cat199

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by cat199 7y ago
inevitable, perhaps, but invented long before most people were on the internet (or even born): Here's AP from 12 years ago talking about the 25th anniversary of the 'smiley': https://oklahoman.com/article&#x2F
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by cat199 7y ago
a) awesome font b) great, now my browser can also be dynamically generating typefaces in order to programmatically render the html
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by cat199 7y ago
see also: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=init&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=Unix+Seventh+Edition for 'then', and: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?quer
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by cat199 7y ago
to note the: rc in Unix mentioned by K&R in the article likely refers to '/etc/rc', which was a shell script run by init in research Unix (and still BSD, but not SysV)
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by cat199 7y ago
sooo.. tcpwrappers?
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by cat199 7y ago
> Good for avoiding LIDAR speeding tickets. no subject knowledge, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIDAR_traffic_enforcement lists US detectors as operating outside of the visible spectrum - does this actually bloc
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by cat199 7y ago
> controversial decision to not charge a driver who hit and killed somebody at night because the person they hit was black, wearing all black clothes, and walking in the street. I don't think there has been a history of racism again
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by cat199 7y ago
but this brings up C++, if in name only, which wouldn't always win you fans..
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by cat199 7y ago
calling it 'crap' is quite a different thing from saying it is 'affordable' and 'a good value', even if both imply the same thing w/r/t cost:quality vs absolute quality in that product family - one wi
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by cat199 7y ago
how does this differ from owncloud/nextcloud?
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by cat199 7y ago
yes, clearly a site called 'hacker news' should have no such articles.
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by cat199 7y ago
Hey, don't complain - if it worked when the Germans sent Lenin over with a train full of gold, it can work again!
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by cat199 7y ago
even if this party culture was a thing, I'm pretty sure showing up to an interview drunk would still be outside of 'party culture' norms
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by cat199 7y ago
or that would welcome your visit anyway even if they do require it.
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by cat199 7y ago
> Your FICO score and detailed credit history already serve this purpose to a large degree. a) what purpose is that? b) FICO score doesn't include political outlook or social behaviors. (see also 'a')
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by cat199 7y ago
I would not be surprised at all if ISS is governed by a specific treaty involving the member nations, which may or may not supercede or be different than whatever would be 'defacto law' in some other hypothetical situation
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by cat199 7y ago
or 80/20. really I just want to be able to find my previous command, and multi word-level edit it.
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by cat199 7y ago
think the above was ambiguous language. could go either way. but yes, could be a misreading. cheers.
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by cat199 7y ago
oh hey.. here's mister anyonymous non-commented downvote again.. have 3 examples throughout modern history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Connection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E
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by cat199 7y ago
> it seems sort of strange to name this approach after it. many people wearing che guevarra t-shirts are neither marxist nor especially bolshevik. but they are 'cool' and 'edgy' (supposedly).
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by cat199 7y ago
or, it was never not a traditional company, and this was wishful magical thinking. Pretty sure from day 1, they produced something and attempted to sell it for gains. Pretty traditional to me. Kind of the only way to do business.
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by cat199 7y ago
but then how would we back-channel support our preferred political factions in the drug producing countries??
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by cat199 7y ago
.. and so further, the pre-determined dualism argues, if you aren't up to being 'perfect', you obvously must be a 'bad person', creating an internal self-shame which can't easily be dealt with, other than confo
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by cat199 7y ago
agree. it's pretty well referenced in most shell documentation (checked bash and pdksh).. but then, well, you have to be someone who reads shell documentation.. of course, if you're not someone who reads shell documentation, then,
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by cat199 7y ago
or esc-esc-v if in vi mode..
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by cat199 7y ago
or, do! https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/lib/libedit also: isn't the entire GNU project itself someone 'being a prick and writing their own unix because the terms of the AT&T o
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by cat199 7y ago
libedit was written for just this purpose https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/lib/libedit (cvsweb appears down) https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
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by cat199 7y ago
> It will give legitimacy to what would have been necessary anyways, and which was likely impossible politically to avoid given sluggish labor and wage growth after decades of equity bull run and growing inequality. what would have been
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by cat199 7y ago
alternatively: if you live by the sword...
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by cat199 7y ago
> Maybe I misunderstand Palantir's mission nope - just WaPo's use of selective editorial bias to paint problems endemic to both parties & us society in general to partisan ends.

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