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by loudmax 5y ago
Pretty sure JSON isn't part of POSIX.
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by loudmax 5y ago
The issue is that a lot of people even today are biblical literalists and they look to the holy books for justification for whatever beliefs they hold in the first place. So you can absorb "love thy neighbor" if that's what
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by loudmax 5y ago
I get the feeling that much of the problem is the Facebook (also Reddit, etc) were originally set up as social networks, but they've sort of become news sites for a lot of people. This didn't matter so much when the news being sh
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by loudmax 5y ago
`pass` was written by Jason Donenfeld, the developer who gave us WireGuard. It's is a bash script that makes it convenient and easy to use gpg2, the OpenPGP encryption tool. Frankly, I'm kind of shocked at how difficult it is to
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by loudmax 5y ago
FWIW, my 2019 plug-in Prius has worked out well for me. It has a little over 25 mile electric range, and when the battery is out it switches to gas. My commute to the office is short so I can make it to work and back on a single charge, a
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by loudmax 5y ago
I guess in the same way that public libraries steal value from book publishers and public education steals value from private tutors. Also, how rainwater steals value from bottled water companies, fresh air steals value from air filter ven
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't think it's that easy. The syntax of `find` is weird enough as it is, with flags that need to be passed in in the correct order and so many options to choose. So on top of all of that, one now needs to learn an exclusive
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by loudmax 5y ago
Grady Hillhouse does seem like an ironic name for a civil engineer. As far as I can tell, that is indeed his real name. FWIW he uses this name on his LinkedIn profile as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gradyhillhous
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by loudmax 5y ago
Grady's web site seems to be experiencing the HN hug of death right now, but I watched the video last night on Nebula, and there definitely are visuals and they definitely clarify the lecture. And as usual, Grady has built a practical
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by loudmax 5y ago
Why would Go be a better option than Rust here? Go and Rust are optimized for different types of environments. There are a lot of situations when selecting Go over Rust would be a more pragmatic choice. I don't see how coreutils is o
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by loudmax 5y ago
It's thanks to open source that you are allowed to build what whatever you want. You don't have to give back if you don't want to.
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by loudmax 5y ago
Well if we're just speculating here, I'll add that since Chinese is tonal, Chinese speakers will remember the tune of sequence, not just a list of values. It's easier to remember a melody than a phone number.
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by loudmax 5y ago
In India covid infections and deaths peaked in early May, when this article was published. Linking the decline to Ivermectin is a stretch. Most of the studies that found a strong correlation between covid and Ivermectin have been revealed
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This is absolutely true. Rights are also responsibilities. Inasmuch as you have a right to authorize or deny medical procedures on your own body, you are responsible for how your own body affects those around you. When you allow your body
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by loudmax 5y ago
If you'd rather read Tim Dodd than watch his video, here's the text version: https://everydayastronaut.com/aerospikes/
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by loudmax 5y ago
> an unregulated free market always turns into a monopoly (or at best an oligopoly) eventually Free doesn't mean unregulated.
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by loudmax 5y ago
This is the kind of story that would have been cheered on on Slashdot twenty years ago. But here we are in 2021 and a major organization having the temerity to not pay the Microsoft tax is newsworthy. This is not what a free market looks
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by loudmax 5y ago
I don't know what Jeff Geerling's income is, but I'm pretty sure he's a full time Youtuber at this point. He doesn't like the stupid thumbnails either, but generating Youtube views is pretty much his job. Maybe th
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by loudmax 5y ago
I wish Youtube had a "Culture War" button. It would be wonderful to have an easy way to steer clear of culture war bullshit. Not just for YouTube, the whole internet.
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by loudmax 5y ago
I think sneaker aficionados would say that there really are designs that are better than others. That's even leaving aside functionality and just considering aesthetics. To those of us outside the sneaker-head community, sneaker fash
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by loudmax 5y ago
In the current political climate, it's hard enough to get people to agree on objective reality. On the one hand there's healthy skepticism, on the other hand there's selecting news sources to confirm your beliefs. Paul Graha
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> My view is that Bangladeshis get to decide how to structure their society, and that this self determination is a principle that overrides almost all others. Unless you're a Bangladeshi gay I suppose. Then other people get to dete
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by loudmax 5y ago
> deliver essentially a set of Excel templates Ironically, Excel itself being another proprietary standard that's accepted as a necessity.
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> With Linux becoming a viable option on those machines, they become interesting for a far wider audience than just the MacOS users. While the option of running Linux on one of these M1 chips is intriguing to many of us, I have a hard ti
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by loudmax 5y ago
There are deep historical roots for this. In 1861, the US South just wanted to be left alone. It was the US North that forced their moral values on the South. Some of us think that's a good thing.
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by loudmax 5y ago
Arm is a British company and their name comes from their "Acorn RISC Machine". In British English, they tend to only capitalize the first letter of an acronym if it's read as a word. So for example the British Broadcasting C
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by loudmax 5y ago
In the late 90's and early 2000's Microsoft made a real effort to prevent people from being able to choose any operating system other than Windows. They've come a very long way since then, but they still profit from the enor
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by loudmax 5y ago
Regardless of "cool or popular" there are legitimate reasons not to want to give Microsoft more power over computing infrastructure. For that matter, there are legitimate reasons not to want to give Google more power as well. In
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by loudmax 5y ago
That would be BeOS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS Put out of business by everyone's favorite monopolist, but to some extent it lives on as Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/
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by loudmax 5y ago
I'm a little surprised. I've been running Arch since 2011 and it's been rock stable for me. I've run Fedora on secondary machines, but I never stuck with it because things would break during updates. I suspect hardware

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