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by jorams 9y ago
In recent years, Microsoft has been pushing automatic updates more and more. At the same time, the updating experience just hasn't gotten any better. My Linux install never urges me to update. Updates come out many times a day, and I c
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by jorams 9y ago
> (…you still can't crop pictures in LibreOffice…) You can. It has been in Draw and Impress for a long time, and since LibreOffice 5.0 it's supported in Writer and Calc as well. 5.0 was released 2 years ago.
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by jorams 10y ago
> nginx and apache only do HTTP(S). Don't support TCP. That's not entirely accurate. For nginx, for example, there's the ngx_stream_core_module[1]. It's not particularly well-documented though, so I don't know mu
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by jorams 10y ago
When you serve files over https (which you always should) you can't use sendfile anyway. The data will have to be encrypted, so you can't have the kernel send the data straight into the socket.
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by jorams 10y ago
What happens is well specified, see [1] and more specifically [2]. I don't understand where packages even enter the picture though. Symbols/packages and method dispatch are entirely separate concepts that are hardly related. You c
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by jorams 10y ago
One alternative view on history that I think could be very useful, is a graph showing not just where I was, but also how I got there and where I went. It happens fairly often that I remember reading something through, say, HN, but I have no
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by jorams 10y ago
I wish Europeans were more afraid of it, because trusting your government too much is dangerous. The thing with governments is that they change. They may change for the better, for worse, or somewhere in the middle; you can never be sure. F
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by jorams 10y ago
There's an emacs package for that[1]. It's not as well integrated and there are some rough edges, but it's incredibly useful. I use it a lot . Often for quick local refactoring, but also for larger things like you mentioned.
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by jorams 10y ago
I don't understand why October 4, 2012 is even mentioned here. That's when they disabled public folders for new users, but now they are getting rid of all of them. Dropbox is getting rid of public folders entirely.
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by jorams 10y ago
Right, but that's not what GFM does. GFM turns any single newline into a <br>.
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by jorams 10y ago
It's odd how neither this post, nor the spec, nor GitHub's "Mastering Markdown" help page[1], nor the more complete "Basic writing and formatting syntax" page[2], mentions the fact that GitHub treats every newl
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by jorams 10y ago
Maybe something changed very recently, but as far as I know Minecraft really doesn't make efficient use of multiple cores. Almost all game logic happens on a single thread, so getting fewer, more powerful cores would be a much better w
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by jorams 10y ago
Because of the Berne Convention[1], that's how it works in the vast majority of the world. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
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CHIP-8 in Common Lisp: Menus(stevelosh.com)
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by jorams 10y ago
I think most CL programmers would agree with several of your points. Using lists of symbols instead of strings is not useful. Though there are infinite ways to model the calendar, a slightly better way would be something like the following.
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by jorams 10y ago
I'm not sure which WeeChat you're comparing to, but practically nothing you said applies to the weechat I know[1]. It's primary interface is a CLI one, it is incredibly flexible, and it's a full fledged IRC client with e
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by jorams 10y ago
I do something very similar, and have also been doing it for the past 3 years. I started out somewhat structured, not with org-mode but something similar, but I fairly quickly switched to just using plain text. A few days after I started, I
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by jorams 10y ago
What the OP takes to the extreme is a property of weak typing, not dynamic typing. These properties are separate issues. A language is either statically typed or dynamically typed, and it is also either strongly typed or weakly typed. In
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by jorams 10y ago
The last season has been out for a while. I ended up being very impressed by just how well it's executed. When the cut was announced after season 4 I thought it could only end in disappointment, but after watching season 5, I truly fel
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by jorams 10y ago
I noticed something similar. A few years ago I tried for a few weeks to be in bed early and get up early. The result was that a) I had more trouble falling asleep because the world around me was a lot more active, b) I wouldn't actuall
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by jorams 10y ago
"patching upstream" in this context means "applying patches to the upstream during packaging". Nix and Guix require programs to work with a directory layout that differs significantly from the standard. Simple things lik
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by jorams 10y ago
Why does Wayland need any sort of ssh-agent/gpg-agent support? I can't think of any reason for Wayland to have anything to do with their functionality, but I'm not at all familiar with Wayland.
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by jorams 10y ago
That was initially confusing to me as well, but it isn't that bad. If you open a .png (or similar) and edit it, there's a button in the File menu (I believe shortcut ctrl-shift-e) that exports directly to the original filename.
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by jorams 10y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, that's not what that comment says at all. It's about getting a copy of the data into the Internet Archive, regardless of what happens to gmane.org itself.
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by jorams 10y ago
I think the real problem with the fizzbuzz example is that the "clever" solution fails to properly break the problem down. Fizz buzz essentially consists of two parts: 1. We have an increasing sequence of numbers. 2. Every number
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by jorams 10y ago
> You get a pocket-calculator-like device where you need to insert your card (chip and pin type), then you enter your personal code, and then you do a challenge-response thing where you enter a code generated from the website into the de
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by jorams 10y ago
The list of addresses was prepended to the email, but the addresses were added to the end of the list itself. Thus, every recipient saw their own address as the last item in the list.
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by jorams 10y ago
Just click the language name. All guides are in English, with translations to other languages available in addition to that.
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by jorams 10y ago
As an addition to your transcription, here is the last letter transcribed: to John Backus 91 Saint Germain Avenue SAN FRANCISCO, California 94114 U.S.A. 12th July 1979 Dear John, M
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by jorams 10y ago
That's highly inaccurate. First of all only Maria Strydom died, not her husband. Eric Arnold does not appear to have been vegan. Second, altitude sickness and exhaustion are completely different things.

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