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by scbrg 5y ago
That doesn't sound unlikely. I'd guess that most smoking occurs outdoors. Smoking is pretty much banned indoors except for in people's residences. Many smokers avoid smoking in their own homes due to the damage it does to wal
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by scbrg 5y ago
Thank you! I guess spelling from my native language is creeping over to English on occasion :)
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by scbrg 5y ago
Presumably because parantheses don't really have anything to do with tuples, it's commas that do. Parantheses are there to help the parser group things in case of ambiguity, and to support expressions spanning multiple lines.
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by scbrg 5y ago
Huh. Perhaps. Last time I checked, Dropbox very much did claim that syncing data between devices was their primary use case. Perhaps they changed while I wasn't looking (I haven't been looking since they forced me to Syncthing by
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by scbrg 5y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, POSIX find does not have -delete
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by scbrg 5y ago
My apologies. I'd never seen it, and since it was in the context of chess, I included that in my searches. There was lots of information about cheese, and lots of questions about who the GOAT was, but not what it meant. Interestingly,
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by scbrg 5y ago
So, for anybody else who wasn't familiar with the term GOAT , and don't want to spend minutes fighting search engines all too eager to tell them about goat cheese, it apparently means to Greatest of All Time . Please explain obs
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by scbrg 5y ago
The MUD I was playing had the command "snuke". It was like "smile", but for when you positioned your right hand incorrectly scbrg snukes happily.
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by scbrg 5y ago
A script is just another command, the only difference in this case is that you wrote it and not someone else. If its purpose is to make changes, and it's obvious what changes it should make without any arguments, I'd say it can do
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by scbrg 5y ago
It's not "omit zeroes". It's, "represent the last three octets with just one integer". 127.256 is valid, and would be equivalent to 127.0.1.0. The last integer can be up to 16777215 (2²⁴-1). Similarly, if you i
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by scbrg 5y ago
> The only advantage I can see is that dash is a bit faster than bash or zsh, but it's not that much of a difference in real scripts. It also consumes quite a bit less memory, which can be relevant for shell wrappers or other long r
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by scbrg 5y ago
This is a very unlikely output when run from a script using the /bin/sh interpreter on Debian, though. If that is the output you've gone out of your way to create an alias in a script, in which case it's reasonable o
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by scbrg 5y ago
Section 6 pretty much lets you choose between: - Bundling the source with the program (a) - Letting people download the source from the same place as they can download the program (d) - A written offer to hand over the source on request (b,
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by scbrg 5y ago
> This problem would go away entirely if Gmail didn't do this No it wouldn't. The problem is that people believe they have addresses they don't. They don't have firstmlast@gmail.com any more than they have firt.m.last
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by scbrg 5y ago
That's a very good question, since the page shows five screenshots and one photo of a multi monitor setup for me. In addition, there's a link to https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Screenshots
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by scbrg 5y ago
Interoperability is tricky when one set of apps has end to end encryption as a requirement, and the other set has absence of end to end encryption as a requirement.
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by scbrg 5y ago
I blame GNU's man page. I was in the same situation for the longest time, but stumbled over a man page for a simpler implementation of awk (plan9's, in my case) and learned it in 10-15 minutes (not claiming I understood it more th
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by scbrg 5y ago
Link rot.
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by scbrg 5y ago
I'd say the term was "popularized" by The Latin Kings[0] in the 90s already, so I'm a bit surprised anybody born in the 70s or later wouldn't know it. [0] Pioneering Swedish rap group - for the small subset of HN:er
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by scbrg 5y ago
Given the tutorials on Rubik's cube on the website, I guess it's indeed run by Swedish speedcuber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Petrus . He's Swedish, but he may out of practice since he's been
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by scbrg 5y ago
> if I am waiting Just don't. It's still asynchronous.
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by scbrg 5y ago
Somewhat related, Aaron Swartz' take on news: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews I can't say I agree with him 100%, but he sure has a point.
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by scbrg 5y ago
The reason I think that maybe Æ should qualify is that it's not entirely unlikely to occur in immigrants' names anyway (or at least the lower case version). There are systems for transforming such characters to something that appe
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by scbrg 5y ago
That's definitely a reasonable thing for governments to care about, since governments generally need to keep track of people's names in some way or other. It's probably a good idea if government computers can keep track of
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by scbrg 5y ago
I've also heard that you can use computers for other things than displaying web sites, but that might just be a rumor :)
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by scbrg 5y ago
I'm sure they do. I'm also sure they know it's fleeting. They're operating on time schedules of decades, if not centuries. The Sterisand effect is effective for weeks or possibly months, unfortunately.
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by scbrg 5y ago
> I don't understand your first argument at all. Why wouldn't the compiler know what the standard `range()` function does? The second one only makes sense since we aren't type hinting, however that too could be reversed by
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by scbrg 5y ago
This is where Python being dynamic makes things like this hard. You have no idea what range does, as that name may point to any user defined object by the time the code is being executed. So no, I don't think it can "optimize bo
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by scbrg 5y ago
nutika ≠ nuitka
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by scbrg 5y ago
Well, https://slc.is/ for instance, doesn't actually work. If I go there, and then click the back button, I get Error Page Not Found . An Error Page Not Found which isn't even a 404, because that would obviou

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