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by combatentropy 6y ago
> What is wrong with a yes response to "do you want to eat pizza or pasta?" It doesn't answer the question. The questioner is asking for your help in making a decision. If you are completely neutral about the two, then mos
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Ha ha, you're right, in a way. It depends on whether you take G to mean the figure on the keyboard or the figure on the screen. The figure on most keyboards is G. Yet when you press it, it puts on the screen, g. Chromebooks are better
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Sorry, I meant Shift-G. I can no longer edit that comment.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Fair points. After all, I know the keyboard shortcut to jump to the bottom (Ctrl-G).
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by combatentropy 6y ago
You're right. I often think the man page should begin with a few examples, then launch into the neverending list of options. That is no way to learn. In foreign language 101, they start you off with a small group of examples. "Com
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I think he wanted more content, more tests, not more words.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
MRR: Monthly Recurring Revenue
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by combatentropy 6y ago
How long were you on your sabbatical before the interest returned? A year?
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by combatentropy 6y ago
What if you added an index to the row-oriented database? Then how would it compare to a column-oriented one?
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by combatentropy 6y ago
That is one way, and I agree it's ugly, but Apache came out with form-based authentication in version 2.4, https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_auth_form.html
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I got spoiled by PHP as my first language. It was so easy to get going. I was surprised to learn that other languages didn't work the same way, when integrating into a web server. Also it has always been rock solid. A bug in my code br
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by combatentropy 6y ago
From the article: "What made the crashes so vexing is that it was impossible to pin the blame on one central villain." Wait a minute: "When Mr. Stonecipher became chief executive of Boeing in 2003, he brought G.E.'s mode
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand. Well, I agree that it would be perjury. But then there would be no proof of perjury, and the perjurer would get away. That can't offer much assurance to the person accepting a signature. Besides
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I don't totally understand it, but I was impressed by Ward Cunningham's use of awk to calculate who owes who after a vacation, http://c2.com/doc/expense/
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I was never an atheist, but one of my favorite writers was until his 30s: C. S. Lewis. You might try some of his slim books: The Problem of Pain or Mere Christianity .
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by combatentropy 6y ago
"the M1 ties the Radeon RX 560 (2.6 TFLOPS), and it's just a few TFLOPS away from catching the GeForce GTX 1650 (2.9 TFLOPS)" --- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-silicon-m1-graphics-...
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by combatentropy 6y ago
When I first started, I was looking for a free graphical client. I asked my more seasoned coworker what he used. He said, psql. Skeptically I tried, and after a little while, I prefer nothing else. I was already sold on vi, so it's not
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> Awareness and consciousness is different then responding to stimulus. This is not some clump of cells that "responds to stimulus" before birth and magically becomes "conscious and aware" after birth. It doesn't
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> That's not what a human is. These things have names, zygotes, embryos, fetus. Yes, and they are all human, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/human > None of these are living humans yet. They'
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> Why do you feel a fetus is a human life? Because it is human, and it is alive. It is human, in the sense that it is descended from humans and is not dog or a dandelion or a caterpillar. It has human genetic code. It is one continuous l
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by combatentropy 6y ago
And a fetus is a human life. A person does not get redefined based on their location. What science is there that defends the right to an abortion?
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by combatentropy 6y ago
For me, it was an extraordinarily well-made movie, one of my favorites. I was a film major, though, so I am concentrating on the camerawork and editing. The director, John McTiernan, was not famous enough --- right up there with Spielberg i
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> low quality 1080p jpegs imagemagick reports their quality as 75, based on a few I picked at random: identify -format '%Q' marnie007.jpg 75 --- which is not terrible but not great either. The thumbnails are PNG. It&#x
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I am shocked and dismayed that people are emailing you because your blog is too fun and diverse. It reminds me of my wish for anyone who is even semipopular on the internet, whether it be through a blog, Youtube channel, etc. I wish for the
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Why does Haskell cause an algebraic perspective while Python causes an operational one? In Python I can write: x = 2 * y + 1 which looks like algebra to me. I do not know Haskell, but I read about it that it is a purely functional la
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by combatentropy 6y ago
Got it. Thanks! > its not beautiful to most people I think the same could be said about audio mixing boards, for example. I've found that interfaces for professionals often look ugly to the uninitiated. I've said many times tha
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by combatentropy 6y ago
> What happened to the scratch pad and press an index key in FMCs? Age old UI and it is so crisp and clear, there is absolutely zero ambguity. Write something in a scratch pad, click the button where you wanna insert the data. I am not a
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I went the opposite way and bought a $240 Panasonic commercial microwave, because I also wanted it to last. It's just a little big.
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by combatentropy 6y ago
He does not claim to introduce the concepts of horizontal and vertical scaling. He mentions them only to immediately discourage them: "Lots of people make the mistake of thinking there's only two vectors you can go to improve perf
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by combatentropy 6y ago
I totally agree. It is similar to a post by Derek Sivers, "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution", https://sive.rs/multiply

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