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by adavies42 14y ago
looks interesting, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with either my setup in general (bash 3.2.25 inside screen inside PuTTY) or my current prompt, which comes out of a shell function and embeds the number of files in pwd, username@hostn
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by adavies42 14y ago
do people actually refer to celluloid movie prints as "reel-to-reel"? i suppose the term is technically accurate, but i've never heard it used for anything other than the pre-cassette magnetic tape audio format (or i suppose very occasional
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by adavies42 14y ago
two questions-- how does that differ from \Xi_b^0, which also seems to be a usb baryon? is there a standard way to pronounce those symbols (e.g. "xi star sub-b")?
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by adavies42 14y ago
pretty sure "touch typing" was meant in the old sense where it contrasts with "hunt and peck"
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by adavies42 14y ago
complementary i suppose to the google maps problem where half the restaurants are closed....
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by adavies42 14y ago
man, i still miss vindigo. is there really no market for a paid, curated, offline-cached local-information database?
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by adavies42 14y ago
probably depends on what kind of contract terms your jurisdiction is willing to ignore on principle, as you almost certainly signed away all such rights when you bought it.
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by adavies42 14y ago
protip: don't. encryption is not a serious capacity constraint on modern hardware.
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by adavies42 14y ago
people screw up "x cubed" and "cubic x" so often....
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by adavies42 14y ago
a related question--how do people generally build up decorated strerror messages? e.g. in some versions of ls, "ls foo" (when foo doesn't exist) will print "ls: stat: foo: No such file or directory". how is that string built up?
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by adavies42 15y ago
relatedly, i call "`eval resize`" in my .zshrc--any idea why that takes ~5s if it's more than a minute or two since i last did it, but is instantaneous otherwise? (yes, i'm certain that it's that line that's taking time--if i start typing d
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by adavies42 15y ago
proof positive we're in a bubble: http://wag.com/ . http://pets.com/ is back!
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by adavies42 15y ago
torbutton kills some of it -- they lock your window size to a multiple of some fairly large number of pixels. not sure what else they do....
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by adavies42 15y ago
frankly i think the recursion is both deliberate and good--if it's written properly (i haven't reasoned through the fine points completely), it partitions the world into two groups: those who've never started a patent fight (against anyo
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by adavies42 15y ago
wow, programming directly in gödel numbers... in brainfuck... in base one... in unicode! i think you win some kind of esolang prize for this one....
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by adavies42 15y ago
at a prior job, all the entry-level (less than two or three years experience & not in management roles, iirc) programmers were rather suddenly made overtime eligible (due i think to legal action in some other state). handy given that it
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by adavies42 15y ago
should all work like multi-state commuter taxes--i live in NJ, work in NY, and my NY tax is credited against my NJ liability (leaving no liability to NJ, as NY rates are higher (at least with the extra NYC tax thrown in)). tax treaties (as
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by adavies42 15y ago
that's how it worked for the first thirty years or so, until Milton Friedman(!) invented withholding. the point was, surprise surprise, to provide a more reliable revenue stream for the government.
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by adavies42 15y ago
i'd've noted that endianness is hardly unique to unicode.
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by adavies42 15y ago
> combined with a stubborn insistence that Postel's Law makes sense (instead of just making things much worse) has anyone written a definitive "Postel's Law considered harmful" yet? we're dearly in need of one....
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by adavies42 15y ago
> So how long until someone comes up with implementation that doesn't use spaces between the numbers? What's the supported precision? What happens when one tuple is skipped? Do you have to parse exponential numbers correctly? why doesn'
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by adavies42 15y ago
have there ever been any successful "skinnable" languages (or any successful language skins)? i'm thinking of things like SPECS for C++, or the way research functional languages sometimes provide both, e.g., a C-ish and a lisp-ish syntax th
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by adavies42 15y ago
XML 1.0 is from 1998. more than twenty years after Knuth started TeX. Even SGML is only from 1986, I suppose he could've used GML....
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by adavies42 15y ago
delicious 1, delicious 2, delicious ∞--is wil a marathon fan?
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by adavies42 15y ago
q ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_%28programming_language_from_... )!
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by adavies42 15y ago
> Once you've solved it for Mikko, most other Western names present little in the way of issues. then it's time to graduate to Gaddafi?
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by adavies42 15y ago
ime the main alternative is the box crashing, frequently without leaving behind enough information to know what went wrong. at least if the app crashes you have a pretty good idea who was incompetent.
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by adavies42 15y ago
also there's at least two more measurements missing from the spec graphic--the distance between the M and the arrow and the distance between the arrow and the right edge. i assume those are both X, but it doesn't actually say....
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by adavies42 15y ago
then there's over-commit, e.g. "you want to malloc 200% of the ram? here you go! enjoy! oh wait, you wrote to the second half? have fun finding the power button, sucker!" can someone explain to me why so many distros, including "enterprise"
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by adavies42 15y ago
it gets worse, my work browser (ff 3.6.24 w/various filters and proxies between me and the real world) won't even render the warning, so i have to view source to even figure out the ?v=0 trick.

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