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by smellf 9y ago
At work and play I use only vim to write C++, Python, Javascript, bash and web frontend stuff. Only plugin is rainbow parentheses. Manpages and web for docs. My system is very flexible and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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by smellf 9y ago
Well there's also "Messages", which is the default Android SMS app. And even if you're on Fi and set Hangouts as your default SMS app, some things ignore that and open Messages anyway. This shit is so frustrating.
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by smellf 9y ago
Small world, at least three different programmers spoonerized Minesweeper. No, mine is not online, nor will it ever be - it was jacked-up student-written Java, I had no idea how to structure code at the time. It's amazing it ever wor
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by smellf 9y ago
Wow. My Minesweeper clone was called Swine Meeper, and the premise was similarly bonkers (interstellar livestock pig shipment infected with alien parasite, the player "meeps" them to find the infected hosts). Wrote it in Java wa
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by smellf 9y ago
What natural cancer cure would you suggest? Maybe tumeric, or fasting, or acupuncture?
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by smellf 9y ago
I have - filling by hand (set up opened capsule halves, pick up larger half, scoop and pack powder into it, close it with other half, repeat) for something you take daily gets really old really fast. If you know a better way I'm all ea
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by smellf 9y ago
> Everyone involved in this story sounds like a horrible person. I can't speak to the entire family, but in an old service-type job of mine about 10 years ago I would occasionally interact with one of the senior Marriott ladies at h
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by smellf 9y ago
Simak was a terrible predictor (if "prediction" is even what he was trying to do, vs just writing science fantasy), but his "pastoral scifi" is such a treat to read even today. It's possible that he was predicting,
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by smellf 9y ago
Personally, I would have gone with "the size of a trade paperback". Or maybe "the size of a large hardback book held with the arm fully extended." Honestly it sounds really small. Not sure how you could have a viable p
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by smellf 9y ago
Donate the the EFF, it's basically the same thing as you're suggesting except that the organizational structure is already in place.
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by smellf 9y ago
That's so cool. This is the best link in these comments IMHO.
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by smellf 9y ago
Yes, it takes a bit more cognitive processing to follow, but I feel that the idea of the piece couldn't have been expressed much more clearly, given that the subject is so abstract. The level of abstraction reminds me of Baudrillard&#x
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by smellf 9y ago
Debian is the same way. But as soon as you open a file with vi on a fresh install, you know it isn't vim, so you close the editor, install vim, and then the vi command opens vim.
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by smellf 9y ago
Think about all the keystrokes you'd save if you just typed "vi" instead.
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by smellf 9y ago
"Met a few other times in our past lives"
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by smellf 9y ago
Your suspicion is correct. Your number gets out there because you give it out, and then 10 years later the company goes under and liquidates their assets which includes a load of customer phone numbers; or because you give it out when you
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by smellf 9y ago
What does it matter if the numbers are contiguous? Just keep allocating space for mobile numbers.
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by smellf 9y ago
Now you can often get so much more done talking to online chat for whatever utility or organization. I guess it's only a matter of time before you're talking to a robot there too (or is it happening already?) So have we perhaps
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by smellf 9y ago
True, but presumably your carrier is still paying for the call. If the transaction were reversed, then the robocaller or their "carrier" (or whatever the equivalent is in robocaller land) would have to pay, and the profits would
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by smellf 9y ago
How long have subreddits been accessible through a subdomain? Is this something the subreddit mods have to turn on?
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by smellf 9y ago
This is my favorite version of the Windows XP hills: http://i.imgur.com/1xtcI.jpg
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by smellf 10y ago
Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I hadn't seen that. Worth reading is the last post in that thread, where Unknwon finally responds.
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by smellf 10y ago
Do what? Are you saying the Switch has a Steam client?
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by smellf 10y ago
Exclude all the audio and video data streamed over the internet, as well as the contents of torrent traffic and other data useless to the panopticon (just keep the metadata), and I'd imagine the amount of data you'd be left with w
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by smellf 10y ago
echo "Truecrypt test" > /mnt/plausible_deniability_volume/README && history -d $(history | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f1)
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by smellf 10y ago
Not this satellite. Not yet.
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by smellf 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing - JWST is slated to ride an Ariane 5, which has had something like 75 consecutive successful launches.
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by smellf 10y ago
Just run a tor exit node. Problem solved, sort of.
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by smellf 10y ago
I was unable to parse "animals other than dogs such as cats" because it isn't a sentence, it has no predicate. Shouldn't language sort of be their thing here?
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by smellf 10y ago
The author was being cheeky, but it definitely dates the piece. People are a lot more sensitive about that sort of thing today than they were 10 years ago. Back then it just came off as dark and sort of funny.

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