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by bhaak 7y ago
I've seen this several times. You need to get the stuff to the students who usually have no money to spare. Emphasis on "NO". Affordable doesn't cut it. If you can't download it from somewhere for free, something el
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by bhaak 7y ago
Unfortunately, there is no RSS/Atom feed for issues or pull requests. I made a little Ruby script ( https://github.com/bhaak/github-feeds ) that outputs static RSS files but you would expect that GitHub would have e
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G-7 drops joint statement on coronavirus following fight over language(spiegel.de)
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Markdown Won’t Solve Your Content Problems(lullabot.com)
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by bhaak 7y ago
I'm certainly not a Markdown lover. I don't think that taking text conventions from Usenet and writing them down in an ambigous spec is much of an accomplishment. But criticism from someone that thinks that roff is "very simp
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by bhaak 7y ago
As Markdown is available in a plethora of dialects, it's likely any given converter doesn't work 100% correct with the dialect at hand. Granted, that's only a weak argument against Markdown. I rarely encountered converters th
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by bhaak 7y ago
Then you still need somebody who cleans up the documentation afterwards or converts it into your Markdown dialect of choice. If you have such a person anyway, you can just let other contributors write simple text without any styling to beg
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by bhaak 7y ago
> And games are seldom console exclusives anymore. When they are, they're not for long. That may be true for the Xbox but certainly not for PS4 or Nintendo games.
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by bhaak 7y ago
You can put an off-the-shelf SSD into your PS4.
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by bhaak 7y ago
Or you can walk over to the store, put down a few green pieces of paper, be back at home and play the games without worrying about CPU frequencies, graphic card speed, or motherboard compatibilities.
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by bhaak 7y ago
> Or to look at this from another angle: 'extremely' bad is inherently relative. And taken relative to other common ailments people that old content with, I don't think 15% chance of death qualifies as 'extreme'.
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by bhaak 7y ago
How would you feel about being in a group of 7 of which one gets randomly shot? How much money would I have to offer you that you took your chances? Unnecessary deaths are worse than life threats you can't do anything about it.
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by bhaak 7y ago
It's not only about the old people. There are enough younger people that need medical care, even if they don't die from it. And then it's also about the rest of the population that needs medical attention for a different reas
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by bhaak 7y ago
You can still today declare a function without a return value like this: "a() { return 1; }". GCC only outputs a warning by default: "warning: return type defaults to ‘int’ [-Wimplicit-int]"
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by bhaak 7y ago
> It doesn't. No one is actually worshipping modern superheroes. No one believes superheroes actually exist, or ever existed, and can intercede on their behalf they way they might angels or other deities. I'm not sure the latte
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by bhaak 7y ago
Yes. Some did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles#Cult Although if instead of the verb "pray" you use the verb "worship", the distinction between ancient heroes/half gods and modern day sup
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by bhaak 7y ago
Superhero stories were put on the screen long before CGI. The Batman series from 60s come to mind or the Superman movies from the 70s (and there Superman III is IMHO the most enjoyable with a Richard Pryor that pulls of a really cool hack).
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by bhaak 7y ago
It's more than that. Both Angband and NetHack are forks of their ancestors. There is an unbroken line of continous development of the same code base coming from the 80s. Hack and Moria OTOH were clones of Rogue and didn't share an
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by bhaak 7y ago
Yes, either via ssh or telnet or even in your browser. The wiki lists several available public servers: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Public_server#List_of_public_se... The public server with most forks hardfought.org.
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by bhaak 7y ago
Most of those security bugs have been found by using http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ for fuzzing the config parser of NetHack. Also read the hilarious account how neglecting the integer range of parsing a number lead t
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by bhaak 7y ago
The context was the OP I was replying to. But the information that IBM and Oracle are still competitors in many markets is explicitly what I was unsure about. Thanks for reminding me about the Red Hat acquisition, I completely forgot about
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by bhaak 7y ago
The niche audience of terminal based games will also be thankful forever to you and the rest of the people that got those characters into Unicode.
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by bhaak 7y ago
Don't take sentence without the context. I meant to say that IBM likely doesn't have any deterrents to sue Oracle as they are no longer on the same page with regards to their business markets. Weakening Oracle won't affect IB
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by bhaak 7y ago
How much of an IT provider is IBM today? They certainly don't produce hardware anymore. I thought IBM is mostly a consultant company now and the goal of a consultant company is to make money. Considering that I don't think IBM and
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by bhaak 7y ago
Jupiter is not even a brown dwarf which starts at about 13 times the mass of Jupiter. For upgrading Jupiter to a star, it would need 80 times its current mass. There is nowhere else in the solar system enough mass to grow Jupiter but the Su
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by bhaak 7y ago
I don't know how much you can chalk up to people wearing masks or rather the swift and rigorous isolation of affected areas. I guess, we'll see soon enough how Italy is doing. FWIW in Switzerland, the authorities recommend "s
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by bhaak 7y ago
Counterpoint: Java. Java was designed during a time when operator overloading was considered abysmal language design. But that was mostly due to the experiences collected with C++ (or maybe also Perl?).
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by bhaak 7y ago
Hitler was a rare (maybe even unique?) name to begin with, being a spelling variation of "Hiedler" for unknown reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler#Change_of_surname
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by bhaak 7y ago
I was on the Java train in the 90s, so I didn't pay much attention to C++ compilers. Therefore my question, wasn't the GNU C++ compiler an option at the time?
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by bhaak 7y ago
Deleting a dir with rmdir is always safe :-) The other trick that makes dangerous operations always more safe is prepending "./" to the path.

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