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by eesmith 2y ago
I realized the hype for the Unix Philosophy was overblown around 1993 when I learned Perl and almost immediately stopped using a dozen different command-line tools.
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by eesmith 2y ago
It's okay to not get a joke. Happens to the best of us. No need to grouse about it.
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by eesmith 2y ago
NeXT hardware had 10BASE-T and 10BASE-2 Ethernet in 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube Though that counts as a "PC" only if you were r
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by eesmith 2y ago
Certainly! If you add my latest Kirk/Spock slash fanfic to the end of the text, then that is transformative, so the resulting PDF is covered under copyright. But you wrote "scan". Adding an OCR'ed text layer, or doing ma
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by eesmith 2y ago
There is no copyright on scans. Scanning is not transformative and does not result in a derivative work which can is protected by copyright law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Scanning_an_image_do... https:&#
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by eesmith 2y ago
That sounds quite reasonable to me. That's about what a freelance proofreader charges to edit a book, if https://thewritelife.com/how-much-to-pay-for-a-book-editor/ is correct, and that's working with a (like
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by eesmith 2y ago
That was the joke. The hint is there's no East Virginia.
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I'm one of those urban people with no interactions with wolves, which statistically means I agree with you. Ranchers, however, are not the only ones against wolf reintroduction. Hunters want to shoot elk or deer, and see wolves as a th
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by eesmith 2y ago
From this article: > Conservationists often claim that the reason to save charismatic species is that they are necessary for the sound functioning of the ecosystems that support humankind. Perhaps the most well-known of these stories is
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There is also their complicity in war crimes.
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I've been dealing with the system as it is for 20 years. The main difference is it now sucks in a lot more money, for little result.
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My problem with the campaign donations approach is it seems like a money pit. Campaign organizers in both major parties benefit by pointing out how the other party keeps spending more money, as a way to encourage even more donations. It als
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by eesmith 2y ago
Back in the 1990s my boss went to a conference where there was a talk on OSINT. She was interested in the then-new concept of "open source" so went to the talk, only to find it had nothing to do with software development.
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From what I can tell, all that does is send money to campaigns. While not getting junk mail is great, it doesn't build long-term grass roots organizations or resiliency. It doesn't support active protests, or get politicians to vi
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by eesmith 2y ago
All I've gotten from my donations has been being added to mailing lists asking for more money to help fund the next election. Not for building grass roots organizations. Not for building resiliency. Not for active protests, and organiz
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I'm hoping this means Ladybird might support ftp URLs.
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> Long a boogeyman of the political right, George Soros, the nonagenarian financier, has been a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin among other left-leaning candidates and causes throughout the nation. In this cycle,
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by eesmith 2y ago
But of course we didn't. We used checks.
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So, umm, turning your phone off won't matter much if the border agent tells you to turn your phone on, log into your social media, and show your posting history otherwise you can't enter. > If you refuse to unlock your phone wh
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by eesmith 2y ago
In those terms, "spanking" is to "beating" like 2.4% beer is to doing shots. Children should have neither, and few countries lets 2 year olds drink alcohol, with or without a temperance movement. I was spanked more than
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by eesmith 2y ago
It doesn't matter if you think of them as different things. The umbrella term is corporal punishment, and some countries prohibit child corporal punishment. A few examples from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_c
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"Although parents and other advocates of spanking often claim that spanking is necessary to promote child discipline, studies have shown that parents tend to apply physical punishment inconsistently and tend to spank more often when th
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by eesmith 2y ago
Yes, the papers I read trace the idea back to the Ancient Greeks. That doesn't mean it's all that valid, just like left-brain/right-brain dualism. Are there actually many different systems, and not just two? For example, you
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by eesmith 2y ago
Thank you. I had not heard of it before. Has it been validated? I cannot find citations which test and verify the applicability of that idea. I ask because there's a long history (left-brain/right-brain, 10,000 hours of deliberate
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by eesmith 2y ago
The first author's commentary at https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj-2024-082569.full is easier to read than the paper you linked to. In it she suggests that rather than thinking of a smart phone ban like a s
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Yes, I believe that was natch's point in the g'g'parent comment.
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Could you try the problem I posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42145308 ? The Python solution took me most of a day to write, and I've been curious on how an LLM would handle it.
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by eesmith 2y ago
My single vote will have approximately no effect on the outcome. That doesn't stop me from voting.
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by eesmith 2y ago
Offer void where prohibited by law. https://support.apple.com/en-us/122234 How certain are you that the US has not issued a secret order, eg, via the FISA court, to turn off data protection for someone's account?
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by eesmith 2y ago
Lib/urllib.py was created "Tue Mar 22 15:37:06 1994", by renaming Lib/urlopen.py which was created "Mon Feb 21 17:07:07 1994".

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