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by philh 14y ago
Is it common these days not to have perl installed? I assumed it was still standard on UNIX systems. I count 308 perl scripts in my /usr/bin.
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by philh 14y ago
I skimmed to see if they'd already addressed that, but apparently I missed it. Thanks.
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by philh 14y ago
It looks to me like he's worried (or saying that other people are/might be worried) about how long 1.9 will continue to be supported for.
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by philh 14y ago
> how can you advocate that you would defend one's freedom to limit one's freedom? You're confusing the quotation with the referent. (Or at least making a similar class of mistake.) I won't defend your freedom to limit my freedom, but I
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by philh 14y ago
If you condition on "a foetus is as valuable as a baby", which is something that a lot of people believe... Then even if you accept that to deny abortion is to curtail women's liberty, and this is bad, so that preventing abortion is not an
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by philh 14y ago
Yeah, she tried that. Assuming she doesn't have a glass and a fork, or a convenient lightswitch... I might suggest knocking loudly on the table before mentioning crack pipes. But I can't really fault her for missing out that step.
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by philh 14y ago
> If you select text it always goes into the selection buffer. But as far as I can tell, if text is selected for you that's not always true. I sometimes have difficulty with text boxes which insist on self-selecting as soon as I click t
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by philh 14y ago
> As an aside, "Half of the population is below average intelligence" is false. Half of the population is below the median intelligence. If intelligence is normally distributed, then the mean and median are equal.
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by philh 14y ago
> Why didn't police follow the thread? Triage. In many places, the police have too many more important crimes on their hands to worry about a stolen bike. > I suppose pawnshop owner should have compensate her. Someone is inevitably
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by philh 14y ago
It's not entirely simple, because when they realise the mistake, they have to correct it. I don't know how to unpack the question of whether Facebook has realised the mistake, and I don't know what Facebook's internal state is.
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by philh 14y ago
I can cut with a blunt knife, and it might not slow down my cooking appreciably or at all, but I'd rather just use a sharp knife. (And my wrists will thank me for it, if I do a lot of cutting.) Even if Vim keybindings don't make me any more
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by philh 14y ago
0.1% of a house's value seems like a fair amount of money. I doubt it would seem strange to put a lot of effort into getting that much money, if it was framed differently. Admittedly, not spending 2-3 months to work out another deal is wort
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by philh 14y ago
To be precise, there is some censorship on HN. Nevertheless, so far ve is just getting downvoted.
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by philh 14y ago
Okay, but if I had known about the alternatives I would have used them, so I'm not sure how that's relevant.
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by philh 14y ago
I dunno how well-known the things I didn't know about are, but an example of me doing it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5113202
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by philh 14y ago
A few nitpicks: > it is simply a hole in the plot of an otherwise excellent book that the issue is never brought up. This is not to say that LoTR is in any way a bad book In a small way, it does say that. > When Sam carries Frodo on
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by philh 14y ago
Is it intended that any solution will have all squares coloured? I like that property, and I think most of the online levels have it, but I solved level eight with some blanks. If I had an iDevice I would pay for this. Good luck.
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by philh 14y ago
> less turds like Mark Pincus Does that sound like the sort of thing Woz would say?
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by philh 14y ago
Someone said "the problem is X", someone else said "the problem is Y", and I said "Y is a subset of X". You seem to be attributing many thoughts to me which I have not expressed.
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by philh 14y ago
If a job provides products and services for which there is no demand, it doesn't make economic sense to employ someone to do that job. So the fact that such jobs exist, and there are people capable of doing them, doesn't change the point of
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by philh 14y ago
In other words, that's not a job where it makes economic sense to employ a person. (I can't tell if you're being serious or not; "absolute certainty" makes me guess not, but it looks like I'm replying anyway.)
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by philh 14y ago
It's worth remembering that if cost of living and wages are both high, but cars cost the same as everywhere else, then a car is relatively less expensive in SV than elsewhere. (Knowing nothing about cars, I don't know how big a factor that
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by philh 14y ago
> I'm pretty sure the "inner voice" is just a metaphor to describe a concept. Amusingly, as someone with an inner voice, I used to think the same thing about the mind's eye. I couldn't visualise anything with it, and I asked someone els
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by philh 14y ago
> This guy above me loves the fact that people are executed for marijuana possession No, I'm pretty sure he never said that, and I'm almost as sure he doesn't. Your political opponents are not evil.
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by philh 14y ago
> I've visited Singapore just for a few days, but based on that experiment I spent a couple of weeks in the US, and never ran afoul of bad cops or drug laws. I conclude very little from this, because even if things are as bad as reddit
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by philh 14y ago
> “I want to create a rival to Twitter. So I want it exactly the same except where it says What’s Happening? I want it to say How are you feeling?” Well... if "exactly the same" includes stuff like "data is stored on Twitter's servers",
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by philh 14y ago
I get the impression he was not expecting that pull request to get merged. This was silly, but not malicious. He wasn't trying to delete home directories to prove a point: the point he was making was directed at the repo owner. Meanwhile, m
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by philh 14y ago
Though, one person out of ten is less significant than 100/1000. We should work out the probabilities of someone telling you you're a jackass given that you are/are not one, and update the proverb to use likelihood ratios.
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by philh 14y ago
It looks as though that was a bug which is now fixed. If your current level started with a . or a ~, you would die when you finished it (but that one wouldn't kill you at any other point). Now all levels start with a ' '.
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by philh 14y ago
> EDIT2: Huh, it looks like I was overthinking the level-advancing. There is no code for the problem I thought I was solving; I must have imagined it. Isn't this what `tput cols` is for? You advance to the next level when you reach the

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