narwally

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by narwally 5y ago
I added cs as a second major in my junior year, and I felt that way at first in the java based 101 course. I had actually been using linux since I was a freshman in highschool (before graphical installers were around), and had picked up ema
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by narwally 5y ago
Back in my day we were "real programmers" and edited files by precisely waving magnets over our hard disks. Sure we still had some dinosaurs around that longed for the days of swapping out sector gears on their difference engines,
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by narwally 5y ago
>If only because emacs documentation wants you to understand their 1980s conceptual framework before telling you the keystrokes you need which is honestly fair because emacs is essentially a full-on lisp machine with a set of excellent t
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by narwally 5y ago
And that isn't even an issue in practice for emacs users. We're going to use tramp for most things, and are comfortable enough with vi or nano to do any quick edits over shh. But having students try to learn emacs while setting up
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by narwally 5y ago
In the last two lectures (Potpourri, Q&A), they actually have a grad student that uses Emacs go over it as well. The TA that was in charge of the editor section was just a Vim user and he wanted to show what kind of things are possible
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by narwally 5y ago
tar --help
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by narwally 5y ago
That's what I would imagine. I think think shells other than sh or bash are listed more to make students aware of their existence and to reinforce that, in unix, even something as seemingly fundamental as your shell is a self contained
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by narwally 5y ago
I was half expecting the lawyer to no-show as well, but of course they finally show up when it's their money on the line.
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by narwally 5y ago
And if they do it in city A, then city B down the road is going to start demanding the same treatment.
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by narwally 5y ago
At the moment I'm usually fine with my 200Mbps download speeds from Spectrum, but man am I jealous of those upload speeds and that price. I'm looking to move soon, and municipal fiber is definitely on the list of things that could
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by narwally 5y ago
It even has things like zip-ties and other miscellaneous items priced out. It's still a rough estimate for a minimal install, but I've undertaken DIY home improvement projects that were in this price range and my estimates weren&#
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by narwally 5y ago
Roosevelt won in 1940 in large part because he was running against an interventionist that wanted to join the war alongside the allies, but the US population was either largely against any intervention, or was outwardly pro-Nazi[0]. If it w
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by narwally 5y ago
It's nearly always about natural resources, just because the US has the largest oil reserves doesn't mean it's going to stop there. And the wars you mentioned are just the boots on the ground (or drones in the air) conflicts.
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by narwally 5y ago
Well damn, now I want to download it. I've never gotten into mobile development because getting started always seemed like a chore, but this sounds like it would be fun to play around with.
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by narwally 5y ago
Yep, it's about "Human Capital: The Last Unoptimized Asset Class" <- the title of an actual internal memo they wrote.
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by narwally 5y ago
I'm not doubting you, but do you have a better source than a cryptocurrency news site? Also, the US government sending cryptocurrency to South America honestly doesn't sound like a definite positive. Even recently, the US doesn&#x
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by narwally 5y ago
I think it's all of them, but the scary thing is what involvement in the markets for these assets can do to people.
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by narwally 5y ago
This lines up with my experience as well. At worst, you should be able to work solely on getting your sprint tasks done, but also be making notes of any clean-up/aftercare that needs to be done and any other basic codebase maintenance
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by narwally 5y ago
Sounds like in your third scenario you possibly should have given that team an EOL date on support for their special use case from the beginning. If it was an open source platform deprecating support for a feature they use, then they'd
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by narwally 5y ago
If ALL of your customers are not happy, then you're doing a bad job. But if only a small subset of your customers are not happy, then that's just par for the course. You can't please all of your customers all of the time beca
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by narwally 5y ago
This is awesome and so simple that I can't believe I haven't done it for myself already. It would be really useful to have your personal mann page displayed as the header or footer of the official man page.
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by narwally 5y ago
Exactly, the man pages are there so I don't have to remember every command perfectly.
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by narwally 5y ago
That's why I uploaded all of my DRM free purchases to iCloud, that way I'll have access to it forever. /s
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by narwally 5y ago
iTunes doesn't use DRM anymore? I haven't used it since I had a 1st gen ipod mini back in high school, but I remember only certain music was available without DRM and you used to have to pay extra for it.
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by narwally 6y ago
Similar experience for me. Marijuana definitely makes me feel stupider, but it slows my brain down enough that I can actually focus on one thing at a time so I actually end up more productive overall. Kind of a worse is better situation. I&
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by narwally 6y ago
I prefer QLED anyways, even the best OLEDs still have issues with burn in these days.
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by narwally 6y ago
They're gonna make tvs like phones have become. I shouldn't have needed to upgrade my phone this year; the phone I'd bought in 2015 was still plenty powerful for what I used it for. But if I wanted security updates I had to u
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by narwally 6y ago
I love the volume roller on my Logitech G710+. Having a few programable knobs would be interesting to play around with, though I'm not sure what exactly I'd use them for.
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by narwally 6y ago
I do the same. For frozen foods I sometimes still use high power for a 30-90 seconds just to speed up the thawing process, but then cut it back to 40-50% for the remainder of the cook time. Things come out much more evenly heated, so you do
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by narwally 6y ago
I buy smart tvs because they have ads on them, which makes the initial purchase price cheaper. Then I just connect it to my media server and never bother with the smart features.

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