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by fao_ 7y ago
Wasn't it Sussman and Ableson that said that Computer Science is both not a science, and not about computers?
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by fao_ 7y ago
To be honest, I was kind of disappointed with this, because most of it I already knew! (That's not a criticism of your course c:) In the vim section, you might want to cover `*` - go to next match of current word and `#` - go to previo
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by fao_ 7y ago
It's not about being valued, they're literally indispensible for the documentation of plants, there are no alternatives that match the quality of the documentation that they produce. As for them being rare, part of that is due t
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by fao_ 7y ago
> I think there is something important that we lose when we increase the accuracy of a representation at the expense of the elegance of the representation. But that's not what's happening. Botanical art is still highly valued i
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by fao_ 7y ago
Sure not everyone is always going to be using it at the same time, but streaming times are going to be around the same because most people will clock off at around the same time, and new technology such as Google Stadia, the introduction of
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by fao_ 7y ago
Can you share what has led you to believe that you're the average rather than just an outlier?
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by fao_ 7y ago
openBSD uses mksh which includes a restricted mode ( http://www.mirbsd.org/htman/i386/man1/mksh.htm )
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by fao_ 7y ago
There's a standard? I googled a few weeks ago and obviously my google-fu was terrible because I didn't find a standards document for it
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My main question is why isn't /bin/sh being executed with -r -- restricted mode? It seems weird that a safety-critical piece of code would just call out to /bin/sh without doing that, especially on openBSD?
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by fao_ 7y ago
You missed out the ecosystem collapsing because marine life has died off, and the oceans and waters becoming acidic (which will affect trade, drinkable water, rain, etc.)
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Exactly. Hegel developed a theory that historical progress goes always forward, or towards better things. Capitalist-based theory says that Capitalism is the inevitable outgrowth from Feudalism, which is false (Meiksins-wood showed that Cap
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There are four citations to newspaper articles about a study from Australia, right after it says "Described as a "drab dark brown", it was selected in 2016 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette packaging in Australia,
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by fao_ 7y ago
> The treatment is so toxic (potentially deadly) that we want to make sure that our diagnosis is as close to 100% as possible. I think you're ignoring how obscure some symptoms of cancer are, though. My cousin went back and forth wi
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by fao_ 7y ago
Not just that, but the interface is both clunky and godawful. I'm not really in the mood to categorize all of the flaws I've observed, but just seeing my parents (and myself) use it (on the PS4 and the laptop) have convinced me th
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by fao_ 7y ago
I managed to find a beautiful binding of this book in a small case with a marbled cover. It's something I take out and read now and then in small doses, and almost always brings cheer. One of my favourite definitions is: INTERREGNUM, n
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by fao_ 7y ago
I Am A Strange Loop by Hofstadter. The book he wrote many years before, GEB, is well-known. However, he was frustrated that so many people didn't get what he was trying to convey, so he took the central point and distilled it into anot
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by fao_ 7y ago
> A post of Sabine's talked about how she thinks the crisis in physics isn't about physics [1]. Is it instead about the politics of the money and popularity? Is it about the psychology of being wrong? I mean, different physicis
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by fao_ 7y ago
I'm not. I'm supplementing my main point to address things that you have brought up. The actual goalpost hasn't moved. See: - Why would you care about other people not liking it, if you like it. - If you don't like it (i
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by fao_ 7y ago
My main computer was an arch box for about 7 years (I moved computers after 3 years, hence why my other comment says 4, I just remembered my old tower from around 2014 that also runs arch). In that time, the only breaking updates that occur
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by fao_ 7y ago
Yes, and it sounds ideal but I've had a recurring problem where having snap installed on a system increases the boot time, and apps hang on load. They stop hanging when I install the native app, and use that instead.
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I ran a stable arch system for 4 years with only one breaking change introduced. Everything else was minor with clear instructions on how to solve it on either main page or the forums
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I generally, in my daily life, have more things to worry about than a couple of random people expressing their dislike of something myself or the people I live with, own. If you spend most of your time worrying about whether other people li
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by fao_ 7y ago
> Nobody at the traffic light made & makes fun of a Tesla so consumers feel safe to buy a Tesla. Why would you care what other people think of your car if you yourself like it?
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by fao_ 7y ago
I don't know what you have done. The red dragon book goes over targeting an intermediate form that's basically assembly language, it also covers register allocation in depth. As far as I can tell, most of the texts after that is i
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Zhmenu – A lightweight adaptable input menu(gitlab.com)
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by fao_ 7y ago
Check out "Modern Compiler Implementation" by Appel and also the Red (Purple?) Dragon book.
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by fao_ 7y ago
This might seem rude or presumptuous, and I really don't mean to come across that way but I don't know another way to say it. Go open a history book. Seriously! Not enough people here, and (broadly) in computing circles, actually
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by fao_ 7y ago
Ignoring the other possibilities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth
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> I couldn’t believe my ears. After regaining my composure, I answered: “I regard such behaviour as unethical, because our customer would suffer a substantial and unnecessary loss.” [...] In hindsight, I should have terminated the projec
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by fao_ 7y ago
Yeah. I just leave the json parsing up to the caller partly as a simplification, but also because I might accidentally discard data they want (Like, ideally that should never happen but our world is not ideal). The only thing it wraps is th

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