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by scbrg 1y ago
For a while it was seen as an excellent excuse not to. Not joking. These days, the needy on the streets accept our local app based payment system called Swish. Still not joking.
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by scbrg 1y ago
> ignore all alphanumeric characters There's not much left to sort by then, is there?
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by scbrg 1y ago
One of my favorite pieces of game music ever, perhaps only rivaled by Morrowind's. Thanks to your link I also learned that Alex has done some voice acting work, including the voice of Ancano in Skyrim! Thanks for posting :)
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by scbrg 1y ago
If you're using the GNU implementations; --no-clobber, --backup or --update. Can be aliased too.
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by scbrg 1y ago
I'm such a user. Been mostly running on debian/stable since the 90-ies. At work and privately. I cheated when I got a new computer in the beginning of August this year and installed Trixie a couple of weeks before release. My reas
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by scbrg 1y ago
> Where do you get that? TFA: Candy consumption started increasing in 1980s and by 2010s, Sweden had the highest per capita candy consumption in the world. I'd say that "highest consumption in the world" qualifies as &qu
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by scbrg 1y ago
Interesting. I consider Excel the worst of Microsoft's misdeeds. Not that there's not an abundance to pick from, but Excel may very well top the list. It's perhaps the single worst database in the world; with no type cont
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by scbrg 1y ago
ntfy is a very useful tool. Thank you very much for making it and also for maintaining the ntfy.sh service for those of us too lazy to self host.
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by scbrg 1y ago
Such as automobile?
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by scbrg 1y ago
https://geminiquickst.art/
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by scbrg 1y ago
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Galactic_Standard_Calendar#... The Galactic Standard Calendar or Galactic Standard Time was the standard measurement of time in the galaxy. It was based on the Coruscant solar cycle. T
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by scbrg 1y ago
This follows a convention that was well established and felt pretty ancient when I learned about environment variables in the nineties (i.e. 30 years ago). Variables that are flags enabling/disabling something use 1 to enable, and 0 to
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by scbrg 1y ago
Absolutely! Every single line (my own included) was truly a work of passion. We were all there coding because we loved the game, and wanted to make it even better (although opinions varied, of course, on exactly what would make it better)
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by scbrg 1y ago
I owe my career in programming to a MUD. That's really where I learned to code (mainly by staring at and trying to debug tonnes of really bad code other clueless newbies like myself had written). That it turn, got me a spot as a sort o
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by scbrg 1y ago
Ah! That explains my confusion. Thanks for clarifying, and my apologies to sylens. Great post, by the way!
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by scbrg 1y ago
So, here's the first three sentences in the linked article: I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work on remote machines. Since I am Emacs user, the most common way to do this is usi
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by scbrg 1y ago
That's honestly not particularly clear. It doesn't say the command will be invoked by a shell on the remote host. Sure the whole "separated by spaces" thing sorta implies it will, as spaces don't mean much to anythi
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by scbrg 1y ago
Not really. It's just that software by definition must create a model of the domain it attempts to handle. And a model is, in the end, a set of rules. With an absence of rules, the software can't really do anything, as would b
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by scbrg 1y ago
> But that's not the case. We're not all cosmopolitans traveling the world all the time. For anyone living in a timezone where 00:00 happens when most people are asleep, there'd only be one word for tomorrow, as it'd
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by scbrg 1y ago
Again, I believe the problem you're talking about is caused by time zones. If you're used to date changes happening "whenever", you'd stop assuming they happen at a fixed point during the day. Any argument that
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by scbrg 1y ago
I believe all these problems are caused by time zones, not solved by them. If the current date/day of week wasn't vaguely connected to sleep/wake cycle, we wouldn't be conditioned to assume it was. For instance, we h
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by scbrg 1y ago
flashback, 2001. I'm 25, sitting in the office with litestep installed (which honestly was the only alternative to Linux or resignation). My five years younger colleague steps up to my desk and says "hey, cool desktop!" I sta
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by scbrg 1y ago
Huh. Swede here. Went to school in the 80:ies and 90:ies. Only ever saw Mercator. Perhaps things have changed since.
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by scbrg 2y ago
> Autocorrect becomes an active enemy when I'm trying to type "I'd'nt've" or "y'couldn't'v'nt'd". This must be the first time I'm on Autocorrect's side ;->
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by scbrg 2y ago
Warning, very broadly generalizing now, but here goes... > I have noticed that a lot of people don't bother to consider the proper spelling of words but rather they just spell a word however it sounds to them. This is my "spo
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by scbrg 2y ago
It's used in Sweden, at least. Source: Me, having lived there most of my life. Second source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_Swed...
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by scbrg 2y ago
And... before anybody points it out: When I wrote K&R, I obviously had a brain fart. I was thinking about Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, but the acronym is of course normally used to refer to Brian Kernighan and Dennis. Sorry fo
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by scbrg 2y ago
Heh. Fair enough :-) I just don't really see how that one, single, extra three second step is much to get upset about, and I think it's just welcome that it rubs me in the face that I got it wrong. It makes me not gloss over the h
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by scbrg 2y ago
I find it helpful. If it's a program that generally supports single dash options only, having it respond to --help will falsely make me believe that it's one that expects double dash options. Letting me know that the proper way to
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by scbrg 2y ago
You... can? Perhaps I misunderstand you, but doesn't readline solve this problem?

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