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by talideon 12y ago
You can blame Bill Joy for that. Allegedly, it was him who made csh the default root shell way back in the day. The reason it was never changed to sh or ksh subsequently is simply that it was never that big a deal: tcsh is a solid interacti
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by talideon 12y ago
I've always felt that 'survival of the fit enough' is closer to the intended meaning.
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by talideon 12y ago
Might as well point out the availability of this: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/triples/Barr-Wells-ctcs.pdf
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by talideon 12y ago
> 100% Agree. As a registrar (and as someone who personally has been in the business since the mid 90's) we don't even offer it. But yet not a day goes by (ok an exaggeration) where we get a legitimate business that thinks they
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by talideon 12y ago
They're not alone in that: for instance, .eu and .be domains with registrant contacts without an organisation name set have only very minimal details published in WHOIS. Then again, it's totally up to ccTLD operators to decide on
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by talideon 12y ago
Doubtful. I know people in the ICANN registrar constituency, and to the best of my knowledge there have been no discussions of this. Now, what is the case is that there's been a crackdown, due to pressure from law enforcement agencie
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by talideon 12y ago
PyPI is due to be replaced with something better shortly.
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by talideon 12y ago
I would guess that PHK, being PHK, is just being thorough rather than defensive. After all, if you can avoid a lot of back and forth, you're saving everybody time. Of all people here, he's definitely one of the ones worth giving t
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by talideon 12y ago
It's required of any question that expects an answer. Nobody's going to answer your question if you're an ass who doesn't show a modicum of consideration of those being asked the question.
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by talideon 12y ago
Insofar as most Brainfuck derivatives are boring and it's had an excessive impact on the field, I agree with you entirely. Believe me, I'm quite aware of all this stuff: I used to be pretty active on Panu's esolang list back
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by talideon 12y ago
To be fair, the point of Brainfuck was about interpreter size: the idea was to create an interpreter that could fit in 256 bytes or less of 68000 assembly language. Brainfuck and its ilk (and I'd include Malbolge/Dis in that) are
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by talideon 12y ago
It grows plenty well in western Europe.
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by talideon 12y ago
There are two issues I have with the redesign: the use of Palatino as the body typeface, and the dark green body text, which I think would've been better as a dark grey. Other than that and a few spacing issues, it's good!
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by talideon 12y ago
'red-head scarf' certainly isn't an acceptable use of a hyphen, unless the scarf is woven from the hair of a red-haired person.
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by talideon 12y ago
You might be interested in CGP Grey's 'Humans Need Not Apply' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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by talideon 12y ago
> That kind of makes economic sense (because customers have a big appetite for computing power... just as long as they do not have to keep those pesky sysadmins on the payroll), but from a purely technological point of view is craziness.
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by talideon 12y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that 1.36% in Ireland was almost solely down to the hosting company I work for. I really wish the hosting providers here would get their acts together when it comes to IPv6 deployment, but they're really
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by talideon 12y ago
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by talideon 12y ago
I don't think that being the maintainer of the Jargon File can be said to mean that he worked on defining the meaning of 'hacker'.
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by talideon 12y ago
Sure, that's what built on, and that's why the equivalence was incorrect. You'd might as well say that systemd = Linux.
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by talideon 12y ago
Personally, I'd prefer that they concentrate on stuff that's properly within the scope of the project. This is way, way outside what the reasonable scope of the project ought to be.
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by talideon 12y ago
Nah, the equivalent of DCOM is dbus.
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by talideon 12y ago
There are already excellent solutions out there that have been battle-tested, such as unbound or even dnsmasq. Best as I can tell, resolved has no good reason to exist.
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by talideon 12y ago
Of all the components of systemd that doesn't need to exist, resolved is definitely one of them. Why they're reinventing the wheel rather than allowing the user to set up something that works and is battle-tested, such as unbound,
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by talideon 12y ago
They can, however, be trademarked.
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by talideon 12y ago
Until precedence stops being part of Common Law, 'activist' judges will always be a thing.
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by talideon 12y ago
My guess is that it was turned into a PDF directly from a TeX DVI file with bitmap fonts rather than compiled directly into a PDF using outline fonts with pdflatex. Some people are just used to using their existing document processing pipel
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by talideon 12y ago
Sellafield/Windscale is the primary reason why Ireland is so staunchly anti-nuclear.
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by talideon 12y ago
IIRC, that's because bowman became AfterStep.
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by talideon 12y ago
Faster boots, on-demand running of rc.d scripts, &c.

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