krylon

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by krylon 5y ago
Huh, I didn't know that. You learn something new every day.
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by krylon 5y ago
I do not consider that strange. It might be a side effect, but it is very useful, indeed.
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by krylon 5y ago
One size does not fit all. If you are more productive without syntax highlighting, by all means, disable it. When I first started to program, I found syntax highlighting annoying and distracting, but I changed my mind within a year or so. S
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, once upon a time, Microsoft invested quite a bit of money in Apple to keep them alive. Allegedly, they did this so they could tell the DoJ with a straight face that they were not a monopolist, after all they had a competitor. I would
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by krylon 5y ago
I assume you have not encountered SharePoint. The SharePoint documentation I could get my hands on - even in books I paid for - was so bad it was like I was living inside some David Lynch interpretation of Ancient Greek myths of divine puni
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by krylon 5y ago
I know this shouldn't be made fun of, and as a German I am very upset about it. But: "Pimmelgate" is an awesome name. Also, don't politicians know about the Streisand effect? If they hadn't raided this guy, nobody w
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by krylon 5y ago
"zero-skepticism proof" is an amazing name. Don't mind if I borrow that from time to time. ;-)
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by krylon 5y ago
Either you are twisting my words, or I phrased what I said very badly. Let me rephrase what I said, hopefully more clearly: First, from the perspective of "the universe", the very concept of meaning is meaningless (sorry, no pun i
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by krylon 5y ago
Albert Camus wrote a beautiful (IMHO, at least) book about it, The Myth of Sisyphus . His point, as I understand it, is that nothing matters in the sense that the universe is vast and empty does not care what happens to you or me. But that
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by krylon 5y ago
That one haunts me. I wish someone with the required talent would make it into a movie. It would be really creepy and depressing but I could not get enough of it.
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by krylon 5y ago
I've seen it. Twice. The first time was a bit of a let-down, but the cast is brilliant, and I have come to appreciate the slow pacing very much.
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by krylon 5y ago
100% agree. It took me three attempts to make it to the end, because the violence is so... much. But once you manage to ... let's say "transcend" that, it is a very rewarding experience. I absolutely adore how McCarthy manage
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by krylon 5y ago
I was intrigued by the weird-sounding title and found myself pleasantly surprised the article was a fascinating read, accompanied by beautiful pictures. Coincidentally (or perhaps not) there is a song by Death Metal band Morbid Angel titled
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by krylon 5y ago
The default for NFSv3 is to map client-side root to server-side nobody, unless you explicitly tell it not to. (Which I had to do once to run a diskless workstation with an NFS root filesystem.)
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by krylon 5y ago
I only ever used Windows ME for a while after starting to use Linux as my main desktop, so I could watch DVDs - CPUs back then were not quite fast enough to decode DVDs in software, and my MPEG decoder card was not supported on Linux. It ne
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by krylon 5y ago
I think Autodesk still uses it. I vaguely recall running into some trouble with the FlexLM service and Autodesk Inventor when I still worked as a Windows admin/helpdesk monkey.
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by krylon 5y ago
As far as I know - which isn't very far! - Microsoft started to support SCO only after they had dragged IBM to court. SCO had pretty much bet the future of the company on their and IBM's joint Itanium Unix, and when IBM pulled out
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by krylon 5y ago
Having used Windows 95 back in the day, I am deeply impressed someone managed to keep it from crashing for so long. I have seen a Windows NT 4.0 system with an uptime of more than five years, but with Windows 95, even a whole day of uptime
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by krylon 5y ago
Well, IBM certainly is no stranger to anti-competitive behavior. If SCO had focused on breach of contract from the beginning, their case actually would have had some merit, IMHO. But then they went bananas and made fools of themselves with
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by krylon 5y ago
There used to be an extension for Firefox called "Open in reader mode" that adds an item to the context menu for links to... well, open them in reader mode. It's not quite what you want, but I found it to be very helpful. I h
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by krylon 5y ago
I am not big Stones fan (I have nothing against them, either, they are a legend!), but I always liked his style. Rest In Peace.
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by krylon 5y ago
I think there is a German ISP called SNAFU, so there's that. Anyway, I call dibs on trainwreck.io!
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by krylon 5y ago
Like I said, I welcome the option to enforce stricter type checking, and I definitely will make use of it once it becomes available. OTOH, if type safety is a concern, one can already enforce it using CHECK constraints or triggers. But yeah
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by krylon 5y ago
These days, I am a Go person, so mostly yes, but I used to be a Python, Perl, and Ruby person, and I did not encounter any problems there, either. I think if you expect your database to use certain types, you write your code accordingly. Wh
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by krylon 5y ago
This is nice. Very nice. But to be honest, having used SQLite in many hobby/toy projects for ~15 years, I have never ever encountered a type error with it. Stricter handling of types is a good idea, IMHO, but if the alternative had bee
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by krylon 5y ago
Personally, I like Albert Camus very much. Like Nietzsche, he has a bad reputation for being moody and depressing, but the way I see it, he is really liberating and optimistic. A true humanist.
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by krylon 5y ago
The first time I watched the Big Lebowski, I hated it and found it really annoying, but I have re-watched it plenty of times by now, and it does get better every time. A Classic. EDIT: Also, thank you for pointing that out, I would not have
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by krylon 5y ago
Blue Planet II depicts a group of Dolphins visiting a certain kind of coral that emits a substance that allegedly helps them fight off parasites. Earlier BBC documentaries show animals (birds and fish) seek the "service" of certai
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by krylon 5y ago
That's the one, yes! Amazing, aren't they? Walking around nonchalantly, like they own the place. ;-?
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by krylon 5y ago
I once spent ten minutes frantically looking for my wristwatch. It was very stressful, because I had to go to school, and I did not have much time left to catch the bus. So after a while (like I said, about ten minutes), I looked at my wris

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