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by doktrin 9y ago
> (kill-emacs) C-x C-e > Pretty straightforward If this is a joke, it's totally whooshing over my head right now
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by doktrin 9y ago
Obviously my personal bias, but it's emacs I can never remember how to exit from.
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by doktrin 9y ago
I wonder how they doxed him in the first place. MT clearly knows what he's doing, and probably had a reasonably anonymous online footprint.
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by doktrin 9y ago
I completely disagree with your reasoning, and frankly find it downright infuriating. It feels straight up partisan and political. Isn't it entirely plausible an attack of precisely this sort could occur in a world where Linux (or macO
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by doktrin 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what about this attacks feels futuristic? If anything it feels very retro, in that it hails back to the notorious worm attacks from the earliest days of networked computing.
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by doktrin 9y ago
To my mind, there's a difference between "blaming Russia or China" and saying the attacks originated in Russia or China. The former is a reference to the nation state itself (i.e. state sponsored cyber attacks), while the lat
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by doktrin 10y ago
I may well be basing my opinion on outdated information, but I was referring to stuff like this : "A Federal Communications Commission document disclosed Saturday showed for the first time that the software in Google’s Street View mapp
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by doktrin 10y ago
> is Uber really just that bad? Sounds like it is. Uber's not exactly the first tech company to be in the spotlight, and yet they seem to be a uniquely anarchic organization. For instance, Google's been in this kind of hot wate
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by doktrin 10y ago
It can be said about anything, but it obviously applies more to CLI based editors since literally everything requires specialized muscle memory. Take a super simple example : Unless I've literally never used a computer before, I don&
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Pretty much everyone knows the price of admission to using tools like Vim and Emacs is the time investment in config and learning the quirks. To me, the real hurdle to vim (or emacs) isn't configuration : it's learning vim (o
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by doktrin 10y ago
Is the most recent dump also from <=2013?
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by doktrin 10y ago
You're either trolling, or you didn't think this through. People can do all kinds of potentially dangerous things for an extended period of time without negative consequences (heroin, football, diet pills, etc). Extrapolating anyt
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by doktrin 10y ago
IIRC the no-rub solutions in particular have been associated with higher risk of infection
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by doktrin 10y ago
I have a similar usage pattern, and in the wake of this article I've been pondering how to safely dry my hands before handling contacts. Perhaps paper towels?
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by doktrin 10y ago
> We don't, however, make blog posts or tweets saying "we're still working on the next build." Why not? I think it would definitely be in ST's best interest to be more engaged with the community. It's only n
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by doktrin 10y ago
This is informative. I often don't dry my hands between washing them and handling my contacts - ironically because I worry about germs from my hand towel ending up in my eye. TIL.
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by doktrin 10y ago
immature != wrong legal != right Most people would not defy authority, but that doesn't mean that authority is in the right. Whether or not United technically acted in accordance with the law does also does not mean they are in the rig
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Can you provide an explanation as to why they'd be still on his case if he's not costing them anything? Staffing. He's still employed even if they're not paying him. That means that they need to take him into accoun
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by doktrin 10y ago
> One of my past employers actually did away with ALL sick time. One was only able to take vacation time when one was sick. This was policy at my former employer. People showed up sick all the damn time and flu season was invariably a di
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by doktrin 10y ago
Yeah I don't believe the parent either. What you're describing is basically how health leave works in most of western Europe : the employer pays for the first X days, then the state [aka. insurance provider] takes over for long te
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by doktrin 10y ago
Amazon horror stories go way back. Anyone remember that hilarious Yegge hangouts post from 2011 [1]? I kind of hoped they'd changed their ways since then, but guess not. Easy pass tbh. Working for one of the "big 4.5" isn&#x2
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by doktrin 10y ago
Like the GP said : this was a logistical problem. They needed to get 4 employees from point A to point B 300 miles away. There are several ways of tackling this challenge : 1. continue escalating their shitty voucher bribes : sooner or late
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by doktrin 10y ago
> if they have to do it They wanted to get an airline crew to another city. Sounds like United fucked up, overbooked a flight, and didn't want to : 1. escalate compensation for passengers to get off the plane 2. arrange al
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Many will tell you that it is because there's more work outside Italy, but in reality works ethic is a direct consequence of the cultural heritage, not of the country laws or the abundance of job posts. Interesting. I know quite a
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by doktrin 10y ago
> no, it's because the culture is so 50 years behind the rest of the world Aside from it being your personal experience, are you saying cultural fit is the primary reason for emigration?
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Italy is the 3rd largest economy in the EU. "advanced" and "largest" are related but not synonymous I don't want to defend the parents barb any further, so I'll just say this : there's a reason so man
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by doktrin 10y ago
> perhaps you have confused this subthread with a different one No, but since you're obviously confused let me explain which thread we're in. The common topic, stretching back to the top comment, is armchair linguistic "an
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by doktrin 10y ago
> the same level of evidence Whatever's written in that blog post, and how it's written, is neither enough to convict nor exonerate.
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by doktrin 10y ago
What does that have to do with my point about inferring identity based on textual clues in this blog post?
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by doktrin 10y ago
This thread is slowly devolving into the linguistics equivalent of the poison scene in the Princess Bride : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL4c9gCRSKY

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