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by rmunn 9mo ago
That's hilarious. What a roller coaster of a soap-opera plot! Except it's not a soap opera, it's real life, and it happened in a small town of less than 150 people. The saying is right: truth often is stranger than fiction.
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by rmunn 9mo ago
sudo passwords are one of the things I'm copying and pasting from the password manager, because my shell account password is different on every system. But yes, if you type your sudo password without thinking about it, the timing attac
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Precisely; the reason for omitting many realistic elements is because they would be boring. If I wanted to play through all the steps of plowing a field, planting the grain, irrigating the field, dealing with weeds, harvesting the grain, an
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Wow, I did not realize that SSH did that. Good to know, and it makes sense as a default, because the people who need it need to have it on by default. But I think I'm going to be turning that off, because it's a security measure t
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by rmunn 9mo ago
I could be wrong about him meaning the Greek philosophers (since I don't remember the rest of the lecture), though since it was the intro to a Philosophy 101 class that's who I assumed he meant at the time. As for fragmented texts
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by rmunn 9mo ago
The Greek philosophers (Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, et al), and the project was, as my Philosophy 101 prof said, that they wanted to learn everything there was to know. An impossible goal, obviously, but they were dreaming the impossible
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by rmunn 9mo ago
LazyVim includes a bunch of pre-configured plugins that turn NeoVim into an IDE. Fuzzy search by filename, search by text, file explorer, go to definition, go to reference... Even debugging and unit test runners, it's all there. Yet wh
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by rmunn 9mo ago
On the first day of class in undergrad, most professors are handing out the syllabus and talking about class requirements and basically doing zero lecturing. Not my Philosophy 101 prof. The minute the class was scheduled to start, he open
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by rmunn 9mo ago
With LazyVim (requires NeoVim) and its load-on-demand architecture, startup time usually stays below 50 milliseconds even with a ton of plugins. Below 50ms is fast enough that it feels instant . Aliasing `nvim` to `n` in my ~/.bash_al
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by rmunn 9mo ago
From the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article: "Six days after polls had closed, 202 additional votes were added to the totals for Precinct 13 of Jim Wells County, 200 for Johnson and two for Stevenson." Those numbers alone s
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Hadn't heard about that one. Fascinating. Especially since the Black mayor then challenged the secret do-over, won, as was reinstated as mayor. Then the next year there was an actual election for the first time in over 60 years, and th
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by rmunn 9mo ago
> I would prefer a system where even in 20 years I can go online and check how my vote was counted in older elections - this way stealing my vote would be impossible. Understandable, but then vote-buying becomes possible. The reason vote
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by rmunn 9mo ago
P.S. On the subject of counting ballots behind closed doors, look up Athens, TN in 1946 if you haven't heard about it before. It's a fascinating story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Oh, and if the election is on something so polarizing that there are no "neutral" observers, then rather than neutral observers you can have observers from both (or all) parties/sides present, with cameras rolling, while the
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by rmunn 9mo ago
The thing about paper ballots is that the ways to cheat with them are well-known ("finding" ballots in the trunk of a car, "losing" ballot boxes on the way to the counting center, counting the ballots behind locked doors
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Besides the LaTeX use, on Linux if you have gone into your keyboard options and configured a rarely-used key to be your Compose key (I like to use the "menu" key for this purpose, or right Alt if on a keyboard with no "menu&q
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Except for Emily Dickenson, who is an outlier and should not be counted. Seriously, she used dashes all the time . Here is a direct copy and paste of the first two stanzas of her poem "Because I count not stop for Death" from the
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Had a comment listing specific reasons why that post is wrong, but I just realized a generic reason. I see two broad spectra of opinion on AI. One is "LLMs are the greatest thing ever!!!11!1!eleventy! They will usher in the post-scarci
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by rmunn 9mo ago
I don't have enough time to explain the many reasons why that post is wrong, but some of them are: - "In the future, when labor is fully marginalized..." Hasn't happened in the history of the world, not going to happen i
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by rmunn 9mo ago
But does the article include a handy list of How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away?
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by rmunn 10mo ago
> The observant could respond here that 0.64 tablespoons is damn close to 2 teaspoons ... Correct, first thing I thought of. :-) > ... and it could've landed on something more awkward like 0.4 tablespoons total. Let me try to tac
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by rmunn 10mo ago
One of those differences being "Hey, we want to buy some shares at market price, will you sell them to us?" vs "We're taking over your company, and if you don't like it, talk to the men with the guns".
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Yes, it's the same, the IDL just makes it easier for it to work, as otherwise the babies have to be born on either side of midnight while crossing the time zone line. With the IDL the birth time could be almost any time of day excep
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Yes, and if you ask any midwife, OB/GYN, or other person who routinely delivers babies, I'm sure you'll hear about plenty of born-on-different-days twins. One of my in-laws is a doctor who delivers babies; she has lots of sto
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by rmunn 10mo ago
My last visit to Seattle was in 1998 so I can't confirm this firsthand, but I would bet that when someone finishes the jigsaw, ferry staff bring out a new one.
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Fraternal (not identical) twins, born aboard a ship traveling west to east across the Pacific. One of them officially born January 1st, 2016. The younger-by-30-minutes twin officially born December 31st, 2015. They'll have the hardest
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Some 30 years ago, someone challenged me to tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke in a blind taste test. After taking several sips, I could eventually tell that one tasted just a little bit sweeter, more sugary, and the other one taste
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Thanks for the correction. It's too late to edit my comment but I've upvoted yours so the correct info is more visible.
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by rmunn 10mo ago
Which is why I put (facetiously) in my original comment. I'm perfectly aware that iceberg is really lettuce, and what I'm doing is making a "no true Scotsman" argument. It's all for fun. If I was being serious, I wo
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by rmunn 10mo ago
I grew up with lettuce purchased from a local farmer's market, so when I first tried iceberg I was all, "What? This isn't lettuce! It has no taste!" Restaurants love it, though: any time I get a side salad at a restauran

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