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by scbrg 3y ago
I worked at a small, local ISP in the 90:ies that had a point to point link across the river, handling the dial up traffic from the telecom company we partnered with. Every few days, always at roughly the same time, all incoming dial up tra
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by scbrg 3y ago
That's a bit dated. Both regular sudo (1.9.13p3) and sudo-rs (0.2.2) on my machine (Debian) support double dash style options.
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by scbrg 3y ago
Nobody can type up a GIF image, or Word document in a Notepad, yet files of both those formats exist. The answer obviously is tooling. If a format with sane separators was common, so would editors that could edit that format be.
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by scbrg 3y ago
Character created: Tue Oct 3 09:43:00 1995 A MUD. Still logged in all the time. Had a few characters before that one.
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by scbrg 3y ago
We're in a thread that opened with chevy tahoes... I'd say it's an improvement, even if there's some way to go still :)
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by scbrg 3y ago
apt-get. It simply tells you what it's going to remove/install. Calling an API to retrieve data is not really the type of program that requires a dry-run flag. It's mainly useful for commands that change the state of somethin
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by scbrg 3y ago
Seems they took a small step back from their previous "don't bother with man pages" stance. Now it's "Consider providing man pages." I still find it a rather shocking order of priority, honestly. https:/&
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by scbrg 3y ago
I'm not when it's normal noises, made by non headphone wearing people. Normally people are conscious about the sounds they make and restrict them a bit. If you're coughing in a group, you try to do it softly, or you leave the
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by scbrg 3y ago
> some of my colleagues just put noise-suppression headphones Great. Now the rest of us have to put up with even more noise. People wearing headphones make a lot more noise themselves. Presumably because they don't hear the noise th
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by scbrg 3y ago
Back in the day (90:ies) a colleague at the ISP I was working at (small time dial up business) told me that the one site on the Internet you could count on always being up was playboy.com. Therefore, it was our standard "check if Inter
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by scbrg 3y ago
This may be the most Poe's Law HN comment I have ever read. Bravo :-)
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by scbrg 3y ago
It's a very odd definition in the world of software though, even games. Hope they're not holding their breath for World of Warcraft or Factorio to be finished. God forbid they need an operating system. I guess OS/2 would make
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by scbrg 3y ago
> Tesla can go and pick them off at the postal center themselves. No. You cannot waltz into a postal center, say "oh, that there stuff is mine" and then leave with it.
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by scbrg 3y ago
The point is, that when you've got a selection of thousands [0], having one element in that selection outmatch all the others put together by a factor of 1:10 by one metric (biomass), and clearly winning by a margin of more than one
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by scbrg 3y ago
> But in terms of population, we're still far, far outnumbered. Eh, no? No other species there comes even close to 8 billion individuals. If you add the individuals from all the other species, then yes, we're outnumbered. But
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by scbrg 3y ago
I tried to pick a simple scenario to make it easy to see the faulty model, and assume that this version of Spotify has exactly two users and a catalog of exactly two artists. The imbalance remains even if you scale it up. Artists that are l
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by scbrg 3y ago
Users U1 and U2 have a the same subscription, and $10 of the fee they pay will be distributed to artists. User U1 listens to tracks from artist A1 ten times. User U2 listens to tracks from artist A2 190 times. The $20 that U1 and U2 have pa
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by scbrg 3y ago
While that's probably true, I don't really see its relevance. I'm fairly certain that exactly zero of the people spending prison time for murder in my country committed murder because they were hungry. I'm open to the po
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by scbrg 3y ago
> I believe the most spectacular event is going to be the Unix timestamp 2 000 000 000 which is still 9½ years away: 2033-05-18 03:33:20 UTC. Such an event occurs only once every 33 years 8 months approximately! Egads! 33 years! I spent
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by scbrg 3y ago
No it isn't. I can play lots of games on my machine. I can't play, specifically, Alan Wake 2, since it's unavailable for purchase either standalone or an a platform that supports Linux. Of course it's their choice where
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by scbrg 3y ago
> It certainly doesn’t affect me or any consumer. $ ./EpicInstaller-15.17.1.msi bash: ./EpicInstaller-15.17.1.msi: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error Turns out Epic doesn't work on my platform of choic
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by scbrg 3y ago
xhost +
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by scbrg 3y ago
Python versions I have to target (occasionally): 2.5, 2.7, 3.5, 3.8. Not the whole world has the luxury to upgrade all their systems all the time. Excuse me, would you mind stopping this factory for a few hours so we can replace this perfe
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by scbrg 3y ago
> I have seen HN threads ridiculing some govt website for being outdated or not fixing the latest vulnerability or not using the latest version etc. Or if they do allocate a bigger chunk of their budget for tech and there will be unreaso
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by scbrg 3y ago
It's not, but it's annoying when there's a difference, and you won't know which day "Sunday week 45" refers to without doing a thorough background check on the guy who said it. It's a bit like decimal poin
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by scbrg 3y ago
> Possibly not, as you have labelled them >> the kind of people who have little patience for technology problems and little patience for learning new things No, I haven't. You're making an awful lot of shit up about me. A
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by scbrg 3y ago
It's not really that people can't use them. It's that they're slow, annoying, hard/impossible to automate, hard/impossible to customize and give you RSI. We've seen Web interfaces, they're hard to a
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by scbrg 3y ago
Perhaps non existence was Quora's peak. After that, it was founded and everything went downhill from there :-)
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by scbrg 3y ago
I'm glad to see that you've replaced debating type systems with debating debating type systems. I'm sure it's a great productivity improvement ;-P
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by scbrg 3y ago
> However, if I ran into this incidentally (not posted to HN for review), I would never use this. I'd see the lack of a github link on the top right, and assume it's a some kind of startup making some prototype hosted tool. Yea

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