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by jff 10y ago
Regarding 'ls', I ran "strace ls" on Linux and didn't see any open on /etc/password; it's important that you run 'ls -l', which should trigger the /etc/password access because it h
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The whole document is great but the anti-forward is so good I'm going to risk downvotes by reproducing it in its (short) entirety here, emphasis mine: From: dmr@plan9.research.att.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST Subject: anti-f
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by jff 10y ago
Having configured and used VMS, I feel I can conclusively say that the people in TUHH who preferred it to Unix were out of their goddamn minds.
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Although I agree that Unix is a big collection of hacks and well past its prime, the author displays several fundamental misconceptions of what he's talking about. Here's a few examples: - Dirty hacks in UNIX started to arise whe
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by jff 10y ago
Taiwan is the home of the legitimate government of mainland China. Taiwan #1.
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A Deepness In The Sky by Vernor Vinge
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http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displaySpecies.php?pn=140 They're not asking about fruit because they're worried you may sell that single apple and drive a farmer out of business. The spread of agricultural pe
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by jff 10y ago
Awesome, thank you.
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Are you basing that statement purely on the appearance of the planets in the artist's conception you linked, or was it stated in another article somewhere?
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That is exactly how it's described in the documentation, yes.
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> some programmers who didn't know a thing about my profile asked me to invent some algorithms on a white board for almost four hours. Yep. Did the phone interview after weeks of back-and-forth, told them what I was interested in, t
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by jff 10y ago
If you want to compare the US to Turkey, that's your own decision; I'd think a good place to start would be finding the US equivalent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_301_(Turkish_Penal_Cod...
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by jff 10y ago
You can use your keyboard, the middle row maps to the white keys and the upper row maps to black keys. Works better than a mouse for tempo, IMO.
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The problem is that this experiment might as well just replay a random collection of the N most recent notes played, with durations shuffled around, for all the musicality it demonstrates. He wired a neural network to some midi samples, and
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by jff 10y ago
The 'withering' of semantic markup is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern web.
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One of my college roommates would get a small stack of signed blank checks from his mother every time he went home, in order to pay the rent and whatever else came up. He kept them underneath his mattress, which we discovered when we had to
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by jff 10y ago
A year or two ago, I went through some old files that had somehow followed me all through highschool. Among them were a handful of music and video files I got from friends passing around burned CDs. I was quite amused to play some random ep
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by jff 10y ago
> You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It's worked for many pe
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I remain unsure whether Urbit is a real thing or simply an incredibly long-running satire. Their missives do nothing to clarify this point.
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You'll find a lot of clothing is made in Indonesia and other SEA countries these days--for instance, my jeans. As for electronics, I think most of them were made in Best China, aka Taiwan. Anyway, addressing your implied point, the fac
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by jff 10y ago
By 'made in China', they mean 'built the fuselage and wings, bought all the hard parts from America and France': https://perennialinvesting.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/112.p... But hey, they fi
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by jff 10y ago
This article is in the same vein as that execrable Lisp article that showed up today: "Alas, poor brilliant misunderstood me, cursed by my genius and unwillingness to ~play the silly games of the lesser people who surround me~"
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by jff 10y ago
In San Francisco, depending on the time of day and the parking conditions, any trip can become a 40 minute slog.
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My 486/DX 33MHz didn't have a heat sink, and while it ran hot, it wasn't too hot to touch.
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As I understand it, early on there was sort of an expectation that users would be defining stylesheets and applying them to websites, exactly like you said: "use light blue background, menu bar horizontally across the top, paragraph
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Second Amendment supporters are often interested in the Fourth as well; I think you would find a very solid group of them (particularly those who concealed-carry, rather than just hunters) are strongly opposed to this sort of thing.
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by jff 10y ago
That's great! I think due to the way it's implemented it wouldn't be able to do progress reporting for e.g. "dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=2048", but that's a less common case than just cp&#x
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> Persistent progress indicators are known to cause performance degradation unless implemented carefully. Are you referring to that npm progress bar thing a few months back? I'm pretty sure the reason for that can be summed up as &q
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by jff 10y ago
> Even more amazingly, running on that tiny package of hardware is some live multitasking Yep, pretty amazing that a quad-core 1.2GHz machine with half a gig of RAM can run more than one thing at a time!
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by jff 10y ago
I have the same philosophy. I have, over the last couple of years, stripped Javascript and other external assets from my site. First I removed Disqus from my blog, because Internet comments are a cesspit anyway. Then I removed Google Analyt

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