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by dejj 4y ago
Backup here: http://web.archive.org/web/20220819180012/https://tldp.org/L...
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by dejj 4y ago
Can you cite this quote in its original language? I'd be interested to read it. Google translate gives me: "نتيجة الكثير من التواضع هي أن ينتهي بك الأمر بالاستماع إلى مشورة شخص متوسط المستوى."
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by dejj 4y ago
See: https://unsongbook.com/
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by dejj 4y ago
"Types of quality" reminds me of Robert M. Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirsig%27s_metaphysics_of_Qual...
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by dejj 4y ago
Stretchable graphical mythology: https://essenmitsosse.de/pixel
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by dejj 4y ago
In Marc-Uwe Kling's "Qualityland", reversing elevators, turning around subway cars, and flicking traffic lights is a level-skill obtained by accumulating social credit points. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Qualit
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by dejj 4y ago
"But how many years of walnut do you have?" —If carpenters were hired like programmers. http://www.jasonbock.net/jb/News/Item/7c334037d1a9437d9fa650... https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by dejj 4y ago
You can see it on "Please Don't Touch Anything": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQpsiPO0L8&t=915s
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by dejj 4y ago
I have not heard of Hara or V. Can you please provide explanatory links?
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by dejj 4y ago
And detecting that would actually implement move semantics in the shell. Isn’t there already a project to bring Rust to the shell?
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by dejj 5y ago
Do you know of any gimmick, e.g. case that brings the button and its tactile feedback to 11,12,13?
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by dejj 5y ago
Also see: Aftertext, which separates markup from text https://breckyunits.com/aftertext.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29643313
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by dejj 5y ago
Reminds me of Frama-C https://frama-c.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739456
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by dejj 5y ago
If you can compare apples with oranges, can you also compare oranges with apples?
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by dejj 5y ago
Whenever I feel sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. So they say on television. Bluntly: If you’re so smart, then why are you conflating smartness with happiness. IMO the two things happen in different hemispheres. You can’t reaso
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by dejj 5y ago
Shameless plug: I wrote a Nemo extension [1] that lets you add columns for #tags @persons or $whatever you put in a filename. You can sort by these columns. For complex things, there's always `find`. [1] https://github.com&#
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by dejj 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220119164824/https://www.al.co...
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by dejj 5y ago
Nietzsche set up the dichotomy of master vs. slave morality. He characterizes slave-thinking by it assuming “stupid/dumb/ignorant is good”. This trichotomy seems to further split up slave morality into slave vs. victim.
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by dejj 5y ago
If Telegram or Google users would pay for services, they wouldn’t treat them like the product being sold.
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by dejj 5y ago
Which browser add-ons and bookmarklets exist that help me conveniently obfuscate messages so as to avoid automated surveillance?
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by dejj 5y ago
I consider Unique as user-defined affine types— half of what makes up a linear type. Clean and Mercury are both mentioned in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural_type_system
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by dejj 5y ago
Wouldn’t ROFF require putting the format commands in-line? Like so: How much .i wood would a .i wood chuck chuck if a .i wood chuck could chuck .i wood? I have no experience with ROFF, so please correct me.
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by dejj 5y ago
Not a big fan of byte/rune counting. Maybe regex. Maybe more verbosity, like: aftertext How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? context How much wood italics wood context could a woo
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by dejj 5y ago
Or dive into AWK-style selectors all the way: aftertext The fox jumped the dog /^The/ italics 15,18 italics
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by dejj 5y ago
> problem [..] when markup is semantic and not just an augmentation. "*I* did not say that" is different from "I did not say *that*". I consider this a feature. Domain-specific markup goes e.g.: aftertext *I*
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by dejj 5y ago
This will be lovely for parallel text: annotating each word with its translation AND retaining the original as well as the annotations in readable form. Even overlapping ranges can be annotated conveniently. Thank you for this idea!
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by dejj 5y ago
If by: > do nothing at all. Stop driving, stop working, stop eating entirely, and then things will quickly recover. you mean: let humans go extinct. Then yes, that would work. It has the elegance of Multivac’s answer to Asimov’s “The las
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by dejj 5y ago
Seems like a step towards singularity.
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by dejj 5y ago
Let me just fork the client and remove the anti-feature… oh wait.
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by dejj 5y ago
Good quote. Many business slides look like this: boxes with words connected with arrows; no edge labels. Their authors revel in magical thinking, enjoying simplicity of unlabeled axes. But everybody interested in content must struggle to f

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