cbd1984

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by cbd1984 11y ago
Anyone considering using vi should be warned away by this practice of "disagreement by downvoting". If they do it here, imagine what they would do to a bug report!
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by cbd1984 11y ago
There's no reason to learn vi.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Not in Ubuntu.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> I can't remember ever encountered a unix-like system without "vi" installed. Default Ubuntu install.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
There's no reason to learn vi if you know Emacs. If you claim that Emacs isn't installed everywhere, guess what: Neither is vi. If you want an "installed everywhere" editor, learn ed. If you're willing to take an ed
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by cbd1984 11y ago
That reminds me: The older admonitions to cook pork until it's bone-dry and sawdust-like date from an earlier era before modern pig ranching, when trichinosis was more common and cooking until desertification was the only way to ensure
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by cbd1984 11y ago
"We really hate the blind." - Lapham's Quarterly flagged
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> "great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people" My favorite part of the quote is that it's talking about people.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
As a spokesperson for the label?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I will echo this. I'm not ignorant. I understand VM and virtualization in general. I understand chroot. I understand how The ANSI-Standard Multitasking Multiuser OS works. It still took me a few attempts to understand what Docker eve
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by cbd1984 11y ago
And before the pedants get here: No, not like a literal five-year-old. It means "Explain like I'm a reasonably intelligent adult with no special domain knowledge" but that becomes a mouthful, even if you abbreviate it. Comp
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by cbd1984 11y ago
"Perfect vacuum" is a classical physics concept which abstracts away quantum effects. In short, it isn't real, and it can never exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED_vacuum So, your perpetual motion d
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's interesting to me that when people boost Ada's type safety, they always compare it to other Foogols, like C and Java. OK, how about Ada vs Haskell? Does Ada have anything like Haskell typeclasses or am I going to have to writ
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If Ada doesn't have GC, it leaks, which isn't safe.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Pointers are only real if you ignore MMUs and cache lines and imagine that C actually gives a good model of real modern hardware.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Buses around here do.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Is C++ OO? If you say yes, defend your position, given that Alan Kay disagrees.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Now read the Haskell prologue.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
So it's almost as nice, and almost as safe, as Haskell.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Trains don't have traffic. Trains have traffic. It's baked into their schedules, so it can never improve based on variations in usage.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Tragedy for BSD's dominance, I mean. I quite like Linux, personally, but people who prefer BSD probably view it as tragedy.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
In case you like obscure references, USL vs BSDi was tragedy, SCO vs Linux and Rationality was farce. It really is interesting how little the SCO cases actually amounted to.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The part where it explains inductance! /s
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by cbd1984 11y ago
GNU Smalltalk actually allows me to use a good development environment. Other Smalltalks apparently don't.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> his sociopathic entitled white male self You're a bigot. You're a sexist and a racist. Flagged.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Everything costs resources. Whether you account for that in terms of money or some other method is irrelevant.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged for promoting an anti-vaxxer.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's also being made by someone who "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
He "doesn't believe in" vaccines. Keep that in mind.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Because the text editor is the nicest development environment. It's been customized by me to my workflow, and your not understanding that says horrible things about how well you understand how programmers work. Frankly, the fact

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