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by rmunn 6mo ago
In theory, they do. In practice, I have only seen one codebase — ONE — in all my years of programming that was using tabs and yet did not end up with spaces getting mixed in with those tabs at some point along the way. (In the indentation,
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by rmunn 6mo ago
> I adore Nebula and half wish I had chosen it instead of Tailscale+Headscale... Could I ask you to expand on that a little? Besides Tailscale's "network shenanigans" with firewalls and routing tables, what else do you fin
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by rmunn 6mo ago
Cute; I'd somehow missed ever seeing that one. The omitted con of electric engines (costs way more to build batteries than a gas tank so you're likely to have more expensive storage AND less of it) makes the XKCD joke miss. BUT...
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by rmunn 6mo ago
Your mention of per-country reminded me that Google is probably using UTC for those timestamps. 11:59 PM UTC is 8:59 AM the next day in Japan (UTC+9), so Japanese people getting online early Saturday morning would register as accessing Goog
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by rmunn 6mo ago
Zoom in on that graph using the controls at the bottom, and you'll see a repeating pattern of crests and troughs, weekly. There's about a 5% difference between the crests and the troughs: the crests are hitting the 50% line or jus
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by rmunn 6mo ago
That was excellent, thanks for recommending it. I particularly liked how it's a pretty factual FAQ, not particularly cheerleading for IPv6 nor saying "IPv6 is a failure, give up on it".
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Best comment exchange from a thread on a different site: OP: "I'm happy they didn't die." Response: "You're going to be less happy when they turn into the Fantastic Four and Dr. Doom shows up."
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by rmunn 7mo ago
There's a wonderful story about William Penn (yes, the William Penn who founded Pennsylvania and after whom it was named) nearly getting into trouble for his Quaker beliefs, except that King Charles II graciously forgave him. The sto
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Joe Macken (the truck driver who built the model) and Ferdinand Cheval ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Cheval ) were never alive at the same time. But if they had ever met, they would have found each other to b
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by rmunn 7mo ago
I wondered about the chown thing myself, but ended up concluding that the author was misremembering the errors. He probably saw some chown messages and didn't read all the hundreds of lines (I certainly don't read every line of hu
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by rmunn 7mo ago
The fact that it reported "hundreds" (if the author is right about that, he might be misremembering) of permissions-related errors tells me that it was trying to clean up hundreds of files. Sure, not knowing what's in the scr
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by rmunn 7mo ago
While I agree in the general case (e.g., software aimed at end users), there's also a good reason why the Archlinux Wiki is so good: because installing an OS does require a manual if you want to be able to do any customization at all
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by rmunn 7mo ago
> Because to accomplish anything at scale you need organization. And organizing humans in anything other than forced labor involves respecting them, thus things like codes of conduct. This part of your comment was worthwhile. You should
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by rmunn 7mo ago
> But I know people who are snuggly proud about not reading the manual and I really don't get it. Agreed... but there seem to be more and more products that either don't have manuals, or whose manuals are so badly written that
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Was "430 years" a typo for "30 years" or for "43 years"?
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by rmunn 7mo ago
I mean, there clearly was an uninstall script. It was in the app's Contents/Resources file, and it was called CleanupMagician_Admin_Mac.sh. Which means there was some intended way to trigger running it. Perhaps Samsung's
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by rmunn 7mo ago
It's a .sh script, so he could have read it before running it. And when he saw "chown: Operation not permitted", he could have realized that the word Admin in the script was a clue that it needed, well, admin-level privileges
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Sure, humans make mistakes... but rarely, vanishingly rarely about commands they use often. Are you going to make a non-typo kind of mistake when typing `ls -l`? AI hallucinations don't happen all the time, but they happen so much mo
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by rmunn 7mo ago
If the author had also included a note explaining that he'd *reviewed* what the AI produced and checked it for correctness, I would be willing to trust the list. As it is, how do I know the `netstat` invocation is correct, and not an A
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Except the post does explicitly refute the claim. Direct quote from the [blog post][1]: [1]: https://blog.andymasley.com/i/192671089/my-core-claim-this-i... "My argument here is going to be that this paper
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Thanks for the link; bookmarked.
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Off-topic, but what does GP stand for? I know OP usually means Original Poster, but I'm not familiar with GP.
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Yes, a good Git log viewer that would auto-squash branches down to a summary, and allow "expanding" them, would be useful. But the way branching and merging creates confusing train-track graphs is IMHO one of the reasons why man
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by rmunn 7mo ago
"Fewer non-cancer deaths" is about what I expected: getting more sun gets you more vitamin D (especially important if you live closer to the poles than to the equator, and the study was done in Sweden), but getting too much sun
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by rmunn 7mo ago
The team I work for tends to use GitHub's "Squash and merge" button a lot. I find it to be the best of both worlds: the `develop` branch gets a single commit per PR, with a summary of what was done (I always edit the summary
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Excellent point, though not everyone pays close enough attention to the domain shown in the browser (if they did, some of the more amateurish phishing attempts would fool a lot fewer people). But yes, anyone who notices the domain will have
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by rmunn 7mo ago
I think you partially misunderstood the previous comment. The "that's simply the nature of going to a beach" line refers to how, when you get home, you'll find your sandals, swimsuit, etc. covered in little grains of san
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Except that the "this was generated by an LLM" feeling you get from the front page would then make you automatically question whether the "decades of experience + stanford professor thing", as you put it, was true or jus
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by rmunn 7mo ago
The green rabbit, in this case, is a metaphor for something you want to think of, as opposed to the pink elephant you're trying not to think about. Let's say you're trying to get your mind off of some depressing topic (the
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by rmunn 7mo ago
Percentage increases, and the phrase "X% more likely", are usually quite ambiguous. I wish more people would tell you whether they mean absolute or relative increases. E.g., if (numbers made up for example) 0.5% of the general pop

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