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by ribs 12y ago
You did lead with that one.
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by ribs 12y ago
A few years back I came across some emails from the previous user of a computer I was given. (They really should have wiped the hard drive...) They were messages to his family back in India. The guy had been using heroin, and had kicked it
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by ribs 12y ago
You know what language Docker is written in, don't you?
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by ribs 12y ago
Yeah, I want to hear about the exceptions! -That's- the piece I want to read. Not this broken down travel writer complaining about himself.
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by ribs 12y ago
I grew up with them. Didn't we all?
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by ribs 12y ago
I have a couple of boxes of 5.25-inch floppies! formatted for the Apple ][. I've kept them since I had one. Mostly for their aroma; it's capable of evoking memories that nothing else can. Still, from time to time I feel like booti
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by ribs 12y ago
I'm thinking more of William Gibson - BTW his new novel is available - but - yeah.
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by ribs 12y ago
I still miss Ebert and his work.
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by ribs 12y ago
Why doesn't he set up a config management server, like puppet or chef or ansible, and have students get set up that way? Or provision some VMs? Or provide some Docker containers? I have tweeted him thusly.
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by ribs 12y ago
With panadermic semi-boloid slots? (Fully boloid slots require a macroflanging compensator, and who's got the money)
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by ribs 12y ago
Yeah that's true but it's still silly. Phones sit in your pocket, they mostly look the same, it's not that big a deal. Watches on the other hand have been fashion items for over a hundred years. There are countless variations
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by ribs 12y ago
Wicked! I want to see a video.
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by ribs 12y ago
It's ok though :-) It's a little inaccurate, maybe, but it's not really insincere. What he's saying is that he'd like to hear more. And he would.
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by ribs 12y ago
The point is to allow people to get along, get to know each other, and profit from each other's company, despite our human failings. We all have things we'd like to hide, moments of weakness, beliefs, distastes and intolerances bo
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by ribs 12y ago
What the hell _is_ tam?
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by ribs 12y ago
My experience, which only covers 25 years or so, is nothing like that. It's vaguely funny, but maybe the author has applied for a lot of jobs for which he or she didn't possess qualifications. Sure, interviewers ask irritating que
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by ribs 12y ago
I find the evidence for your claims to be lacking. GM foods? Are you kidding me? There's no evidence that GM foods are bad for your health. Perhaps some evidence will turn up. (It's possible; I doubt it will happen.) But there is
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by ribs 12y ago
Need a control group - the rate of TBI amongst non-homeless men.
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by ribs 13y ago
"I realized that the feeling of making progress is just as important as making actual progress." Yeah...no.
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by ribs 13y ago
Yeah - maybe sleep deprivation really is a dark blight on the tech industry, but this article is so tendentious! Google Glass is bad, and not only that, it's because of sleep deprivation! Proof by assertion.
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by ribs 13y ago
Waste of my time. Little insight. Hyperbole.
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by ribs 13y ago
Whoa. I've never seen that before. I play trombone. And I've never felt bad for sax players until now :-)
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by ribs 13y ago
I'm not sure about libuv. Isn't that primarily for async I/O? This is a desktop application. Async I/O isn't going to significantly affect performance. And it doesn't make shit any simpler.
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by ribs 13y ago
It's just a fact that even people with repugnant beliefs about certain classes of people can still make complete sense in other domains.
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by ribs 13y ago
I've admired this essay of Orwell's since I first read it years ago, and have striven to shed stale metaphors and pretense from my writing ever since. I wonder how well I have succeeded.