cat199

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by cat199 6y ago
at least there is a manual
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by cat199 6y ago
and since we are talking operating systems, also emacs :)
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by cat199 6y ago
... as were those that think biology predetermines everything
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by cat199 6y ago
if the goal is 'privacy', I'd think contract tracing is every bit if not more more of a privacy concern than is location
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by cat199 6y ago
> Maybe it's due to the increasing cost of hiring people ... perhaps put another way, the 'professionalization' of HR?
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by cat199 6y ago
pretty sure "the underclass of unwashed workers whose businesses are not awash with cash and thus it's OK to treat them like wage slaves." existed long before computers were ever thought of
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by cat199 6y ago
this sub-discussion about tail calls, etc. is in reference to: https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5753/AIM-443.... that series of papers was released adjacent to the development of the scheme
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by cat199 6y ago
> how open-source projects work they work differently depending on the project. so this statement: > requires buy-in from an unusually large number of parties since it affects the OS, everyone shipping daemons, and the operators. is o
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by cat199 6y ago
in this case, this benefits the local establishment because it supports the various manufacturing industries it is adjacent to, so in some sense it isn't really 'countercultural' or proof of 'openness' at all
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by cat199 6y ago
> The entire product is a copy of the AirPods. as if airpods were the 1st rechargable wireless earbuds anyway
431.
by cat199 6y ago
> betting half a million dollars on three hand gestures qualifies as excessive wouldn't this depend on income/assets of those involved?
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by cat199 6y ago
> it often takes a lot of fiddling to get what you want and yet, for any nontrivial operations, opting for a few simple K:V stores instead means one basically ends up implementing an unrolled SQL engine processing loop to do the applica
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by cat199 7y ago
Not in medical field, but nicotine is generally biotoxic and used as a pesticide so i'm not at all surprised. Detriments to any symbiotic microorganisms aside, regularly spraying the lungs and other airways with a light coating of biot
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by cat199 7y ago
digs aside, this is highly culturally dependent - before smoking was quasi-taboo in the west, smokers were often more social and smoking was a 'good' way to meet people - just join the local smoking circle outside. Same is likely
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by cat199 7y ago
> just because it was the only option initially, it wasn't - MS had vbscript in IE js as 'the' browser language is a consequence of the browser wars
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by cat199 7y ago
> the industry grew up and people started to take things more seriously. Really? Goofy codenames for projects (Bionic Beaver, etc), the sign of a 'serious' project is having a cartoon mascot, 'open source' people rel
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by cat199 7y ago
> Wordpress seems like the least likely one to require a bespoke from-scratch hosting strategy. wordpress may not, the org deploying it might.
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by cat199 7y ago
not OP but likely: 1) coding via repl - e.g. one emacs buffer has stored procedure code, send functions over via keyboard shortcut to SQL repl buffer connected to DB to evaluate it 'live' (jupyter notebooks are basically a copy of
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by cat199 7y ago
what do you use it for? my understanding is x86 on software arm is pretty slow (though some things are probably fine e.g. text/cli utilities)
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by cat199 7y ago
no expert in the topic, but this comparison is only meaningful if compared to the local cost per unit of raw land - land prices in SD metro are probably way higher, esp. compared to this particular part of houston won't try to categori
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by cat199 7y ago
if you add the action of 'selecting the file name', the number of user specified operations is the same: - <specify rename operation> : type mv or type enter - <specify source file> : type file name or select file - &l
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by cat199 7y ago
would be more interesting if if this was paired with a study of people expecting to have some profound experience vs not. " a considerable doubt on the assertion that mystical experiences catalyzed by drugs are in any way inferior to n
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by cat199 7y ago
anyone familiar with current node/npm/front end web dev would have very little trouble dismantling the false notions of implicit chronological progress belying this argument.
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by cat199 7y ago
if bloomberg broke this (not sure), they are fully known to monetarily reward market-moving stories. sources easily searchable. If I were a writer/editor working under this policy, making a big stink about a teleconferencing company en
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by cat199 7y ago
from the link: > Eventually Gerv felt called to live his faith by publicly judging others in politely stated but damning terms. ... in essence, kind of what the post is doing ...
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by cat199 7y ago
agree on telcos preventing ppl from using internet as intended, but we'd still need good and easy to use videoconferencing software
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by cat199 7y ago
yes: if you hold an index fund which holds zoom, you are not a shareholder, the fund managers are.
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by cat199 7y ago
Seriously though - looking at VSI pages it looks like basically the VMS systems team greybeards spun off into a company. If they want to see their whole life's work survive instead of fading into increasing irrelevance, they should jus
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by cat199 7y ago
> probably the most popular platform for emulation due to SIMH soon there will be an amd64 port, which should make emulation straightforward. Sad to see last vestiges of VAX going away though
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by cat199 7y ago
> Is there an outside definition of medical ethics that can really be impartially compared from generation to generation? well, doctors do take a form of the hippocratic oath which dates to ~400 BC, so ...

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