thetedhogan

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   by thetedhogan 2y ago

   Yeah, this shocked me when I learned it. The actual "deal" is the defendant agrees to plea guilty in exchange for the prosecution giving a specific recommendation of sentence. (In most cases, there are some exceptions of course)
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   by thetedhogan 6y ago

   The right to have an lawyer provided by the state only applies to criminal cases, not civil cases like in this one. In civil cases the burden of funding a defense is on the defendant. Even if it’s initially thrown out, the appeals process c
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   by thetedhogan 7y ago

   There's a difference between a toolchain becoming unsupported, and putting a hack around a feature that later becomes obsolete due to business decisions. That hack could certainly be technical debt, up until it isn't. If the code
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   by thetedhogan 7y ago

   My biggest gripe is that the up and down arrow keys are half the size of the left and right arrow keys. It makes it difficult to quickly move the cursor or scroll through previous commands in a terminal. If I didn’t use emacs I probably wou