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1. 721.▲
   by jolmg 4y ago

   Aren't iPod Touches essentially iPhones without the cell modem? I would think it's able to run custom software at least in some sort of developer mode.
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   by jolmg 4y ago

   Bing is worse in that it makes it seem like you can go to e.g. page 100 and will say stuff like "1,000-1,006 of 659,000,000 results", but it's really showing you the results from page 5. Then, for example, in page 5, 6, 7, et
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   by jolmg 4y ago

   https://www.codidact.org/
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   by jolmg 4y ago

   > However, take a look at what changes have been done in GNU Make in recent years. Other than a few bugfixes there was nothing of substance. GNU TexInfo? the same. This is what I mean by "old". There's a clear scope. It ma
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   by jolmg 4y ago

   > I'm sure you're having fun driving your old Ford Country Squire, watching television on an old RCA TV set and using a rotary phone to call friends and family ;-) I said software. Have you stopped using 30 year old Linux, Pyth
6. 726.▲
   by jolmg 4y ago

   And then the chef singed it.
7. 727.▲
   by jolmg 4y ago

   > 30 years late to the party. Why 30 years late? Their earlier manual[1] already covers the C language as standardized 20 years ago with C99. This new one makes mention of at least C11. If it doesn't include features of a later stan
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   by jolmg 4y ago

   This is a reference manual of the language, not their compiler. They did however already have The GNU C Reference Manual[1] before, so I wonder if this is meant to replace that. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-ma
9. 729.▲
   by jolmg 4y ago

   They never said free nor even public health care.
10. 730.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    You mean the keyword; I meant the clause. "FROM foo" is optional to the syntax.
11. 731.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    Having SELECT come first makes sense to me because it's the only part of the statement that's required. FROM and everything else is optional. Also when reading a statement, you're mostly interested in what the returned fields
12. 732.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    Wasn't expecting to see st be on the slower end and emacs on the faster end.
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    By latency, I guess you mean its launching speed? I like urxvt for that. I started using it back when I was on a netbook. So much quicker to launch than gnome-terminal or konsole. I didn't even need its daemon functionality which shoul
14. 734.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    urxvt because of how light it is and because of its extensions, particularly the one for controlling the cursor with the keyboard. I often use it to do quick impromptu searches of the output of previous commands or to copy something. I also
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    Not to be confused with asdf, the Common Lisp build system, I guess.
16. 736.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    > On the other end, I’m also surprised by the “one-year” thing: most of my clothes are more than five-year-old and they are fine. Because these are the minority of clothes despite being used by the majority of people in the example I gav
17. 737.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    Knowing people like that would depend on your social circle. Anyway, it's just an example to show how that number can be easily influenced by a small minority. The real numbers are going to be different.
18. 738.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    It doesn't really say anything about the behavior of the majority of people. A small portion can drive this number down. As an example, say 8 out of 10 people have 7 sets of clothes, one for each day of the week, and use the same sets
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I think the point is that they can't simply say "no". Also, perhaps "I haven't it" is syntactically more similar than "I don't have it" to what they actually say.
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    > i can't log in to any of my banks without my phone. What country is this? Are you sure they're not just heavily pushing for the use of the apps while still having an alternative? What happens if when you open an account you t
21. 741.▲
    by jolmg 4y ago

    > 10 minutes on HN every 2 hours. That's not exactly infrequent. HN doesn't change all that much in a whole day.
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I don't see the author claiming they're a guru. I just see them sharing their experience on their own personal struggle, focusing on what ended up working for them. Also, I'm sure it's been longer than 3 days since they&
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I haven't checked if it already includes it, but they have made a Common Lisp binding for Qt WebEngine which uses code from Chromium, so it at least seems to be the plan.
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    > You [...] absolutely don't get to bitch First, this is unacceptable language. Don't talk to me like that. Second, > what you're really saying is "I'd like to force the people working on wayland to continue w
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I think a large portion if not the majority of the Linux community is just one that prefers choice and customizability over being given whatever that "just works", but not exactly to one's preference. Loss of choice is a loss
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    Same. I was kind of hoping for an in-depth explanation on the difference between Watts and VA, which should be none, W = VA, but apparently for AC they're used for 2 different ways of measuring average power, one being the product of p
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    At least the one from 1964 in the linked YouTube video doesn't.
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I just realized that https://hacker.news redirects to https://news.ycombinator.com/
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    I'm honestly having a hard time listening to the difference between English "li" and "lee". If you mean how "lee" tends to hold the vowel for longer, maybe you're indicating that that syllable holds t
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    by jolmg 4y ago

    > "lib-ray", which for all I know is wrong, That's fine, but if you're curious, the Spanish pronounciation is "li"- as in "list" or "ligament" and "bre" as in "Brenda"