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by ghewgill 5y ago
I do that too! One of my kids was born on an odd year, month, and day, while the other was born on an even year, month, and day. They know who is who and they don't argue with the calendar. (We do it by day of month and we find another
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by ghewgill 5y ago
The key is the "Git-enabled `PS1`". PS1 is an environment variable recognised by common shell programs (such as bash) that configures the shell prompt. Git often installs its own glue into the prompt that ends up running a Git exe
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by ghewgill 5y ago
One of the problems with the old notation is the ambiguity. What does each of the following mean? n =- 5 n = -5 n=-5
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Free Tarsnap Backups for Ukrainians(mail.tarsnap.com)
180 points by ghewgill 5y ago|38 comments
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MajorBBS Emulation Project(mbbsemu.com)
2 points by ghewgill 5y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 5y ago
Author of Copilot, which became POSE (PalmOS Emulator), which became this. I love it. https://hewgill.com/pilot/copilot/index-old.html
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by ghewgill 5y ago
I have passport renewal dates in my todo list further out than that.
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/Now Page(nownownow.com)
1 points by ghewgill 5y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 5y ago
> why is it so difficult to have their computers talk directly with the aircraft? CPDLC exists today and has been in use for a couple of decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_... Howev
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Collins Aerospace to Acquire FlightAware(prnewswire.com)
1 points by ghewgill 5y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 6y ago
The best thing about this news page is the complete lack of clickbait headlines. Some of the headlines are so good that you don't even have to read the article!
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by ghewgill 6y ago
So if favicons were gathered locally, then you would prefer that your own browser would reach out and make multiple requests to every (potentially dodgy) site listed on the search result page? Note also that these are favicons for results t
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by ghewgill 6y ago
This is exactly the same timer loop problem as was found in Turbo Pascal around the same era: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/12111
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How much time and how many people were required to develop Delphi version 1?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by ghewgill 6y ago|0 comments
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Duolingo app to add te reo Māori course for beginners(rnz.co.nz)
3 points by ghewgill 7y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 7y ago
Yes, you can use https://github.com/tannercollin/standardnotes-fs to edit your notes with vim.
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Introducing Windows Terminal(devblogs.microsoft.com)
298 points by ghewgill 7y ago|121 comments
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by ghewgill 8y ago
Book recommendation: The Master Switch by Tim Wu. It's a few years old now but it lays out where we may be headed with the internet based on experience with previous information industries (radio, telephone, television, and film). htt
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FileSend – Simple open source client side encrypted file sharing service(filesend.standardnotes.org)
16 points by ghewgill 8y ago|2 comments
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by ghewgill 8y ago
Microsoft is a frequent contributor to the OpenBSD Foundation: https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
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OpenSMTPD proc filters and fc-rDNS(poolp.org)
1 points by ghewgill 8y ago|0 comments
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by ghewgill 8y ago
Looks like weak security is a trend with this software. > You attempted to reach www.safehousesoftware.com, but the server presented a certificate signed using a weak signature algorithm (such as SHA-1). This means that the security cred
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by ghewgill 8y ago
That's the initials of the typist. Always lowercase, below the signature block.
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by ghewgill 8y ago
I'm going to plug https://bitwarden.com/ since nobody else has yet (I'm not affiliated). Open source, clients for everything, free for personal use, imports from other managers. I had been using a GPG encrypted te
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by ghewgill 9y ago
This. All the other comments are from people who clearly don't have kids.
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by ghewgill 9y ago
Also see Intel's own page about their decimal floating point library: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-decimal-floa... I don't know how much effort Intel is allocating to this project; I s
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by ghewgill 9y ago
For those who don't understand why net neutrality is important, it is worthwhile to read about the history of communications (telephone, radio, TV). There is an excellent book by Tim Wu called The Master Switch [0] which investigates t
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by ghewgill 9y ago
GCC isn't the only one with aligned() bugs: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23868 Over two years and no forward progress! Admittedly, I haven't re-tested this with a newer compiler. But apparently neither ha
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by ghewgill 9y ago
Lots of good discussion at this Stack Overflow question (2008): https://stackoverflow.com/q/306313/893 (Python “is” operator behaves unexpectedly with integers)
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Polynesian people used a kind of binary number system 600 years ago (2013)(nature.com)
190 points by ghewgill 9y ago|115 comments

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