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by sidpatil 6y ago
Emergence [1] is what I thought of at first. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
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by sidpatil 6y ago
In fact, what you're suggesting is known as a controlled natural language. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Also of interest are Alan Perlis' epigrams: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I don't see how, unless you're counting Windows application installers as single-file executables.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Not to mention that there are already two other similar projects with the same name: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21933983 https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux
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by sidpatil 6y ago
That only works as long as the platform maintainers are benevolent and autonomous. Otherwise you end up with things like the Clipper chip or Intel ME.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
My thoughts exactly. In my opinion, the mid-1990s to mid-2000s were the pinnacle of GUI design, specifically that of stacking window managers, in terms of usability.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26246435
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by sidpatil 6y ago
One of my favorite pre-pandemic pastimes was to browse stationery shops and office supply stores. There's something exciting about seeing all those materials and supplies waiting to be used.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
For a long time, my notetaking system consisted of a single alias similar to the following: jj=joe "~/journal/$(date --rfc-3339=seconds).txt" It worked well.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This reminds me of the premium-rate 1-900 numbers back in the day. I specifically remember seeing one of them which offered tips and strategies if you were stuck in a video game. I would definitely love to try this out at least once. I coul
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> When we arrived at the station, there was no teller, and you had to install an app to buy a ticket. I sheepishly asked him to buy my ticket, and I paid him back in cash (no Venmo for BB10), and felt like a thorough and proper asshole.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I don't see a problem with writing "childs" or "persons". In this scenario, consistency is more useful than grammatical correctness [1]. And the simpler pluralization logic makes it easier for non-English speakers t
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Similar: https://everynoise.com/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I've worked with people who would scatter literals throughout a codebase because they were too lazy to type out the names of variables and constants. I feel your pain.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Right, but he's referring to queries done on Google itself by users who thought they were using DDG but weren't.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
It's probably because one link leads to another, and interest in the topic is piqued for a while, until the next new (or old) cool topic comes along.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This is basically a stepwell design. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepwell
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> People just can't let something from 21 years ago go, can they? Tell that to the media industries lobbying to extend copyright terms to virtually infinite duration. The "something" they can't let go of from 21 yea
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by sidpatil 6y ago
That's essentially what most musicians end up doing when they stream on platforms like Spotify.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Toledo is a large city in the midwestern region of the US, so it's likely that more people have heard of it than they have Teredo.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
The article does mention GNU Parallel, but focuses on xargs.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I have the same one on my desk, for the same reason.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Is that a legal definition?
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by sidpatil 6y ago
TortoiseGit had Excel diff available out of the box the last time I used it. [1] The official tool would be Spreadsheet Compare [2], which looks like it does a better job than TortoiseGit's Excel diff. But it seems to be only available
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Not to be confused with this CIA university [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culinary_Institute_of_Amer...
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Interesting name—Nuvola [1] was a colorful glossy icon pack for Linux desktops, from the days when colorful glossy icons were trendy (see also Crystal [2]). To be honest, these icons were one of the main reasons I was so interested in runni
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by sidpatil 6y ago
These logos give the impression that designers and marketers are less necessary, not more . Anyone could make logos like these: just buy a sans serif font, type out the brand name in Word, and adjust the kerning and tracking as necessary
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Lots of schools do this. You'll often hear college campus tour guides mention it to their groups.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
(2015)

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