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by fexl 17y ago
ahhhhh ... ok :)
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by fexl 17y ago
I agree with both the "ratio" and "routine" arguments. Speaking of getting older, what's with the incredibly tiny fonts on web sites these days? I can read it OK, but Ctrl + makes it less annoying. If they're trying to "fit more ads" it's
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by fexl 17y ago
Maybe the number is the location of some Loom assets: https://loom.cc/faq
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by fexl 17y ago
But that's what he said: "according to his [the rider's] clock" it would take about 3 seconds to reach the center of the Milky Way. So yes, he is talking about how fast the riders perceive it, which is all they care about, since they wrot
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by fexl 17y ago
You're getting close to the truth of our own situation up here in the mountains. We have a volunteer fire station down the road several miles. However, our fire rating was still fairly high because fire trucks would have to make many trip
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by fexl 17y ago
Heh, back in the '80s I worked at that Garden of the Gods biz complex, for Hewlett-Packard.
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by fexl 17y ago
s/communism/guns/
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by fexl 17y ago
"Fire insurance premiums assume the presence of firefighters." Excellent point. I highly encourage any insurers in that area to hire some firefighters to reduce their liability.
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by fexl 17y ago
I lived in Colorado Springs for 6 years. I highly encourage anyone who cares about parks there to put up some money and buy the land from the city.
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by fexl 17y ago
I like the trash metaphor. I haven't formalized it yet, but often I will simply "mv" things to ~/old or ~/tmp and let it rot there for a few months. Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.
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by fexl 17y ago
I have another reason for the old-fashioned approach. I do hedge fund accounting for a living. With my software tools I can reproduce every result ever created for a fund from original input , even going back several years. I have trans
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by fexl 17y ago
Driving home that day I heard the song "Alive and Kicking" by Simple Minds, and now I get chills whenever I hear that.
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by fexl 17y ago
You can tell from the video that was a cold day. It not only "looks cold," but someone has wrapped a sheet around a shrub to protect it.
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by fexl 17y ago
Yep, I was sitting in my cubicle in Colorado Springs, and I remember exactly who came in to tell me about it. Just like it was yesterday.
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by fexl 17y ago
Oh now, she just wanted to hear someone explain what happened.
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by fexl 17y ago
Great point about the evils done in the name of freedom. I recently spoke at length with an older man who was deeply involved in Vietnam before the Kennedy and Johnson escalations. At the time they focused on killing specific communist l
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by fexl 17y ago
By the way there's another trick I sometimes use when I really really want to delete a directory but I also really really don't want to make a mistake: cd ~/somewhere mv the_thing_i_want_to_delete ~/tmp/go_away cd ~/tmp rm -rf go_
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by fexl 17y ago
Oh yes, it's dangerous, and I rarely use it. It's funny, I just cd'ed into my ~/version/loom and saw a directory "58" sitting there dated 2008-08-17. I'll probably keep that one. Then there's "86.12.before_prune" dated 2009-05-20. I cou
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by fexl 17y ago
I skimmed the article, being knee-deep in number crunching and having already read an earlier article about optimal parking. The author threw "socialist" in the title as red meat to bait people into reading. Made me look! It sounds like a
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by fexl 17y ago
Heh, I always get down-modded for saying bad things about the use of force.
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by fexl 17y ago
I very much like what you say about "newfound willingness." But I, Triceratops, am perfectly willing to experiment: cd project/loom cp -pr code ~/version/loom/95.before_zany_idea # hack away; restore if irredeemably stupid diff -
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by fexl 17y ago
I've used svn and git, but something still doesn't feel right. I still like "cp -pr" and "diff -r" for version control. I waste disk space with whole directory copies, but I eventually "rm -rf" the really old ones. I don't trust automati
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by fexl 17y ago
Math doesn't coerce anybody. People do. Just keep in mind that prices are discovered, not decreed, and don't send armed men after me for disobeying you, and we'll get along just fine.
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by fexl 17y ago
Thank goodness I took typing in high school. If you didn't, then get yourself a "typing tutor" program and practice, practice, practice. Amaze your friends with touch-typing prowess and vim muscle memory!
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by fexl 17y ago
I like the http://duckduckgo.com/ design. I use duckduckgo for search now instead of Google.
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by fexl 17y ago
I know what you mean, sometimes things can get a little flaky. I haven't tried the comment feature yet. It is after all a big pile of Javascript with WYSIWYG editors and such. So far I have found the bugs slightly annoying, cute, and avo
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by fexl 17y ago
Naturally my first inclination is to write the thing in a completely self contained purely functional form, which I do below. I think this will be fairly efficient under lazy evaluation, since the bottom line is to count off the given numb
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by fexl 17y ago
I like blogger.com. Just yesterday I fired up a blog for my wife's retail clothing store. Now she can do all that stuff herself instead of relying on her custom-programmer husband. :)
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by fexl 17y ago
Exactly so. This is the SSH model, and I love it. How does a CA's signature protect against phishing anyway? It doesn't. Equifax signs both the real site and the fake site.
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by fexl 17y ago
Ian Grigg uses a self-signed certificate on purpose (he and I both have some unconventional views on the efficacy of CAs). In Firefox it's a simple matter to accept this site as a security exception. Now whenever I visit financialcryptogr

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