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by sidpatil 4y ago
I think this encapsulates your point: https://pics.onsizzle.com/born-too-late-to-explore-the-earth...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> A couple of years ago there was a little feature story in the newspaper about how they had never--not once--been used in a real emergency. But the university did not want to take them down because they provided a feeling of security. H
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> I don't hear anyone saying M&Ms or cookies should be regulated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junk_food#Anti-junk_food_measu...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Bee Movie came out in 2007.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> mit vs. GPL By this measure, we shouldn't be using X or Wayland because they're MIT. > pipe-and-filter vs loaded DLLs At first I didn't understand what you were referring to, but I realized you were talking about cmdl
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> most computer systems since the early 1970s How are you defining "most"? Back in those days there was much more diversity in the computing landscape.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> It’s well known to be neurotoxic, hepatoxic, and addictive. Are you referring to cannabis or to alcohol in this statement?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Most people in that generation didn't take acid.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
How is Cygwin comparable? That's like saying Wine can be compared to cmd.exe.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I was interested in the tool(s) they used to generate the Web version of the book. They used a tool named Antora [1], which is designed for AsciiDoc. [1] https://antora.org/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This is known as Gall's law . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
This is essentially Little's law. https://blog.danslimmon.com/2016/08/26/the-most-important-th...
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The "Open" in OpenVMS is referring to open standards like POSIX, not to Open Source.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
It's been done. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
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by sidpatil 4y ago
The only limit is yourself.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
I believe TortoiseGit has this feature out-of-the-box: https://tortoisegit.org/docs/tortoisegit/tgit-dug-blame.html
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by sidpatil 4y ago
No, that's Loon. https://x.company/projects/loon/
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by sidpatil 4y ago
> I pay for 20Mb/s Are you paying for 20MB/s or for up to 20MB/s?
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by sidpatil 4y ago
Unless you bundle the whateverq alongside the shell script. Which is a primary design advantage of single small statically-built binaries.
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by sidpatil 4y ago
HTCPCP was published in the late 1990s, whereas IBM-Microsoft collaboration on OS/2 was in the late 1980s to early 1990s.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Try pandoc [1]. You can convert back and forth between manpage and Markdown with it. [1] https://pandoc.org/index.html
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Nobody lies on their deathbed wishing "oh, but if only I'd been able to increase my employer's stock shareholder dividends a few percent more...". I'm reminded of this: https://pbs.twimg.com/med
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Some systems address this by scaling the fines to income. Finland comes to mind.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
Files-11, specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files-11
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by sidpatil 5y ago
OP mentions this project as a direct inspiration.
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The key is that the first and last letter of each word are in their original positions, which is what makes it easy for the person to decipher the text.
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Push lawnmowers, dirtbikes, or chainsaws typically do not have microchips, and they are all quite complex. Is this still the case for the newer battery electric variants of these tools? The battery itself will have microchips for the B
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> Furthermore, It's not that we can't, we just don't want to. We like interacting with the world around us. Most people enjoy cooking, cleaning our living spaces, etc. I'm not sure. From what I've seen, cooking a
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by sidpatil 5y ago
> By the way, there still is a market for hipster PDA gear and some companies seem to make quite a bit of profit with it - here are beautiful note taking index cards with additional gear (dividers, archival boxes and so on) [2] This can
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by sidpatil 5y ago
You might find these interesting: https://communary.net/2014/12/21/show-calendar-cal-for-power... https://jdhitsolutions.com/blog/powershell/6101/powershell-c...

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