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   by gkya 9y ago

   This is an article from the Digital Humanities journal of the Oxford University.
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   A new rationale for the digital representation of text(academic.oup.com)

   1 points by gkya 9y ago|1 comments
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   by gkya 9y ago

   Google is all about emotions. Their PR&ads feel like they're trying to humanise the AI behemoth the company is.
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   A few things I know about Lisp Machines(fare.tunes.org)

   85 points by gkya 9y ago|7 comments
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   by gkya 9y ago

   I don't think so, as this comment won't be seen all that much; but I'd say that that's a can of worms that we should open.
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   by gkya 9y ago

   I was referring to individual software packages, an entire distro is a bit of a different beast. Going with the same chair analogy, well, you'd mostly care about the chair in your room, no? The one that you use the most. That's
7. 877.▲
   by gkya 9y ago

   But isn't that a bit like sitting on someone else's chair? You can't control things you don't own.
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   by gkya 9y ago

   > Imagine the carpenters were like programmers. You bought a chair. You bought it because you've inspected it and found out that it fulfills all your needs. Then, every other day, the carpenter turns up at your place and makes a mod
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   by gkya 9y ago

   Yes, thanks.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    That's the version of coreutils, not that of true. Try: (/bin/true --version; ls --version; cat --version) | grep coreutils all will be the same.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    This is really silly. Not fun or interesting at all. Gnu coreutils wants all the command line utilities to respond to --help and --version. The version number is that of the coreutils package, if your ls is Gnu ls, it'll say the sam
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    by gkya 9y ago

    I'm the OP, and yes, I should've worded that out better.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    We actually agree, but I've phrased that one a bit bad. See my other comment downthread. I was going to edit to clarify, but it does not let me anymore. Comments become fixed way quicker these days ain't it?
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Colour codes are hexadecimal numbers, 000000 is basically zero, and is for black. FFFFFF is 16777215 and is white. The more the numerical value of the colour the lighter it is, the lower the darker (well, not exactly, but kind of).
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    by gkya 9y ago

    My humble appendix wrt online typography ("-" means IM-not-so-HO): - If your font colour is more thant #333 on white, you're being cruel, especially to those who suffer astigmatism. - Make sure the font colour contrasts the b
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    by gkya 9y ago

    That was what I initially thought of, but it sounded a bit off to me. But if there's a second person who thinks of the same thing, it can't be that off, so I'll edit the title to use this version. Thanks
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    by gkya 9y ago

    The actual title was "Dear Google, in Defending Me as a Woman, You’ve Insulted Me as Someone Who Works in STEM", but it was 8 characters too long.
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    Dear Google, in Defending Me as a Woman, You've Insulted Me as a STEM worker(hackernoon.com)

    3 points by gkya 9y ago|3 comments
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Then Emacs does not count as a Lisp based editor too, given it's renderer is in C.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Yeah it's a beautiful language in its own peculiar way. For many years I was very intrigued with it and thought of getting into Macs to just use it.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Sending tabs and syncing bookmarks is especially useful. Find sth. nice to read on the PC but have to leave, send the tab(s) to your phone. Stupid registration form, bad mobile site, sth. to copy or paste from: send it to your laptop. Als
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    Chrome turns the screw ever tighter in Google’s encryption crusade(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)

    1 points by gkya 9y ago|0 comments
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Thanks for the link!
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Is PyPy ideally plug'n'play, i.e. is it supposed to be able to seamlessly replace the CPython interpreter ( ideally in that it may not factually be completely compatible, but is it aimed to be completely compatible)?
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    by gkya 9y ago

    > Quite frankly, the main advantage of Whatsapp over Telegram is that it is more widely adopted. But beside that, not much. Thing is I (and I guess most people) don't want to do app evangelism, but just use the existing communicatio
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    by gkya 9y ago

    I've used vi where I meant the pager quite often. I was late at making the use of head, tail, grep, wc, du, stat, etc. to peak into data to become muscle memory.
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    by gkya 9y ago

    I beleive the killer app on this kind of devices is WhatsApp, as most other stuff like Facebook or Instagram can be used through the browser before native apps are provided. But WhatsApp is so omnipresent that convincing them to make an ap
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    by gkya 9y ago

    I mean it's obvious that you'd want the latest release, and there's no release numerically higher than that one. But I understand, for some, laconic and prejudicious snarks are more pleasing than trying to understand what th
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    by gkya 9y ago

    Full release notes: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/relnotes.html
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    by gkya 9y ago

    I guess that's kind of obvious.