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by jolmg 2y ago
> One of the things that this person does is simply echo to /dev/lp0. > So, if I plug a USB printer into a computer, and ls > /dev/usbXXX, will it print today? Does that still "just work"? Both of the
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by jolmg 2y ago
You mean this part of my comment: >> The shell performs [...] arithmetic expansion, command substitution [...] on those words. > [...] and that command substitution is peformed after arithmetic expansion in `[[` [...] You're r
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by jolmg 2y ago
The relevant parts from the bash manpage: > arg1 OP arg2 > OP is one of -eq, -ne, -lt, -le, -gt, or -ge. [...] When used with the [[ command, Arg1 and Arg2 are evaluated as arithmetic expressions (see ARITHMETIC EVALUATION above)
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by jolmg 2y ago
Is that also the case with physical games for consoles? You can't take your disc and play at your friend's house anymore without reactivating and linking your account on their console?
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by jolmg 2y ago
I see "Buy now" on Amazon kindle book product pages. Your point is true, though. It's not all that common to use those words. I thought at least the checkout page would, but I'm seeing "Place your order", which
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by jolmg 2y ago
> (4) This section does not apply to any of the following: > (C) Any digital good that is advertised or offered to a person that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good availabl
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by jolmg 2y ago
> you're getting a product for either a fixed period [...] neither of which applies here. Typically, as a practical matter, the license ends with your death. You can't pass your kindle ebooks and steam games as inheritance like
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by jolmg 2y ago
> I get the feeling it's going to break all shar archives with binary files shar encodes binary files. Here's what it does with a file that has contents: "foo\0bar\n": sed 's/^X//' <&
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by jolmg 2y ago
Probably because they're not characters. They're just bytes undefined by ASCII.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> You have, in some countries, the legal right "to request" work from home under laws typically aimed at flexible working. But that's it. I would think, generally speaking, you have the right to request anything of anyone
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by jolmg 2y ago
> Having `exit` or `quit` without the parens work might accommodate some people whose first choice isn't to call a function (I guess because they're thinking of the REPL as a shell?), In ruby, parentheses are optional for funct
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by jolmg 2y ago
> It cannot be used as a rental. It's not just the home-buying market where prices are high. It's also the home-rental market. > so that no one has to be homeless anymore. People that can't buy may no longer be able to
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by jolmg 2y ago
> As a teacher ... tasks such as writing or programming I hadn't realized programming was being taught pre-university. From a quick look online it seems high-schoolers may be learning Python. That's pretty cool. Wonder how wide
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by jolmg 2y ago
> have the compilers output dependency information while they're compiling, and use that. It'd be moot after they've been compiled. You're saying compile to get the information to decide if you should compile.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> it's against the rules here to those kinds of fake quotes. What part of the guidelines are you referring to? Also, despite the quotation marks, I don't think they mean to quote you. They're just rephrasing you as they un
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by jolmg 2y ago
Not familiar with Erlang, but from reading I imagine that rebar3 understands those `{% extends ... %}`, and uses them to determine what needs to be updated. With a Makefile, you'd express those dependencies in the Makefile rather than
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by jolmg 2y ago
> Your description of North and South America being 'America' is the imposition of hispanic imperialism on Anglo-America and the natives. I don't find this acceptable as that is unjust. This first sentence seems unintellig
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by jolmg 2y ago
In Spanish, it's common for double negatives to not actually be double negatives. For example, if you wanted to say "there's nothing here", you'd say "no hay nada aquí", which word-for-word means "the
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by jolmg 2y ago
> It would not only be wrong, it would also be as culturally imperialistic to do to everyone else as forcing North and South America to be 'America'. That logic is kind of backwards. To probably almost all of South America and
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by jolmg 2y ago
Whatever your personal criteria on what a continent is, historical convention bears more weight. You yourself recognize this if, despite your criteria, you're not willing to correct other people and tell them that Europe and Asia are n
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by jolmg 2y ago
> It was the first chance for traders in Tokyo to react to a Friday jobs report that showed hiring by U.S. employers slowed last month by much more than expected. > The unemployment rate’s jump to 4.3% in July crossed a tripwire that
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by jolmg 2y ago
My guess is that if they dropped "baby" and just said: > people seem to prefer ELI5 talk they might've not gotten downvoted. (Didn't downvote myself, but this makes sense to me.)
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by jolmg 2y ago
> A suggestion that was not adopted was to modify true and false to take an optional argument, and true would exit true only if the argument was non-zero, and false would exit false only if the argument was non-zero: > while true $((
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by jolmg 2y ago
The decaf I buy states they have close ties with the farmers. The company they use for decaffeination seems to be a service-oriented company. You send them the raw coffee, they decaffeinate it, and then send it back with recommendations for
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by jolmg 2y ago
Worse? You mean in comparison to the CO2 one, which I hadn't heard of before?
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by jolmg 2y ago
I wouldn't expect a coffee shop to do the decaffeination there. Rather, the company that does the decaffeination is its own thing, which then ships their product to the roaster, which then ships their product to your local coffee shop.
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by jolmg 2y ago
> So when you’re reading 7-bit ASCII, if it starts with 00, it’s a non-printing character. Otherwise it’s a printing character. > The first printing character is space; it’s an invisible character, but it’s still one that has meaning
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by jolmg 2y ago
If you mean the following, it actually doesn't: (function () { var x = 0; const foo1 = function(a, b) { var x = 2; } const foo2 = (a, b) => { var x = 3; } foo1(); console.log(x); // prints 0 foo2();
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by jolmg 2y ago
> Initramfs is used for generic kernels where you don't know beforehand which features will be required. And also for e.g. cases where you've got some custom stack of block devices that you need to set up before the root FS and
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by jolmg 2y ago
Huh. Robot with denim jacket in Chromium, but placeholder image (mountain and sun icon) in Firefox. Can view in Firefox if cb query param is removed. Weird.

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