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by gpanders 6y ago
Amazingly, there is no portable way to use -i that works on both GNU and BSD sed implementations. Which means if you’re writing a portable script, you can’t use -i at all. (Would love to be proved wrong on this)
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by gpanders 6y ago
You’re right that defaulting to the GNU coreutils is probably more convenient. However, NOT doing this is a good way to ensure that any scripts you write remain portable and don’t use GNU extensions. That’s the reason I stick with the defau
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by gpanders 6y ago
Re: bat. I agree with you, I don’t get the hype over this program either. It’s pretty easy to configure 'less’ to use syntax highlighting and ‘less’ is installed basically everywhere. The main advantage of rg is how much faster it is t
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by gpanders 6y ago
Honestly one of the most well maintained projects I’ve ever used. The author has a coherent “philosophy” and vision of how the program should work and does a good job of preventing feature/scope creep. Don’t see that too often
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by gpanders 6y ago
Note that in general this is not a one-to-one replacement. `%!cmd` sends the current buffer contents to `cmd`’s stdin and replaces the buffer with `cmd`’s output. In the case of ‘ls’ this works since it doesn’t take anything on stdin
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by gpanders 6y ago
> I live in Austin and sometimes I think if I really need a major procedure it would be just simpler to drive to Mexico and get it done there. This even has a name: Medical Tourism.
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by gpanders 6y ago
While I also find these changes to macOS alarming and disappointing, I still vastly prefer macOS to Windows. My 2013 Macbook Pro is also still the best laptop I have ever used (I also have a 2017 Macbook Pro for work and I have to admit tha
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by gpanders 6y ago
Farnam Street has a good write-up: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/
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by gpanders 6y ago
> AirPods have become and ubiquitous sign of the technological times where people buy on brand and not on quality or functionality (plus they’re ugly imo). Interesting that you say this. I don't own any myself, but my general impre
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by gpanders 6y ago
I disagree -- I think unfairness is about morality, and in many of these conversations people often conflate inequality with unfairness. A perfectly equal society can also exhibit a great deal of unfairness, and a perfectly fair society w
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by gpanders 6y ago
I'm not the OP but I have a similar setup. I keep my mutt [1] config in git, which is viewable publicly. [1]: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/mut...
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by gpanders 6y ago
I use a similar setup. I'm curious what you use for msmtp for though: most Mutt setup guides I've read recommend using msmtp as well, but I've always just used Mutt's native SMTP client and it works fine, so I've ne
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by gpanders 6y ago
Note that git itself is beginning to address this exact problem by introducing new, more intuitive commands such as "restore" and "switch".
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by gpanders 6y ago
Seems like something you could do manually with Tampermonkey or something similar.
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by gpanders 6y ago
This already exists in the form of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and China already flouts those rules. Your plan has been tried and does not work.
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by gpanders 6y ago
> It's also what Mozilla VPN runs on. Can anyone explain what the practical difference is between using Mozilla VPN and using Mullvad directly?
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by gpanders 6y ago
> but the government doesn’t know who lives in a specific house. So weird. This seems to me a feature, not a bug.
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by gpanders 6y ago
> There's only one thing that destroys privacy even more thoroughly than ad targeting: payment. I disagree with this. Maybe you can elaborate? If I am paying for a service then there is no incentive to mine my personal data for reve
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by gpanders 6y ago
> Does anyone actually use Zig in production? Likely not, or at least they shouldn't, as it still has yet to have a 1.0 release and is undergoing constant changes in syntax and API. However, that doesn't mean one can't tak
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by gpanders 6y ago
I mentioned this in another comment already, but this is what’s being done in New Mexico. The mask order was extended to, basically, “wear a mask if you’re outside your house”. This includes exercising outside. Personally, I find that part
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by gpanders 6y ago
The state of New Mexico currently mandates the use of masks while in public with the penalty of a small fine (I forget the exact amount, but it’s only a couple hundred dollars). So in practice, the former is what is already being done. And
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by gpanders 6y ago
Try "Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan [1]. In my opinion, he does a good job of providing examples both of failed regulation and also situations where regulation is necessary and beneficial. [1]: https://www.amazon.c
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by gpanders 6y ago
Peloton has 2 subscriptions available: one for just the app without the accompanying bike which is $13/mo, the other that accompanies the bike which is $40/mo.
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by gpanders 6y ago
A similar thing happened to me. All of Google's products (Search, Maps, Translate, etc.) come up for me in Dutch. The weird part is, I am not Dutch, do not speak Dutch, and have never been to the Netherlands.
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by gpanders 6y ago
Or use `evim`. Btw, 'set nocompatible' is never necessary in a vimrc file. When Vim detects a user vimrc file, it automatically sets nocompatible.
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by gpanders 6y ago
But that’s exactly what he’s saying. The crappy jobs will have to pay more in order to attract people, and in order to compensate for the increase in labor costs, the cost of garbage collection goes up. Basically, increased labor costs driv
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by gpanders 6y ago
Seconded, his book “Rubicon” is what got me thoroughly hooked on Roman history.
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by gpanders 6y ago
I agree with you, however I think a significant portion of the blame for this kind of emergent behavior comes from the consumers of said media. They're producing what they know will sell.
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by gpanders 6y ago
This would almost certainly raise prices across the board, which would end up hurting poor people. Price targeting can be (and often is) a useful and mutually beneficial practice. Obviously it can be taken too far as we're seeing here.
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by gpanders 6y ago
I'm no statistician, but since the underlying population in this case (the set of all politicians) is much smaller than the general population, shouldn't that mean that a smaller sample size is more representative?

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