teddyh

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   by teddyh 5y ago

   “[…] of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ” — Ecclesiastes 12:12
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   Sure, but it’s a bit like installing Half-Life and then Counter-Strike on top of it in order to more easily play Half-Life. Doom Emacs and Spacemacs are, likewise, almost total conversion mods. Especially if you then also run Evil.
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   There are many more: • https://check.spamhaus.org/ • https://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml • https://ipadmin.junkemailfilter.com/remove.php • https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.asp
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   Please see https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   What a recieving mail server should do is reply immediately after the DATA command with “ That mail is spam and I refuse to acknowledge recieving it ”. This would be fair, as the sender would know that the mail was not passed on. What i
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   Microsoft: https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/index....
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   You could also decorate the bathrooms to match: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2255
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   “ LISP is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use LISP
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   by teddyh 5y ago

   It’s technically not the only country, as it’s also legal in New Zealand. But nowhere else.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Note: Advertising prescription drugs to the public is only legal in the USA, and also New Zealand. Nowhere else.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Empowering individuals to solve societal problems rarely work, IMHO. Giving people guns doesn’t solve the crime problem; improving society to have less desperately poor people and drug addicts does. Giving people the ability to read and r
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Unless anyone was there to witness it, all anyone can do is speculate, i.e. make things up.
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    Newcomers to Emacs and Emacs Configurations(spwhitton.name)

    30 points by teddyh 5y ago|5 comments
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Probably not Churchill: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Disputed
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    > I don’t really get the response here. A reasonable response to the problem of “companies are trying to push dubious clauses in employment contracts” would be “make those dubious practices illegal and/or unenforceable”, or maybe
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    You found a comment from almost two months ago which you wanted to reply to, but can’t, since the thread has long been closed. So your solution was to track down the person who wrote that comment, find a recent comment they wrote about
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    To really fix the problem, you’d need two more apps: http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/organization
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    This sentence has cabbage and seven words.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    I meant “these” as in “dubious trading, maybe even money laundering”, not “candy stores”. Post edited to clarify.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Maybe the rent increases have made these the only viable business models. EDIT: The business models I am referring to are “dubious trading, maybe even money laundering”, not “candy stores”.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    You know, you could just apt install cdecl And then do it on the command line. But hey, let's turn everything into a web service, with monitoring as a bonus feature. (Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Color printers, yes. https://www.eff.org/issues/printers
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Are you given a ballot which could be customized for you, or do you simply pick one from a pile?
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    “Communication usually fails, except by accident.” — Osmo Wiio ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws )
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    Here is the actual, official, list of TLDs: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    How is a web page app better than a shell script you can run yourself? Of course, any old port in a storm – if you can’t run a shell script, this is better. But if you can run things yourself, you should . A shell script will stay o
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    We all use the language of bigots; viz. English.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    I have seen many presenters using Emacs as their slide deck.
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    According to Wikipedia: “Ä occurs as an independent letter in Finnish, Swedish, Skolt Sami, Karelian, Estonian, Luxembourgish, North Frisian, Saterlandic, Emiliano-Romagnolo, Rotuman, Slovak, Tatar, Gagauz, German, and Turkmen” Æ is, accord
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    by teddyh 5y ago

    The problem of non-free firmware has been solved, already. If you need it, you simply download the image which contains it: https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs/