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by bjarneh 5y ago
Seinfeld was correct, the only warning we are afraid of is "dry clean only".
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https://twitter.com/topherolson/status/745294977064828929
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Slippery slope...
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Thunderbird is such a great program. Ever since I gave up Mutt as my default email program, I've been using all the time. One of the richest guys on the planet (Zuckerberg) was using Thinderbird in a photo some time ago I think. Perhap
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by bjarneh 5y ago
The whole point of organizing things in the first place, is to reduce or remove uncertainty and risk, which cannot be done with software projects. Software engineering is similar to writing a book, or a movie script; but it is mistaken for
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> The average user prints exactly one colour page during the lifetime of their colour printer. It is usually the test page. Guilty as charged.
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Ultimate click bate title.
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> I've used CSS for close to 15 years. I've just never got around to really learning how it works. Same here. This also happens in other fields; my brother is a journalist, and most newspapers (here in Norway at least) fired mo
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by bjarneh 5y ago
Our "UBI" will be based on a number of factors. It should be noted that we do not officially have an UBI, but unofficially we do in the form of different programs for the unemployed. If you have been employed lately you will get 6
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by bjarneh 5y ago
We have this situation where I live (Norway). I.e. you will get payed pretty much the same for a low paying job as you get payed when unemployed by the government. Note that we don't have minimum wage here, but it's not easy to pa
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by bjarneh 5y ago
I agree with you about the accusations. He sounds creepy; but one blog-entry is not exactly hard evidence. An internet mob may assume its all true anyway. > men who use their status within programming communities as a tool to target wome
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> and there is not a serious place on earth that would let me touch their codebase. You'd be surprised...
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> I still like it, because (unlike C++) I can understand it No article like that is complete without a little C++ critique :-) > I think it’s the simple, idiomatic versions that are the most telling. This is the code programmers are l
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Thanks; I didn't remember it correctly I see :-)
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> but that's not cool and hipstery enough That can be a problem sometimes :-)
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> But some people call it "warm audio." This just reminded me of that comic strip with the hipster collecting vinyl, being asked why. It was the high price + the inconvenience that attracted me Cover-art is obviously c
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> Governments seem to be universally terrified of even the slightest possibility of anyone in the world having a private conversation. We used to make fun of the countries behind the iron curtain for their lack privacy. The thought of li
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by bjarneh 6y ago
DMTP/DMAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Mail_Alliance The stuff Ladar Levinson created after the Lavabit takedown, (famed for begin Snowden's email provider). Although I'm not just talking about ema
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> What you generally aren't able to do is to replace email not matter how hard you try. The "new" email has been launched quite a few times now. It doesn't seem possible at this point unless all the major players agre
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> As more sites adopt TMTP for their own reasons Isn't this the problem in replacing almost any technology that we know is "broken", it is often too ingrained to be replaced easily.
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Isolated we all agree on this, i.e. speed is important. But you constantly see high praise for many of the technologies that facilitate this "slowness" creeping into apps and websites. With each level of abstraction we loose speed
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> Sadly it’s not really used yet This is so hard to overcome. Many problems have technical solutions, but are still almost impossible to implement due to all sorts of other obstacles.
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> exes still end up being roughly 100x smaller than Go Hello World > Is the Cosmopolitan Runtime lean and mean like Go's 2mb Hello World executables? :-)
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> It looks pretty straight forward in Tomcat 8 or later. Yes, when seeing the examples, it doesn't look too bad. I guess without any example and no idea (at all) on how to set this up, it would still take quite some time to figure o
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> So in this case it'd be more relevant for running authbind rootless too. Ahh OK, that makes more sense. > would be to use systemd socket activation I have to admit that every time I need one of those systemd scripts for some ty
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by bjarneh 6y ago
Interesting, I didn't even know this existed. I guess the "old way" of allowing an "inferior users" (like tomcat8 in my example) to bind to a port below 1024 is now out-dated? I've always used authbind:
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by bjarneh 6y ago
> ..averaging about 30 miles, or 50km per day Wow, this is impressive; more than a marathon a day on terrain like that for 2.5 years.
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> For these types of games, the algorithms can’t learn because they require an understanding of the concept of ladders, ropes and keys. The underlying problem of AI is that we've taken something we don't really understand, and
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Your probably correct, I just skimmed through the first section when I saw his bullet lists. I guess that's true for academia in general, i.e. they consider anything but their own field as a joke.
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I guess this differs from place to place, but at my university (Oslo), we did all that..

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