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by bodyfour 4y ago
Once we have AI-generated laws I'm sure this will be sorted out.
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by bodyfour 4y ago
Eh... I had many, many battles with parallel SCSI. However, once active terminators became widely available and affordable (late 90s-ish) it was practically plug&play (just mind the ID switches) The trickier bit would be to find one
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by bodyfour 4y ago
Indeed, they are: https://tepeo.com/thezeb
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by bodyfour 4y ago
Looks like currently one property is for sale there -- 3 bed / 2 bath for £2M. https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/53538778/ Was expecting it to be higher, actually.
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by bodyfour 4y ago
My bet is that this is going to change a lot, very soon. Apple apparently felt comfortable enough with the eSIM situation in the US to drop legacy-SIM already. The fact that they couldn't do this worldwide yet is because, as you say,
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by bodyfour 4y ago
Some things like the ASCII table have been there (or rather in the original location of /usr/pub) since near the dawn of UNIX itself: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/8cf2a84...
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I guess yes and no. SF is certainly a city with its problems. I can't say that wasn't part of my decision to move away years ago. However, the current right-wing meme of "new left-wing prosecutors instantly turned SF into an
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by bodyfour 5y ago
And it's actually pretty clever from a performance point-of-view. You always have to read the inode to determine whether the file is executable. The inode included the locations of the first "direct" blocks of the file'
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I believe it dates back to the heyday of diskless workstations. It was commonplace to have dozens of workstation machines getting their OS files over NFS from a central server. Thus why the (per-machine, read-write) /var became standa
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I think the first place I saw it was on SunOS 4, but not sure if that was the first. Definitely existed pre-Linux
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I distinctly remember being shown this ~35 years ago when I was first shown UNIX as a demonstration of how high-quality the commands were implemented... even something as weird as the calendar changeover was accounted for. And, yes, it exis
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by bodyfour 5y ago
It exists on any UNIX, basically. It was added 40 years ago: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/8e0a2...
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by bodyfour 5y ago
Not that odd if you know the evolution of the language... and what it actually means for modern programmers. The very first C compilers ran on a PDP-11 in just a few dozen kilobytes of memory. The entire emphasis was on minimalism, and t
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by bodyfour 5y ago
> deeply nested loops. [...] I will prefer to hide one or more of the inner loops inside of a function call. And I would too... but sometimes there are too many local variables involved to do that cleanly. And, ultimately, if you are ma
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by bodyfour 5y ago
Probably coming too late to the discussion, but commenting anyway... The issue I think is that people today read "GOTO Considered Harmful" without really understanding the world at the time. Other than simple integer FOR loops, ba
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I guess we'll see. It obviously fits OS/X most cleanly since the notch just effectively becomes part of the menu bar.
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by bodyfour 5y ago
> Of course, you still need to run a separate agent for each security domain you wish to keep separate. Yes, and that's the rub. It wouldn't be as bad if there was a way to make the ssh client manage the lifetime of the agent p
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I've seen several systems that wrap the ssh binary to allow different agents to be forwarded to different hosts. Personally I think this is unwieldy -- it really should be something which is built into ssh directly. Running multiple a
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by bodyfour 5y ago
Well as I said I don't think I'm a typical case... and honestly a lot of it comes down to "because I can" By far the biggest space user is music. I own thousands of CDs and so have a huge (and entirely legal!) iTunes li
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I'm probably in a tiny minority with this, but I use a lot of on-device storage. Lately I've been filling up my 512GB phone constantly... not to the point where it's hindering me but it's definitely a constant headach
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by bodyfour 5y ago
The big problem with any deliberate-inoculation strategy: dosage. In the vaccination you received, there was a controlled dosage of the active ingredient. This had been tested in thousands of people and is known to give a certain amount of
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by bodyfour 5y ago
That is completely true, but it's by no means confined to SF. In SF in the 1980s, SOMA was one of the cheapest places even in a cheap city like SF... lost of broke creative types living in old warehouse/industrial space that would
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by bodyfour 5y ago
What a non sequitur. The claim being put forth is that crypto's environmental cost FAR outweighs its utility. Your counterargument is that such concerns are unraisable simply because one can avoid personally using BTC. Or to put anoth
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by bodyfour 5y ago
That's great news... so how do I opt-out of the CO₂ that BTC is generating?
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by bodyfour 5y ago
I would be cautious about interpreting those numbers without a bit of nuance. The original spring 2020 outbreak in the UK was huge, affecting a sizable percentage of the population. However at that time PCR testing was nowhere near scaled
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by bodyfour 5y ago
Well I guess my question would be are those sports really better for it? Anyone who has watched the fourth quarter of an American football game will know how paramount clock management is to that sport. Even more infuriating (for me) is ba
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by bodyfour 5y ago
From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Duration_... > Added time was introduced because of an incident which happened in 1891 during a match between Stoke and Aston Villa. Trailing 1–0 an
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by bodyfour 5y ago
It has been since Jürgen Klopp started working here.
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by bodyfour 5y ago
It's interesting as a thought, but I don't think it's likely to be large-scale practical. Suppose you wanted to run a normal electric train up a mountain. It would certainly take a decent amount of power but not so much that
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by bodyfour 6y ago
I've found it occasionally helpful when using a fullscreen app, such as having access to Camera/Mute controls while on a video conference without having to remember the hotkey. But I also wouldn't be particularly sad if it di

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