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by roberto 13y ago
Weather != climate. I can't predict a coin toss, but I can say that odds will be 50:50 on the long run. If we load the coin we still won't be able to predict individual tosses, but we might estimate that the odds changed to 40:60,
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by roberto 13y ago
I wrote a (valid) Python poem a long time ago: import calendar as usual StandardError is usual \ or not usual. month is long try: not coerce finally: quit (help for me in range (usual. MONDAY))
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by roberto 13y ago
No, the whole point is that this run on Perl 3. It's valid code.
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by roberto 13y ago
On Android I use the K-9 Mail app with APG for encryption, works like a charm.
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by roberto 13y ago
I agree, but this doesn't eliminate middle click. I just like this because I use a trackpad on my laptop, so middle clicking is hard(ish).
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by roberto 13y ago
I have these lines in my .Xresources file (which is sourced by .xinitrc with `xrdb -merge "${HOME}/.Xresources"`): Shift<Key>Insert: insert-selection(CLIPBOARD) \n\ <Key>Insert: insert-selection(PRIMARY) \n\ Shift
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by roberto 13y ago
I've been using i3 for a few months and I love that I can boot in 5 seconds from power to i3. He mentions i3 in a previous article, this is why it's on the bar chart.
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by roberto 13y ago
Why not 50... and call them "states"?
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by roberto 14y ago
Yeah, what's the point of this article? Public buckets are public, who would guess?!
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by roberto 14y ago
Ok, you can't see the difference then. Fair enough.
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by roberto 14y ago
Imagine it's night, and you're a woman alone at a bus stop, in an empty street. Two men arrive, also waiting for the bus. While they're waiting, they start making sexual jokes. Now imagine you're a man in the same situation, and two women a
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by roberto 14y ago
From what I understand in the Pycon incident there was an apology and admission that it shouldn't have happened, and parties were happy with the result. The problem came later because of the tweeted picture.
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by roberto 14y ago
You cannot comprehend? Goose. Rose. I can see how writing "loose" instead of "lose" happens, especially for non-native speakers.
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by roberto 14y ago
He lost me at the blogspot subdomain.
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by roberto 14y ago
What's the problem of scratching the back? It will still be 100% functional, as opposed to scratching the screen.
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by roberto 14y ago
How come? It works in any language.
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by roberto 14y ago
I'm writing my own blog engine after Posterous' announcement. The way it works is that I create a static site which is upload somewhere, and it also publishes the post on Facebook and Twitter. Discussion happens there, on the social network
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by roberto 14y ago
> Personally, that's what I'd like to see. A cms or email based blog that generates the static files and pushes them to whatever service/host you want (Dropbox, s3, github, FTP, SFTP, etc). This is what I've been doing, after Posterous
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by roberto 14y ago
Virool sounds like a russian saying "we rule".
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by roberto 14y ago
Artichoke.
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by roberto 14y ago
TBH he said "act like a new employee", not "act like an employee on his first day of work".
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by roberto 14y ago
It could've been a long exposition shot with a mechanism that directed light to different parts of the film throughout the day.
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by roberto 14y ago
I'm curious, what did you replace Google Docs with? Google Docs is what keeps me from moving away from Google.
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A lightweight database for JSON documents exposed through HTTP(bitbucket.org)
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by roberto 14y ago
Nice! Just signed and sent an invitation for a couple of friends. Would it be possible to add a feed for http://briarpat.ch/hot and http://briarpat.ch/user/feed ?
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by roberto 15y ago
I'd go for B. Here's my line of thought: Even though they asked me to be remembered, and I care for them, after they're dead it doesn't matter to them if they are remembered or not. There is no harm in them not being remembered, because the
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by roberto 15y ago
And it has one of the lowest age of consent in Europe: 14 years!
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by roberto 17y ago
Amazing... Even when talking about Feynman this guy talks more about himself.
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by roberto 17y ago
Weather forecast is concerned with the value of the temperature (or some other variable) in few days; climate research is interested in the statistics of the temperature in a longer timespan. I can't predict the outcome of the next toss o
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by roberto 18y ago
Q: What's the difference between Twitter and setting your status on a XMPP client? A: XMPP scales.

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