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by rumcajz 7y ago
Not very effective sex organs at that. Eventually, we'll be dispaced by something that does the job more effectively.
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Shorting our security- Financing the companies that make nuclear weapons(dontbankonthebomb.com)
2 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
Postel's principle: By liberal in what you accept... It means that the tool won't crash just because there's weird input.
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by rumcajz 7y ago
Currently it uses the alignment of the headers as the default. It's only when a field exceeds the size of the header when the output is misaligned. The next record returns to the default alignment though. I was thinking about adding a
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by rumcajz 7y ago
Tabs are a nightmare to deal with when you want to align the columns. Also, I don't consider tabs to be human readable: They are too easily confused with spaces. (Case in point: make)
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Show HN: UXY – adding structure to Unix tools(github.com)
126 points by rumcajz 7y ago|39 comments
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Type-Safeness in Shell (2019)(250bpm.com)
3 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
The question of intrusive containers is kind of orthogonal. You can implement intrusive containers using generics. Aslo, kernel code would use intrusive containers even if there were easy-to-user non-intrusives available directly in C. The
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Companies building nuclear weapons(icanw.org)
2 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
I've done a write-up on the book here: http://250bpm.com/blog:128
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Hull: An alternative to shell that I'll never have time to implement(250bpm.com)
5 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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On the Nature of Programming Languages(250bpm.com)
2 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
Hm, are you sure that, say, all implementations of Ruby have exactly the same behaviour?
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by rumcajz 7y ago
What I would be more interested in is how such a tower of interpreters behaves. Does the undefined/underspecified behaviour add up until it's impossible to tell what a program will do? Does it remain more of less functional?
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IMF warns that tech giants stifle innovation and threaten stability(theguardian.com)
1 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
See Piaget's concrete operational stage [1] of human development: "Abstract, hypothetical thinking is not yet developed in the child, and children can only solve problems that apply to concrete events or objects." In other wo
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by rumcajz 8y ago
The difference her is that hashcash is hackable (send spam via a botnet from other people's machines and them bearing the cost). With telephone calls such a scheme is harder to implement, it would be discovered quickly by the phone com
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by rumcajz 8y ago
> You acquire that skill which is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs: the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your imagin
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by rumcajz 8y ago
"Amish Community Not Anti-Technology, Just More Thoughtful" https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2013/09/02/21...
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Danish billionaires plan to rewild large swath of Scottish Highlands(theguardian.com)
2 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Just a guess, but wouln't ops/devops work be a better fit for prisoners? Sitting for hours in front of a monitor, trying to solve an algorithmic puzzle doesn't seem to be the kind of hobby that gets you into prison. Conductin
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by rumcajz 8y ago
In Switzerland, most people go into trades. Higher education is not seen ad having higher status in any way. Also, if you call a plumber to fix your broken sink, it's going to be really expensive.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I don't understand medicine much. I would prefer to believe my doctor. However, if my doctor suggests using homeopathics I will start questioning any other advice they might give me.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I was looking for an intro on economics of reuse the the other day but I haven't found anything useful. So, for example, if law allowed only for a small number of different container types (to turn them into a commodity) and then taxed
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Yeah, Africans are also complaining that there are too many Africans among the prosecuted. But it's not like there's an alternative. Either we have ICC and at least some war criminals get prosecuted or we have nothing. Take your p
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Neither did Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Cuba, Nicaragua, etc. Here's the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court#/...
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Australia had “automatically” blocked all access to schoolstrike4climate.com(theguardian.com)
12 points by rumcajz 8y ago|2 comments
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Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions(reuters.com)
250 points by rumcajz 8y ago|112 comments
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Revealed: Populist leaders linked to reduced inequality(theguardian.com)
6 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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Programmatic Code Generation: Composability(250bpm.com)
3 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments

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