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by cturner 13y ago
There's plenty of precedent. The plan9 guys were very explicit about not having variable colours in acme. The suckless.org team say that you can configure whatever you like, but only through changing the source code. BeOS aimed to have no c
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by cturner 13y ago
Ah - thanks. Seems I've made a bad assumption that was key to my position. I understood the significance of the stamp but had also thought it was among the most vulnerable spots for operational shock. I'll go back and re-read on this.
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by cturner 13y ago
Now if you can 3d-print a reliable rifle like an AK-47, that could get interesting. The team that made this gun are already doing the most difficult bit from the AR-15, a semi-automatic rifle that has been used in several mass
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by cturner 13y ago
I think it's a big story. 3d printing opens many possibilities that CNC doesn't offer. A CNC requires specialised skill. Downloading and printing 3d doesn't. Building guns with a CNC requires a lot of labour. Whereas you can imagine having
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by cturner 13y ago
See what you mean re unix. Yeah - I've always been unable to describe that weird connection to the platform, what you call the Amiga feeling. Going to boot back into haiku now and see if I can get blender working :)
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by cturner 13y ago
Bane made an insightful post a few days ago about 'scene' computing vs workstation computing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624912 That has had me rethinking your what-if. I don't think the unix is a big deal - the Be and Haiku te
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by cturner 14y ago
It made some sense to me. The author used the G/M thing to introduce an idea: that it's powerful to think at scale. And then seeks a way to make a thinking-at-scale structure (bayes' rule) as accessible to the programmer as an if statement,
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by cturner 14y ago
Dell/HP/Lenovo won't do that - the most they're likely to do is half-assed support for Linux. That's why it would be neat if FreeBSD to get themselves working solidly on a single platform, because fans would have a reliable option.
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by cturner 14y ago
When I looked at this six months ago the answer was thinkpads. But there is still oddness. I got a X1 Carbon which is a fantastic system once you get rid of the awful Windows setup it ships with but I ran out of time to mess around getting
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by cturner 14y ago
Guys if you've got some spare cash I recommend putting a bit towards having FreeBSD working flawlessly on a single well-defined desktop platform (e.g. thinkpad). It doesn't need to be fancy, but the little things like suspend-and-resume nee
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by cturner 14y ago
Thanks. The mathiness has been an obstacle for me. It's not that I'm incapable of groking the ideas, just that when I sit down to play with a language I haven't yet mastered I don't also want to be learning tangential concepts. Still, I lov
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by cturner 14y ago
Another angle - pain with audio on linux. With traditional demoscene computers, you could easily get access to the audio hardware and expect it would work on every computer you shipped it to. (This second bit is important. You want to distr
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by cturner 14y ago
From some of your criticism, I think you're arguing against a particular attempt to introduce vouchers (one that I'm unfamiliar with) rather than the policy of vouchers. No they are against them because the money for vouchers come
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by cturner 14y ago
It's easy to game this, and there's overwhelming evidence that this already happens in related fields. In countries with state schools with geographic catchment (i.e. most of most English speaking countries), the housing market becomes a pr
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by cturner 14y ago
I was impressed by it. This project is "only" a cool ARM emulator with software DRAM controller, which BTW proves again that Linux doesn't fit onto 8-bit micros. But it does, for practical purposes. I'll try to put into con
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by cturner 14y ago
Through your wage, the employer is already communicating to you the point at which they cut their losses on you and let you go. Maybe through hard bargaining you could inch a bit more out, but to do it you have to introduce an unpleasant pe
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by cturner 14y ago
Coworker pay is irrelevant. The contract is between you and your employer. I've seen people tie themselves in terrible knots over this. It's a losers' game. Instead of getting organised and creating the life they want, they take the lazy op
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by cturner 14y ago
> it's not even written in C It was. The internals were entirely written in C. C++ was for application developers.
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by cturner 14y ago
They've probably ranked up the value of diversified shopping. They would explain why rubbish large airports get ranked miles above small, efficient Australian and Scandi airports.
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by cturner 14y ago
Think you're joking, but I came here to write - SFO is the best I can remember. Easy in and out, free wifi that actually worked and desks with power cords to use it from, regular and easy-to-understand shuttle bus system with helpful staff
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by cturner 14y ago
James Althucher is a writer who has lived through a bunch of nasty experiences, and now writes about what he's learnt. In his writing he often preaches to cut yourself off from news. Here's an article I found quickly that makes reference t
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by cturner 14y ago
Having the viewers switch by default is useful for demos, when you are showing something to someone. And it's the simplest behaviour for their data structure. So I can see some logic to why they designed it that way. I'm glad you raised thi
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by cturner 14y ago
Less efficient than reaching for the mouse? :)
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by cturner 14y ago
I think keyboard macros - completely isolated from the system they're dispatching to - are an interesting "what if" in our history. There's plenty of room for innovation, but I don't know of any attempts at it. Thinking about this, I realis
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by cturner 14y ago
A pg essay repeats a similar story about onions in the varnish. http://www.paulgraham.com/arcll1.html "In The Periodic Table, Primo Levi tells a story that happened when he was working in a varnish factory. He was a chemist, and he was fa
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by cturner 14y ago
Wow - this thread is full of good advice. I have not touched my dot files in about four years, and today they're all getting an upgrade. Thanks!
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by cturner 14y ago
Well - it's my tool of choice for editing Makefiles. :) But that's all I use it for. My vim setup automatically hammers tabs to spaces, and make doesn't like that. Shell users who use emacs mode (most ppl) may be annoyed by ctrl+a missing.
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by cturner 14y ago
Nice one. I've now also added resize variations of these. bind-key C-j resize-pane -D 8 bind-key C-k resize-pane -U 8 bind-key C-h resize-pane -L 8 bind-key C-l resize-pane -R 8
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by cturner 14y ago
awesome. I hadn't thought of that but it's much better. thank you. I've now switched last-window to bind C-s last-window, because it's fast to tap out.
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by cturner 14y ago
thank you sir! I am now entirely migrated to tmux. :)

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