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by flukus 5y ago
I really like the way kakoune ( https://github.com/mawww/kakoune ) handles it, the editor doesn't have any scripting as such, it has an "API" in the form of pipes and environment variables that can be used
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by flukus 5y ago
But that goes back to the original point they made, everything outside of the actual text editing and you're in EMACS land with all of it's controls. Even with something as complete as spacemacs, the default landing page when you
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by flukus 5y ago
> Online terrorist" is too strong, but something closer to that term seems more appropriate. Activist? Activism is often thought of as "soft" but has a long history of crossing legal boundaries to varying degrees so it see
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by flukus 5y ago
> I guess inevitably that is going to be partially reversed when those older generations pass on, and leave some of their accumulated wealth to their children By being tied up in property the timing of this is hardly ideal though. The co
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by flukus 5y ago
It's not really clear where that 3 months figure comes from. Do they have 6 people all saving 2 weeks? And if so do the share the device or is the cost scaling with employees? There's also another part: > When taking inventory,
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by flukus 5y ago
> Before they started using CountThings from Photos, counting pearls took almost 100 hours a year. After installing this app, the time needed for counting pearls has been reduced by 80%. It takes only 20 hours now. Depending on what the
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by flukus 5y ago
Most people with the flu will go to the doctor here, if only to get a doctors certificate for the week they'll need off work.
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by flukus 5y ago
> this is only a transfer of franchising from the department of transport to this new "Great British Railways" department Sounds like it's designed to further distance government and it's ministers from any sort of ac
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by flukus 5y ago
> Source? It's a poor country and tests aren't free, that alone will give you an under count. Throw in the current crises, the positivity rate and all the other challenges of a developing nation and 10x is not at all surprising
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by flukus 5y ago
> Ultimately what matters is minimizing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. If that were the only thing that matters then the deepwater horizon oil spill would have been great, but there's much more to protecting the environment th
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by flukus 5y ago
> I remember growing up in the 90's and happily learning in school and on TV that it was my civic duty to recycle. You probably learned the three R's, reduce, reuse and recycle, in that order. On the whole we've mostly for
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by flukus 5y ago
It sequesters carbon that was already sequestered. Probably emits a non-trivial amount during the extraction, transportation and re-sequestering stages too.
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by flukus 5y ago
> If it happened over centuries then it’s a slow creep and hardly a flood They probably flooded increasingly regularly before being abandoned and eventually subsumed, no unlike Venice today. Some could have been much quicker though, ther
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by flukus 5y ago
> if the source was natural and zootonic, we would have expected to find the intermediate animal by now. Only if you assume it's both widespread and endemic in the intermediate animal population. If it's spreading at low levels
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by flukus 5y ago
> Please don’t look at 7m-13m number and compare it to 7 billion population and say oh it’s only 0.1-0.2%. Using the entire human population also skews things because the deaths were concentrated in North America, South America and Europ
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by flukus 5y ago
If that's the case then China doesn't even have anything to admit, it could have come Frome anywhere.
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by flukus 5y ago
> China didn't even admit human to human transmission until mid January. Because it was even newer and more unknown at that point. Wuhan was in lockdown on the 23rd of January, so they had a pretty good idea by then. Meanwhile the r
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by flukus 5y ago
As I said, it can't get a foothold. If vaccinations are enough to keep the r0 below 1, which seems to be the case, it doesn't really matter how many infected people enter because it will fizzle out again. Vaccines are also likely
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by flukus 5y ago
> they aren't necessary, they're only effective at preventing the spread of COVID if the wearer has a medical degree, don't wear masks on planes, etc Everyone seems to also forget that a lot of this took place when they wr
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by flukus 5y ago
The case numbers coming out of Israel show their (still ongoing) vaccination effort is on the precipice of eliminating it locally. So it seems incredibly reasonable it will be eliminated, at least from the developed world. From that point a
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by flukus 5y ago
> Why say this? Because as long as their aren't ongoing operational costs it's enticing to governments to build, they don't care if it loses money overall because they aren't profit driven and have non-monetary goals.
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by flukus 5y ago
I type "man scanf" and check which one I need, I wish other languages had such accessible documentation.
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by flukus 5y ago
direnv is one of those things I've never found a use for because it's so simple to roll your own and because there are invariably situations I have that they don't handle well, my work needs don't map well to a directory
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by flukus 5y ago
> Our common sense, which favors functional societies, sees the granting of a right to appropriate unclaimed and abundant natural resources to reconfigure it into higher value economic resources for our own exclusive use, as just. Just a
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by flukus 5y ago
> the inherently moral right for one to make exclusive use of unclaimed matter that they appropriated and reconfigured into more valuable matter. And what gave them the right to appropriate it in the first place? What is inherently moral
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by flukus 5y ago
Depending on how things are linked it might be simpler than you imagine and not involve any kernel modifications, you can do a lot of cool and/or horrifying stuff with a few environment variables: https://unix.stackexchange.
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by flukus 5y ago
It's not self defense because you aren't defending yourself in this scenario, you're defending your property. It's only your property because you can defend it, but most of the time you won't have to because we all
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by flukus 5y ago
Property ownership doesn't exist without threat of violence. What's to stop me taking the phone you're holding? It's the threat of violence from you or society in general. Money and taxes are just abstractions on top of
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by flukus 5y ago
> The car is a black box. Gas goes in, vroom comes out. If the box stops working, I pay someone to fix it. It would be a huge problem if you're an aspiring mechanic or anything related, but that's an increasingly niche role so
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by flukus 5y ago
> So anything like this on Linux sounds like a very positive step forward. GDB has had reverse debugging since 2009 and there are other tools like rr and a few commercial ones. If anything I'd say that you calling it time travel deb

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