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by pyre 9y ago
As in design a custom TCP/IP protocol for every application?
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by pyre 9y ago
Operating systems that pre-dated MacOS 9 had pre-emptive multitasking. MacOS "moved forward" by adopting one of them (NeXT OS) and building their platform on top of it. I'm really unsure what point you're trying to make
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by pyre 9y ago
There is a lot of software for working with Google services via the CLI. Your biggest hurdle is probably that POP/IMAP is disabled for email.
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by pyre 9y ago
The parent to you post was responding to this: > In most big companies you can't really afford to do any email client shenanigans. So... what does the percentage of employees using Mutt have to do with that?
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by pyre 9y ago
> Gnus is notoriously hard to set up, but I found it has some remarkable features. Maybe things have changed now, but several years ago I wanted to setup Gnus, and asked for help on IRC (#emacs IIRC) because there weren't many good
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by pyre 9y ago
When I was using mutt, one of the biggest things that I found missing was a way to apply a filter to the entire email without creating some sort of SMTP gateway. I wanted the ability to compose my emails in Markdown, and run the text&#x2F
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by pyre 9y ago
> Having shorter lines makes reading diffs easier (whether it's unified, context, or split diffs). But is the difference that significant between 80-, 100- and (say) 120-characters wide? I personally wrap at 100 characters, I do
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by pyre 9y ago
I know that it has to do with the width of older terminals, perhaps even back to the teletypes. But those hard restrictions don't exist anymore, yet some people treat "80 characters" as some golden law passed down from heaven
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by pyre 9y ago
Right, but is finding copyright infringers really the best way to look for terrorists that may be attempting to attack the 2020 Olympics? I mean "counter-terrorism efforts for the 2020 Olympics" is the stated goal of this legislat
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by pyre 9y ago
> Further, the only sensible screen width is 80 characters, since that also works everywhere. I'm curious. Where does 80 characters not work now? How many people / industries are still using green-screen terminals with a fi
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by pyre 9y ago
> So change your tab size? That's true if you have a different sized monitor, no matter what the tab size. That's... kind of the point of using tabs. I think that the point was that if your IDE displays tabs as 8 spaces, and
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by pyre 9y ago
> The fact that Python's rule used to be 8 spaces, then got changed to 4 thereby invalidating old code really showed me how shortsighted it is to use a set number of spaces in a whitespace sensitive language. Not sure what you&#x2
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by pyre 9y ago
Some things are more important than money. Let this tab-idealist enjoy a tab-ful life in the way that they see fit.
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by pyre 9y ago
Pirated CD sales could be used to fund terrorism? That's a pretty tenuous link to "counter-terrorism efforts related to the 2020 Olympics."
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by pyre 9y ago
It also depends on how and what you're measuring. If you are (e.g.) measuring diversity, but measuring it in the "wrong way" you could be setting up perverse incentives to game the metrics while not truly achieving the go
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by pyre 9y ago
Apparently it is > needed to bolster counter-terrorism precautions ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but: > Under the bill, terrorist groups or criminal organizations could be punished for the planning of 277 crimes, which range fro
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by pyre 9y ago
> Languages should provide primitives that only allow for safe construction of expressions that are run concurrently by the runtime. Then you run into issues like that post recently where you can't have different threads running i
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by pyre 9y ago
I don't know things like "we only bought jackets for the men, because it would be more expensive to buy jackets to the women... so they just don't get jackets" seems pretty divisive to me. You're trying to split hai
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by pyre 9y ago
> Mainly because the layout code (Postscript?) in the PDF file assumes an A4 or US letter sized page Technically, it could be anything. The layout is specified, and everything stems from this.
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by pyre 9y ago
On the other hand, how does one write a standard invoice or a tax form using only plain-text / markdown? Formats with control over the layout have their place.
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by pyre 9y ago
No one ever said that humans need to write raw Markdown. Take a look at Typora as an example Markdown editor. Raw Markdown would be the fallback scenario, which is still readable/grok-able. docx/pptx/xlsx don't have su
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by pyre 9y ago
PDFs are still ok though. There are many implementations of PDF parsers, many Open Source. It may not be as "universal" as plain-text, but it is definitely universal. At this point, I believe that all major operating systems ship
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by pyre 9y ago
Plain-text just needs to be the format. Checkout (e.g.) Markdown editors like Typora. The underlying format is Markdown, but it can be edited and displayed in a more visual fashion. With the text being in plain-text, it guarantees someone
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by pyre 9y ago
If you distribute things in Markdown with (e.g.) MathML markup, then the reader can format that nicely for display, with PlainText / Markdown being the distribution format.
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by pyre 9y ago
You're free to spout your vitriol just like the people downvoting you into oblivion are free to use their downvote ability to express their dislike with your attitude. Free speech means you're free to express your ideas, it does
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by pyre 9y ago
People complain about the "squeeze of the middle class" because salaries have remained stagnant while costs have gone up.
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by pyre 9y ago
PyCon Canada is coming to Montreal this year, and Montreal has the second largest Python user group in the world (IIRC). So these communities aren't necessarily short on tech.
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by pyre 9y ago
Keep in mind that most of these are Bay Area positions. These people may be making $100k+ and still in a living situation with 6 roommates to make ends meet.
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by pyre 9y ago
The more remote the location, the higher the cost of non-housing things are. Shipping in groceries to Yellow Knife costs more than shipping groceries to Toronto, even though Toronto's housing prices are significantly more.
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by pyre 9y ago
Exactly this. I'm lucky though in that I signed up when it was Google Apps for Domains (and free). I've been using it for years without paying (having been grandfathered in). If I ever decide that I don't want to be on Google

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