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by msla 3y ago
> if it's stupid and it works, then it's not stupid. I hate this phrase. Leaded gasoline worked, but it was so stupid it actively made people stupid. Storing passwords plaintext works, but the first time your system gets broken
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by msla 3y ago
The only thing you are achieving is to add extra paperwork and hassle to your daughter's future when she later has a job or opens a bank account.
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by msla 3y ago
I wonder how much of Windows' profusion of archive formats is a hangover from the MS-DOS archiver wars.
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by msla 3y ago
> Your simplicity becomes my complexity (fussy compatibility, batching creates latency, etc) Forth is simple. (It is not that hard to write a simple Forth system that implements the language in a workable fashion.) Python is simple. (It
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by msla 3y ago
Part of my point is, if the software doesn't have a concept of "breaking change" semantic versioning makes no sense, so you might as well just use numbers that change with every release so you can easily refer to when bugs go
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by msla 3y ago
Semantic versions only make sense if you anticipate discontinuous breaking changes in the future, with periods of stability between. If no new version will be a breaking change, or if every new version will be breaking, it loses meaning and
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by msla 3y ago
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by msla 3y ago
Stop getting your ideas from partisan mass media.
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by msla 3y ago
> SSN is voluntary. "Voluntary" but required to live like a normal human being isn't very "voluntary" in reality. Get a job without an SSN.
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by msla 3y ago
> SSN? Haven't we moved beyond SSN for security purposes? No, the banks haven't, which means you haven't, bucko.
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by msla 3y ago
It isn't just the lack of a piece of paper, it's the fact every project is new to some extent (to exactly the extent we can't just reuse existing code) and present somewhat new challenges. Also, some difficulties scale very n
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by msla 3y ago
Depends on whether I want the string constant or the character constant.
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by msla 3y ago
You certainly aren't the only one, but it's still odd enough to be marked. (To be more precise, I've seen C in quotes multiple times and maybe that's because one letter looks too small to be a name to some people, but I
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by msla 3y ago
> I started with Turbo Pascal 3, Moved to 4, 4.5, 5, 6 then Delphi. Somewhere in there moved to "C" and then "C++". I never understand why people use "C" as opposed to C. Does anyone use "Pascal" a
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by msla 3y ago
> There’s nothing legally inconsistent about passing a law saying, e.g., “ML training is not fair use”. Is it still fair use to take inspiration from another artist's work? How can the courts necessarily tell if the art was made usi
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by msla 3y ago
There's also the Unlambda programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlambda http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
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by msla 3y ago
In more context: > on the primitive level of wanting to know what happens next, The Fellowship of the Ring is at least as good as The Thirty-Nine Steps . That is, it's an engaging narrative up there with a book that's been a
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by msla 3y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/technology/montana-net-ne... https://www.multistate.us/insider/2018/1/24/montana-leads-st... Montana's had it since 2018, whic
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by msla 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230814223742/https://www.msn.c...
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by msla 3y ago
I've found a lot of package archives for various distros.
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by msla 3y ago
Oh, for the days when you could run a murderous android with a 6502! https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
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by msla 3y ago
It works in Linux the same way it works on Windows: If you don't have the dynamic libraries and configuration you need, it won't work. Why this is a mark against Linux and not Windows is beyond me.
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by msla 3y ago
> Interestingly, I went into this article thinking that "guess culture" would mean something along the lines of guessing what others want or what the right thing to do is, executing it, and revising after the fact based on feed
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by msla 3y ago
> "Wipe" doesn't have a reverse operation Wax on/Wax off obviously.
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by msla 3y ago
Neither do I. I was replying to someone equating corporations with Fascism, which is a complete misunderstanding of corporatism. But, apparently, making that much sense gets me downvotes.
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by msla 3y ago
Fascist corporations have more to do with unions than they do with business corporations: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm
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by msla 3y ago
You don't have a right to dictate what other people can remember about you.
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by msla 3y ago
Yes, to the same extent Idylls of the King is well-written King Arthur fanfiction.
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by msla 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy > Disney was a long-time licensee to the animation rights, and cooperated with the hospital when its copyright claim was clear, but in 2004 Disney published Dave Barry&#
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by msla 3y ago
It's solved, in that I'm never going to do better than zoneinfo and I'm not going to go crazy trying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database https://www.iana.org/time-zones I think of

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