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by eadmund 2y ago
Even worse, people who say ‘3 times less than’ (which would be n - 3n = -2n) when they mean ‘one third as much as.’ And of course, the worst people of all think that one third is less than one fourth. Personally, I blame the widespread usag
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by eadmund 2y ago
He was definitely a bad guy for most of his political life. Whether he was the worst guy is debatable.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Various modes already prompt if one wishes to respect file-local settings; I imagine that the fix here is similar.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I feel like the people protesting the Vietnam war would be regarded by the current online zeitgeist as “pro-Mao”. Many of them were extremely strong supporters of Ho Chi Minh (they used to call him the Vietnamese George Washington),
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by eadmund 2y ago
No, it’s in the realm of the tens to hundreds of thousands one-time, depending on how many wealthy people one robs (see the sibling comment by 'edanm). One of Æsop’s fables is about a goose who laid golden eggs: https://read
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by eadmund 2y ago
> People who have gotten over the K8s learning curve almost all tell you it isn't actually that bad. I have been using K8s for nearly a decade. I use it both professionally and personally. I chose to use it personally. I apprec
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by eadmund 2y ago
> The point of Kubernetes isn't to make those things possible, it's to make them easy and consistent. Kubernetes definitely makes things consistent, but I do not think that it makes them easy. There’s certainly a lot to learn
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by eadmund 2y ago
Consider the possibility that the artists behind these pieces were not trolling, but genuinely trying to express something, or craft something beautiful. Mocking their failures is a little bit liking making fun of a small child’s fingerpai
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by eadmund 2y ago
I love exonyms when they are native. As you note, the English name for the Italian city is Florence (so too the proper English words are Turkey, Kiev and Peking, not Turkiye, Kyiv or Beijing). I see no reason at all to use the French nam
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by eadmund 2y ago
> Louvain (“Leuven”) The correct name of the city is Leuven: it is a Flemish city, not a Wallonian one. Using French names for Flemish cities is just wrong.
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by eadmund 2y ago
> A U.S. LLC is a weird amalgamation of tax and law. What do you mean? LLC aren’t AFAIK about tax: they are about limited liability. How is that different from other countries’ LLC-equivalents?
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by eadmund 2y ago
The pain and cost very much depend on one’s jurisdiction (hey, once upon a time it literally required an act of Parliament!). And there are levels to it, too. Absolutely, the first time one sets up a company one needs to hire a lawyer. B
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by eadmund 2y ago
The client-side efficiency problem is JavaScript; perhaps the server-side efficiency problem is Python?
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by eadmund 2y ago
> - full expressive power of a real programming language (TS) I suppose TypeScript does count as a real programming language, in that it’s Turing complete. But I can use Pulumi from (they claim) any programming language. Specifically,
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by eadmund 2y ago
Government-employee unions are bad for their employer, the government. They’re particularly bad when politicians can take money from taxpayers, give it to union members, who are then forced to give it to their unions, which then turn around
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by eadmund 2y ago
> It was exceptionally radical to vote for Obama in 2008 What are you talking about? He got 68% of the electors; 53% of the population voted for him. That’s not radical: that’s mainstream.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Citizens United was literally about citizens showing a film critical of a political candidate. It’s one of the purest examples of free political speech there is. No Supreme Court justices are bought. I share your concern about the lack of
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by eadmund 2y ago
I believe that abortion to save the mother’s life is legal in all 50 states, every territory and the federal district. There are a small number of women who have died due to their physicians and/or hospitals misinterpreting the law, ju
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by eadmund 2y ago
> even software engineers were hurting and couldn't find work. Unprecedented Is the tech bust of 2000 so easily forgotten? And then the global financial crisis of 2008?
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by eadmund 2y ago
I don’t think that’s a terribly kind response. There’s nothing pedantic about pointing out that as an Apple product user you are not actually in control of the device which is purportedly yours. That’s not an ‘ultra-strict definition’ of
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by eadmund 2y ago
Sure, you can generate the YAML file, but it’s not generally possible to trigger that from the system which wants the YAML file, and you don’t get to integrate with the system’s configuration. Often these systems honestly think that th
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I've grown rather fond of bash in my current role. I work mainly on developer tools and CI pipelines, both of which mean gluing together lots of different CLI tools. When it comes to this kind of work I think it is quite hard to b
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by eadmund 2y ago
> I think they were more references the human readability of HTTP/1.0 in general instead of binary encoded data. Yup! You’re exactly right. I honestly thought that was obvious in context. There’s something just right about being a
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by eadmund 2y ago
> all integers are little-endian They really should be big-endian, because that’s network byte order. IMHO it makes sense to use decimal-encoded ASCII digits instead and keep the protocol readable. Nothing like ‘telnet host.example 80’
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by eadmund 2y ago
Addendum: in retrospect, I do regret my dismissive tone. It wasn’t terribly nice. I’m sure that the developers of the feature are very proud of it, and justifiably so. All the best to them. I still maintain that it’s a pity they don’t in
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by eadmund 2y ago
> What's the point of this comment? To encourage people to use Emacs (or vi). > Should we have frozen tech in 1998 with our 28.8kbps modems We had Ethernet and high-speed networks in 1998. The rest of the world has just caught u
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by eadmund 2y ago
The best way to encrypt ZFS is to run unecrypted ZFS atop encrypted volumes (e.g. LUKS volumes). ZFS ‘encryption’ leaves too much in plaintext for my comfort.
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by eadmund 2y ago
Those who do not understand Emacs are doomed to repeat it. Poorly, in worse languages. —C.S. Santayana Emacs TRAMP mode has been doing this for 26 years, since November 1998. Fashions come, and fashions go, and Emacs remains. Anyone rem
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by eadmund 2y ago
> JSON Injection → SQL Injection → Buffer Overflow → ROP = PWNED Looked at another way, there were multiple opportunities to get it right, and they got it wrong every time. What’s remarkable is that JSON is a tiny specification. Wri
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Attacking APIs Using JSON Injection(danaepp.com)
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