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by arp242 1y ago
He explicitly says he didn't write it in this article: "NC: Credit for the article should be given to the actual author, Jeffrey Watumull, a fine mathematician-linguist-philosopher. The two listed co-authors were consultants, who
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by arp242 1y ago
Cold fusion is basically impossible according to the laws of the universe as we understand them today. You'd have to do some sort of major discovery about the fundamental physics to do cold fusion. It's unclear (and IMHO, very unl
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by arp242 1y ago
> NO_COLOR is far from universally supported I never claimed that. The sudo or ssh configuration is up to you. Or else there's |cat, which often works when NO_COLOR doesn't. Either way, terminfo was never intended to allow user
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by arp242 1y ago
That's because it has no guaranteed outcomes and it's just a big bet. It's not a "solution" until it's proven to work. If you bet on some unproven tech to save you in the future and that never materialises then
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by arp242 1y ago
NO_COLOR exists, and is fairly widely supported. TERM=dumb to disable colour was always a hack at best because this also disables other things like "clear line" and generally leads to weird output. > It's a Chesterton&#x27
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by arp242 1y ago
> I wish people wouldn't hardcode terminal escape codes. A bunch of commonly used escape codes are pretty much universally identical. I wrote about this before: https://www.arp242.net/safeterm.html By and large I th
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, when I had to use Outlook because of $dayjob I did bottom-post and it was absolutely an uphill battle. In the end I resorted to some custom VBScript code I wrote myself to make some aspects easier. In hindsight, all of that was a mista
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by arp242 1y ago
> Top posting did not win anything. Lazyness did. In addition to what the sibling comment already points out, most people don't even know what "top posting" or "bottom posting" is because they just do what the
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by arp242 1y ago
It's well documented. I'm not going to spend ages finding citations because this is a HN comment and not a scientific paper. If you prefer to live in the psychological simplicity and safety of "neocons do evil because they&#x
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm just explaining what the thought process was that lead up to the invasion. But yes, I broadly agree with you. Although I'm somewhat sceptical you can do this kind of state-building imposed from the outside in the first place t
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by arp242 1y ago
There was the notion in certain (neo)conservative circles throughout the 90s that toppling Saddam really would be the trigger for a democratic wave throughout the middle east, kind of like an "Arab spring". This would benefit ever
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by arp242 1y ago
Okay! > the inventor Aside: email didn't really have "an inventor". Shiva Ayyadurai does not count. > should have made it so the previous content should have been in a special segment So how would you do this then, wher
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by arp242 1y ago
I think this hugely overthinks things and it's actually a lot simpler: Outlook and other Microsoft tools didn't support bottom-posting. It was only kind-of possible if you changed several settings and even then you had to manually
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by arp242 1y ago
So how would this work in concrete terms? How will this stop bad-faith actors who will go out of their way to abuse/fake things? How does it solve the "BAP theorem"? You can't just sprinkle a term like "on-device bi
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by arp242 1y ago
> The US system is a special case that goes beyond partisan politics, framing it as a lack of solidarity misses the point. The last time someone tried to improve things he was Adolf Stalin for trying to recreate Nazi Communist Germany. O
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by arp242 1y ago
It is impossible to do things like journalism through AI. And no one expects a "free job"; they just expect their work to not be used in ways that doesn't benefit them at all (but instead benefits someone else). The bizarre a
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by arp242 1y ago
I replaced it with a better-known dinosaur because Megalosaurus is not widely known today. I had to do a quick check to verify it actually is a dinosaur. Looking a bit more, it seems that in 1800s there was the (mistaken) belief that Megalo
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by arp242 1y ago
The problem isn't so much the words themselves, but the structure. No one really writes these kind of lengthy comma-peppered sentences like this today: As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face o
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by arp242 1y ago
They can just change the law? I suspect the reason it's not in this case is because it's kind of an endearing tradition that people like. I don't think you can say much about "the law" in general based on this case.
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by arp242 1y ago
Seem to be getting a 404? https://web.archive.org/web/20250523000025/https://saile.it/...
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by arp242 1y ago
So I checked on the Internet Archive; we sold the EEEPC 900 with Linux for €329, and the Windows EEEPC 901 for €409. The Linux had a Celeron M and the Windows an Atom N270, so I guess I misremember them having identical specs. I assume the
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by arp242 1y ago
That's simply not true. Some distros may patch a few build issues, or maybe the rare breaking bug, but nothing like what Debian does. To claim anything else is Trumpian levels of falsehood.
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I didn't ask for you to second-guess my software. I didn't ask you to ship modified (potentially broken and/or substantially different in opinionated ways) versions of my software under the same name. If you're going to
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by arp242 1y ago
Another issue is that these manpages can become outdated (and/or are downright wrong). Overall I feel it's one of those Debian policies stuck in 1995. There are other reasonable ways to get documentation these days, and while manp
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by arp242 1y ago
That doesn't seem like a normal response to 11 hours of walking? I've done close to that on hikes and was basically fine (tired, but fine). I'm not unfit, but also not especially fit.
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It's not like "sit still all day" is the only other possible option.
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I worked at a computer shop at the time. Few consumers wanted the Linux versions: they all chose Windows. I'm not sure the license was free, as the Windows machines were more expensive with the same hardware. Either way: people wanted
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by arp242 1y ago
I'd say that if you have lethal cancer, then you're allowed to be self-centred. I can see how $some_famous_person getting the same cancer as I have might be the trigger to share my own story. (No comment on whether it's truth
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by arp242 1y ago
The US is in an uniquely bad place because none of the major democratic institutions work as they're designed to work. It kind of limps along, but it's completely dysfunctional and has been for decades. Not to be the arrogant Euro
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David Van Reybrouck wrote "Against Elections: The Case for Democracy" about a decade ago. I have mixed feelings about it: it sounds nice in theory, but it's unclear how well it would work in practice. A lot of ideas from Muam

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