jlgreco

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by jlgreco 13y ago
I remember I once spent a good 10 minutes trying to find "print" in microsoft word, with it's ribbon. I knew I could just hit ctrl-p of course, but I kept at it because I was baffled at how hidden it was. IIRC, I eventually
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> 2001 when the statement "every piece of software I use is downloaded from the internet" would have been ridiculous at the time. Not for the sort of people that he is arguing against in this post, such as Linus Åkerlund who
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"Ohhh. It eats up all your memory. I see. Actually, well, no, it doesn't. Ever since Windows 1.0, in 1987, the operating system only loads pages as they are used. If you have a 15MB executable and you only use code that spans 2MB
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by jlgreco 13y ago
push.default Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is given on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the
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That is what current means right now. His proposal seems to be "call whatever happens to be the default 'current'" . This of course gets you into a non-intuitive "The king is dead, long live the king" sort
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(In addition to "current" already being taken...) If it were called your "intuitive" name ( "current" , meaning "this is the current default" ), then it would, extremely unintuitively, require rena
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People have been partying on yachts since yachts were invented. Seasickness is probably not a significant concern.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "even Nobel prize winners can be susceptible, just recall Pauling and Shockley. Also, Bobby Fischer. This guy could easily have fallen prey to the same kind of brain eater." I've heard this referred to as the "Nob
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Ortberg didn’t say why she thought some professors craved the attention of their female students to the degrees detailed in the Twitter thread, but Saxena had some ideas. > “I think if your job is to command the attention of
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I understand that there are pirates elsewhere, let me rephrase: The only stories I regularly see about pirates are Somalian pirates, and the only times I have heard the "you should have some sympathy, they are poor and starving&quo
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I am not particularly aware of modern non-Somalian pirates.
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Aye, the Numberphile video is fantastic; that's actually where I first found out about this. :) All their videos tend to be great; they're done by the same film-maker that does the "Periodic Videos" youtube channel, Bra
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Between this and the recent stories of mass elephant poisonings and high-tech rhino/elephant poachers, I find it increasingly hard to relate with the "We should dampen our judgement of these people, because they are poor and thei
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Is that the sort of scenario that keeps you up late at night? That isn't normal. Normal people do not spend their time worrying that Texas is going to get nuked. You should probably talk with somebody about that.
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If you make a plot of how many different sequences a particular number appears in in this database, a rather interesting pattern emerges. Some numbers appear frequently, as you would expect (primes, numbers 1 off from prime, etc) while othe
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The difference between Seattle and other cities that are considered dangerous is that generally in dangerous cities it isn't a single demographic that feels uncomfortable in the allegedly dangerous parts of town. In actually dangero
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That is an emotional argument, not a rational one. Unfortunately , many people find those sort of arguments to be incredibly persuading.
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Speaking of rational arguments...
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Psychology today is still struggling with classifying disorders by observable symptoms . We are a long way off from being able to make a wide range of conclusive and specific diagnoses, particularly of subtle phenomenon. Hell, it isn
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Right.. and compared to Detroit, Seattle's crime issues are quaint. Saying that SF has a worse issue with homeless is damning with faint praise.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "If you want to find a scapegoat for panhandling, I'd first turn to the recession..." How many of those homeless people are on the streets because they lost their factory jobs and the bank kicked them out of their McMa
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I am not convinced that they could within any foreseeable future. They may be able to prove that the knowledge is in there, or they may be able to prove that you think you are lying, but proving that you are truly able merely unwilling
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If that's the suspision, then use an exotic platform to dump whatever the drive is doing. I know a guy who got usb mass storage devices working from a Zilog z80 based calculator. I doubt an arbitrary usb malware is going to be clever
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I once saw humans making filenames like --splitwork --verbose -tdxh input.txt And by "once", I mean "yesterday". Now, is it reasonable to design a system that takes input flags through the names of input files? No.
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Yeah, but we don't have a time machine, so we don't get to pick the reality where all UNIX-native filesystems restricted filenames like FAT. This isn't something that you can retroactively change, so we are stuck on this rea
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Some of us don't consider human rights a "privilege".
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Traditionally encryption is left to higher layers.
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If the system they create is excessively vulnerable to political pressure, then it would be better to find that out sooner rather than later. If bad PR threatens their ability to operate, then perhaps they should not be operating.
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> There are a few cable repair ships that pull broken cables to the surface and fix them, but other than that... No one can reach it and no one will bother it. Even if you pull the cable up to repair it, it is unlikely that you would d
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't waterboard him, and he'll tell you whatever he wants you to hear. Waterboard him, and he'll tell you whatever you want to hear. Questioning him, under any circumstances, is useless. We need to get rid of him instead,

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