rackjack

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   by rackjack 5y ago

   Vim is user-friendly the same way Unix is user-friendly: it's not. It's user-centric.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   For me, it's when the kids get vaccinated.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   Dr. Mandalore and Mr. Sseth
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   Yep. I'll believe the curse is over when Goon/tg/etc. get some servers running on SS14/Unitystation for at least a year.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   SS13 is, IMO, an inherently newbie-unfriendly game. However, there are servers and new players guides online, for Goon (one group of servers) and tg (another group of servers), and probably others that I'm not familiar with.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   BTW Byond, the platform that hosts Space Station 13, looks like malware but (probably) isn't.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   Whoops, thanks for catching that, though the edit window's passed.
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   Does anybody know how he ran his campaign/how campaigns are run in general? I genuinely do not know how people "campaign". Do you just hire people to walk around and knock on doors, Jehovah's Witness style?
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   by rackjack 5y ago

   C is a very simple language. I think Zig will get close to replacing it, but it also happens to be more complex, so I'm sure some people who really prefer simplicity will still use Zig.
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    The Architecture of Complexity [pdf](www2.econ.iastate.edu)

    3 points by rackjack 5y ago|0 comments
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    There are too many books and too many songs. The problem is no longer accessing them, it is finding them in the first place. Generally they need marketing to be discovered. This is where big name publishers come in. If you find a way to dis
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    If you're gonna post it here I'll just keep tabs on your profile since I don't use Twitter. Looking forward to the post!
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    If you were somehow twice as productive as the average PhD student you wouldn't worry about finding a professor...
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Is most of the work being done on Linux now on drivers, or are there still features being added?
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Atlas Shrugged actually being applicable to your situation is interesting.
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    I personally wouldn't feel safe eating pink turkey.
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Whoa, just fiddling up there with my thumbs has me feeling different. Are there any resources on self-massage you would recommend? You seem knowledgeable about it.
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    When there is something in my life that is rotting me from within I talk to people I am close to e.g. my parents and let it out because I know they can take it. In terms of general negativity... I try to avoid social media (Hacker News is n
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    This was probably some junior dev's worst first day
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    As stated: posix compliant functions with local variables can be done with something like: foo () ( x="hello"; echo $x ) because this creates a subshell. Fun!
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    People have been doing this for decades, probably centuries... there was a book on shorthand (Eclectic shorthand) I found on the Internet Archive and the first couple of pages were extolling its virtues compared to the others. The differenc
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Interesting! If you don't mind me asking, what is your thought process for investing in foreign companies (assuming you don't live in Africa)? Besides the S&P 500, I have always felt a little uncomfortable investing in any com
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Devil's Advocate: This piece is only analogous if "white" has been used as a generic term for color since at least 800 years ago. The reason it sounds shocking is that "white" has only ever really, in a broad sense,
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    There is a genetic mutation that allows a person to function normally on just 4 hours of sleep. A person who needs 8 hours of sleep in this world would probably always be behind the rest.
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Am I correct in thinking that this is similar to "Session Types"?
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    This has happened many times before, and it will keep happening because humans do not (cannot?) change their fundamental nature. Even if society as we know it dies, it'll just get reborn like a cursed phoenix. Every doomsayer seems to
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    Side note, I found this channel the other day: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsDUyQI88LLvpu9RCevwQEA Which I thought was quite entertaining.
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033971
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    "Although our brains were getting bigger progressively, around 70,000 years ago they plateaued, and have been shrinking ever since." From the article. 2021 is very recent. The article also discusses energy usage a little under the
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    by rackjack 5y ago

    The brain itself is the evolutionary pressure. It is often repeated that the brain takes ~20% of our body's energy despite being ~2% of our body's mass. If there is no need to have a brain so large (due to a lack of predators) it