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by teddyh 2mo ago
Better version: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIusD6Z-3cU >
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by teddyh 2mo ago
There are a few people who don’t use e-mail, sure, like Donald Knuth. But conscientious objectors to e-mail? I don’t know of any, and if you find any, they probably don’t use the Internet, either.
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by teddyh 2mo ago
Please note that this criticism is from 2023, but the “Clean Code” book has a second edition from 2025, extensively revised to account for the many misconceptions which new programmers might have gotten from the old edition, such as interpr
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by teddyh 2mo ago
Then what did you mean by “I think the desire to not have to be accountable for ones choices and their effect on the world is also childlike, personally.”? I though you meant that people who do not participate in boycotts should be held ac
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by teddyh 2mo ago
> Who says that avoiding Chinese tomato paste doesn’t accomplish anything? It funnels money to other brands and keeps them going rather than rewarding forced labour and driving other forms of production out of the market. That in itself
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by teddyh 2mo ago
< https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/code-maintenance >
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by teddyh 2mo ago
I think boycotts are effectively useless. If you disagree, can you name a few, or even one, consumer-level boycott in, say, the last 50 years, which actually accomplished its goal? Accomplished by the actual boycott alone, I mean. Boycotts
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by teddyh 2mo ago
If that’s what you want, you would be better served by RFC 7208: < https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7208/ >
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by teddyh 2mo ago
> Eh, I'm not watching a video to see a quote from someone I've never heard of and have no particular reason to value. Your loss. > Nor do I buy into "you can't survive without relying on/funding some peopl
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by teddyh 2mo ago
> One of the powers we have in this capitalist world is to decide where our money goes. If there's a decent chance it'll end up perpetuating something I find massively objectionable, it's my choice not to fund that. “I b
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by teddyh 2mo ago
Put volume! — Trevor Noah, < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtz0WZSNcPA#t=43s >
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by teddyh 2mo ago
any noun can become a verb if you don’t care enough — < https://blog.linguisten.de/post/183704949120/any-noun-can-be... >
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by teddyh 2mo ago
“I couldn’t live with so many trees. They suck up all the oxygen.”
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Undocumented change and missed update sent Telstra network back to 2006(telsoc.org)
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by teddyh 2mo ago
The wildcard DNS SPF record is useful for mail receivers who won’t check DMARC, but will check SPF records. Also, the DMARC sp= setting defaults to the same as the p= setting (unless the DMARC record is itselt on a subdomain, in which ca
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by teddyh 2mo ago
Also consider (using your example domain): *.mydomain.io. TXT "v=spf1 -all" to restrict SPF on all subdomains.
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by teddyh 2mo ago
Yes. Sorry for being unclear.
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by teddyh 2mo ago
s/^/This /
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by teddyh 2mo ago
More people should be aware of their history. This text made the rounds in the late 1990s as spam was starting to become a problem. Everybody and their dog had their own “ultimate solution” to the spam problem, which they all thought was o
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by teddyh 3mo ago
The question is, is this behavior documented to run the command in a subshell? If it’s only documented to split on spaces and expand environment variables, the git command could change the implementation at any time.
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by teddyh 3mo ago
Debian has, like all software projects, always had rules about how you created the code you contributed. No software project is going to accept your contributed code which you wrote at work using company time and resources; that’s a copyri
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by teddyh 3mo ago
I once created a set of shell functions which I wanted to have a docstring-like functionality. The solution I came up with was to have each shell function start with the : command with a string as an argument. Since : is an actual command,
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by teddyh 3mo ago
That seems unsafe. It assumes that the editor is started via a shell command, and not executed directly. But there is no actual binary /usr/bin/: but there is a /usr/bin/true; I would use that instead.
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by teddyh 3mo ago
It’s an accounting issue. It is also why all coupons, gift cards, etc. expire. When you buy a domain, or get a coupon, the company basically has to treat that as a debt that the company owes you, and this has to go on the books as a kind
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by teddyh 3mo ago
< https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ >
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by teddyh 3mo ago
None do at present, AFAIK. But ccTLD could do that, if they wanted to; there is no rule against it, unlike the gTLDs.
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by teddyh 3mo ago
Original link: < https://web.archive.org/web/20260521130338/https://www.commi... >
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by teddyh 3mo ago
Here’s how you do it: < https://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html >
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by teddyh 3mo ago
s/^/How /
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by teddyh 3mo ago
Latest version: < http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >

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