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by scbrg 2y ago
For someone who doesn't follow US politics that closely (yes, we exist), in what way has he made it clear that he wants to dismantle democratic institutions? Any concrete examples?
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by scbrg 2y ago
pagers are sometimes more of a burden than a help. If a file is relatively short, the terminal's scrollback may be sufficient to navigate the content. A pager may not cooperate well with the terminal's UI for scrolling, and may ev
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by scbrg 2y ago
> What is the benefit of such a yikes? Or do you consider it a yikes language as a whole? None, it was just a simple joke based on the typo in the post I replied to. I like Python, and have in fact been happily using it as my main langua
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by scbrg 2y ago
Not sure I believe the benefit of this approach outweighs the added difficulty wrt testing, but I certainly agree that Python needs a yikes keyword :-)
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by scbrg 2y ago
In this case, it did. The requirement is clearly specified in the top answer: if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight&quot
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by scbrg 2y ago
Not sure if I'm missing a joke here - if so, whoosh, I guess. But he played as everything. At the time his main was a rogue :)
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by scbrg 2y ago
Hmm. I friend of mine claimed that requesting trade with another player in World of Warcraft crashed his router. When he needed to trade, he always insisted that the other player should initiate the transaction. I was tempted to discard thi
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by scbrg 2y ago
Why are you asking me? I'm not even arguing that the attack was wrong. I just challenged your - IMO incorrect - suggestion that it's reasonable to assume that no devices would spread to anyone other than the original owner. If the
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by scbrg 2y ago
Perhaps. Still, in any pool of 3000 people it's fairly reasonable to assume that one or two (or ~2950) are "fucking stupid". Because people, as a rule, are. If I'd let my prejudice run loose, I'd even argue that mil
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by scbrg 2y ago
Not all organizations work as the US military. Or even as a US company. I know nothing about Hezbollah, but there's a widespread opinion on HN that any equipment you get from "work" can absolutely only be used by yourself in
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by scbrg 2y ago
Never underestimate the node community's willingness to ignore the existing tech stack and reinvent 50 year old tools. It's peak NIH.
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by scbrg 2y ago
Fair enough. I hadn't considered the spam problem. No, I haven't really encountered it, but then I don't really use GitHub very much either.
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by scbrg 2y ago
How is an "email alias" (whatever that is) not a valid email address?
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by scbrg 2y ago
$ man diff | grep -A1 'SEE ALSO' SEE ALSO wdiff(1), cmp(1), diff3(1), sdiff(1), patch(1) I think there's some kind of affiliate program going on...
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by scbrg 2y ago
We do tar, for xfz I think you have to look to the Slavic languages :) Anyway, to answer your question: $ grep -Fxf <(ls -1 /bin) /usr/share/dict/swedish ack ar as black dialog dig du ebb e
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by scbrg 2y ago
Well. I don't know. Those two programs don't really do the same thing. There's an awful lot of comparisons in the second one. After making the awk program more similar to the Perl program, and using mawk instead of gawk (whic
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by scbrg 2y ago
For your anecdata is somewhat relevant you need to know around 2,000 people well enough to accurately judge whether they're capable of circumventing a DNS block :-)
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by scbrg 2y ago
> But what does it actually stand for? Terminal user interface? Text user interface? Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface The Wikipedia page is from 2004, so it's been around a while.
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by scbrg 2y ago
+1. This is a fantastic feature. I haven't even bothered learning the keybindings (perhaps I should), I just start with --sid1= and --sid2= and it works well enough. Neither me nor my significant other are native English speakers, but
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by scbrg 2y ago
> I’m not sure I’ve ever been faced with different versions of a fiction before. You probably have, but haven't thought of it like that. Ever seen a Director's Cut version of a movie? :-)
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by scbrg 2y ago
Swede here. Both the American an the French revolution were taught when I went to school in the ninth and tenth decades of the twentieth century. As GP points out, they're both fairly significant events that had side effects relevant e
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by scbrg 2y ago
PyPy was first. It was indeed easier in the era when the Cheese Shop was called the Cheese Shop, and not PyPi. [edit]: After some searching, I notice that PEP 301 is actually dated Oct 2002, so perhaps I'm wrong. The public/advert
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by scbrg 2y ago
Noted, point taken.
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by scbrg 2y ago
It has worked supremely well. Now I'm beginning to suspect you're just pulling my leg. In either case, it has little to do with IPv6, so I'll leave it there.
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by scbrg 2y ago
Yes. I'm sure it's the occasional exaggerated reporting in tabloid media that is at fault. The billions of dollars that have been funneled into extremely focused lobbying campaigns spreading FUD and disinformation for 50 years hav
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by scbrg 2y ago
You a climate change denier too, by any chance? The rhetoric is the same. Using the word "alarmist" to dismiss valid concerns, conveniently ignoring all the negative consequences that already have occurred and sprouting nonsense l
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by scbrg 3y ago
Everything falls in place when you accept that in python all names (including list indexes) are just pointers to an object, and objects aren't copied unless you explicitly copy them. Everything else follows from that. If you had done [
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by scbrg 3y ago
I would say that usually you do. But in hindsight, that's a behavior that came with SSH (via known_hosts and ssh/config). So back in the rlogin days, yeah, autocomplete of hostnames was not common.
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by scbrg 3y ago
Did everyone skip class the day they taught about the tab key? Every computer, every directory, every file, every command, every option and argument is maximum three keystrokes long: the first character, the second character and the tab key
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by scbrg 3y ago
The caption to the first video is misleading. That building is in Hualien, not in Taipei. https://maps.app.goo.gl/8cErBHJXBa5ynyVy9

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