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by jks 5y ago
> Why is anyone using two-digit years Because with four-digit years this kind of date would never have fit into a signed 32-bit integer. Incidentally, this shows that the timestamp was taken into use after Y2K, since none of the pre-mill
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by jks 5y ago
Litestream does streaming backups using a separate process: https://litestream.io/
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by jks 5y ago
In Finland, the law implementing the GDPR used to be interpreted so that browser settings were enough to opt out of cookies and you just had to inform the user about what cookies you were setting. This interpretation was suggested by Trafic
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by jks 5y ago
There is e.g. https://www.ethicalads.io/ which I have chosen to allow in my uBlock Origin settings, since their ads aren't too obtrusive and they (at least claim that they) only target ads using IP geolocation and site
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by jks 5y ago
Sleep problems may be a symptom of depression, but they may also be the cause of depression. You could try finding a sleep physician or a CBT-I therapist.
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by jks 5y ago
I (as another European) associate it with the excellent CMU Common Lisp.
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by jks 5y ago
In modern Emacs versions the top of the kill ring can be found in the Edit menu, and there are other packages to help navigate it: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseKillRing I agree that the ancient terminology is
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by jks 5y ago
The terminology comes from Emacs: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki... The basic idea is that your
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by jks 5y ago
This library is a fork of Antirez's linenoise, so it's perhaps not only an inspiration but a quality that the code had to begin with, which the author of the fork declares that she intends to preserve. The linenoise README mention
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by jks 5y ago
Usually not, with some exceptions: https://www.economist.com/frequently-asked-questions
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by jks 5y ago
They're discussing this in https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/910 (server) and https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2007 (client).
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by jks 5y ago
I have liked Zulip's threads (they call them "topics") best: https://zulip.com/help/about-streams-and-topics
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by jks 5y ago
I have a different but related question: are there org-mode tutorials, by presenters of any gender, that show how they actually use org-mode as part of their workflows? I've seen enough tutorials where you are shown how to make * h
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by jks 6y ago
I like to think that the ads help me moderate my Youtube usage. When someone sends me a Youtube link and I open it instinctively, I now have approximately half a minute to decide if I really want to waste my time and attention on it. A lot
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by jks 6y ago
It could work by adding a new alignment tab character, like & in TeX. TeX tables look like name & value & comment \\ long name here & 1 & one\\ x & 2 & two \\ and the columns line up at the &
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by jks 6y ago
The friendly people from Windows Technical Department keep calling me at various times of the day and night to tell me about the malware I supposedly have on my computer. I now ignore all calls unless I know the number or am expecting a cal
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by jks 6y ago
If you're using an old enough MacOS X (I think 10.12 or older), DTrace has similar functionality. Unfortunately it has been broken in recent MacOS versions, at least unless you disable SIP.
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by jks 6y ago
Freedom ( https://freedom.to ) sounds like the app for this need.
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by jks 6y ago
I know the feeling. The most annoying discussions in my experience go something like this: "Why aren't you coming to the company party?" "Because that would likely exacerbate my chronic headache and I might be unable to
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by jks 6y ago
How will you know the next headset doesn't get bought out by Facebook? I think my minimum requirement now would be a guarantee of all my money back if the company is acquired by Facebook.
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by jks 6y ago
Donald Knuth used to write checks in hexadecimal amounts to people who reported errors in his books (I have $7.68) but had to stop because people post photos of the checks online and the numbers printed on them can be used for fraud.
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by jks 6y ago
Finn here, yes it's normal to drink milk. When I was growing up, the school lunch hall had big posters about how milk is important for your health.
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by jks 6y ago
I would like to see ads on websites, just not the terrible ads that almost all of them are. So far I have unblocked ethicalads.io, which has ads mainly on readthedocs.io but I recently noticed their ads on some blog site. Perhaps as browser
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by jks 6y ago
In Finland we have family pizzas too, and then there is the extended family pizza, which allows a whole Nokia department to be a two-pizza team: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
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by jks 6y ago
Addendum: if you host a mailing list server such as Mailman, you'll need to do one of (1) don't change the content or DKIM-signed headers at all (e.g. by adding Subject tags or unsubscribe instructions); (2) rewrite the From: head
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by jks 6y ago
Google Reader had a limited kind of social networking where you could comment on the articles and your friends saw the comments if they were subscribed to the same feed, but there were no replies to comments and they never got outside your
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by jks 6y ago
I stopped using Keybase when they started sending me cryptocurrency spam.
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by jks 6y ago
Apparently set theorists weren't satisfied with Greek, Fraktur or blackboard bold, so they use (at least) aleph and beth from Hebrew.
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by jks 6y ago
To write the lowercase xi and zeta, I imagine that I am looping around the horizontal bars in the corresponding uppercase letters, and they tend to come out approximately right. I remember a Greek-born colleague writing the uppercase Omega
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by jks 7y ago
There's a 2017 writeup from Instagram: https://instagram-engineering.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...

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