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by thyrsus 14y ago
The idea Ulysses reinforced in me is that anything, from shaving in the morning to looking for a place to relieve oneself, if perceived properly, is beautiful, or funny, or tragic. It becomes significant to the extent we consider it. Or,
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by thyrsus 14y ago
"Programming perl", Wall & Schwartz, (C) 1990, p. 282ff. contains "infringing" code (AKA prior art).
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African research identifies possible single-dose malaria cure(uct.ac.za)
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by thyrsus 14y ago
It happens every hour on partisan "news" shows.
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Thoughts on the SUSE Secure Boot implementation(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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by thyrsus 14y ago
The article on which Mr. Richardson is commenting also confuses copyright and trademark law.
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by thyrsus 14y ago
Could someone help me with the "thread" example at the end? Something in my shallow understanding seems wrong: "Threads in Clojure give access to concurrent processing." "Nothing in the recursive (defmacro -> ...) starts a parallel pro
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by thyrsus 14y ago
I've often wondered: are human faces more variable than most species, or are human brains evolved to be particularly sensitive to those variations?
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by thyrsus 14y ago
I tried varying my commit messages from those recommended, (e.g., in the second commit, I typed 'git commit -m "Commit all the things!"'), and the commit messages weren't reflected in the "git log" output. It's not clear to me now how much
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by thyrsus 14y ago
Let's adopt this attitude toward those who use what we might consider inferior tools (PHP in this example): it is harder to succeed with an inferior tool, thus success with it is to be all the more admired - in the same way that one might a
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by thyrsus 14y ago
In 30 years working with Unix, I've never encountered a situation where "defragmentation" was the answer. File system too full? Dozens of times. So, what usage pattern am I avoiding to live such a charmed life? Anecdotally, I run a coupl
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by thyrsus 14y ago
My worst practical problem with XML is that it is kryptonite to doing conflict resolution in version control systems. I've eased my pain with one such document by translating the document elements to a directory full of files, each of whic
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by thyrsus 14y ago
I appreciate the discussion of this topic. The update procedure for distributing bug fixes for Unix/Linux OS object libraries is fairly settled (the OS doesn't free the disk space until anything that has the old version of a shared library
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Just another story: I got my CS degree in '81 and I've been doing Unix sysadmin for almost thirty years. I always emphasize automation; right now we're moving our configuration to puppet. A couple years after I took my current gig, I was
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by thyrsus 15y ago
What is Morris's Law? The closest I could find was Morris's corollary to Greenspun's Law.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Why would they not want free backups at the NSA? Pay nothing, file a FOIA request for a restore, then wait 50 years. Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies. - Linu
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by thyrsus 15y ago
My reaction was: what havoc is this going to do? and spent 20 minutes learning what the issues were. The manual at http://gitmanual.org/git-config.html doesn't say what the default is, but I feel safe in assuming the default is not to ta
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by thyrsus 15y ago
My favorite strategy: four letter word. Say no to everything until they guess U: _ U _ _ then decide on the least likely word which includes none of their guesses, often "junk".
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by thyrsus 15y ago
My understanding w.r.t. DNA is that naturally occurring DNA is full of "junk" sequences that do nothing relevant to the proteins of interest (whether they do anything else is an open question). The patented sequences omit the "junk" DNA.
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by thyrsus 15y ago
How many companies can allow this kind of excruciatingly intimate information seep through a third party without correspondingly draconian confidentiality agreements? If I started doing this without getting things filtered by my manager (a
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Thanks for the link. So: what about GUIS? How does one formally describe pixels displayed on a screen in a way that captures their ability to correctly communicate with the human intended to view them? So that my notice Please turn of
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by thyrsus 15y ago
You might want to look at Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html In particular, you'll be interested in the @shadow file type, which keeps two versions of a file, one with the "sentinels" marking the structure and one witho
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by thyrsus 15y ago
This appears to be an attempt to make orphan works available to the public. While I might like to see adjustments more friendly to authors (a longer period before being appropriated, easier terms under which authors may retrieve distributi
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by thyrsus 15y ago
The story went off the rails for me when "Zach" said he couldn't hear himself nor feel himself move. Even in the midst of the most severe sensory deprivation, I continue to perceive "noise" in my sensory system: tinnitus, breathing, heartb
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I was subjected to that last weekend, filling out FASFA forms. It would throw up an "I'm timing out" box every ten minutes, and if you didn't click in the next five, it was gone. It took me 32 working hours to pull together the records to
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by thyrsus 15y ago
There's an important comment in that article. Tanner Swett says: [T]here's already a word for the concept of Colour: "provenance" So, to enforce copyright, it would be necessary to produce the "provenance" of any artifact (e.g. USB
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by thyrsus 15y ago
I suppose the off button will be easier to find, since you won't have to know that to turn off you have to click "Start".
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Yahoo asked me my marital status eons ago, and I told them I'm married. It's still in my profile. Yet for most of a decade, they couldn't find anything better than dating site ads to show me. I just checked again, and things seem to be b
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by thyrsus 15y ago
Reasonable: A treaty not in the interest of the United States nor of any free society should be abrogated. Nauseatingly effective: you would take Hollywood bribes to forfeit U.S. sovereignty to those socialist Europeans and thieving Asians?
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by thyrsus 15y ago
O'Reilly may have (expensively) prevailed in court heretofore, but now we have the Supreme Court declaring that works once in the public domain can be retrieved into private possession. It's an open question whether that ruling would have

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