talideon

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by talideon 9y ago
I have this: https://github.com/kgaughan/dotfiles/blob/master/local/bin/n... It allows the editing of notes for a given day, listing of all notes, and display of a note for a given day, default
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by talideon 9y ago
If you're doing something with a couple of machines and it's simple, sure. However, the benefit of 'infrastructure as code' is that you have a _description_ of your infrastructure. Once you get above a small number of ma
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by talideon 9y ago
Regarding the dark theme, could that be down to the version of FF? I'm running 55.0.2, and didn't have to do anything except toggle a switch in the settings to get it.
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by talideon 9y ago
That's the whole point of doctests: https://docs.python.org/3/library/doctest.html
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by talideon 9y ago
Sure, but the key there is NetworkManager. dnsmasq itself doesn't require DBus.
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by talideon 9y ago
No more so than a Linux distro does. With the latter, you're referring to base. FreeBSD isn't really any more monolithic than your average distro in that regard though; it's just that with some services, the userland, and the
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by talideon 9y ago
Not just that, but it's both a floor polish and a dessert topping!
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by talideon 9y ago
dnsmasq doesn't require dbus though: that's an optional dependency that has to be enabled at compile time.
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by talideon 9y ago
You might be thinking of something not entirely unlike I/O completion portsL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output_completion_port There's also kqueue/kevent, which came before epoll and which
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by talideon 9y ago
Any reason you didn't go with something like dumb-init[1]? [1] https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init
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by talideon 9y ago
> A thing that's often noted about German and Dutch is how you can string words together without spaces (kindercarnavalsoptochtvoorbereidingswerkzaamhedenplan). You can do that in English, it's just that we choose not to and in
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by talideon 9y ago
Historical linguists would disagree. The problem here is (European) Portuguese phonology, which is a big part of what makes intelligibility between Portuguese and Spanish so asymmetric. The written languages are quite close for the most par
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by talideon 9y ago
The 'Chinese' situation is more complicated than that, and partly because the term typically translated as 'dialect' is more aptly translated as 'topolect' (the language of an area). While the Chinese governmen
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by talideon 9y ago
It's not a creole: it's a creolised language. There is a difference: a creole is a language descended from a pidgin (and thus has increased in complexity), whereas a creolised language is one that has drastically simplified/r
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by talideon 10y ago
That still makes it rather useless as an API, when it could be reduced down to a conditional GET on a CSV file listing the countries and their headline VAT rates. For this to be useful as an API, it would need to deal with the actual compli
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by talideon 10y ago
Sure, the headline rate is applicable for most things, but not everything, and those differences can be important. For instance, if Amazon are selling children's shoes into Ireland, they must charge 0% VAT. That's still a digita
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by talideon 10y ago
That won't work in Ireland. While 23% is the headline rate, it's not the only rate: https://www.taxworld.ie/vat/summary/vat-rates/
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by talideon 10y ago
Always good to remember for things like this: curl -s --head https://goo.gl/eP6sy | grep '^Location:'
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by talideon 10y ago
There are ways to criticise that don't mean being an asshole about it. The problem is that people have a tendency to act like an asshole when giving criticism, which is abusive to the person/people on the other end of the criticis
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by talideon 10y ago
True, very much true, but some are more resistant to others: mixed-member systems tend to be less resistant, whereas STV tends to be more resistant.
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by talideon 10y ago
> neo-latin You mean 'Romance': Neo-Latin refers to the revived Latin from the Renaissance era, which is now used as a source of international scientific vocabulary. > I strongly suspect that the real origin of w is from VV,
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by talideon 10y ago
TL;DR: I personally thing both 'UU' and 'VV' are equally correct, given the history of the Latin alphabet's evolution. Given the subject matter, I'd disagree slightly, but we're getting into obscure territ
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by talideon 10y ago
And further, I'd point at the observed evolution of the Peppered Moth in response to evolutionary pressures during the industrial revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
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by talideon 10y ago
Those interested in this might also be interested in the History of English Podcast: http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/ Recent episodes have got up to the Early Middle English period, which is when the language's mode
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by talideon 10y ago
And W is a ligature of 'UU'.
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by talideon 10y ago
They actually manage your windows. The tiling part of it isn't the important bit: what's important is that they keep your windows placed in a useful manner for the task you're performing, tiling in various ways being one of
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by talideon 10y ago
That is surprisingly close to what I'd expected. I'd heard talk from one of the devs maintaining Hangouts for Android that there was a lot of technical debt in the project, which is part of the reason progress on improving it had
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by talideon 10y ago
I've mixed feelings about MMPR, mainly because it's subject to collusion via decoy lists, party splitting and the like, so it ends up devolving into parallel voting, which is susceptible to gerrymandering of constituencies. It wor
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by talideon 10y ago
Given the current constitutional make-up of the US, it's a stepping stone. Swiss-style federalism would be a pretty radical departure, and likely wouldn't even be constitutionally possible.
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by talideon 10y ago
Except in Google's case, everybody's holding two guns, and holding the second to their own heads. :-)

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