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by scbrg 7y ago
Presumably because then you know that the majority of week 1 is in the new year.
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by scbrg 7y ago
Not that it matters much, but decimal comma is somewhat more widespread than "some non-English speaking European countries": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
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by scbrg 7y ago
Please let it be I am not an orca!
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by scbrg 7y ago
> But the slice of humanity that finds this to be an appealing option is such a sliver of a sliver of a sliver of the total. How is this relevant to any vaguely reasonable person's life? Why would anyone upvote this Quixotic nonsens
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by scbrg 7y ago
Which, honestly, would have been quite sufficient in this case. I can't remember ever having seen anything like this in Debian, for instance.
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by scbrg 7y ago
Not pretending to be able to answer for OP, but one answer would be that it's because lynx is a browser, and Google is a web site. Traditionally you read web sites with browsers, rather than requiring special tools for every particular
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by scbrg 7y ago
> you only need to package and add documentation None of which are insignificant. In addition to that you must now support (and test for) a million configurations, rather than just one.
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by scbrg 7y ago
> Who has a problem with the current height of phones? I do. So, now we've cleared that up :)
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by scbrg 7y ago
Interestingly, I've had problems in Korea (Gimpo Airport) because my name contains an "ö", and the canonical spelling in the passport for this is "oe". This was cause for much confusion among the airport staff. I wo
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by scbrg 7y ago
No. It's addressed in the second last bullet, Partial content
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by scbrg 7y ago
This may be shocking to you, but natural languages aren't consistent and logical :-) See also: http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/arming_the_motors.html
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by scbrg 7y ago
You have received replies already, but there are at least some pieces of non symmetrical infrastructure from that era that remain. I live in Gothenburg, where trams are still one of the major forms of public transportation. There's a
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by scbrg 7y ago
One thing I always miss when I see statistics such as "Your fingers on QWERTY move 2.2x more than on Colemak," is an explanation of what activity you're presumably doing then. I'm guessing the assumption is that you&
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by scbrg 7y ago
> Please don't use the lie word: it goes to intentionality. If someone built a whole product around it - and use it as their marketing pitch when it takes like 30 seconds of man-page reading to find out that it's wrong, I'
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by scbrg 7y ago
It never occurred to me before, but the word "Lovecraftian" is indeed perfect for describing the modern approach to infrastructure. Well put.
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by scbrg 7y ago
That, and local variables. I avoid bash for the same reasons as GP, so I tend to (reluctantly) live without pipefail and work around the lack of local variables with subshells (which I assume has a performance impact - but hey).
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by scbrg 7y ago
Isn't it the wrong word, though? From the US perspective (which is what's relevant here), he's not an immigrant.
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by scbrg 7y ago
A "well-formed HTML email" is about as common as a "functioning Communist state". I'm sure they're both great, and I'll let you know when I see one.
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by scbrg 7y ago
What a stellar (!) idea. Thank you so much for posting.
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by scbrg 7y ago
"To have fun" is a good reason.
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by scbrg 7y ago
They already are making a legal choice when they choose to make the repo public. There is little point in not making that explicit.
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by scbrg 7y ago
TIL: xrdb translations. 25 years of X usage, and that one has somehow managed to evade me. Such an awesome (and now that I learned about it - obvious) thing.
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by scbrg 7y ago
I dislike Zuck as much as anyone, and probably more than most. But. I really don't understand why people whine about this particular quote. I think this may be one of the best things I've seen come from him. He is perfectly, one h
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by scbrg 7y ago
> How I import things (or the libraries I depend on!) affects how I can write my tests? Really? Well, no. Everything that needs to be understood is explained in the first section, A quick aside about assignment . Everything else is just
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by scbrg 7y ago
Can't speak for parent, but because they have historically shown themselves to be trustworthy. I don't know much about the "NPM community," but judging from the bits I do hear, I'm not sure they have done the same
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by scbrg 7y ago
I would say that top posting does mean replies without trimming. In theory, they're not the same, of course. In practice, I've seen top posting with trimming a total of... well, zero times. And in either case, reading somethin
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by scbrg 7y ago
I would say that the real performance drain is top posting, which seems to go hand in hand with HTML emails. With top posting, in order to read a mail - especially one that is a few levels deep in a thread - becomes an exercise in jumping b
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by scbrg 7y ago
You could also skip the irrelevant parts. That too makes it easy to find the relevant part :-)
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by scbrg 7y ago
It is very useful for you, the sender. It is a nightmare for the receiver. Whenever I receive one of those forwarded top posted thirty mail long horrors I just ignore everything and hope I can guess context from whatever you wrote in the la
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by scbrg 7y ago
I used to think the same way. Recently I started my own consultancy business, and the first thing I did was write a small shell script to track my comings and goings - to the second, so that I'd have good billing data. It has saved me

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