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by cat199 6y ago
running email for 15+ years here, going with ditto. many ppl get el-cheapo vps on a low-tier network, setup some new domain on a dirty IP without proper DNS records (PTR, MX, yadda), and then parrot this emails not the easiest thing, but it
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by cat199 6y ago
> I don't think that Google is somehow pushing liberal objectives in a meaningful way. if they were, i'm sure a careful examination of topics highlighted in google doodles i'm sure would illustrate this one way or another
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by cat199 6y ago
> so an ad that drives right to the restaurant people wanted should be a net win. a system that generates the maximum amount of monetizable events without frustrating the user or advertiser towards other platforms is the 'net win&#x
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by cat199 6y ago
> But both groups collect knowledge and apply it in the real world in creative ways. so maybe use your hacker mindset to deduce this is the mindset then?
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by cat199 6y ago
> common third party so you're proposing one unelected entity which basically has full control of all personal assets of the legislature? seems like a pretty big potential for vulnerability
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by cat199 6y ago
no real skin in the game, but basing this on a preprocessor language that requires python seems curious (if still pragmatic).. realize that fortran has a long history of being used with preprocessing, but usually these have been standalone
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by cat199 6y ago
> We all know what the quality of academic code reputation is. do 'we'? considering a huge amount of common numerical software (esp with any kind of fortran lineage whatsoever) is based in some way on netlib.org code that itsel
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by cat199 6y ago
good point.. though arguably if code is data we are somewhat saying the same thing :) in any event, this unique overall property/combination of properties is often overlooked in these discussions
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by cat199 6y ago
> syntactic malleability this is the key point - not quasi/proto FP most comments I see that are skeptical of the 'lisp as magic' claim seem to focus on the quasi-FP-ability of lisp, leave out the fact that the lisp family
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by cat199 6y ago
Apparently mincing one thing and putting it between a pari of two other things is a specialty of Hamburg, who knew!
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by cat199 6y ago
agree, though i've personally switched to python's sphinx - the input text is more readable and less 'markupy'
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by cat199 6y ago
haven't watched but based on summary these seem more about pedagogy than the subject - that said there is a full course worth of videos taught by same professor that are pretty good
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by cat199 6y ago
dangerous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_quattro_stagioni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_quattro_formaggi
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by cat199 6y ago
> we might be able to "mount" repostories eventually. a) https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs b) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ClearCase#History
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by cat199 6y ago
> That mentality sticks this seems pretty entitled / clasist in this particular context - many in 'the white-collar upper middle class' are precisely the ones with arguments against having families out of personal preferen
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by cat199 6y ago
> So they learned nothing about the dismal effects of reality TV's on culture and content creators? no, in the hetero case at least, they probably learned alot from being able to monetize a ridiculous desparate-M:attractive-F ratio
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by cat199 6y ago
+1 for db of code snippets - things like: cat ~/src/example-code/py/numpy-masked-array.py save me tons of time for those hairy things that I had to eat an hour to figure out and then use infrequently
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by cat199 6y ago
ooh a category so esoteric it has to invent an esoteric descriptor
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by cat199 6y ago
interesting to see these kinds of details, but this is hardly 'rebuilding the the stack' - just UI<->API layer
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by cat199 6y ago
> You cannot be directly denied your salary or get demoted/fired for this. but what if they do it anyway? this is more the context here - we have wrongful termination as well, though it is likely much less strict
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by cat199 6y ago
nah, just wait for the next version of systemd, I hear everything will be fixed with systemd-weyland-kitchensink-emacsd edit: am emacs (and nvi) user. just chiming in on .1ms vs 1ms startup time arguments as a basis for anything important
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by cat199 6y ago
so - your 1st point of reference is vscode which is an electron app, and then you diverge getting into emacs startup time and emacs reputation for 'bloat' this reputation by the way was 'earned' when entire computers had
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by cat199 6y ago
> couldn't understand why would anyone still wait in that sort of queue for something to purchase in this day and age for the social media photo / story of buying it in $exotic_locale bonus points if you are confusing things by
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by cat199 6y ago
> direct descendent never heard anything like this - care to elaborate / point?
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by cat199 6y ago
> Maybe it should be funded with tax-dollars then. this presumes in some sense that they are not already.
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by cat199 6y ago
> That's evidence people are staying inside more. no, that's a big extrapolation.. one possible counterpoint: couples in healthy relationships could still be going out more, whereas those in dysfunctional ones might be fighting
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by cat199 6y ago
> - Ubuntu and other repositories are still vulnerable isn't really salt's problem though.. same could be said for relying on any distro-provided package
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by cat199 6y ago
> But borrowing to do stock bybacks when you don't have a stockpile is just skating further out onto thinner and thinner ice. this also partly depends on your expectation on the availability to resell the stocks later on if desired
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by cat199 6y ago
amazing work - remember sodipodi and then inkscape first coming out - looking forward to trying native quartz and of course on linux side note - anyone know of an mspaint style 'simple' raster image editor? use gimp currently but
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by cat199 6y ago
> road-warrior endpoints would or could often have a vpn tunnel back to some static infrastructure, this and not the public network can be used for mgmt

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