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by pfarrell 6y ago
This is one I’ve zoned out to several times, Space Trip: https://youtu.be/wOMwO5T3yT4
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by pfarrell 6y ago
In the provided example % sed "s/root/toor/" /etc/passwd | grep -v joey | sponge /etc/passwd It looks like this allows an in place modification to the same doc. If you used % sed &quo
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Not the OP, but Cayce Pollard is the main character from Gibson’s Book “Pattern Recognition”. In the book, there is a subculture obsessed with a movie that has been deliberately distributed in small pieces. The fans try to discern the mean
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Or Captain Beefheart
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I have no corroboration for this, it is a personal speculation. At Sun, Ian Murdock also started an OS project called “Indiana”. I have wondered if this was a happy coincidence that Ian was substring of Indiana. Of course, he also lived i
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by pfarrell 6y ago
WaitButWhy has a great longform piece explaining how big Graham’s number is. Like, make your stomach drop, big. Bonus, it contains an explanation of Knuth notation. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-n
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Agreed. The downvote should be used to indicate a comment is off topic or doesn’t add to the discussion, not whether it aligns with your opinion. In this particular case, however, I’d agree it’s off topic (but I personally didn’t downvote i
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by pfarrell 6y ago
HN doesn’t do humor, but I had the exact same thought based on the title.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
You’ve got something there. The last time I saw something, in tech, that felt “magical” was the first time I saw an iPhone. The intro video, from Jobs, is something I’ve watched several times over the years. It’s a masterpiece of marketi
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by pfarrell 6y ago
> I mean a computer as a direct expansion of your cognitive ability has to be the end point in user interfaces, William Gibson hints at something similar to this in the graduate work of a character in the short story “Dogfight”[0] from t
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by pfarrell 6y ago
One big thing I’ve appreciated about RabbitMQ is how well it separates publishing, message routing, and subscription concerns. Plus it’s never been the issue in any infrastructure I’ve encountered it.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
It happened to me. When I quizzed my grandmother for her beloved chocolate chip cookies recipe, I felt like being entrusted with a huge family secret. Nope. Toll House cookie recipe (which is on the back of every package) with an extra quar
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by pfarrell 6y ago
You nailed it.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Wow. I love both Jimi and LR and had never seen that! He was something else. Thanks for mentioning it derriz and for posting the link DonHopkins.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Little Richard’s induction of Otis Redding into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is one of the best inductions ever. It’s a mess, in a good way. It’s unorganized. Richard talks more about himself, but it works and it’s pure Rock and Roll. RI
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I think it’s a British usage versus American usage thing. Also might be historical as you can see in the title of Caravaggio’s famous work: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198706
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Well, the HN/engineer solution would be to propose the building of a new bridge. Then we could have a big discussion about funding strategies, metallurgical esoterica, cutting edge topological algorithms for determining best place to a
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Everybody nowadays is inplementing HumorSensorFactoryFactory to define their own rules for what’s inbounds.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I can’t believe this is not a new account. Blanket propagandistic statements are not the conversation we have in Hacker News comments.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
The long solo, for sure. The one that starts about around 2:35 on the album version. The single edit removes it.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
The tech is dated, but the story, timeless.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Top of my head, here are some books on specific histories I enjoyed. All old, but there are timeless nuggets in them. Soul of a new machine, previously mentioned. Where I first learned about mushroom management. Just for Fun: the story of
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by pfarrell 6y ago
I’m going to look at the code, but how does are transactions in the database handled in eventreduce? Specifically, I’m wondering about isolation levels which determine whether uncommitted changes are queryable before commit/rollback.
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by pfarrell 6y ago
Have you compared with an in-memory data store like Redis? Due to the lack of support for joins, that seems like a more natural comparison than A relational database.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I’ll give this to My Sharona: buried in that song is one of the best guitar solos in pop rock of those years.
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Like Spike Jones before him, you need exceptional musicianship to get to comedy. I took my 11 year old son to his first big concert, last August. Weird Al was playing the Greek at Berkeley with Strings Attached. I cherish that night. Th
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by pfarrell 7y ago
Fun game. Wanted to pass on issue I had. Safari on iPhone 7, couldn’t use touch controls on level 3 because browser chrome is in the way. https://imgur.com/a/nN9YndX
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by pfarrell 7y ago
It won’t help you learn to write a scraper, but using the common crawl dataset will get you access to a crazy amount of data without paying to acquire it yourself. https://commoncrawl.org/the-data/
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I’ve thought of it like this. The “avoid NIH” rule guides your default attitude on any project you are getting paid to produce. You have limited time, resources, focus, or opportunity for your effort to make a difference. The history of the
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by pfarrell 7y ago
I’ve been playing iNethack on my phone (Uses 3.4.3). I ran into a ghost of myself last night. I was in a 1 square dead end tunnel with no digging tools and out of food. I thought I was going to starve to death before it finally moved.

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