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by jgtrosh 8y ago
GDPR requires active consent (or so I have repeatedly seen on HN), and that was clearly ignored
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In French cantines, yoghurt is either sweetened beforehand or packs of sugar are available. It's very common to add sugar after opening, but it makes little difference with sweetened yoghurt (at least in taste).
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
As others, I've grown accustomed to wrapping lines to fit in small terminals, and I started avoiding breaking the line randomly. Instead I try to break after self-sufficient parts of sentences so that lines flow naturally after one ano
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Wrapping sentences into short functional parts (motivated by more or less arbitrary limits like 80 characters) helps having easily editable and readable text.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
I always dream of being able to discreetly inform people of minor mistakes in their posts/comments in a way that would make it dead easy for them to accept the change. PRs sound very appealing!!
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
The stats might be measured differently: Steam might not report a Linux user as such if they played on Windows at first (or something like that), while the tickets might be correctly labeled as Linux-specific by the user.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
It can still apply the operation anytime a specialized object is defined. (This is how templates are compiled, right?)
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
I had the opposite discovery when I went to work in Spain and colleagues ogled my basic Parker pen like I was a prince or something. It's not a panacea in France though, since people usually buy their kids cheap ones which leave a last
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Sounds like you'd fit in just right with the others at r/fountainpens
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European labelling must have E numbers[1] for many chemical products, and no one tries to paint these as anything other than an effort to standardize labeling, so as to help consumer decisions. However, consumers started seeing attacks to p
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The correct method is probably something like "\<$lang\>"
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
IMO mupdf is the real less for PDFs. It is so lightweight and straightforward it makes everything else seem terribly bloated.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
> (Tip when writing atomic commits: Use `git add -p`. That lets you stage patch hunks.) Tip when using patch modes: spend time learning edit mode, and IMO avoid edit mode for checkout or reset patch modes.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
When you're fighting for speed on your code, it ends up feeling like what you're describing of that engineering world. Your techniques have to adapt to what is actually happening in the lower layers. When you're fighting for
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Depending on the task and the familiarity of the user with the editor, it can make a big difference! As an extreme example, a good 80s programmer might work efficiently on a file in ed, but nowadays approximately no human could do that.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
This might seem like “just another thing” after all these example, but have you looked into bullet journalling? It can be taken less as a fixed-in-stone method and more as a continual improvement at shaping your rituals. Also, these rituals
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
It does fit easily with the (admittedly terrible) ubiquitous trend of sharing posts between social networks through screenshots.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
As I answered Fishkins, « porte » in this context does mean carry (even though it could mean door, but that doesn't make any sense with porte-manteau). My argument that portemantout/portmantout sounds weird is partly an aesthetic
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Porte means wear/carry as a verb in the imperative form or singular indicative forms; it can also mean a door, probably for weird etymological reasons. In the case of porte-manteau it absolutely means carry. I don't know if this c
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Port as in to carry/wear is the noun, whereas porte is the corresponding verb. Porte-manteau is the logical form for the combined noun/adjective (as in carry-all, see-all). In English the common form for combining meanings is e.g.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Total is absolutely French. The fuel company did not take an English name! The « to » in the French total is pronounced exactly like the « teau » in porte-manteau. (Unlike « tout », of course.) You made me realize that the word porte-mantea
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
I find “portemantout” doesn't roll off the tongue. Instead, something like “portemantotal” would sound better. Also, the defining characteristic of the problem that the words overlap is just not used for portemanteaux. For example: « p
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Isn't this similar to the variable ban that's been in Paris for the past year or so? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crit%27air
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
Why “the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch”?
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Then i don't understand why you associate not knowing what's in a library with specifically open source ones. They tend by nature to be more open to introspection by any member of the community.
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by jgtrosh 8y ago
I assume that's “especially not-open-source libraries” and not “especially not open-source libraries”
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It is indeed quite amazing how modal editing is usually defined by vi, which does so in very specific ways, when there are alternatives (like kakoune) which really show there's a whole spectrum of possible implementations of that idea.
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In this case a password like “to be repeated exactly: <random string>” has the same properties and can be divulged without affecting opsec particularly.
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My favorite competitive Tetris mode is the Co-op mode in the Tengen NES version. It's fun to cooperate, but it's extremely fun and challenging to aim for maximum personal score while impeding the other player. There's no imme
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If so, the title of the article is meaningless clickbait. From reading the article it seems to me the author takes the phrase at face value as they imagine skim reading a third of Middlemarch in a day. I'm surprised they describe diffe

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