sethrin

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by sethrin 12y ago
Why do separate bathrooms need to be a thing? Many/most homes don't bother.
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by sethrin 12y ago
Yes, "init" is a bit of a misnomer, given that it also handles shutdown/runlevel transitions. I see the big difference here as being between the people who think that the job of the OS is to provide a simple base for executin
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by sethrin 12y ago
It was described as the best way to learn, not the easy way. There are probably more accessible French speaking regions, if that's an issue. It is possible to learn languages without being immersed in them, but immersion is better for
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by sethrin 12y ago
Britain was the only real superpower? France had been disputing that claim for about a hundred years at that point. In point of fact between the time of Charlemagne, and Waterloo, there are few periods in which France was not the dominant p
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by sethrin 12y ago
Instead of posting a lengthy and yet incomplete list, perhaps next time you could oblige us with a shorter list of examples, a hyperlink to the full list, or both.
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by sethrin 12y ago
I think you and zaphar both have good points. That is to say, if for some reason you have $LESS set, it would be nice if journalctl respected it. (I'm trying not to take that and the kernel debug flag fiasco and view it as a trend.) Ho
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by sethrin 12y ago
That's fascinating. What is performance like?
578.
by sethrin 12y ago
The Wall Street Journal published an influential article about Byers, "The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off" which can be found on p. 18 here: http://www.case.edu/affil/MeMA/MCA/11-20&
579.
by sethrin 12y ago
I'd rather live someplace for an extended period of time than "travel". When you're in some place for a day, you can write paragraphs about your actions. When you're in a place for a week, you write fewer paragraphs
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by sethrin 12y ago
Simplicity is not necessarily a good measure of suitability. See this: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/2414.html There are some aspects of systemd that are simpler than sysvinit. The mess of double-forking and PID files goes aw
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by sethrin 12y ago
Please see this for more background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...
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by sethrin 12y ago
I just use mailinator. No charge, no hassle, you don't have to set it up first. Half the time I don't even end up checking it. So far I don't really have a use case for plus addressing.
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by sethrin 12y ago
+1 what dagw said, also if you have a c720 like me, you will probably be interested in this: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/1rsxkd/list_of_fi... The c720 touchpad drivers made it into the mos
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by sethrin 12y ago
I was able to install and use Skype on Chrome OS but the webcam didn't work. It is a major downside for me as well. I've noticed a couple other issues, namely that rtfs aren't supported well (you must upload them to Docs, you
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by sethrin 12y ago
The F-35's issues have been ascribed to the Marine Corps' demand for VTOL. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/fd-how-the-u-s-and-its-alli... The best thing you can say about the F-35 is that it's a perfect
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by sethrin 12y ago
Systemd unit files, as far as I am aware, are functional replacements for init scripts. They do contain executable code, which is perhaps unavoidable. However, they are primarily what you would call a configuration file. Given that they are
587.
by sethrin 12y ago
Abstract stateful configuration might be a bad thing, but having a configuration file execute arbitrary, complicated code sounds like a much worse thing to me. I would be interested in differing opinions, but I think in another context the
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by sethrin 12y ago
Sorry, I should have mentioned. For anyone else reading, "fag end" refers to the end of a length of material such as cloth or especially rope. The short end of a rope which is left over from tying a knot is the "fag end"
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by sethrin 12y ago
The term 'fag end' predates the cigarette by a couple centuries, at least in Europe. In figurative use, I am surprised to see it associated with cigarette butts; it's a very unusual figure, and I would have expected anyone us
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by sethrin 12y ago
Dropbox doesn't play well with git, or perhaps version control in general. Having a live site which is unversioned is somewhat less than desirable. I am sure there is some category of people for whom this is useful, but I am a professi
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by sethrin 12y ago
Counterpoint: Panama City, Panama. You're not wrong in what you say regarding the necessity of public transportation and the benefit of taxis instead of personal vehicle ownership, but the free market will have no incentives to reduce
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by sethrin 12y ago
There is very little justification for human involvement in space combat. We are very fragile, and space is a harsh mistress. Not only is aviation headed towards automation, every extra-terran spacecraft that has been built has also been au
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by sethrin 12y ago
What makes you think that TVs receive video signal through the power line? An apartment I was staying in a few weeks ago had terrible cable signal to the TV, whether or not the coaxial cable was connected, but careful arrangement of the cor
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by sethrin 13y ago
The NSA's legitimate targets are those bearing arms against the United States, and foreign intelligence more broadly. If you were to export a single chip to Iran, you would be the legitimate target of the FBI, which is an internal law
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by sethrin 13y ago
That gravity propagates as a wave is a consequence of Relativity. To date we have no direct detections of gravitational waves, but we have detected energy loss in a binary system which is consistent with theory. http://en.wikiped
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by sethrin 13y ago
It has a steep learning curve. It is not optimized for novices. In my opinion, it does exactly what it should do internally, while I consider other tools to be deficient in some respects. In the common case, undo is provided by git commit
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by sethrin 13y ago
> Matter of fact is: the git UX is awful and it punishes everyone who doesn't have have a high level understanding of how the underlying persistence model works. I believe this is true, but reading through a description of how the u
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by sethrin 13y ago
I don't want to be an IP abolitionist, per se. I know enough artists who would be outraged at the very suggestion, even though they make essentially nothing from direct sales of their work. Still, examples like this give one pause. It
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by sethrin 13y ago
I was hoping to find a statement of some sort of achievable goal or solution. I did not expect to find one. This is mere sound and fury, of no significance. The influence of this influx of wealth can be likened to a rising tide, and as Canu
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by sethrin 13y ago
Not that I would defend JSON Schema, but yes, you did just reinvent the wheel, and it was also not a new idea. I thought that despite the verbosity of XML, WSDL and associated technologies solved this problem rather better. I have the misfo

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