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by scbrg 9y ago
Was it really too much of a strain to actually type the whole name of the city, and the districts, so that those of us not familiar with every city in the world could have had a clue? BKK? CBD? AC? TMA-2KTO.
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by scbrg 9y ago
They check in certain countries. I live in Sweden, but recently started to travel to Taiwan regularly. I never signed my card in Sweden, but I've been asked to sign it in Taiwan. Funnily enough, I have been refused to pay a hotel bill
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by scbrg 9y ago
Who are "we"?
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by scbrg 9y ago
I'm sure there are better people to answer this question, but cat-v.org is the personal blog & collection of interesting stuff by former plan9 personality uriel (sadly no longer with us). It hosts random thoughts and lots of intere
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by scbrg 9y ago
I guess the whole point of setuid is that no, you can't always "just sudo" :-)
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by scbrg 9y ago
For what it's worth, a MUD is where I learned to code. In my case, it was an LP MUD (LP, short for LPC, short for Lars Pensjö C (if you're reading this, Lars, Thanks! )- the language in which it was written). MUDs were an excel
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by scbrg 9y ago
bash, incidentally, has a man page that sucks. I've found that most larger GNU projects have pretty horrible man pages. Probably due to feature creep in said projects - so the manuals have to be large to cover all the features. I spe
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by scbrg 9y ago
While I'm not certain what I felt about the man himself (conflicted, much like yourself), he was still in his thirties. No matter what mistakes he made, that is not an age at which anyone should die.
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by scbrg 9y ago
Yes, of course you're right. My apologies, it was a stupid comparison. Though I still feel it's a bit of "choose your poison". In any language, certain symbols will have special meaning. You pretty much have to pick whic
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by scbrg 9y ago
> Every natural language uses spaces to separate things. Exactly. To separate things. Which, incidentally, happens to also be precisely what make, and the traditional UNIX shells do :-) The problem isn't that space in itself is a
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by scbrg 9y ago
I'm bemused by this repeated insistence that supporting colon in file names is somehow difficult.
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by scbrg 9y ago
Anything that gets automated, and can also be shortcutted depending on how much of it has been cached already. That really is the beauty of Make to me - it's very easy to express what parts of a job need and need not be done, because t
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by scbrg 9y ago
Escaping an escape character is not a new problem in programming. There are solutions :-)
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by scbrg 9y ago
> I don't understand why one would think that make would be a good tool for this... Why not? To me, it sounds like a perfect use of Make. You have a number of files that should be processed somehow (presumably by invoking a certai
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by scbrg 9y ago
https://sv.forvo.com/word/fri/#sv Click the little play button under the respective headings: Danish: "fri uttal på danska [da]" Swedish: "fri uttal på svenska [sv]" Norwegian Bokmål: "fri
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by scbrg 9y ago
DNS lookups are generally unencrypted, no? w/r to package managers, apt is usually unencrypted. Of course, there's signature validation that makes sure you don't get altered packages, but traffic can be snooped none the less.
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by scbrg 9y ago
This is obviously highly dependent on where you live. In large parts of Europe, which this is about, that is not the case.
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by scbrg 9y ago
A property of the HN submission system afaik is that you submit one, and only one link. For that purpose, one "merely pointing to data" is a very good default. There's a hundred "softer" links to choose from among i
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by scbrg 9y ago
> Every DNS host I've ever used has offered full control of DNS records. The other day I asked my client to change the negative result TTL of their domain (down from, IMO, very high 86400). Answer: Can't do. Our DNS host won&#x
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by scbrg 9y ago
> You probably have like 5 copies of it installed. Did people stop using package managers while I wasn't looking? :-)
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by scbrg 9y ago
Nitpick: While Kingdomino is a great game, and was awarded Spiel des Jares 2017 it is from 2016. Spiel des Jares (obviously) awards games from the previous year.
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by scbrg 9y ago
Death is not just a simple transition from life to non existence. Death has a whole bag of unpleasantness associated with it. Fear, angst, pain (in theory it can be painless, in practice it's not that easy) and perhaps most importantly
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by scbrg 9y ago
Not OP, but I don't think the fear is that AI will take over the world and enslave as all. Rather the other way around. Imagine you can create an artificial consciousness. You could then proceed to cause this AI a tremendous amount of
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by scbrg 9y ago
Not sure if there's been a way to integrate separate emacs processes, but it has always been possible to launch a new frame (emacs speak for window) displaying the same buffer, and given network transparency in X, have it displayed on
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by scbrg 9y ago
Well, to be fair, to "be a thing" is not equivalent to "exist". In this context, I guess that "be a thing" means, "be something people do in their spare time, even when not strictly required to because its
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by scbrg 9y ago
While true, I guess the point was that it's misleading to refer to sid as Debian's "experimental" release, since Debian actually has a "release" referred to as experimental and it is not sid . htt
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by scbrg 9y ago
And neither is Debian (stable). But given that they're often used for the same purpose (servers), it's not that irrational to compare them. Having a larger, supported package selection (even if it's a bit old) may be a good
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by scbrg 9y ago
Thank you for forcing me to look for reference. It turns out that I got the story a wrong in pretty much all the details, but - I'd argue - correct in the conclusion. The event did not happen a month or two ago, that was apparently the
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by scbrg 9y ago
I'm not sure where you got the idea that "control over emotions" equals "not displaying emotions". I'd say it rather equals "not acting on emotions". Situation: You are angry at a person. - Control
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by scbrg 9y ago
Well, apologies. I got the impression that your argument was that you make a messages easier to understand by shortening them. I just gave you a concrete example of when a message got harder to understand because it was shortened. But goo

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