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91.
by efaref 8y ago
It's pure coincidence, but "pi seconds is a nanocentury" is a useful mnemonic.
92.
by efaref 9y ago
Your server ran 2018 software back in 2012?! That's amazing!
93.
by efaref 9y ago
London has loads of dodgy landlords cramming people into sheds in their gardens. It's not a solution, it's a terrible symptom of the problem.
94.
by efaref 9y ago
In the UK at least, it is paid by the executors of the estate as part of discharging the estate, so it's definitely an estate (or "death") tax. I would expect the same is true in the US, but happy to be corrected. Your reaso
95.
by efaref 9y ago
Without prejudice as to whether or not it's a good thing, I think "death tax" is the more honest as it is charged at the cardinality of the people who performed the action of "death", as opposed to the people who pe
96.
by efaref 9y ago
Your children will still pay those when they spend their money on riotous living.
97.
by efaref 9y ago
The most compelling reason to enable at least some swap space is that the Linux kernel's memory handling algorithms can't cope with there being no swap. If you have no swap, then you will encounter stalls and OOMs even if you don
98.
by efaref 9y ago
I think he did learn the lesson, but then his fix for it was removed in the cost-cutting phase. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1029...
99.
by efaref 9y ago
But coal and oil, working correctly, are destroying the planet.
100.
by efaref 9y ago
I thought mostly the farm was owned by landlords, with the people who worked there (male or female) being tenant farmers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenant_farmer
101.
by efaref 9y ago
By the looks of http://explainxkcd.com/1425 it was September 2014.
102.
by efaref 9y ago
I thought he was referring to situations like the person who killed his daughter on Facebook Live[1]. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/thai-man-films-...
103.
by efaref 9y ago
In the UK we also have the after-effects of the Common Fisheries Policy, which has seen a ~50% decline in our local fishing industry since the 1970s. In 2014 UK fishing boats landed 424ktonnes of fish into UK ports, while we imported 720kto
104.
by efaref 9y ago
I can't wait to hear the new cassetteboy songs.
105.
by efaref 9y ago
You could quite easily write a script that does this: #!/bin/sh cd $1 shift exec "$@" It's a shame "in" is a reserved word, because that'd be a good name for it. Maybe "cde&
106.
by efaref 9y ago
that_function(i_know_what_im_doing=False)
107.
by efaref 10y ago
Agreed. Nuclear accidents may have made some bits around Chernobyl and Fukushima unpleasant, but coal and oil have ruined the entire planet. People simply aren't rational. It has been so hard for me to accept that.
108.
by efaref 10y ago
Better: find ... -delete
109.
by efaref 10y ago
Games development is as much a crapshoot as book authoring, so I suspect Notch Prime's game would languish in indie obscurity like Robert Galbraith's books did, right up until someone leaks the association.
110.
by efaref 10y ago
I don't understand your point. Norway is 5 million people, so that's only 180k per capita.
111.
by efaref 10y ago
It's not about being jealous of a particular person's success, it's more about observing the problems with a world where a tiny fraction of the population capture and control over half of the wealth. If that were problem free
112.
by efaref 10y ago
The problem isn't that Bezos has 1,000x my net worth. He has 1,000,000x my (approximate) net worth. One millionth of my net worth is seven cents, so Bezos:me is me:$0.07. The graph isn't logarithmic. It's shaped like this:
113.
by efaref 10y ago
The fact that you think that people without "the aptitude, desire, or willingness to get a highly technical job" are a " lesser class of humans" says more about you than it does about those people.
114.
by efaref 10y ago
I thought the politicians with above average incomes were the corrupt ones.
115.
by efaref 10y ago
That's just silly, though. "tar" is pretty easy to use in its basic form, and I have dozens of commands ingrained in my memory. tar tf filename.tar tar xf filename.tar tar xfz filename.tar.gz # Newer tars don
116.
by efaref 10y ago
> backspace on a family emoji will eliminate family members one by one. Unexpectedly sinister.
117.
by efaref 10y ago
In this case, "as the original author" would be taken by a native speaker to mean the person is speaking with the authority of being the original author, i.e. they are the original author. "As" is only used for comparis
118.
by efaref 10y ago
> I pay so little in tax based on what I earn from capital gains, that I never even think about it. This is really interesting. Contrast this to how, say, a middle-income self-employed tradesperson feels when they do the following calcu
119.
by efaref 10y ago
Yes, I really like Rust and the way its Option<Box<T>> decays to a nullable pointer.
120.
by efaref 10y ago
Not sure I like the sound of that. It sounds like the floating point wat of "NaN != NaN".

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