contras1970

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by contras1970 9y ago
you shouldn't, it's not healthy. you'll contribute more to future generations if you're happy, and individuals who are concerned about whole generations tend to despair. despair leads to loss of sexual appetite, which
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by contras1970 9y ago
life cannot exist without (outside / away from) energy gradients. is the purpose of life to speed up destruction of its environment? even if the answer is yes which i disagree with, it's only an approximative answer: it's i
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by contras1970 9y ago
> XHTML 2 would have sucked so much! why/how? because you'd have to close your tags and validate your code?
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by contras1970 9y ago
> the community does pick up the work of patching and maintaining formulae (and casks). However, that's the best case, and low-volume formulae rarely fall into it. IMO that's self-inflicted by homebrew's policies. from
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by contras1970 9y ago
i've used ff since the phoenix days (0.6? do not remember). this particular laptop now has 55.0.2 with Cookie Monster, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Policeman, Show my Password, Tab Mix Plus. some other extensions are installed but no
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by contras1970 9y ago
no, i very narrowly responded to the content of your comment, because no matter how much of dick the guy may be (i have no idea but the screenshot certainly gave away a very imature impression), you, instead of attacking that preceding sent
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by contras1970 9y ago
i have this in a (hand-written) configure script: case "$(uname -s)" in Darvin|Linux) MAKE=make GMAKE=$MAKE ;; DragonFly|*BSD) MAKE=make GMAKE=gmake ;; *) MAKE=gmake GM
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by contras1970 9y ago
Electron solves nothing, it's a prime example of the Inner Platform[0], it will go through all the growing pains of solving the "library cruft" inside it, and will still require all the "cruft" below it. BTW, you sa
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by contras1970 9y ago
there is no "original file": hard links are just synonymous names for a single blob. rm / unlink essentially just reduce a reference counter and the storage gets freed when the counter drops to zero.
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by contras1970 9y ago
if you're talking about https://web.archive.org/web/20170820092504im_/https://common... , then it literally did not say that. let me quote literally : Given that you lisp, you're probably
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by contras1970 9y ago
> All these people harp about public transportation, etc, but really given the choice does anyone actually prefer public transportation over cars if the roads can accommodate them. I don't think so. so all these people either se
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by contras1970 9y ago
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.cz/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by contras1970 9y ago
the thing is, if you expect DevOps- and testing-related results to a cucumber chef query[0], the search provider really needs to keep a file on you. otherwise you're going to get pages and pages of salad, end of story. this was the
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by contras1970 9y ago
How about a crackdown on misuse of (new and old) antibiotics in places like the USA? http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/14/you-cant-... This is not a discussion of Indian or Chinese laws on &quot
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by contras1970 9y ago
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web May 20, 2017 (comments) An internet accurately describes Google's AMP program for what it is -- a barely-disguised attempt to shove more of the internet into itself, the better to track the livi
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by contras1970 9y ago
Exactly at the simplistic start: > This person is male. Could we please avoid the biologically nonsensical charade of referring to him as"she"? What is your definition of male ? "Has the XY chromosome pair?" &quo
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by contras1970 9y ago
> I might be a bit biased working in offensive security, but 90% of the PowerShell I see in use is malicious. > > Unfortunately Microsoft has let the genie out of the bottle And if you worked in that niche before PowerShell exi
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by contras1970 9y ago
I believe this is exactly an "ethics and morals" discussion, and apparently protesters were needed to stop the practice. As the negative impact on the circus business in the case at hand shows, you can't separate the ethics a
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by contras1970 9y ago
> By default, this feature is turned off. This closes a nasty open relay loophole where a backup MX host can be tricked into forwarding junk mail to a primary MX host which then spams it out to the world. http://www.postfix.
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by contras1970 9y ago
That's a bit like saying that only those who bought lots of cotton were eligible to criticize slavery in the USA.
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by contras1970 9y ago
> but damn if it didn't get syntax just right. Yeah, like the symmetry of `do` / `end`! /s
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by contras1970 9y ago
Yes I would. I have a friend who's called, quite lovingly so, Hitler in our circle. The nick has nothing to do with any of his beliefs or opinions (we wouldn't be friends if it did). The icing on the cake is my kids talking abou
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by contras1970 9y ago
The "issue" here being which gendered pronouns to use in reference to Chelsea Manning. The "side" that's getting warned is the one that uses her transsexuality to launch petty hostilities at her.
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by contras1970 9y ago
In the present case it is: "maintain the course".
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by contras1970 9y ago
> in fact the main driver is increasing age. The older people get, the more their income and wealth differs. You make it sound as if Zuckerberg was a Lovecraftian Great Old One. Wait a minute..!
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by contras1970 9y ago
usually !~ (always|only). OP's usage was fine and the complainant looked more ignorant than petty.
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by contras1970 9y ago
stigmata is the plural form of stigma , which is 1 a archaic : a scar left by a hot iron b : a mark of shame or discredit https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stigmata
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by contras1970 9y ago
> Someone in a movie box [...] is practically a useless annoyance > Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs? Not really. This may not be substantive enough for HN guidelines, but you know w
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by contras1970 9y ago
Notice that the site is not affiliated with Emacs.
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by contras1970 9y ago
Rossum is a riff on "rozum" which means reason (as in to reason about). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.#Origin_of_the_word

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