martinflack

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by martinflack 2y ago
> It basically requires an act of congress or the President to change it once done. Isn't the mere passage of time also a remover of classification? Like isn't there a default time from the creation date? Or it must be positive
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by martinflack 3y ago
These days I wonder about all the cameras in a modern environment and "keylogging" from another device filming the user typing.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Oh that's easy, it's Janreburary Firscond 2021.
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by martinflack 3y ago
^ This is huge. A lot of top-level macro usage would be really annoying to implement if wrapping a PROGN around top-level commands neutered their effect.
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by martinflack 3y ago
You might like Guile, a form of Scheme. It lets you have define calls inside a begin call (progn equivalent) exactly as you ask.
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by martinflack 3y ago
On parliament.uk they use a logo of a crowned portcullis, which apparently is a style that dates back centuries.
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by martinflack 3y ago
And a good dentist can swap out your existing mercury fillings for composite ones for you.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Is deb inferior to rpm? Genuine question.
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by martinflack 3y ago
And in this scenario, it might not even have been an assessment of risk, but rather "just to mess with him". The reporting person may have thought it would be a funny prank to have him questioned by police over the message and tha
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by martinflack 3y ago
I've been lightly car shopping in the past few weeks, and from chatting to salespeople, that does seem like the trend that's coming.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Some advertising of the ad-free paid plans is good because it takes the segment of customers who will not tolerate ads and gives them an option, rather than lose them.
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by martinflack 3y ago
What's interesting is that the button need not actually reset the Internet right away. It's actually a user signal that "customers are complaining the Internet does not work". The button could initiate a whole series of
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by martinflack 3y ago
You say that, but Google Search is still free after decades, whereas you can pay ChatGPT $20/mo for a membership right now.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Or pushed.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Here's another article with possibly better legal citations: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=aeee1c5f-28d7... (I'm not saying it's good or bad, just passing on information.)
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by martinflack 3y ago
As a law prof once told me, "shall" can end up being ambiguous in court, despite the common understanding. I'm sure this isn't the best tutorial on the topic but it gives you a taste: https://www.barandbench.c
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by martinflack 3y ago
Use human and robots. And UNION every query. Just kidding. Then you'd eventually need extraterrestrials, sentient_ai, ghosts, and all kinds of extras.
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by martinflack 3y ago
Sorry if this is a silly question; why isn't there more investment in heated garages? Going outside to get into a below-freezing car sounds very uncomfortable.
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by martinflack 3y ago
I actually prefer programs to have their own configuration files with well-intentioned format choices. Where Linux has adopted these registry-style configurations accessible only through GUI or arcane CLI commands nobody is supposed to actu
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by martinflack 3y ago
I'd future-proof it against coming TLD's up-front.
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by martinflack 3y ago
It's not just a question of whether it makes a legit TLD; it's also whether military personnel should have any reason to send email there from a given system.
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by martinflack 3y ago
They'd need every permutation of 2, 3 letters of m, i, l; and while we're at it, add the keys close-by on a qwerty layout. It seems like a better approach would be to harden all email software in usage to ban almost-but-not-quite
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by martinflack 3y ago
> Meta goes farther than Twitter ever did, as they actually deprioritize the more news-like content. I think an interesting experiment would be to also prioritize some "news-ish" "good news" of the type that wouldn&#x
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by martinflack 3y ago
But the issue is -- would it break the things a web server is doing? It doesn't have to be a universal solution.
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by martinflack 3y ago
And the candidate would respond with a Dockerfile that says "FROM egg".
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by martinflack 3y ago
I prefer to write on ruled paper and tuck it into the front cover for the following reasons: - ruled paper is easier to write on - you won't run out of space (just add sheets) - you can rewrite summaries as you revisit books decades la
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by martinflack 3y ago
Given the token count limits on input and output, I've been wondering how folks work on these long-running projects? Is it just not a problem, or are there some tactics? I find in trying to build up lengthy outputs that it starts trunc
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by martinflack 3y ago
The Bible has changed connotations in certain verses in the translation stage. For one example, "The Ten Commandments" is an unscriptural phrase; it's "The Ten Words" in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Only for the King J
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by martinflack 3y ago
Simple and judicious note-taking as I read the book for the first time, by pen & paper; then I usually leave those notes tucked into the front of the book, and for a couple years, I revisit and review those notes every few months. At so
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by martinflack 3y ago
> So does giving all your variable names one-letter names and putting your entire codebase on one line. Surely we can agree that character count is a poor measure of readability or maintainability. Which is why pg advocates symbol count.

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