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811.
by jolmg 5y ago
It changes with every refresh.
812.
by jolmg 5y ago
> and possibly other shells? Years ago--I don't if it's still the case--but the fish shell used ^ to redirect stderr. EDIT: I remembered right: https://web.archive.org/web/20111111003423/http:/&#x
813.
by jolmg 5y ago
> At some point the Jack Armstrong program invited listeners to mail in a Wheaties box top to get a decoder ring that could be used to decipher secret messages that would be given near the end of certain broadcasts. I remember seeing tha
814.
by jolmg 5y ago
I hadn't noticed the weird parallel where Japan also uses one word, "sensei" in their case, for both teacher and medical doctor.
815.
by jolmg 5y ago
Ok. Rather than offering an alternate definition, it seemed to me that you were explaining why Boeing's definition made sense by leaning on the implication that the possession of a degree equaled whether or not you could do such things
816.
by jolmg 5y ago
> engineers have a degree in engineering > An engineer writes the sort function, and can tell you its complexity and why the algorithm he chose (or invented) is the most appropriate one for the particular sorting task, and what the ca
817.
by jolmg 5y ago
Reminds me of > The Valentine’s Day Text Message Mystery https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21486124 > Text messages being resent from February, in November https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21474
818.
by jolmg 5y ago
> or do Photoshop-level editing of photos How far ahead is Photoshop when compared to Gimp for the type of editing an average Photoshop user does? Do people really find Gimp lacking?
819.
by jolmg 5y ago
Not everyone has unstable connections, nor need to be logged-in to remote systems for long periods of time. > tmux at `tmux a` also works as a shortcut to "attach".
820.
by jolmg 5y ago
Last time I remember this issue was brought up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797720 You can mostly avoid this problem with a little configuration if bracketed-paste-mode isn't default on whatever you're
821.
by jolmg 5y ago
I'm fine with PGP, thanks.
822.
by jolmg 5y ago
age can't sign, though. It's not as useful. You can't use it for authentication, for instance. You need a separate program with a separate key and its own separate yubikey support.
823.
by jolmg 5y ago
It didn't try to do what you put on that list. It didn't do messaging; messaging programs used it. It didn't do backups; backup programs used it. It's just a foundation-sort of program that does encryption and signing of
824.
by jolmg 5y ago
Emacs too. IIRC, you right click and drag.
825.
by jolmg 5y ago
GVim is obscure? And on xscreensavers, are they not the default/only screensavers on distros anymore?
826.
by jolmg 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
827.
by jolmg 5y ago
The difference compared to SPAs is that this doesn't use javascript.
828.
by jolmg 5y ago
> Max Webber [of] John Kind of like Johnson.
829.
by jolmg 5y ago
> Get confortable using “grep” [1], or better, “ripgrep” [2] And as part of getting comfortable, the -A and -C options are particularly useful.
830.
by jolmg 5y ago
> PayPal has begun to be perceived as one of the most customer un-friendly companies around... People are waking up to this Begun? Is the perception now any different than it was e.g. 10 years ago? I feel it's always been the same.
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by jolmg 5y ago
Given that a search engine needs to scrape the whole web to exist, I can't understand how they can stand against a user scraping unrelated third-parties, like it's some sort of grand evil they need to stand up against. Talk about
832.
by jolmg 5y ago
It keeps reading unused blocks instead of just the used ones. It's also writing way more blocks than there were originally, nearly filling the disk. That's good irony.
833.
by jolmg 5y ago
Seeing that "obrigato" is used to say thanks kind of makes me wonder if Japanese's "arigato" has a similar etymology. Apparently not: http://www.accessj.com/2014/05/etymology-of-arigato.htm
834.
by jolmg 5y ago
It is part of the user interface of the server as it is.
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by jolmg 5y ago
The difference between the "obrigado" in Portuguese example and the "me llamo" in Spanish example is that "obrigado" is probably an adjective while "llamo" is a verb. An equivalent Spanish example wou
836.
by jolmg 5y ago
> RSS is the only way I know, without having to scrap things by hand, to get an aggregate of "news/articles" from the sites and blogs I follow I haven't signed up for any so I'm not sure, but don't some plac
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by jolmg 5y ago
> and zsh is sufficiently different But generally not with stuff that one typically uses for scripting. In most ways, it's a superset of bash. Besides word-splitting on unquoted variables being turned off with default settings (whic
838.
by jolmg 5y ago
That date is probably part of the story. The page first appeared on the WayBackMachine in 2007. I imagine it was written then.
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by jolmg 5y ago
Something like ranger? https://ranger.github.io/ Ctrl-S opens the shell in the current directory, l/right opens what's under the cursor if it's a regular file or navigates to it if it's a directory.
840.
by jolmg 5y ago
I think I remember seeing people complain about its interface, but it's changed so much since then, I don't know if there are still people complaining.

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