gerikson

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   by gerikson 6y ago

   I have tmux running in a ssh session on a VPS. In the first window, I have IRC, in the second a Twitter client, and in the following whatever random stuff I'm hacking on at the moment. This means I can keep online from wherever I have
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   `C-a a` is so ingrained after years of first screen and then tmux use that I have to consciously not type it when using Emacs outside a multiplexer.
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Edit `--1013` is 13 Oct in any year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Truncated_representat... (`--01-14` is Jan 14 in any year, the last dash is "optional"). The "duration" (`P`) and "
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Wasn't this an ArchiveTeam Warrior project? https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior If so it's distributed among many volunteers. But the data still has to end up somewhere... Archive.org?
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Without having read the spec... * `2021-W02` means the second (ISO) week of 2021. Perfectly valid and used in a lot of planning. * `--01-14` - I'm assuming this is a recurring date: every 14 Jan for every year * `--1013` - at 1PM every
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   All timestamps have to start somewhere. If you want to avoid DST changes and leap seconds, you can use MJD, TAI or GPS time instead of UTC, but you might as well format it nicely so that you can see roughly at what (civil) date something
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   I've tried to be transparent on another site by explaining why I downvoted a comment, but the aggravation of being downvoted in retaliation, having to engage in back-and-forth with the commenter defending themselves, and being stalked
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   This spent 5 hours on the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25729088
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   by gerikson 6y ago

   Also, arguably, the Balkans.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    OP, join #lobsters on Freenode and request an invite. Mention my username (same as here) and I'll see if I can extend an invite.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The example of the EIC was used as an argument against the British Crown by proponents of American independence. Source: Dalrymple's The Anarchy.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    This was essentially my first blog.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    This is the first article about the Aero-Ektar that doesn't freak out about its radioactive thorium-glass rear element.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I found this book very interesting - it's about "outsiders", mainly American citizens, working in Israel to put the jigsaw puzzles in place to bring about the Apocalypse. For example, by recreating the ceremonial horns used i
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I think it was an above-average FPS but not a Syndicate game.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Psycho Pass is a straight-up dystopia, in my view.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The backstory of Ken MacLeod's "The Cassini Division" involves an Earth with a practical socialist utopia, but the main action involves the unceasing war against the uploaded capitalist class who have taken over Jupiter...
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The modern-day "Syndicate" was pretty underwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(2012_video_game)
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    > Active for over a decade, Safe-Inet was being used by some of the world’s biggest cybercriminals, such as the ransomware operators responsible for ransomware, E-skimming breaches and other forms of serious cybercrime.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Usenet, man. You kinda had to be there.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I appreciate this site. It's a good way to get an overview of HN over 24h.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Sweden and Finland are both in the EU but AFAIK there's not much policy alignment between them with regards to EU legislation.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The quality of the puzzles. They're 2-stagers, where the first stage is generally to ensure you've understood the problem, and the second is a "twist" like a vastly expanded problem space.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I've been blogging since 2004. Started with a home-built system in bash, moved to hosted Movable Type, then switched to Blosxom, and I've been running Blosxom in static mode since 2007.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    "Thanks" for exploding this myth, that I've thought true for decades....
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    The skepticism is included in RationalWiki.
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    There’s an ambiguity in that GMT is a civil timezone that in the UK is BST when DST is in effect. UTC cannot be affected by DST. I hear a lot of Brits calling their time “GMT” even when DST is in effect. It’s a shorthand for “current time i
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Go Mono is my favorite console font, alternating with Plex Mono...
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    I feel the solution is for the programming community to slowly and methodically move towards using TAI in basic infrastructure (operating systems, routers, NTP etc) and build a base on which to derive the civil timekeeping (UTC + localtime,
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    by gerikson 6y ago

    Thanks both for answering, I found this interesting essay http://www.evelynwaugh.org.uk/styled-94/index.html