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by jefurii 9y ago
Dang, now I want to figure out how to print my git-log commit hashes in colors based on the hashes themselves...
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by jefurii 9y ago
While reading BOTNS I had a synaesthesic experience where reading the words felt like I was eating meat, rich roast cooked til it was falling off the bone. I read somewhere that Wolfe, rather than coining new words, searched the Oxford Eng
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by jefurii 9y ago
Or the Two Rivers solar updraft tower in Suarez' "Freedom TM".
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by jefurii 9y ago
> Thanks to his family background, he could speak German, and he had heard that many universities there charged no tuition fees. His missing qualifications were still a problem, but one that the University of Gottingen decided to overloo
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by jefurii 9y ago
I'll not argue with you that Git's syntax is weird. It's an airplane that was launched as a kite by Linus and then assembled into an airliner while in flight by the passengers. Could definitely do with a revision. The neat t
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by jefurii 9y ago
Ha, that's a great way to put it. There's also "It is easy to shoot your foot off with git, but also easy to revert to a previous foot and merge it with your current leg" tho it's not quite as easy as the quote mak
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by jefurii 9y ago
Git stage is "These are the things I'm planning to do", and git commit is "OK now do these things". Lots of carpenters draw plans before they start cutting but we don't think that's so hard do we? I had t
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by jefurii 9y ago
I can't speak to anyone else's experience but when my uncle took over the (CA Central Valley) family farm he didn't experience a windfall. And most years he made more money at his side job (substitute teaching) than from the
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by jefurii 9y ago
Time for Python 4!
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by jefurii 9y ago
You most certainly can. I've built several Django apps with Elasticsearch-DSL as a backend and another app with a completely custom backend (you need a really good reason to do this). There are tradeoffs of course: you give up the Dja
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by jefurii 9y ago
Seems kinda similar to Pagekite ( http://pagekite.net ).
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It's the working out of Tim O'Reilly's mechanical turk idea.
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I could see the hand tracking being useful for people who don't know how to touch type (and have to look at their keyboard and fingers) and who need to type while using a headset.
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Or a 3D fly through view. "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
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Coders of the world unite: can workers curb the power of Big Tech?(theguardian.com)
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Reminds me of a Karl Schroeder novel (Permanence) in which characters encounter an alien race (or the remains of an extinct one?) which evolved to have intelligence but not consciousness. Or are we turning ourselves into philosophical zomb
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by jefurii 9y ago
Not very intellectual or mathy but my friends and I used to play this "paper arcade game" back in elementary school after Star Wars came out. We'd draw figures and then take turns sliding the pencil to move or shoot. https:
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by jefurii 9y ago
> For more than two decades, Tim O’Reilly has been the conscience of the tech industry. ...he was among the first to perceive both the societal and commercial value of the internet [and] ... he drew upon his education in the classics to
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by jefurii 9y ago
Nope, different. Many of those pictures have vending machines sitting outside neighborhood mom-and-pop stores. From my experience living in Japan, those machines are most likely owned/leased by the owner of the store, who stocks them
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by jefurii 9y ago
> virtualenv Running "pip install" as a user that has access only to the virtualenv directory is sounding like a good strategy.
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by jefurii 9y ago
> I know Emacs has some remote file editing capabilities but for some reason I never liked it (I can't recall why now... I think it was the need to sudo). Tramp ( https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/tramp-ema
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by jefurii 9y ago
> I don't think a small nudge to actually pay for the thing that benefits you, or have a small note somewhere that you're not paying for it that someone might--gasp!--see, is as big a deal as the histrionics throughout this thr
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by jefurii 9y ago
Both of these are by Asian(-American) artists: M. Night Shyamalan and Ted Chiang.
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by jefurii 9y ago
Note: the Chinese word "dao" predates Ethereum by a very long time. I'd be more worried that it would be difficult to find since the word is so common.
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> The two big, long-lived families of macroeconomic explanation are from the Keynsian, Austrian/liberal "schools". You left out Marx.
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Or a .deb or .rpm.
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by jefurii 9y ago
Climate information is also written in the rings of trees, which in the case of giant sequoias goes back several thousand years. It's also there in the geological record in the form of layers in sedimentary rocks.
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by jefurii 9y ago
They could offer keyboard shortcut sets/bundles/profiles/themes that you could switch and revert all at once.
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I'm immediately suspicious of someone who tells me they have no agenda.

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