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by explainplease 8y ago
> Cool let me know how you handle explaining why they can't run some exe they downloaded on your GNU/Linux setup The same way you explain that they can't run a Windows exe on Mac? > Are device manufacturers supporting L
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by explainplease 8y ago
I seriously don't understand the majority reaction here, either. It's just a simple, friendly, open-ended question. If you don't want to answer it, who cares. It's amazing what some people feel offended by nowadays.
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by explainplease 8y ago
It seems very strange to me that inviting a respondent to essentially fill in a blank as desired would be considered "calculated" or "trying way too hard." It's essentially saying, "If you would like to share
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by explainplease 8y ago
Aren't "reflecting on what they like, how they feel, and what they want to do" examples of "defining, describing, or even alluding to their personal attributes"?
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by explainplease 8y ago
Not if you know what you're doing. For example, say you added a bunch of TODOs and FIXMEs you noticed in existing code while working on something. Now, you're ready to commit. The TODOs and FIXMEs don't necessarily correla
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by explainplease 8y ago
Thanks for the updates. I have contributed to related discussions on GitHub for several years, but I haven't been able to keep up with all the issues. > fwiw I find the sanity fish brings to process substitution with sane tokenizat
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by explainplease 8y ago
They are, but Borg is also modern.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Really? Doesn't that go against the stated fish design document and ridiculousfish's intention for fish? I'm more concerned about making fish scripts work well than making fish run bash scripts. (Maybe fish 3.0 will improve
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by explainplease 8y ago
Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, but I haven't found it yet. One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifi
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by explainplease 8y ago
What does it matter whether humans survive? If we're just animals with above-average intelligence and the ability to use tools, we're not ultimately more important than anything else in the universe, and we'll still amount t
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by explainplease 8y ago
You might find the org-now package useful.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Have you ever tried editing answers as not-Jeff? It's rarely a pleasant, rewarding experience, and usually a waste of one's time. Rep-farming wonks run the place and will mindlessly shoot down thoughtful edits.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Yep, and then the better answer will sit at the bottom of the page, while the older one continues to be seen and gathers more upvotes. I think there is a critical mass after which the site's focus changes from creation to protectionism
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by explainplease 8y ago
Only to have the edit be rejected by a wonk who's farming rep by mindlessly plowing through his edit queue so he can cite his SO reputation points on his LinkedIn profile. No thanks. If you want me to spend my time fighting against t
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by explainplease 8y ago
The last time I tried that, I edited an answer that was several years out-of-date with a rewritten, up-to-date one that explained exactly how to do what the question asked, in a well-organized, sequential manner. My edit was quickly rejecte
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by explainplease 8y ago
"Also here's a thought experiment. Why don't you use your real name instead of a username handler and post the same thoughts online." --digitalzombie, Hacker News, 2018 This is some top-tier trolling, right here. Thanks
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by explainplease 8y ago
You read one article about it, and now you're demanding that he feed you links? You're on the Internet. Google is the topic of discussion. If you cared about the truth as much as you claim, you would do your own homework an
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by explainplease 8y ago
> None of those things you've mentioned requires voter ID, so I'm not sure why you're advocating for a solution that fixes nothing you claim is an issue. Respectfully, you're putting words in my mouth. I did not advo
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by explainplease 8y ago
Why do you think that that threat has proven to be minor? From what I've heard, I suspect we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Voter fraud has been going on, no doubt, for as long as voting has. > It does absolutely nothing f
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by explainplease 8y ago
The point I'm making is that our elections have worked well, because they're still going on, and our nation still has its original form of government. If we ceased to have elections, as you hypothesize, it would no longer be the
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by explainplease 8y ago
So, how many billion years more would it take to convince you that it's not going to happen? If earth is 4.5 billion years old, that's already more than 25% the age of the universe. What does the evidence show? Are you willing t
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Somebody here on HN just very recently claimed the exact opposite. Could it be a regional dialect thing? FWIW, I have never liked the "back=later, up=sooner" thing. Thinking of a calendar, and time going left-to-right, back
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by explainplease 8y ago
I think you're conflating a "runaway feedback loop" with "a slightly less extreme event that simply eliminates 90% of life on the planet," which says nothing about whether it was caused by a runaway feedback loop.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. A runaway, climate chain-reaction hasn't happened yet. I find your lack of faith disturbing.
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by explainplease 8y ago
From the paper: > Richard S. Lindzen was Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013. He is the author of over 200 papers on meteorology and climatology and is a memb
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by explainplease 8y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by explainplease 8y ago
1. With no fossil fuel-based energy available, global food production will plummet, and distribution of what food exists will become prohibitively expensive. Millions will starve to death. 2. Go, tell the farmers they are not allowed to
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by explainplease 8y ago
> If anything, the date gets pushed back. That's what "pushed into the future" means. "Back" means "further away," "up" means "closer." > With every subsequent IPCC report it tur
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by explainplease 8y ago
Zero. The hotter the planet gets, the more water evaporates from the oceans, which condenses into clouds, which reflect sunlight, which cools the planet.
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by explainplease 8y ago
> All it means is a foreign entity like Russia just attacks each state differently. It won't stop them. Clearly, we are doing literally what you're saying, and it hasn't worked. This country has been around for over 200 ye

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