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by bdowling 5y ago
> In the right hands and with the right practice Also the right kind of pen. Cursive can be beautiful with a nib pen or some fountain pens, but it tends to be ugly with a ballpoint pen.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Sorry for my short comment. I'm glad you understood what I meant. For anyone else who reads this, strings and str() went from being arrays of bytes in Python 2 to Unicode strings in Python 3. That change broke a lot of programs and is
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by bdowling 5y ago
Clearly your programs don't handle binary data.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Thank you. I had forgotten the detail about original jurisdiction.
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by bdowling 5y ago
If I recall, in Marbury v. Madison , the plaintiff had been appointed to some office by the outgoing president, but he hadn't received his official commission by the time that president left office. The plaintiff asked the Court to or
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Young, 76, said Spotify accounted for 60% of the streaming of his music to listeners around the world. The removal is "a huge loss for my record company to absorb," he said. So, at least according to Young, the move is "
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by bdowling 5y ago
The buyer may have a claim against him for spoiling the value of their purchase.
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by bdowling 5y ago
If you are copying from a text-mode app that does its own word-wrapping by inserting newlines or moving the insertion point, then it may not be possible for TMUX to undo that. Copying from shell output like `cat somefile` or `wget something
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by bdowling 5y ago
That gigantic 8.5u space bar. Trying to hit Command using your thumbs must be painful. Compare with a modern US Mac keyboard at 5u.
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by bdowling 5y ago
I just checked. TMUX does not insert newlines if there were no newlines in the buffer. That's usually what you want.
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's pretty common for game engines to disable background GC and explicitly call the GC only at certain times (e.g., between processing the current frame and before starting the next frame). Sometimes that can be done using the default
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by bdowling 5y ago
> I do wish it was easier to select text from the terminal screen without using the mouse. Check out TMUX. TMUX has a copy mode that can be used to navigate the scrollback buffer for any TMUX window/pane and select and copy text. By
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by bdowling 5y ago
Knowing PKD, it probably ends with the whole story being a "flash forward" caused by the protagonist looking through the device that sees into the future and then causing the actions that set up the beginning of the story.
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by bdowling 5y ago
This was probably inspired more by Philip K. Dick's Paycheck than Office Space . In Paycheck , the protagonist agrees to work on a secret project for two years, after which his memory will be erased.
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by bdowling 5y ago
For someone who can think critically and solve problems, translating a solution into Python is the easy part.
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by bdowling 5y ago
The problem started with using the word code as a verb. To code used to mean (1) translating a message into a coded form (e.g., cipher or Morse code), and (2) classifying something by attaching pre-defined codes to describe it (e.g., data e
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by bdowling 5y ago
This is the wrong forum to ask this question because the audience here is mostly in favor of open disclosure of information and open source licensing of code, which always comes at a cost to someone. For example, publishing your code may ha
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by bdowling 5y ago
For those who don't recognize the name, Big Mess O' Wires is a prominent developer and vendor of modern hardware add-ons for vintage Apple and Mac computers, including the very popular and well-regarded "Floppy Emu" flop
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by bdowling 5y ago
A cast doesn't address the cause of a broken arm. Should we only use casts in extreme cases?
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by bdowling 5y ago
Can a prospective employee use this data to gain an advantage in salary negotiations? If not, then this doesn’t seem fair at all.
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by bdowling 5y ago
I agree completely about all of the challenges, hardships, lost opportunities, and unfairness. It is an awful situation to be in for everyone involved and no amount of money in the world could ever make up for that.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Depending on what state/country you live in, care for a disabled citizen may be partly or wholly paid for by the state. The parents may also be able to become qualified caregivers, in which case they can be paid to take care of the chi
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's his conceit.
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by bdowling 5y ago
Probably because a commercial developer is not going to want to link a LGPL library with their program. [0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/libudev/lib...
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by bdowling 5y ago
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Zombies
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by bdowling 5y ago
If you cite the test you’re referring to, then I’ll tell you why it doesn’t apply to the title of a literary work in the public domain.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Certainly you'd be in the clear if it was titled Fat, Honey-Loving Bear Stories. If you're publishing the original book, you'll be able to use the original title because you'll be using the name not as a trademark,
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Trademarks (usually) don't have such a broad application as "this name X is forbidden for use everywhere forever and ever". Unlike copyrights or patents, trademark rights last for as long as they are used continuously to
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by bdowling 5y ago
FYI, "Ame ni mo makezu" by Kenji Miyazawa [0] is the Japanese parallel to Kipling's "If". Both poems deal with similar themes, have similar structure, and both have been extremely influential in their cultures. [0]
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by bdowling 5y ago
Poe's Law in action. Any elaborate parody not clearly marked as such will be taken seriously by someone.

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