celsius1414

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by celsius1414 2y ago
No need to feel super old! /cries in half century Reminds me of that explanation for why the years seem to move much faster when you’re older. When you’re 10, five years is half your life. When you’re 50, it’s only 10%.
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by celsius1414 2y ago
To paraphrase the old vim joke, emacs will be great once they add a text editor. ;)
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by celsius1414 2y ago
You are likely aware of the English language's feature of multiple adjectives (that are modifying the same noun) needing to appear in a certain order to sound "correct". So for example "yellow big balloon" sounds wr
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by celsius1414 2y ago
Agreed. It’s also so cool they still have the old Java versions available to play, all the way back to alpha (and before IIRC). Nostalgia for days.
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by celsius1414 2y ago
I just tried that on mine and using `lynx news.ycombinator.com` went to the website fine. I don't see anything obvious in a quick scan of the manpage nor config that might affect that. Weird!
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by celsius1414 2y ago
Art was already democratic. Now the megacorps are inserting themselves in the process and using “democratization” to sell the idea back to people. That doesn’t mean good art is impossible with, say, an iPhone’s digital camera and its AI-pow
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by celsius1414 2y ago
You might already know the term Digital Garden, but I think it'd be of interest as well if you haven't.
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by celsius1414 2y ago
And vice versa.
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by celsius1414 15y ago
Familiarity in my case -- for my legacy Mac servers I'm sticking with what both I and my boxen know. :) New servers will all be running Linux, so it'll be with the package manager for that distro, likely Debian.
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by celsius1414 15y ago
Dirty jokes are intended to be fun, but they can be hostile. Hostility does not derive solely from intent.
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by celsius1414 15y ago
It's the difference between "winning" and "defeating." It's not enough to win, you must defeat your enemies before they defeat you.