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by tangus 10y ago
I agree, but if a script is going to use the CLI then it's the script's responsibility to parse the prompts and not to blindly send strings to the program. `expect` exists since 1990, use it or reinvent it.
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by tangus 10y ago
Yes, AIUI, he's saying bedrock is under sea level and is covered by 4000 ft of easily erodable material.
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by tangus 10y ago
Either: The rift over Oculus involving Carmack. Or: Carmack's rift over Oculus.
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by tangus 10y ago
> If I were to do this in Scheme, I'd use a "parameter" called 'current-chip' (think of it like a dynamically scoped variable) and write getter/setter procedures that operate on the current chip. Do you mean
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by tangus 10y ago
Until recently, Buenos Aires' A line still used original rolling stock from the 1910's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Underground#Natio... (photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wik
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by tangus 10y ago
Not many fonts are created with Metafont. People prefer to draw characters by hand instead of programming a pen to draw them. Anyway, nowadays you can use TeX (pdfTeX or XeTeX) with almost any font existing on your system.
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by tangus 10y ago
>For six months, the police provided strong incentive to actively commit new child abuse Do you really think that? It seems to me, the incentive was to document child abuse. I don't think abusers would stop abusing just because no
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by tangus 10y ago
Apparently he knew the English version of that one (or, as rodelrod said, he just translated the French translation from a Portuguese-French guide. That would somewhat explain the strange word "Espagnish"). In the original: Fazer
129.
by tangus 10y ago
“A cavallo dado não se lhe olha para o dente.”
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by tangus 10y ago
The original is here: https://archive.org/details/onovoguiadaconve00fons The English version seems to be a selection of the funniest parts.
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by tangus 10y ago
How did the Unicode Consortium turn around. I remember 10 years ago they were refusing to add standard media icons because >The scope of the Unicode Standard (and ISO/IEC 10646) does not extend to encoding every symbol or sign that
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by tangus 11y ago
I thought the first one was the other way around: that he was being treated poorly, with people having him put out fires all day and not giving him time to do his real work. I see nothing bad in his response.
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by tangus 11y ago
Pay damages, then.
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by tangus 12y ago
Some people don't like it per se, but mainly what they don't like is that it's going to be the only viable init system in Debian, since many maintainers don't have any intention to support the others.
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by tangus 14y ago
I don't think they grew back; they are probably the result of modern irrigation.
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by tangus 15y ago
That's strange. I created a fake account some years ago, to contact some old friends whose email I had lost. I used the account for almost one week. To this day I still get a facebook email every 4-5 days. If nobody invites me to a group (!
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by tangus 15y ago
I keep revisiting Lout every couple of years, and they keep not supporting UTF-8, which makes it unusable or me. It's a shame, because it looks really nice.
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by tangus 15y ago
Several positions in the table ({ | } [ \ ] @) were meant for "national variants". I guess those characters were deemed unimportant at the time. Here is some more info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html#national-ascii
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by tangus 15y ago
Keep in mind that the original post said "it was the picture of a cat". It implied they looked at the content of the file.
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by tangus 15y ago
The actual list: http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/10-least-stressful-jobs... I wonder how their "stress rank" is calculated...
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by tangus 16y ago
Doesn't that reinforce his point? CMUCL & SBCL were released as free software and are still around. Genera isn't.