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by philh 13y ago
I also wear an analog watch, but it's just aesthetic. It's actually slightly less useful than a digital watch because it doesn't have a backlight, calendar, stopwatch, etc.
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by philh 13y ago
> I'm saying there are no people/groups/nations that are all-bad and others that are all-good. Do you think the person you were replying to would disagree with this? (I agree with it.) It seems more likely to me that they
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by philh 13y ago
> You still believe in Hollywood-style good guys and bad guys? Not all beliefs in good guys and bad guys are hollywood-style. > Do you think that the Japanese believed then that they were the bad guys? No, but I do think they were amo
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by philh 13y ago
Presumably you can create a wallet and use this to send bitcoins to it?
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by philh 13y ago
> Disease, illness, death, it's all a part of life, and some ridiculous washing ritual which consumes a significant portion of your daily thought process will not keep any of it at bay. My understanding is that washing really does h
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by philh 13y ago
So it looks like in Aaron's list, 2.a == 2.c and 2.b == 2.d, and the process has been completed only three times, and two of those times were just adding keywords.
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by philh 13y ago
> 3. In Python 2.c, warnings begun being issued when you tried to use the old way, explaining you needed to change or your code would stop working. > 4. In Python 2.d, it actually did stop working. I'm curious, what are some exam
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by philh 13y ago
There's an ankle version of that that you can buy as a kit: http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/ (It does look kind of bulky though.)
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by philh 13y ago
So I'd like to step back, because these arguments have a tendency to start to miss the point. My general claim here is "people treat ESR uncharitably". In this thread, that started with people choosing an unfavourable interpr
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by philh 13y ago
> After 2001 it was "formerly liberal-moderate... moderate-to-neoconservative" I'm pretty sure ESR identified as a libertarian when he made this change. Why did you delete the "... strong libertarian contingent... ant
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by philh 13y ago
> For example, for some inexplicable reason, the Jargon File used to have an entry stating that hackers tend to be libertarian. This, of course, was written when ESR self-identified as a libertarian. Later on (post-9/11), he decide
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by philh 13y ago
I agree that "people being uncharitable about ESR" is a common theme.
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by philh 13y ago
I can read and write C, but I didn't know much about this, and I was only vaguely aware that bitfields exist.
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by philh 13y ago
That is not a charitable interpretation of what he wrote. Try, "A master of C must already know about structure packing deeply enough to teach it".
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by philh 13y ago
I haven't set it up since getting a new laptop, but I used to have lots of math notation available on my keyboard (e.g. AltGr, <, = would give ≤), and LaTeX set up so that I could put those characters directly in my documents, and i
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by philh 13y ago
Some people are fun to hang out with but post boring stuff on facebook. Some people are friends of friends who I don't particularly like, but I don't want to be rude and deny their friend request.
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by philh 13y ago
> However, he also sometimes used American spelling, which may indicate that he was intentionally trying (but failed) to mask his writing style, or that he is more than one person. Note, non-exhaustive hypotheses. I've lived in Engl
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by philh 13y ago
I think ve was saying, ve doesn't see the difference between python's `sort(key=...)` and perl6's `sort { one-arg block }`. (At any rate, I don't see that difference.)
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by philh 13y ago
strace is one of my favourite tools. I don't need it that often, but it's comforting to know that it's there. Documentation can lie or just not answer my question, the source code might be unavailable or unreadable, but if I
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by philh 13y ago
"Responsibility" is one of those words that makes it really hard for people to talk to each other. If a person does not go out of their way to do the things you listed, I do not consider that a moral failing on their part. Especia
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by philh 13y ago
The bug I think I've spent most time on was when my Racket program would run for a while and then segfault randomly. Core dumps showed a stack overflow, but unsurprisingly, examining the racket source code didn't enlighten me. I h
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by philh 13y ago
> I highly doubt that most johns would be able to tell if they are raping a girl or if they are using a prostitute. There is a massive ethical (and I believe legal) difference between having sex with someone who you believe is consenting
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by philh 13y ago
I'm confused, because as far as I can tell you didn't answer that at all.
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by philh 13y ago
You haven't answered my questions. > for no good reason then. Are you not aware of a reason (but maybe she knows something you don't), or is she not aware of a reason, or are you aware of a reason and it's not a good o
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by philh 13y ago
Is that "for no reason that I'm aware of", or "for no reason that she's aware of"? (I'm pretty confident that there's a reason, even if it turns out not to be a good one.) > This has happened befor
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by philh 13y ago
I don't think you can have e.g. two files in the same directory tracked by separate git repos. (Obviously there are workarounds like putting each in a directory by themselves, or maybe you just don't care if you happen to keep bot
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by philh 13y ago
> Right, when preferences are in conflict do you protect the person who cares or the person who doesn't? There is a cost to always protecting the person who cares, which is that people may self-modify to care more, making cooperatio
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by philh 13y ago
> Compiled other languages to ActionScript? Haxe compiles to the same thing ActionScript compiles to, which seems like the appropriate comparison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haxe (And looking it up, apparently it
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by philh 13y ago
Your behaviour in this thread is completely uncalled for.
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by philh 13y ago
> This is mostly because Reddit's choice of default subreddits are poor Presumably this isn't entirely a choice: I would expect a good subreddit to get worse if it was made default. (And I've heard that /r/atheis

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