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by fargle 7y ago
You love the word Pavlovian don't you? I'm not making an argument to authority. I'm saying you are dismissing, without any valid argument at all, years of reasoned academics and experienced and careful engineering. So what&
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by fargle 7y ago
> Yes one is sane and the other one isn't Agreed! Clearly you mean UNIX/Linux is the sane one, right? Before you fly into a hissy fit and say the UNIX toolkit theory is insane please learn, read, and respect a little history. S
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by fargle 7y ago
I'm not saying UNIX and similar system are even the pinnacle of potential operating systems. But they're pretty darn good, and at least at par with, when compared to other existing mature ones. > You should use the right tool
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by fargle 7y ago
That presumes, which is always my complaint about this subject, that this is an advantage. I'd say that's what sh, ksh, and bash have over powershell (tm). The problem with pipelines of objects is that it is inherently a more st
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by fargle 7y ago
I think it's more "Hanlon's Razor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by fargle 7y ago
This is highly biased opinion piece. I like BSD. I liked pre-Oracle Solaris. And I like Linux at lot too. And it is factually inaccurate. Deprecation of ifconfig is a distro issue. "Linux" did not deprecate it. And the reason is
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by fargle 7y ago
AND... I didn't say it was a bad thing. But it is bad that you have two people leaching off some hypothetical other person's WiFi, neither of which is willing to pay for their own or help her. And you aren't "fixing BGP
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by fargle 7y ago
Overall, maybe a good sentiment and maybe a good idea. In many areas I think this is being done. However, I don't at all like the argument that if your neighbor can't pay her bill, it might not just impact her, but two of her neig
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by fargle 7y ago
Strikes me that a lot of the comments, not to mention the article itself, seem to approaching the problem from the perspective of what other people should think and how they should behave. As if certain choices automatically make you an
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by fargle 7y ago
All very interesting discussions. Some have broached on it, but let's be clear: mechanically generated sequences are not copyrightable. The program that generates them is, of course. It doesn't matter if there isn't enough sp
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by fargle 7y ago
Elko, NV.
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by fargle 7y ago
You don't need aggressiveness. You're already passive-aggressive, which is not any better than aggressive-aggressive. The answer is not to become a bigger bully to get your way more often. You need to learn how to argue persuasive
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by fargle 7y ago
Seems like the #1 reason smart hardworking people don't become "successful" is that the author has a vague and kinda weird view what constitutes "success". If some super-smart, hardworking dude is just drifting alon
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by fargle 7y ago
Hmm... I'm not sure you understand how a free market works or what a monopoly is. Or "fixed supply". But you're quite correct that anything like UBI won't help make housing more affordable. However, it doesn't
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by fargle 7y ago
Pretty sure it's not the landlords and wealthier classes that are making CA's government into a giant tarpit. They'd love to see less and smaller government. Over-regulation is only a part of the cost. The biggest part is the
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by fargle 7y ago
And when demand exceeds supply by enough, the prices go up until they reach a point where it becomes non-unprofitable and then people stop "refusing" to build more housing. And who is refusing to build more housing? I will perso
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by fargle 7y ago
This article missed the two most important characteristics in the good vs. bad bullet list: * Ability to understand how a piece of technology actually works. Not just push buttons or google answers. Not just follow a recipe to fix a probl
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by fargle 7y ago
Good job you! I wish that many more principled folks were willing to actually stand up for what they believe in. I think it would make this entire democratic+capitalism system work much better. People who profess to have "strong beli
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by fargle 7y ago
This would be awesome !
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by fargle 7y ago
I very much disagree. To characterize engineering as a social activity implies that this is the foremost characteristic. It is not. It is very much a personal art. It is a science, and it is math. It is you vs. the machine. The engineerin
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by fargle 7y ago
This ^^^^ is the core issue. It's insidious that LONG_MAX is too big to be exactly representable as a double. The answer by ambrop7 below solves a different problem but appears to be correct. The reason escaped me at first and is super
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by fargle 7y ago
I don't like jerks and there is a social aspect to programming. But there are plenty, far too many, lousy programmers that are really nice guys too. Having social skills is extremely helpful. Being able to code is mandatory.
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by fargle 7y ago
This is a completely ridiculous article. The whole concept is flawed. New/delete like this are for smallish general purpose allocation, for example of objects, where we want to keep the code at a fairly high level in C++ and not think
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by fargle 7y ago
I was exaggerating to make a point. I'm flabbergasted how accurate I was. Out of 316 tickets, 299 where males. Pretty much my point, vast majority male And yes, I'll accept that other than drunk asshole (underage or not) males, yo
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by fargle 7y ago
How is it behind anyone's back? Fedora made the change by updating to a new systemd and accepting it's defaults and behavior. They could have easily changed back or to whatever else they wanted with a one line config change. It wa
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by fargle 7y ago
What do you mean a "preference"? It's a setting in a config file. The distro can take it as is, change it, or not use systemd. It could patch systemd, fork it too, although changing the config file (or probably override it in
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by fargle 7y ago
Love the comments. Lennart (likely Lennart Poettering) explains why it was done, to be anonymously snarked by someone who clearly doesn't like it or him. at all. Lovely and so helpful. I don't know if I'm a systemd fan (yea
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by fargle 7y ago
What irks me about exposes like this is fallacious reasoning like this: - the only explanation for the proportion of jaywalking tickets to minorities being larger than for other groups is racism or other unfairness - the only explanation fo
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by fargle 7y ago
Damnit. I misread the headline. Article is about orga NI sms. It was, otherwise, seriously confusing.
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by fargle 7y ago
In the US - See https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/police-questioning-m... for example. Read carefully and you will notice: - they don't have to Mirandize you even if arrested or detained. If they don'

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