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by darrenf 5y ago
There was a long thread about this 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952
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by darrenf 5y ago
I'm 5'9"/175cm and I generally hit 10k steps at around the 7.5km mark, so for me 7k steps would be just over 5km.
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by darrenf 5y ago
I can't speak for @kragen, but I recognise the format from the Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/
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by darrenf 5y ago
The loc.gov page came up first in my search, and links to the Adobe one :)
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by darrenf 5y ago
Oh, mea culpa. Honestly I just found the opening page and didn't notice it needed payment to get to the rest of it. I naively assumed that since Adobe had published it with ISO's permission, it was free in both places.
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by darrenf 5y ago
It's still available at this Adobe URL: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/p... " As distributed by Adobe after adoption as ISO 32000-1:2008, with permission of ISO. " [0] No
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by darrenf 5y ago
Android took half a decade to ship anything.
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by darrenf 5y ago
Arch Enemy probably don't.
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by darrenf 5y ago
The first 5-10 years of ... what?
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by darrenf 5y ago
There is definitely such a job. In the mid-90s between university semesters I did temporary work in SW London. One company I worked at for a few weeks was called Adpax - they specialised in making packaging, particularly for munitions. I ju
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by darrenf 5y ago
I am serious. I live in the town where he lived, walk past his grave frequently, and drink in the pub (The Cricketers, Farncombe) where he worked as landlord. The other Caesar has no such presence in my daily life!
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by darrenf 5y ago
Honestly my first thought upon seeing the name Julius Caesar is always to think of the English cricketer of the 1800s[0]. I suspect this places me in a minority of one. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar_
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by darrenf 5y ago
~30 year bash/sh user here (glossing over the regrettable, mercifully brief dalliances with csh and ksh). I can’t claim to be long suffering, because I (still) enjoy using bash. In December just gone I gave up on macOS after 17 years a
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by darrenf 5y ago
I agree `column` is imperfect, but empty cells at least don't seem to be a problem. $ echo -e 'foo,bar,quux\n1,,3' | column -t -s, foo bar quux 1 3 The man page says: > Version 2.23 changed the
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by darrenf 5y ago
> just the ability to pipe tabulated data from a script into something and display it in tabular format Not 100% sure I understand your requirement, but does `column` fit the bill? $ echo -e "foo,bar,quux\n1,2,3" | col
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by darrenf 5y ago
Not to mention the URL in @hnlmorg’s HN profile!
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by darrenf 5y ago
That’s “spelling” the noun, not a verb.
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Adobe was trying to work with Apple, and Apple rebuffed them. The opposite was stated in a legal deposition by Scott Forstall (ex-SVP of iOS) just last year[0]. We did not ship Flash. We tried to make Flash work. We helped Adobe. We d
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by darrenf 5y ago
Can't help but throw a couple cents/pennies around whenever an "almost perfect" or "advanced" script makes my knee jerk so wildly. So here goes. For this part: pro_on=$(ps aux | grep -c rsync) # if s
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by darrenf 5y ago
Quite apart from the fact that many (most?) vim short forms have long form equivalents, and vim has autocomplete - this argument feels misguided to me, mostly because I don't see why it would be limited to just vim. It seems natural, i
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by darrenf 5y ago
IMO @Shayan86 (a BBC journalist specialising is conspiracy theories, disinformation, extremism, etc) does a good job of this: https://twitter.com/Shayan86
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by darrenf 5y ago
Accusing Mark Dominus of throwing shade on Perl seems misguided.
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by darrenf 5y ago
Yes! You're right. Not sure what happened to my brain there. Too much staring at Perl, I suspect.
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by darrenf 5y ago
> # The following line executes the subroutine "f" and divides the result by 1 on fridays > # but on other days causes the interpreter to trigger a syntax error You have this the opposite way round to what's happeni
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Even Google does not have more than 100k of employees. Alphabet has over 150k employees. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204422...
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by darrenf 5y ago
> If you already use a PoS, why would you replace it with another one that only supports customers who own an Apple device? What makes you think it only supports payment from Apple devices? The press release is pretty clear: At chec
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by darrenf 5y ago
> pushing for renweables in a way that actually just makes us highly dependent on natural gas whilst blocking any new natural gas sources in the UK or funded by the UK finance industry that could make up for the decline of the current o
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by darrenf 5y ago
Whereas to my UK eyes it's instantly reminiscent of Volvic[0] mineral water, which is definitely a V sound and doesn't read or sound strange at all (see also: pelvic, civic, Slavic). It wouldn't occur to me that there might b
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by darrenf 5y ago
> the fact that a company can do this to another company I don't necessarily believe Apple are being deliberately adversarial here. Perhaps I'm being overly naive, but to me Facebook's woes are a side-effect, not the pri
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by darrenf 5y ago
The PDF[0] linked to from the original article says this, in "Sanctions" C.533: 2) In application of Article 100, §1, 10° DPA, order IAB Europe to permanently delete all TC Strings and other personal data already processed in the

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