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by eichin 3y ago
"A non-disruptive hotload microcode update" a what? I've only seen microcode updates as a boot-time side path, how "hot" is this hotload?
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by eichin 3y ago
Because compression implementations generally have overhead, the output can actually be larger (similar to how compressing already-compressed data can produce a larger result.)
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by eichin 3y ago
for most xterm-compatible terminals, you send an escape sequence that enables mouse tracking, and then mouse clicks turn into escape sequences.
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by eichin 3y ago
I'm sort of torn - yeah, one well-maintained "basket" beats having a bunch of ad-hoc output parsers all over the place, but I want direct json output because I'm doing something complicated and don't want parsing to
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by eichin 3y ago
Admittedly unrelated to the original article, you may find https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/21/picture... interesting - he's been going around the country photographing those Post
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by eichin 3y ago
The same group of people that are doing the best job of avoiding their advertising? I would expect them to prefer that we went away quietly :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
Something I find helps with this in particular is only allowing style comments with citations to an actual style guide item. (I talk about domain-specific style guides as "crystallized arguments" - we agreed on this and wrote it
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by eichin 3y ago
But that's not universal either; I have a friend who started losing english vocabulary when they first learned french. (The collected-anecdote metaphor (not, afaik backed up by any particular cognitive science) seems to be having &quo
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by eichin 3y ago
For me it's more "I've used emacs for everything for decades, and coincidentally that means I use it professionally too". (At my current company we acknowledge that it's a generational thing and encourage new hires
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by eichin 3y ago
Other videos say that the bubble is just to protect the screen because (unsurprisingly, I would) people try to touch it - so it's not evacuated; doesn't that mean it's going to be a fairly loud 30hz speaker, effectively? (or
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, I was wondering why this was on HN but then noticed the multidude of Werner Herzog references on the page (apparently he used this in several movies.) so that explains it.
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by eichin 3y ago
I worked with someone who really needed it, but we had the usual "keep sales users as far from the actual product as possible" organizational isolation so it worked out in practice. (For engineering, it was on the "don&#x2
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by eichin 3y ago
A Debian/Ubuntu status file is a good start (of course you need to dig further for build depends) and helpful enough for "provenance" that I've found it useful at a couple of startups to deploy code as debs packages spec
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by eichin 3y ago
I'm pretty sure he's credited the air force report before but I believe the actual report only resurfaced recently (maybe some time in the last year?)
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by eichin 3y ago
Given that gravity has been observed to work on antimatter the same way as it does on normal matter, doesn't that refute this? or is there another aspect of symmetry that keeps it consistent?
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by eichin 3y ago
Indeed, but not an entirely unrelated one though - per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jira_(software)#Naming the inspiration path was Bugzilla -> Godzilla -> Gojira -> Jira (which is why Confluence keeps correc
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by eichin 3y ago
CAD is a stronger example (once you get to any practical complexity, naming the entities becomes intractable (and you need names to form text sentences about them), spacial selection is much more effective, even with hierarchical grouping o
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by eichin 3y ago
If I were already using the mouse for the cut&paste step, yeah, it would flow from one to the other. (In practice, I do both the cut-whole-url and paste steps entirely from the keyboard anyway, so using a gesture at all would be flow-b
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by eichin 3y ago
Raskin's version of Tog's point (in the article) is more nuanced - switching between keyboard and mouse is the expensive thing and even more "perceptually underreported" than either of them on their own. (That said, my
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by eichin 3y ago
Note that the ODF conversion is happening on google's side - which means that if you have a cloud document above some embarassingly small size (like a Slides deck of the interns' end of year presentations with a couple of videos i
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by eichin 3y ago
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/blob/master/LICENSE... is the MIT license. (Microsoft supplies debs directly which may reduce the motivation for Debian to do so.) Oh, heh, also https:/&#x
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by eichin 3y ago
Usually when I can't find a simple way to do something, only a messy/complicated one, I find it worth popping into the info file and looking around - as long as you're comfortable using bash-specific (vs POSIX) idioms, ther
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by eichin 3y ago
I don't have a problem with the cynicism about the article... but as for not having the problem in the past - Rush: Subdivisions was effectively a pop culture essay on this problem from 1982 .
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, collaborating in real time on the same document is pretty neat (from using google docs for this.) Having someone else typing on the same page got an unexpectedly visceral "argh! it's moving! get it off of me" reactio
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by eichin 3y ago
you can't change it, it's not a password (though the mustache example in this thread is an amusing/distressing counterpoint :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
There's a simpler point, though: if everyone is going one way, even if they're right it's still hard to get ahead of that curve; you don't have to be cynical about everyone, just notice what a bell curve looks like as
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by eichin 3y ago
Perhaps listen to almost anything Sebastian Thrun has ever said about self-driving? He's very specific about eliminating human-caused driving fatalities. (He'll talk about other things but they're always framed as secondary
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, where were you in 1983 when I needed a decent Z80 Compiler :-) (edit: oh this isn't C. Still, any compiler would have been a step up from asm) (I was at a small company doing mailing list processing for non-profit fundraising cam
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by eichin 3y ago
Perhaps this will help with your confusion about mindset: it still doesn't have any concept of being right, just convincing, and I don't particularly need any more of that in my life. (With a side order of "people keep comin
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by eichin 3y ago
I use "cat --show-all" at least partly because it's more teachable (since when I run into this I'm usually helping untangle someone who hasn't run into the problem before, and it's more explicitly about the p

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