, which I gather doesn't qualify as "serious" even if it does
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I get the impression that, by his definition, very nearly everything is a spam tool.
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Well, if it's worth adding a whole new layer to my stack to deal with this kind of stuff, surely it's even more worth extending an existing layer to deal with it; as a corollary, if I know enough about the problems I'm having
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Maybe I'm missing the point here, but I'm not entirely sure I see the point here. What can Templar do for me that, say, nginx can't? All else equal, if nginx is already in my stack and Templar is not, why do I want to adopt T

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