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by siskiyou 4y ago
tclsh is included https://tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/UserCmd/tclsh.htm If you meant a login shell... https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Is+tclsh+or+wish+suitable+as+...
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by siskiyou 5y ago
All I know is that Facebook's recommendation systems always show me things that I hate to see. I suppose they may "work" at scale, but at an individual level it's epic failure.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
I was lucky enough to stop working in 2019 at age 49. I decided I would rather volunteer for charities that work on poverty, using my second set of technical skills (bicycle repair). I wish I had more opportunities, but it's been a lot
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by siskiyou 5y ago
Comment from my 87yo father in law, a retired attorney: "Years ago I represented Yasser Seirawan, then the U.S. chess champ. He was interested in the Washington Square scene so I took him downtown. Of course, the hustlers were after hi
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Ask HN: Have you interviewed at Truth Social?
5 points by siskiyou 5y ago|0 comments
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by siskiyou 5y ago
I've never worked at Okta, but I've worked with several production ticketing systems at big and small companies, and all of them contained critical information about customers and operations. Including credentials.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
I understand too. However I didn't pay for a huge portion of those LPs, because people gave them away by the box load, including a long time subscriber of the Capitol Records club who didn't play them. I lucked out and I'd ra
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by siskiyou 5y ago
I feel very fortunate to have grown up before streaming (ie, music you can't own). I collected about 800 CDs that I still have and listen to, and about 1200 LPs mostly given to me by people getting out of vinyl. I love the big artwork
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by siskiyou 5y ago
Google is not a neutral arbiter of search results. They always have their thumb on the scale, pushing low quality results down. That's appropriate here. State propaganda is low quality information.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
They already decide. That's their business.
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Dear Google: It’s time to remove Russian propaganda from search results(searchengineland.com)
10 points by siskiyou 5y ago|9 comments
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by siskiyou 5y ago
It's no worse than sanctioning the banking industry. I'm all for it.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
The entire Russian economy needs to be punished as much as possible in as short a time as possible. This unavoidably hurts everyone.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
Sounds good. When Russians suffer as much as people in Ukraine...
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by siskiyou 5y ago
Even so, delicensing existing installations would still have a significant effect. The blockade doesn't have to work perfectly to cause more economic disruption.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
If software vendors want to really turn the screws on Russian aggression, I have a suggestion: break license checks from Russia. Microsoft Windows, Office, Sharepoint, looking at you in particular. Delicense existing installations.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
If by "crypto" you mean cryptocurrency, it's an often addictive form of gambling, like many modern types of investing can be.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
Topical book recommendation: The Space Merchants
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by siskiyou 5y ago
The reason I use an ad blocker and noscript is because focused reading is impossible without these countermeasures. It's as if they don't want me to read and pay attention what they wrote.
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by siskiyou 5y ago
One thing I've been wondering is whether self driving cars could result in lower emissions by never exceeding the speed limit, and by driving more smoothly than a human operator. Additionally, I wonder if having even say 10% of cars on