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by massysett 1y ago
Another possibility is that the designers carefully examined predecessors to learn from their mistakes, and went through a long refinement period before stabilizing the design. This is Common Lisp.
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by massysett 1y ago
More powerful PC from whom? Some no-name outfit? Good luck sorting through the flea market dreck. Raspberry Pi has built the best brand in this space.
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by massysett 1y ago
> The best part is, though, nothing ever changes. Wasn’t true when they switched to systemd, or when KDE 4 came out, or when the new Gnome came out, or when the kernel renamed Ethernet interfaces to enps-whatever.
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by massysett 1y ago
Cake flour, any full-line supermarket will have it.
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by massysett 1y ago
Can the headline be changed on this so it’s not ridiculous clickbait? “American Airlines trains its pilots by having them fly airplanes” is more informative.
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by massysett 1y ago
Since the title includes the word "quirks," the observation I'll make here is entirely appropriate: the post oversimplifies this. It says: "So as we can see, at both run-time and compile-time, Common Lisp does typechecki
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by massysett 1y ago
The chat bot operator slurps all websites and gives answers to all questions free of charge. No other website can compete with that. The whole story with streaming media is not just that pay streaming became more convenient. It’s also that
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by massysett 1y ago
Even though you can now make the keyboard a small floating one and use swipe typing?
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by massysett 1y ago
I think that's the idea with deregulated electricity. Where I live (Maryland USA) I can pick who generates my electricity. I have no choice in who delivers it and that is still regulated. I found that in practice the non-default opti
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by massysett 1y ago
Using a rear door (in addition to the front) for entry and exit is unusual but not unheard of. https://thepointsguy.com/news/why-the-american-airlines-shut...
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by massysett 1y ago
What a surprise, it’s easier to steal than to pay content creators. (I know, someone will now chime in and say it isn’t really stealing, etc etc.) Actually I disagree though. Software and UX for torrenting is a pain. It’s easier to buy a $1
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by massysett 1y ago
No. Go buy a Moana DVD. USD 9.99. https://www.amazon.com/Moana-Ron-Clements/dp/B01MAZGH7Z/ref=...
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by massysett 1y ago
Don’t switch text editors, and don’t use a plugin. For a few years I used Orgmode. I didn’t use Emacs. That is, when I needed to edit text files, I used Vim or macOS TextEdit. I used Orgmode to track my tasks and keep notes. That Emacs was
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by massysett 1y ago
> When you treat it as 'just an editor' you're working against its design rather than with it. No. This is exactly the sort of talk that turns people off from Emacs. You can use it as "just an editor." Indeed,
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by massysett 1y ago
I think this sort of comment turns people off from Emacs. Most people don’t want to become experts in the editor. The editor is a means to an end: writing code, writing text, etc. This comment suggests to the new user: if I don’t program Em
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by massysett 1y ago
Just like the old days, when people would subscribe to the daily newspaper for the crossword, the comics, the TV listings, the want ads, or the ads and coupons with the Sunday paper. NYT is really just making the old newspaper model work in
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by massysett 1y ago
Good recipes do explain this though. They say heat the oil until it shimmers, or until it smokes, or until beads of water in the pan sizzle. Or they give an exact temperature, which you can read (imperfectly) with an infrared thermometer.
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by massysett 1y ago
The checklist doesn't have to be perfect. Just continually improve it. I keep several checklists - some I use several times a week, others every few months or so. If I notice something needs to be added to the checklist or removed, I
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by massysett 1y ago
Ambition counters ambition. Federalist number 51. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp
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by massysett 1y ago
The instant I saw the title I knew the post would be “I turned off oh-my-zsh” or “I tweaked oh-my-zsh.” Yes zsh has a bunch of settings and dense documentation, and it can be hard to understand. The problem with something like oh-my-zsh is
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by massysett 1y ago
> I've had less than 0.5% of customers ask for IPv6 from my fibre ISP. It's not worth supporting as a result. Big, evil, hated Comcast has full ipv6, and I doubt any of its customers asked for it either. Instead people complai
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by massysett 1y ago
The guest wifi - Xfinity WiFi - can be disabled. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/disable-xfinity-wif...
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“That value is exponentiated each time a note is shared.” I disagree, I write notes for my eyes only. They would be less useful, not more, if I shared them: I world have to make sure others understand it, and would need to censor it to avoi
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by massysett 1y ago
Yes, would have been a much better article if it told us how to be sure AI is the next automobile and that AI is not the next augmented reality, metaverse, blockchain, Segway, or fill-in-your-favorite-fad.
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by massysett 1y ago
> No one wants these "AI" summaries Not true, I use them all the time. They have links available for when I want further information, which is not very often.
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by massysett 1y ago
“deficits are also due to a persistent shortfall in domestic saving that requires funds from abroad to finance domestic investment spending.” But why isn’t it: deficits are due to a persistent surplus in funds from abroad to finance domesti
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by massysett 1y ago
Nitpick - this is a text user oriented (TUI) or a screen editor, not a CLI editor. A CLI editor is ed(1), or ex(1), or EDLIN for MS-DOS lineage.
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OMG after I do all of this, I could have just paid for Netflix and spent that time actually watching content, or doing something other than nursing all this tech. I abandoned MythTV and rented DVR from Comcast for just that reason.
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by massysett 1y ago
Hotels have been disgusting for years. They weren’t great before Covid. After Covid hotel owners stopped cleaning during your stay. Trash piles up in my room, with guests leaving trash in the halls. Carpets quickly get nasty. Nobody cleanin
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by massysett 1y ago
The whole point of the post is that building legs for Zuck's avatars might be the thing that allows you to spend what time with your son that you can. Many people work very hard for miserable salaries and they couldn't spend more

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