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by eadmund 3y ago
Stallman may ‘not have a very high opinion of many of the decisions that were made in Common Lisp’ but in my opinion he’s just wrong here. Emacs would be even more valuable than it is had it been implemented in Common Lisp. Frankly Elisp
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by eadmund 3y ago
My God, they’ve finally made Marcus J. Ranum’s comment reality: ‘If the designers of X-Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles — but you’d be
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by eadmund 3y ago
>> Unicode defines a decimal separator key symbol (⎖ in hex U+2396, decimal 9110) which looks similar to the apostrophe. This symbol is from ISO/IEC 9995 and is intended for use on a keyboard to indicate a key that performs decim
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by eadmund 3y ago
‘This principle runs through most of the AI sector today. There’s going to be a lot of value generated that just accrues to society, and isn’t captured by any private player. Which is wonderful, by the way—this is how technology becomes one
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by eadmund 3y ago
I think to the Wayland folks, anything other than using Windows is an exotic use case. They’re not entirely wrong, but if we wanted to use Windows, we … would be using Windows. The great thing about Linux was that we could do more than
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by eadmund 3y ago
The cascade of attention-deficit teenagers pinky-promise that it won’t. Meanwhile, I understand that Wayland in 2023 still doesn’t support what X11 supported in 2000. If true, then it’s simply not fit for purpose.
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IBM to scrap 401(k) matching, offer something else instead(theregister.com)
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by eadmund 3y ago
Good point (and little-known nowadays!), but I think that the focus of sumptuary laws tended to be luxuries such as trim, furs, cloth-of-gold or Imperial purple, rather than colourful clothing in general. But I could be wrong!
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by eadmund 3y ago
In at least some periods servants wore their masters’ cast-offs. Additionally, many natural dyes are not necessarily that expensive. I understand that many mediæval artworks depict commoners in colourful clothing.
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Only Murders in the Building is indeed excellent. I never could get into Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I may give Animal Control a shot — your recommendation makes me think I should.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> I honestly can never understand people who say there is not enough good content on streamers. What is there that is worth watching? They don’t make anything good anymore: no Seinfeld, no Office, no Parks & Rec, no Castle, no Bones
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HBO’s offering is particularly terrible. It’s amazing how often it just … pauses with a blank screen. Or thinks that I am episodes back in my watch history.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> How does Disney fail to make money off Star Wars? Because they decided to build a shitty tech company in-house instead of just doing what they know and licensing their content to the experts. They may or may not have tech issues. Thei
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> Organized crime (especially drug crime) is a quasi-military force. The police are threatening billions of dollars in illicit profit, and that will not go unchallenged easily. Arguably that should be addressed by a different organisatio
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by eadmund 3y ago
No, health insurance could be like almost any other insurance: bought by the individual, not by his employer or the state.
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by eadmund 3y ago
Fun fact: you can assign each separate Firefox instance a different X window class with the --class flag. Then your window manager may be configured to raise windows with that class to the top. E.g. I have something like this in my StumpWM
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by eadmund 3y ago
> > The cover letter is a proxy for soft skills. > Not anymore. Not with ChatGPT. I don’t think so. I don’t care if a writer uses spell check, grammar check or ChatGPT: good cover letter is a good cover letter, regardless of what
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> A "cover letter" is a terrible prompt to elicit any meaningful information about a candidate, and implies negative things about the company asking for one. On the contrary, a cover letter is a powerful tool to elicit meaningf
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The cover letter is a proxy for soft skills. I am pretty sure that I don’t want to hire a candidate who believes that soft skills are a waste of time. He might be brilliant, but he sounds terrible to supervise, work for or be supervised b
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by eadmund 3y ago
> My boomer grandfather called and wants his cover letter back. That’s not an argument, it’s an ageist ad hominem. > why not ask for a five minute coding challenge instead of a cover letter Why not both? There are two aspects to any
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by eadmund 3y ago
> This need for a cover letter is essentially asking candidates to tell you how much they love the company and how much they want the job. No, and that is exactly the wrong sort of cover letter. A cover letter is a letter from the human
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by eadmund 3y ago
> i know that I don't like anything below 8c or above 40c That’s a bit funny: 8° C is roughly 50° F (46.4), and 40° C is roughly 100° F (104). Almost like Fahrenheit might be scaled to a human!
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Arguably, Snow Leopard was peak interaction design. System 7 or 8, methinks. Clean, cool and collected.
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by eadmund 3y ago
> 10% of a $1 billion income has zero influence on your lifestyle. That seems obviously untrue: $100 million could hire a thousand employees at $100,000/year (I am ignoring payroll taxes and benefits). Hiring that many additional
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Tithing is horribly, gruesomely regressive. No, it’s not: regressive would be if the poor had to pay a larger percentage than the rich. They don’t. Progressive indicates that the rich must pay a larger percentage than the poor. Mean
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Don't we have the same basic criticism going from Fahrenheit to Celsius? Sure, and one shouldn’t do that either. Fahrenheit’s range (0 being the freezing point of brine, almost but not quite intolerable to a human, and 100 being
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by eadmund 3y ago
This discussion is another great example of why HTTP without TLS can be just fine, even desirable.
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by eadmund 3y ago
You omitted health. Meat is a package of pre-processed vitamins, minerals and energy sources. Other than health, taste, tradition, habit and convenience, what has meat ever done for us?
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by eadmund 3y ago
> Having a modern up to date, searchable central registry of guns, ownership, and requiring every sale to be recorded is a major advantage for Australia over the US. Some folks think that having a single, accurate, searchable registry of
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> Unifying gun laws in America We tried unifying the gun laws (and all borne-arms laws!) in America: we passed a single Constitutional amendment which states that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed. It’s the supreme law of th

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