eadmund

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by eadmund 5y ago
> + HPPA's upwards-growing stack To be honest, I never really understood why more architectures don't have upwards-growing stacks. Visually, one adds things to the top of a stack, after all, so it makes sense to increment
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by eadmund 5y ago
I … am a moron. Somehow completely missed that.
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by eadmund 5y ago
You left out the portion where you get the money to pay the principal and interest. Either you actually sell some of that stock, or you work a job to get that money. Either way you that income will be taxed.
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by eadmund 5y ago
Not really. The loan isn't really income: the borrower gets $X, but is also on the hook for $X plus interest. It costs him money.
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by eadmund 5y ago
The thing about an unrealised gain is … that is hasn't yet been realised. It doesn't exist yet. It could (and often does) vanish like smoke later on, and become a loss. When people propose to tax unrealised gains, do they also
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Fast forward 100+ years and suddenly that quote sounds hilariously wrong. Does it? I prefer those 'cramped mediæval old towns' to Paris.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> in practice their only use these days is attacks where you confuse a badly-written server Or, you know, if you actually want to use an at sign in the manner allowed by the RFCs. That's the point of standards: if something is allo
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by eadmund 5y ago
They probably have better data on why they are losing subscribers than I do, and presumably they can see things like an IP address used by one subscription, then that subscription being cancelled, then the same IP address being used by a di
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Sure, you can jump into a Slack Huddle or Screen Share over a Zoom Room, or if you’re running Linux – good luck. Both of those work just fine in Linux!
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by eadmund 5y ago
That only works if you are running a trusted OS atop that hardware, and you simply cannot trust proprietary software. Apple do not permit iOS users to run any software they desire, and attempted to run spyware on all iOS devices; I think o
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Please expand on one example of constraints that apply to troops of monkeys and modern day humans. Both monkeys and humans require oxygen to breathe. That is, as you requested, one example of a constraint which applies to both. Perha
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by eadmund 5y ago
> This pattern is cumbersome to deal with in practice, especially in tools that use subcommands. Instead of typing foo bar -h to get help, you have to move the cursor between foo and bar to insert help: foo help bar in order to get help
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by eadmund 5y ago
uMatrix on Firefox gets one pretty close to that ideal, and makes it easy enough to enable JavaScript (and similar stuff) selectively until webapps and broken-by-design websites work. I strongly recommend it to the technically-inclined.
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by eadmund 5y ago
Eww & emacs-w3m are different though. Both are great in different ways.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> You don't get to decide for other people who or what they are. Yeah, but neither do they. There is such a thing as objective truth. I have no right to be treated as four-legged, because I do not have four legs . Neither can I
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by eadmund 5y ago
The U.S. did not invade Vietnam; it assisted the Republic of Vietnam in its self-defense against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. North Vietnam was the aggressor. The U.S. did invade Iraq, using the authority granted in U.N. resolutio
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Was it the specter of lawsuits (which ultimately had no effect?) I think that this was mostly it. > Was it GPL vs. permissive licensing (which seems like it would favor BSD in terms of adoption?) Many folks prefer to adopt & con
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by eadmund 5y ago
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-aviation-mishaps-de... indicates that the U.S. have had 224 deaths and lost 186 aircraft over seven years, so roughly thirty airmen a year sounds about right. I suppose one coul
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by eadmund 5y ago
> It's about the most biased thing I've ever read. I gather from this that you either have not read many things in your life, or you are yourself an outlier. I found it to be completely unbiased , just reporting the facts of
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by eadmund 5y ago
> GNU bash From 15 years ago! > all of your favorite *nix commands will be available Except that they are the BSD variants, not the GNU ones.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I am truly curious what terminal app in Linux you feel is better than Windows Terminal at this point. I like suckless terminal. It emulates a terminal in X11. It adds copy/paste and a few other conveniences. It does nothing els
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by eadmund 5y ago
Morocco & Algeria probably do not consume much pork, though.
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by eadmund 5y ago
Be careful what you wish for. In the absence of corruption (a state in which people do things for material advantage) one gets ideology (a state in which people do things for ideological advantage). With a corrupt individual one may buy h
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by eadmund 5y ago
Does an article in a non-English language belong on a site for an English-speaking audience? Just seems weird, like having an article about football in a basketry journal. On a technical level, of course, it’s awesome that Unicode enables
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by eadmund 5y ago
But Clojure is not a Lisp. It is Lisp-adjacent, a bit, but it is really not the same language.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> A 3 month supply would be ~250 gallons. That alone is impractical. 250 gallons is just under 1½ cubic yards. It could easily fit in a closet. 250 pounds of rice fits into 4.8 cubic feet. It could easily fit into a shelf. 250 pounds o
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by eadmund 5y ago
> One thing the pandemic taught me was that when the disaster comes, it's going to be your local community that turns on you first. Whereas folks in my neighbourhood all pitched in to do grocery runs for the old and infirm. > … a
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Trump, COVID, Russia have erased years of investment gains. I really, really , really hate to defend Mr. Trump, but on his first day of office the Vanguard total stock market index closed at $116.91; on his last day of office it clo
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by eadmund 5y ago
Fortunately those 'white slaveowning gentry from the 18th century' provided a means of changing the Constitution. The problem is that many folks, including many judges, do not wish to do the hard work of actually changing it, b
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by eadmund 5y ago
Completely agree that absolute poverty may very well have increased in Seattle — but in that case, folks should talk about poverty increasing, not about inequality. Talking about inequality is talking about an irrelevant thing.

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