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by berntb 10y ago
I have a bit of a trauma, regarding this whole niche thing. 10-15 years ago, I used to tell people about Meshuggah -- something like "My favorite of all time. It is the greatest thing since sliced <Cough>. Think of it as like mod
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by berntb 10y ago
How do you guys see the interviews with Fenriz? I think most of them are on Youtube now. He have a special place in my personal music history. I started to listen to a bit extreme metal in the 90s and was a bit shocked by my own taste. From
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by berntb 10y ago
I think the obvious counter argument is: You read them to learn. I learned a couple of perl flags in this discussion I had forgotten. Also, you get ideas about what you can do. And third, after reading through a collection like that, you ca
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by berntb 10y ago
It was faster than Googling. :-) But it would have been better to build off a well tested module as a basis for my set of tools, sigh. I could have used yaml as an intermediary. A favorite saying is from chemistry -- with a few weeks of har
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by berntb 10y ago
Here are a few quick and dirty I use for handling output of MySQL. (For serious stuff I include real CSV libraries in the one liner to quote correctly etc.) alias sqlcmdtocsv="perl -nE 'chomp; s/\\t/;/g; say \$_
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by berntb 10y ago
Is that an idiom, or are they really "off the shelf" and not specially built for every space probe?
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by berntb 10y ago
Strange, all the loops which left wing people jump through, to support murdering dictators... :-( So, why didn't you compare with working democracies there.. instead of with cleptocracies that had coups and civil wars? What is the real
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by berntb 10y ago
For Scandinavian history, only in Swedish. :-) But I think the same pattern is found everywhere. Most cultures were much more violent in the past. I think Pinker wrote a book about the phenomenon, he is good (I haven't read that but ot
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by berntb 10y ago
You really think it became peaceful ca 1100? :-) Please read some history. It was no better, it was just not internationally infamous clan societies for a while. Then we had violent national states (check e.g. Polish deluge or the 30 year w
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by berntb 10y ago
You seriously argue that there is no difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. A trivial counter example -- if you causally dismissed your government as a Cuban in Cuba online, what happens? (Since Cuba has a really, really strict
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by berntb 10y ago
People are "programmed" by culture. It wasn't so many generations ago when people with similar genes as me (a Scandinavian) did organized clan warfare with slavery, murder, plunder and everything else we see as bad in today&#
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by berntb 10y ago
This BBC article also quotes people arguing that this recognition might just be a tendency for a judge/jury to find someone guilty. Again, that can't explain how you can reach 89.5% hit frequency?! Even in China, there needs to be
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by berntb 10y ago
That is testable. Prison populations should look different in areas where a larger fraction of serious crimes are solved. (It is hardly likely that a large enough fraction of people in prison are innocent to influence TFA's gigantic re
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by berntb 10y ago
>> The content [of John Kerry's speach] was completely different than the NYT tried to make it out to be I saw this a few days late. I'd love some references -- since we were talking about propaganda here... if that is true,
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by berntb 10y ago
I get dependent already on computer games (not a bad thing for Nethack and the Dark Souls series of course). It might be easy for me to get dependent, so I avoid drugs and other dependency causing things religiously -- like social networks.
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by berntb 10y ago
I wrote an answer, but removed it. I'm not arguing simplified Swedish politics on HN. Sweden already is in the absolute top of redistribution of wealth. It is not the rich people's money you can get, since you can't have a to
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by berntb 10y ago
As I wrote, I selected two informative data points. Per capita, there are 4-5 times as many people shot in the cities of Sweden as in Norway, Denmark and Finland. And mainly by criminals from those suburbs. So there are quite a lot of data.
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by berntb 10y ago
Generally correct, but Finland was a part of Sweden since hundreds of years earlier than the 1600s (ignoring the question if you can use the concept "nation" about Sweden in e.g. the 1200s). And Norway never really got into our gr
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by berntb 10y ago
It was claimed to be 22 in Norway so far 2016 and 11 in Malmö. (According to media). (Also, I didn't misspell. Please be careful when quoting.) >> A lot of different things could lead to fifteen murders in a year, one person who
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by berntb 10y ago
My comment -- despite being quite carefully written and about something few people on HN really care about -- have really jumped up and down in votes. Which is expected. [Edit: A bit weird when it first had multiple plus votes, then ended u
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by berntb 10y ago
Let me expand on that... Just two simple data points: 1. Malmö, with large immigrant population, have a population of around 300,000 -- and half the number of murders this year as the whole of Norway, with 15 times the population. (Norway i
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by berntb 10y ago
Best sources about regexps? I thought I knew regexps, then I read "Mastering regular expressions". After that I was embarrassed. :-)
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by berntb 10y ago
There are quite a few backwards incompatible extensions for Perl 5. But you must declare what new features to use. Then there is Devel::Declare etc with extensible syntax... :-) http://perldoc.perl.org/feature.html
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by berntb 10y ago
You got a point I agree with but a bad example since Perl 6 is a new language. (That the name don't reflect that is still a heated discussion.) (And Perl 5 code can declare which of the newer features it will support. Excellent backwar
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by berntb 10y ago
Hmm... you really use the system Python installation for development? Python is not pathologically backwards compatible, what happens when the next OS version use a newer Python 2 version?
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by berntb 10y ago
You want to stop assigning absolute moral/mental characteristics to people because of their skin color, facial features or other physical specifics? You modern people with your statistics and correlations, that don't remember the
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by berntb 10y ago
Come on, be realistic. The guy would say anything to get votes. He is just like my Swedish politicians [0]. So what will the US and the rest of the world get? I don't know. You don't know. I'm not even certain that Trump know
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by berntb 10y ago
OK, thanks. It was a few years since I touched the Mac package managers. (I ought to ask or go read up on why it is like this, but I'll let it wait a year to when I research the next machine anyway.) (Edit: Weird to not allow root? Oh,
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by berntb 10y ago
Wouldn't this be mostly solved by a paragraph in the Homebrew documentation that recommend creating a specific user which do installations? Edit: It seems to be fixed anyway? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289292
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by berntb 10y ago
Regarding all discussion about creativity and programming, I heard a usability expert that had been painting for 30 years say this about GUI engineering: Usability as a subject is the opposite of art, it is kitsch. You actively try to make

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