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by js2 3y ago
Because that's the Punycode representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://www.punycoder.com/
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by js2 3y ago
This problem is why Windows started using ctrl-alt-del to login back with Windows NT: https://serverfault.com/questions/2912/how-does-ctrl-alt-del...
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by js2 3y ago
Submissions cannot be downvoted. They can only be upvoted or flagged. Flagging is the tool we have for off-topic submissions. Comments can be upvoted, downvoted, or flagged. There, voting may be used to express agreement and disagreement, b
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I flagged this one because I'm not sure what kind of meaningful discussion we're supposed to have about it, nor do I currently see one occurring here. It is not even remotely on-topic for this site: https://news.ycombin
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by js2 3y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/us/elon-musk-charity.html...
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/10/us/elon-musk-charity.html...
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by js2 3y ago
Apropos essay from a recent segment of This American Life : On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia : https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.111... Radio segment: https://www.thisameric
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by js2 3y ago
Similarly[^1], Pete Gogolok transformed NFL placekicking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Gogolak https://time.com/6590292/super-bowl-field-goal-kick-history-... Other examples of a single athl
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Rephrased for clarity: POSIX specifies at least (a minimum of) 9. POSIX does not specify a maximum. Shells may provide more than 9. From the spec: > Open files are represented by decimal numbers starting with zero. The largest possible v
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by js2 3y ago
I recently watched This is Us and there's an episode on the Challenger explosion. It shows kids in middle school watching the event and it was uncannily exactly as I remember the experience watching it happen in 8th grade.
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by js2 3y ago
I think Julia is talking about the literal contents of .git/HEAD. If you run `git checkout FETCH_HEAD`, you'll checkout the same commit ID that's in FETCH_HEAD, but the contents of .git/HEAD will be that commit ID. It wo
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by js2 3y ago
Ditto git for computer scientists: https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
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This adds confusion because it is not literally a symlink and it doesn't always act like a symlink either. It also assumes people understand the difference between a symbolic link and a hard link. HEAD is a pointer. It points either in
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by js2 3y ago
For Safari you can get Don't Fuck with Paste (and lots of other Don't Fuck with X options) with the Stop The Madness extension. https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
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International Date Line(en.wikipedia.org)
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Sure, that's why I added the disclaimer. I'm just trying to help Fricken out with some good brownie recipes. Google lists dozens of recipe sites when I search for "brownie recipes" and honestly, how many different ways c
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by js2 3y ago
My go to site for baking recipes is Smitten Kitchen. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asmittenkitchen.... I realize adding `site:...` is probably fucking around. But trust me, her brownie recipes are worth it
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by js2 3y ago
Well, may as well add two other required readings. 1. The Turn (1993) by the same William Langewiesche quoted in Children of the Magenta : https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.ht..
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I geeked out on something like this for my TrueNAS server setting fan speed based on drive temperature with a PID controller. e.g. https://github.com/dak180/TrueNAS-Scripts/blob/master/FanCon... (That&#x
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by js2 3y ago
> what is the same day next (calendar) year?" When I wrote "+ 1 year" I meant year to represent 365 or 365.25 days, not "the same day next year.": >>> from datetime import date, timedelta >>&
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I use `set -e` but it has its own quirks. A couple: An arithmetic expression that evaluates to zero will cause the script to exit. e.g this will exit: set -e i=0 (( i++ )) # exits Calling a function from a conditional prevents `s
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collec...
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365 days is what people commonly think of as a year. So if you're born Feb 29th and celebrate your birthday one year later (whether you call that 365 or 365.25), you land on Feb 28th. Then again, folks born between Jan 1 and Feb 28th o
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by js2 3y ago
As of 10 PM US/Eastern, ChatGPT 3.5 answers as follows for me: > You: what is today's date? > ChatGPT: Today's date is February 29, 2024. Please note that February 29 occurs only in leap years. If you have any more ques
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Is March more logical? Feb 29 + 1 year = Feb 28.
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Recent docudrama/biopic about Roger Sharpe: https://letterboxd.com/film/pinball-the-man-who-saved-the-ga... More about Sharpe: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/meet-t
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No one on this site has a large enough sample size to speak authoritatively about the quality of consumer-oriented UPSes. In my home right now, I have an APC (Schneider) Back-UPS Pro 1000, Tripp Lite (Eaton) AVR550U, and CyberPower CP1500PF
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Indeed, they don't like that.
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Everything old is new again: John Carmack's .plan¹: https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/ Archive: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive ¹ htt
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The movie is a character study about Bobby Dupea—one of the greatest malcontents ever put to film. She has to not give him what he wants in order to setup the scene. Why is he so determined to order toast?

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