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by jolmg 8y ago
Security sure is inconvenient. :) But really, what's your threat model? For a VPS employee/company to mess with your packages, they'd have to be personally targeting you. If you're only worried about systematic, automate
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by jolmg 8y ago
How about you rent a VPS, build your packages there, and set up the VPS as your own binary package repository? A $5/month ($0.0075/hr) Linode VPS comes with an SSD, and they're absurdly fast with the network. If it helps (I&#
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by jolmg 8y ago
> but the lack of explicitness about casting exact types (Integer, Rational) to inexact types (Int, Float) has led to many bugs and confusions for me. > I love all of the automatic casting between exact types, but happily implicitly c
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by jolmg 8y ago
I like how Haskell does it. When you simply write a number like "3" it will infer the type to be "Num a => a" which means it could be any type you have loaded that defines the functions in the typeclass Num: cla
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by jolmg 8y ago
So, is wiki.c2.com something that people keep writing on or is it really readonly nowadays? Is there a way to become a member? I just mistakenly signed up to hypothes.is from the right side-bar thinking it was c2.com.
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by jolmg 8y ago
I'm curious if anyone knows how it really has developed. Has anyone documented the history? Do I understand correctly that right now it's a hierarchy with Linus at the top and levels of "Lieutenants" managing increasingl
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by jolmg 8y ago
> the fact is that if it really was that good it likely would have won in the marketplace I don't think so, and, this being HN, I thought we all knew by now that just because the market favors something it doesn't make it bette
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by jolmg 8y ago
Also looks fine in Firefox in Linux
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by jolmg 8y ago
I'm hoping for something like Ghost in the Shell, where they can interact with everything and communicate with one another with pure thought. Looking at the characters in the series, it seems super convenient. Though, I sure as hell ho
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by jolmg 8y ago
I would also buy a Lisp Machine, provided I could afford one. I'm really interested to see this software environment that I've heard spoken so highly of. What I've understood so far of it sounds amazing.
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by jolmg 8y ago
Regardless of that, I think the greater concern is what it means for the rest of the world (the non-citizens). There is no reason to expect any sort of friendly/just process from foreign entities.
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by jolmg 8y ago
The article also said: > The shape helps it stop rolling away.
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by jolmg 8y ago
It's not free software, so what's the point of being disappointed that an organization, whose sole purpose is getting the world to favor free software over closed source, is going to be against it? It's like being disappointe
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by jolmg 8y ago
In vim's usr_03.txt manual file, it says: > One of the most useful movement commands is the single-character search command. The command "fx" searches forward in the line for the single character x. Hint: "f" s
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by jolmg 8y ago
Right, so in the context of this discussion, tmux panes are not a good substitute for vim windows, since you wouldn't be able to copy-paste between them unless what you were copying fit in a single pane-full.
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by jolmg 8y ago
Sharing a normal user account. It's not ideal, but it's not that bad either. I think you're missing a lot of context to properly judge this, but to keep it short and avoid divulging details it boils down to balancing costs,
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by jolmg 8y ago
I often need to use vim in servers that are not solely administered by me. It seems like bad etiquette to impose my configuration on my co-workers, so we leave it mostly unconfigured on these servers. There's also cases where I want to
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by jolmg 8y ago
> "change forward" [...] 'cf' "change find", you mean.
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by jolmg 8y ago
> Amp has native clipboard integration, so content will carry between different instances By "native" does that mean an X-server's clipboard? So when you're running it on a machine that has no X-server running (a typi
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by jolmg 8y ago
I too, for a time, had setup my system so that windows were partially transparent. It looked cool, and helped to find windows when they were hidden behind other ones. Then, one day, I turned the partial transparency off, and found it to be
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by jolmg 8y ago
I guess these are so obvious no one mentioned them, but: ssh, git, zsh, bash, curl, wget, gpg, gzip, xz, btrfs, qemu, pv, tar, diff, comm, column, sort, uniq, sed, bc, tr, od, xxd, tcpdump, tshark, ping, nmap, ip, iw, xdotool, xrdb, grep, p
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by jolmg 8y ago
> Votes and currency work completely differently. In an election, you have one vote. Not all voting systems are created equal. There are voting systems that permit using more than 1 vote, like this one: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by jolmg 8y ago
> If supporting someone with X€ is any kind of "vote", it's a vote that they should get X€ more than they currently get for their work. No, think of each unit of currency as equaling 1 vote. It's a vote that, between
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by jolmg 8y ago
"Transparency" is a pretty word, and I like transparency in a lot of things, but not in everything, and I don't think it's good here. I've given my reasons in another comment close to this one: https://ne
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by jolmg 8y ago
Like john_moscow has pointed out, though, that deters people from becoming Patreon creators. It's very normal for people to underestimate the difficulty of what others do or the real worth of their work. Besides that, supporting someon
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by jolmg 8y ago
Huh. I didn't know Patreon published info on what creators are earning. Wouldn't that be a design flaw? What's the benefit to anybody? It seems to only deter potential sponsors.
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by jolmg 8y ago
Sure, "close your account" is actionable, but it's funny to think that it's not a clear sign that their customer support is completely broken. I mean, when you inform a company of a problem and their customer support adm
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by jolmg 8y ago
No, I hate it too. As a consumer, I wish to do my computing in my machine and not in SaaS provider's machines, having to share with them personal data when there's no technical reason to do so. I think the main driving forces on t
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by jolmg 8y ago
That kind of summarizes what I like about Haskell. The types of every value and function are so informative, and the definitions, even in third-party libraries, are often so short and to-the-point that surprises are very minimal even when w
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by jolmg 8y ago
It's not just about Tinder. In the article it says he wants to avoid general discrimination he faces based on that 20 year difference in age. For example, he wants to work again, but no one wants to hire someone at retirement age. This

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