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by scbrg 6y ago
> The version number should never appear in the command name. Well, that's nice in theory, but... > In 50+ years of typing into terminals, we have not figured out how to have multiple versions of things coexist peacefully. Well,
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by scbrg 6y ago
The reality is that physically, it actually works like this: (process1,serialize) | (parse,process2,serialize) | ... But as soon as you involve the network or persistent storage, you need to do all that anyway . And one of
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by scbrg 6y ago
What you're saying is essentially: If we can't come up with a way in which Microsoft could proceed to the Extinguish phase, they can't. Because clearly, if we , after spending five minutes thinking about it, can't com
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by scbrg 6y ago
There are cron implementations that handle the "turned off at night" problem. anacron is one of them.
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by scbrg 6y ago
To begin with, citizenship is forced upon you. You don't have a choice about it. Yes, you can (in some cases) renounce it, though that's quite a momentous task - it involved pretty much cancelling your existing life, and takes m
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by scbrg 6y ago
> Are there editors that actually overwrite the original file, instead of creating a new file? Yes, there are. This bit me at one point, since I created a Make target depending on directories rather than individual files in the directori
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by scbrg 6y ago
> No, we have always been able to edit communication until the internet, because conversations/everything has always been unrecorded or very hard to access the archives of. Spoken, yes. Written, no. But sure, most communication is (
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by scbrg 6y ago
> This inability seems the IT industry at it's worse. It's like some Frankenstein putting immutability onto human beings. I don't understand. Communication has historically not been possible to "edit". There&#x27
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by scbrg 7y ago
You know, before top posting was a thing, you actually edited the parts you were replying to so that only the bits you addressed remained in your mail. And if you addressed several parts, you separated them, so that it was clear which part
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by scbrg 7y ago
So, I eat out and order takeaway a lot. The average cost for this is roughly $8-$14. I could cook, I suppose, spending an hour or two every day, and cut that cost to.. $3-$5? But just for the heck of it, say I save the whole damn cost, beca
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by scbrg 7y ago
Sweden is, on the other hand, not the only country that doesn't let minors or people in a position of dependence "voluntarily" yield anything. The problem in those cases is that it's hard to determine how voluntary the y
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by scbrg 7y ago
I would argue that that makes it an even better learning exercise :)
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by scbrg 7y ago
"$0.02c" - does this notation mean 2 cents? Honest question, not American and never seen this format before. Is it considered more clear than just "$0.02"? I'm guessing it really can't mean 0.02 cents. See also
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by scbrg 7y ago
Of course. When you're working mainly with one format, the other becomes a hassle. The point is that those two formats are pretty much equivalent, quality wise. One is not inherently better or worse than the other. When it comes to imp
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by scbrg 7y ago
If this actually was a functioning way of handling the situation, every single company would be structured this way. Worker protection laws are a huge pain for employers in Sweden, so they wouldn't hesitate a second if they could wor
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by scbrg 7y ago
I haven't kept up to date with recent RPG:s, but I played Cyberpunk 2020, GURPS Cyberpunk and a few local non English equivalents back in the day quite a bit. The main problem with deckers/netrunners wasn't how (un)realistic
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by scbrg 7y ago
apt-get install gtypist Wow, that was so much harder than manually copying the URL from the teacher's Power Point presentation ;-)
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by scbrg 7y ago
LUKE: These are the same Jawas that sold us Artoo and Threepio. BEN: And these blast points, too accurate for Sandpeople. Only Imperial stormtroopers are so precise. LUKE: Why would Imperial troops want to slaughter Jawas? https:/&#x2
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by scbrg 7y ago
> Isn't it obvious that cold showers will make you more resilient to cold? No? It might, but I wouldn't call it "obvious". There's plenty of things where exposure doesn't increase resilience.
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by scbrg 7y ago
Why wouldn't it be? Just checked my own commit count at work. Averaging 4 daily (including weekends and holidays), in our main repo for the past six years. There's some work going on outside the main repo, if I could be bothered t
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by scbrg 7y ago
I saw it several times when growing up in the 80's, but I was apparently too stupid to see the pun. I just kept thinking "Tiger? We don't have any damn tigers, this makes no sense." Oh, I wish we'd had Wikipedia bac
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by scbrg 7y ago
Swedish game studio DICE (Battlefield series, among other titles) also grew out of the gaming scene. The demo group The Silents grew into Digital Illusions and later DICE. The Silents produced a couple of amazing demos in the early nineties
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by scbrg 7y ago
> Less lumpy than a billiard ball. Well, no: https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/ The myth is springs from the fact that if you had a smooth earth with a radius of center to Mariana Trench, and another
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by scbrg 7y ago
Depending on the location of the hotel, this is often not very optimal.
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by scbrg 7y ago
I guess this is a YMMV thing. My experience is that Python rots more than shell scripts, but of course I understand that this may not be universally true, and depends a lot on what your scripts actually do (and, to a large extent, on ho
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by scbrg 7y ago
I'm glad you mentioned SSL. Because hey - that broke some scripts in 2.7.9 ;-) https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466/ (Can't remember the details, but it may have been something about some extra
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by scbrg 7y ago
Well, I won't argue with that. When I say shell script, I mean POSIX. I never write bash scripts (although admittedly, I do miss pipefail).
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by scbrg 7y ago
Well, py2 -> py3 is obviously one. Before that, well it's been a while. But with and yield were added as a keywords (breaking any code using them as a variables). The xreadlines module disappeared at some point (I'm sure
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by scbrg 7y ago
Another rule of thumb would be: "How many years from now do you still want this to work?" If I run a shell script I wrote ten years ago, it works. If I run a Python script I wrote ten years ago, it's quite likely to fail with
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by scbrg 7y ago
> Moving forward, I question whether these types of suspensions should be allowed from the tech giants without any oversight or regulation. There is an industry based on providing short term lodging for people that is subject to oversigh

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