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by jfb 11y ago
An evolutionary dead-end if ever there was one.
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by jfb 11y ago
I don't like putting homebrew into /usr/local, because many other installers put stuff in there, often incorrectly, and it sort of acts as a bit of a dumping ground. I install to /homebrew and it works fine. homebrew bit
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by jfb 11y ago
NEWSFLASH: ESR is a tool.
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by jfb 11y ago
I'm not at all convinced that Smalltalk-80 was the apotheosis of computing environments; both Windows and Unix are, cockroach like, exceedingly good at staying alive. Neither is fun to use, but nobody's put selective pressure on
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by jfb 11y ago
Ease of technical implementations does not a natural right make.
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by jfb 11y ago
Did you have to mention SMIT?
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by jfb 11y ago
Well, to be fair, in 2002 it was far from clear that there were going to be millions of C# programmers.
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by jfb 11y ago
Keep in mind that much of what seemingly makes Powershell so great on Windows is inapplicable in a Unix shell environment. So there's still some juvenile "M$ hyuck hycuk" nonsense, but there's also some pretty spot-on di
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by jfb 11y ago
Much of the time that PowerShell is mentioned here is in the context of a discussion about how nun-punchingly awful the Unix shell is, and what could possibly replace it. I have never used PowerShell, so I have nothing to add to those discu
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by jfb 11y ago
You may very well be right; but I always advocate for getting a pro's opinion on matters with significant downside risk.
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by jfb 11y ago
Also, MICROS~1 is much funnier.
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by jfb 11y ago
You might want to check with a tax professional before doing something like this.
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by jfb 11y ago
Yeah, I don't doubt it. I've been spoiled by living close to the data I want to download. I imagine that people at the far end of attenuated links would have a very different experience.
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by jfb 11y ago
People still use download managers? I honestly had no idea.
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by jfb 11y ago
Albeit one that exists solely at the sufferance of the advertising industry.
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by jfb 11y ago
Conceded. I still think the ae ligature in "Unix daemon" is a misspelling or usage failure.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's a new coinage, after the ae ligature had fallen into disuse. Would you expect that "browser" should be spelled "browƒer"?
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by jfb 11y ago
It's a mistake from hypercorrection. It's not a historical spelling, it's a misspelling.
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by jfb 11y ago
It's like "virii" or "octopi" or other hypercorrect mistakes. EDIT: "viruses" and "octopuses", please. Maybe possibly potentially "octopodes."
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by jfb 11y ago
This made me laugh: > What I did in my spare time Browse the intranet for juicy info Browse the intranet for juicy info Browse the intranet for juicy info
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by jfb 11y ago
Take it a step further: why is there even still a root user? Separation of privileges doesn't require the user abstraction.
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by jfb 11y ago
This is true, and also, I think it's perfectly likely that nVidia is trying to soak people buying with other people's money.
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by jfb 11y ago
Think about who makes the browser, and what their interests are. Mozilla and Google both are 100% creatures of the advertising world (in the former case, indirectly through their search box deals) and have a vested interest in selling you o
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by jfb 11y ago
If someone's willing to pay, sure! But more realistically, a ML researcher doesn't want to know the differences between Haswell-E and Skylake, or which DIMMs are rated at which speed, or what's the optimal Linux driver situat
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by jfb 11y ago
Or people for whom the money value of their time exceeds the margin over a custom build that nVidia is asking.
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by jfb 11y ago
Data locality and performance.
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by jfb 11y ago
Working cultures differ wildly; not just nationally, but intranationally. Lessons learned in one environment are not necessarily applicable in others.
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by jfb 11y ago
I get why people want their web sites to look as good as Tufte's books, but since they can't, I wish they wouldn't try. Make things that look good in the medium you're working in; don't blindly copy the rules from o
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by jfb 11y ago
> How much you wanna bet the equivalent Clojure or Scala version would be half again as many lines ? 263 lines?
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by jfb 11y ago
Dad of six week old. Laughs hollowly at the OP.

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