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by georgia_peach 4y ago
The DC boys & girls really do like their pizza--especially the cheese pizza. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/55433
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
&& find out how to get it on OSes that aren't debian-based && find a decent FFI wrapper if my app isn't in C-land && read the docs && static link hassles so I don't have to sort-out dynamic-lin
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Last time I evaluated this, sixel & base64 image placement relative to re-positioned cursor had slightly different behaviors across different implementations. I think the only one with well-defined placement/dimensions behavior wa
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
> when when run chat programs inside electron apps, does it really matters? From a dev perspective, it's a lot easier to base64 an image you already have, with a base64 that's already in your stdlibs, than to scour github for
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
The achilles heel of these old inline display protocols is that there's little to no reporting from the client side as to dimension/resolution/resize/interaction... And to fix this in a performant way, it would need the
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
It's okay for low-color/solid-run images, terrible for everything else. Nachman's image mime blobs (iTerm2 style) is the superior approach. mintty/mlterm/rlogin/wezterm already support it. Kitty has an (inco
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
RLogin also supports sixel & iTerm2 formats, and has built-in serial support. The default is in Japanese, but they have language packs. https://kmiya-culti.github.io/RLogin/
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
mintty (cygwin) supports sixel & iTerm2 format inline png/gif/jpg https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Scratch is overrated. The color blocks are a fantastic draw for getting a nonprofit funded, but for the children actually using it, the they're just an obstacle. Even at the youngest school ages, children grasp the grammatical concep
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
" good artists copy, great artists steal "
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
" The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. "
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Yes, I know this. Most people on HN know this. When most of the base libs, built-ins, & legacy code don't declare types, static typing loses a lot of its value. In something like Go/Pascal/Java/Rust/C, if I in
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
I've seen more VB (1991, proprietary) programs than Lisp programs. I've seen more Delphi (1995, proprietary) programs than Lisp programs. Using a jumble of symbols language without any text hint as to what they are, or even when
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
I run hundreds of C/C++ programs on a daily basis. Many of these have been running for months on end, yet my memory chart remains a flat line. Can the Mossad hack me? Sure. Would Lisp stop them? Probably not. Ron Minnich gave a ta
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
> you think this lets him get off clean? My words were " slap on the wrist ." I think only having to pay $1B instead of $46.5B meets the criteria. > something he should have argued in his letter That's Levine's an
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
The article mentioned the value of static typing for " ahead-of-time more-correct programs " and " faster or leaner programs ", but overlooks an even greater contribution: being able to quickly understand unfamiliar or a
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
There has been enough uncertainty--on both the Musk and Twitter ends--for the banks to have several legitimate reasons to " blow up his financing ." Per Levine: But it’s messy, and you can sort of see a path to “Musk says the dea
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Those are all sound legalisms, which would be big wins for Twitter if they were serious about taking this into a courtroom, but they aren't. That would air out several closets they'd rather keep shut.
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
The one-millionth-and-one article to fan petit bourgeois striver angst over maybe possibly not getting-in on the grift of mainstream academia--like economics. Churchill's famous quote: If you put two economists in a room, you get two
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
"Intellectual upbringing" is huge: correctly pronouncing the shibboleths, hearing all of the dog-whistles, yet never whistling the wrong one. Saying the right thing, but in the wrong way, has ended many an academic career. Ex-w
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
2% of a key revenue figure for a company with a $28B market cap is one hell of a correction. I don't think Levine actually believes Twitter has a snowball's chance in hell of getting specific performance. Can you point to a sect
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
> The social media company, Twitter, has admitted to overstating the figure of the platform’s users by 1.9 million in the last three years. The company disclosed this in its Q1 2022 financial report released today. The revelation comes
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
This is politics masquerading as legal analysis. Twitter, by its own admission, lied about their user count for years. Elon will either go without penalty, or take a slap on the wrist. Levine spends a lot of time shilling on bots because
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
I mostly work in vim via ssh--occasionally inside a tmux session. Vim "paste mode", X11 selection, and OSC52 are built-in & have all my bases covered. I think this person is engaged in Rube Goldberg style procrastination. h
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Tested on Linux, OpenBSD, & Mac: POSIX: man 7 re_format PCRE: man pcrepattern PCRE2: man pcre2pattern PCRE may be a "works on my machine" thing, but POSIX should be there.
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
It is surprising / not surprising to see the lengths people go to not learn regex. There's not much to it. If you're just starting out, find a good reference, and memorize it. Mastery is another thing entirely, but it alwa
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
There's been higher quality & lower cost gear on the market for ages, but it's the modern version of " Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. " Same can be said for Oracle, Dell, VMware, et. al.
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
My only run-in with Kaseya was when a batch of IT consultants put Kaseya agents on all of the Windows servers. Then one day, for whatever reason, the Kaseya agent began pegging all of the CPUs at 90+%. Subsequently, both Kaseya and the co
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Only thing holding me back is Barrier support. https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/109
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by georgia_peach 4y ago
Are the towns busted because they no longer have propagandists? Or, did the propagandists move on after the towns had already been bled dry, & were no longer worth the effort? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio

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