salmo

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by salmo 4y ago
The stealing isn’t unique for sure. But most of the vocabulary in our language is borrowed words. Mostly just the “sight words” kids learn in early school is what remains of Old English. And many English words are the rougher equivalent o
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by salmo 4y ago
Totally agree. I love that it’s the gumbo of languages. Throw whatever you want in there. I’m down. And as an American I reject the British pronunciation of “herb” and “lieutenant.”
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by salmo 4y ago
I think an appealing thing about English is the ridiculous vocabulary. When it doesn’t have a word, it just steals one from another language. We have a French-based word that’s a “fancy” way to say an English-based synonym from the court vs
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by salmo 4y ago
Even the GNU commands on Solaris were so old, and from a time where so many were changing and flakey. I could reliably make the Solaris and early Linux bash and gsed segfault. Options weren’t consistent with Linux distros or coreutils from
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by salmo 4y ago
IIRC almost all Unixes followed the /src model you really only see in BSD today. Sometimes it was a separate license or only given to Universities and 3rd party developers. But before Linux it was assumed you could build the kernel a
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by salmo 4y ago
I am the older folks. My Twitter friends are the older folks. And my mute word list grows every election or scandal to cover the copy/paste rhetoric from “both” sides. Maybe 1/3 of my follows hit that. It’s not a statement that
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by salmo 4y ago
Not far off. But the parents are already there. Like, uh, me. And most of my Twitter friends are similarly aged. And some of their parents are there. My mute list grows every couple months. I don’t mind political content but get tired of
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by salmo 4y ago
Twitter’s already headed down the uncool social media curve like Facebook before it. There will be an exodus, but it would have happened either way. Once the parents get on, it starts the decline. When the grandparents are there… The “poli
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by salmo 4y ago
I love this idea. So many failures follow the “first is not best”, then many failed business tales. But most of these are the expected and the analysis is shallow. Snark added is unnecessary. Many are fad products or acknowledged R&D e
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by salmo 4y ago
India has booming film industries, but I haven't looked into historical film. I'm normally there for the escapism. The fact that it's considered A place or A heritage is another problem. It's more diverse than Europe.
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by salmo 4y ago
I have a thing for filling in gaps in my knowledge. Eventually one will bother me and I'll have to learn. Just before COVID started, it was non-Eurocentric history. I realized I knew the world as seeing the Persians as the decadent
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by salmo 4y ago
A “root server” was a pre-cloud term for a rented server you had root on vs a mortal user account. The latter was typically for hosting a canned LAMP. Basically your own VM or physical instead of a user on a shared machine or a limited-us
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by salmo 4y ago
It saves bytes! (joking!)
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by salmo 4y ago
In a lot of ways neovim can be a TUI VSCode. It supports the language server spec and all that. It does require (kinda complicated) config. But you can steal examples from the internet. There's also the ecosystem of plugins to do f
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by salmo 4y ago
I do that, but have a "location" for home and work. I flip them when I get on/off my company network (VPN or on-prem). I haven't had an issue with Firefox with that. Are you doing something nicer than manually flipping
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by salmo 4y ago
Come to think of it, I don’t break them. It’s when I let my kids borrow/take them. Except micro, those connectors just wear out in a year or two. My kids keep their tablets plugged in while using a lot of the time. I think it’s the s
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by salmo 4y ago
No, she does general practice. That includes family law, but not dedicated. It would be an equitable portion of our collective stuff, not 1/2 of mine. There is no “yours” when you’re married. That’s a big part of what marriage means.
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by salmo 4y ago
Thanks! My dream world is to run the “same thing” in a public cloud, datacenter, and (limited resource) remote facility. The latter wouldn’t need to be failure tolerant, just quickly recoverable as a service (not necessarily the data). If I
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by salmo 4y ago
I’m always more curious about the operational story, but new projects tend to focus on the low-level implementation. I love Redis, but managing HA is a pain and requires a good bit of engineering on its own. I think this is how RedisLabs st
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by salmo 4y ago
I got a Google Home as a raffle prize and didn’t see the point. But my house was built in the 70s and has almost 0 ceiling lights in the room. So I started buying smart outlets for the lamps so I could just turn the room off by yelling at i
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by salmo 4y ago
The 1 in 100 is what keeps my wife busy with family law. The odds of ending up marrying someone vs having a healthy relationship are 2 very different things. My wife and I dated through undergrad, broke up at "get married or break up.
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by salmo 4y ago
I think that’s what weirds me out. In cases like rail, it’s necessary for interoperability and prevents anti competitive practices. There’s a clear state interest there. But swapping a plug doesn’t buy us that. This is evidenced by the f
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by salmo 4y ago
This is odd to me as well. The value of PaaS scales with developers. But Heroku et al target small shops. If you have 100 dev teams, infra experience is a lot of “overhead.” If you have 5, you just make sure some of the devs know how to s
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by salmo 4y ago
I was just thinking the same thing. Curious if anyone else is using it with Okta, Auth0, etc. One trouble I have with OAuth2 is that so much assumes social media providers or UI-based flows. I’ve done it, but don’t really grok it. Part of
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by salmo 4y ago
That’s awesome and the references are great. Thank you for that. I’ve really been working on learning early history the past few years, especially from “the East”, where I had no real formal education. The straw part is brilliant. I image
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by salmo 4y ago
In my amateur learning about Egypt, “beer” seems misleading. It’s definitely a fermented grain beverage thing, but more like bread + liquid that doesn’t make you sick. Reproductions are kinda nasty and very low ABV from what I’ve heard and
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by salmo 4y ago
I keep looking at similar devices. What I really want is a small lap top machine (but not necessarily a clamshell laptop) that I can keep by my couch. My goal is to be able to write software when an idea pops in my head or ssh into my home
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by salmo 4y ago
Same. I still break out my Radio Shack desoldering iron from time to time, but only for things that can take the abuse.
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by salmo 4y ago
A few years back I bought a Chinese hot air rework station for <$200. Maybe like “Ayoye” or something with a lot of vowels. It has a soldering iron with a vacuum pump as well. I never really use the hot air part but am in love with the i
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by salmo 4y ago
IIRC, you can't have a nil value, just a nil pointer. I like that because it makes you avoid using nil/null/none as a magic value as a habit (not completely, because yeah, pointers). But it's definitely no Rust. It&#x2

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