thyrsus

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by thyrsus 6y ago
I assert there are comparatively more ordered mental states, comparatively more correct patterns of thought, and comparatively healthier logical reasoning. None of that is black and white, and no one is perfect, but some do more harm, and
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by thyrsus 6y ago
Was it not perl that introduced the documentation feature to regexp (the extended "x" flag)?
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by thyrsus 7y ago
Low wages for field workers (e.g. picking berries) has stunted automation of these tasks, though I think we're now at the level of robotics (especially computer vision) where it's feasible.
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by thyrsus 7y ago
For myself, it's easier to remember not to touch my face when wearing gloves. The degree to which the following are effective is speculation: Skin generates oils that collect dirt, including viruses; gloves do not. Skin is likely more
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by thyrsus 7y ago
That's unlikely. Worst case: examine where the package will put its files, and prep your system with symbolic links to directories residing on a file system on the other disk(s). But that raises the question: why are your file systems
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by thyrsus 7y ago
I'll speculate that there are sufficient locations failing to use https that they haven't felt a need to use https. I further speculate that China is sufficiently entangled with the international internet that they would prefer n
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by thyrsus 7y ago
I have NoScript installed on FireFox, and when I visit sites, I individually grant temporary permission to anywhere from one to more than twenty javascript sources. I suspect that I am among the 1% of those willing to make that effort. I h
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by thyrsus 7y ago
If all software was designed for scale, there would be no use for expect. It's 2019 and I still have expect in production: * to deploy commercial software whose configuration is only through an interactive terminal session and st
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by thyrsus 7y ago
A big difference in our environment is that when puppet encounters a failure, it keeps going with everything that doesn't have an explicit dependecy on the failed resource. When ansible encounters a failure, it stops dead (of course,
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by thyrsus 7y ago
You've just described Leo - leoeditor.com - where you're effectively editing a gigantic single xml file hidden by a GUI. The structuring is only occasionally automatic - mostly manual. It has python available the way emacs has e
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by thyrsus 7y ago
I speculate that many, if not most, of the abstentions were whites who were there to help, but in light of the organization's goal of increasing black power, wanted on this occasion to cede power to black members. I highly doubt that t
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by thyrsus 7y ago
Disclaimer: I've never built a startup. My perception is that startups require herculean effort with enormous risk. That "bet" may be worthwhile if it will make the world a proportionally better place - which reasonably incl
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by thyrsus 7y ago
I remember doing the Millikan oil drop experiment in a college physics lab. I got a charge value about 1/3 of what it should have been. Obviously, I was observing unpaired quarks ;'}
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The High School Course Beijing Accuses of Radicalizing Hong Kong(nytimes.com)
3 points by thyrsus 7y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 7y ago
Erlang and elixir are two more memory safe languages that comfortably handle binary. See Armstrong, Pogramming Erlang, Ch. 5, "Advanced Bit Syntax Examples", with partial parsers for MPEG, COFF, and IPv4 on pages 83-89.
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by thyrsus 7y ago
2005: The short life and hard times of a Linux virus https://web.archive.org/web/20140925152325/http://librenix.c... ...although market share certainly also plays a part.
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by thyrsus 7y ago
Where is a good place to learn what an "@keyframes" is?
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by thyrsus 7y ago
"First Things" https://www.firstthings.com provides an authentic and sympathetic view into conservative thought. Regrettably, Fox News appears to have more influence, and in the handful of hours I've spent with
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by thyrsus 8y ago
I agree; the most charitable inference is that the 48% inluded the largest employers, and thus covered "an overwhelming majority" of employees - but it would have been so much better if they had said that specifically, and as it
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by thyrsus 8y ago
I understand about three out of four of these symbols - which isn't enough to follow this with any rigor. Frustratingly, different texts use different symbols. Please direct me to a glossary of these symbols.
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by thyrsus 8y ago
Salient fact: last representable date is April 6, 2019.
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Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by thyrsus 8y ago|3 comments
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by thyrsus 8y ago
I don't understand how a result concerning infinities can apply to a finite number of data points represented by finite (bounded - probably by 2^32) integers processed in finite time.
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by thyrsus 8y ago
As a bigot of binary, I prefer C 256, which gives A ~430.5 in a well-tempered system. Come get me, Interpol!
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by thyrsus 8y ago
I firmly believe in the absolute truth of mathematics, but I do not propose to deal with mathematical errors with cruelty, unless suggesting a correction be deemed cruel. The pythagorean response to the demonstration of irrational numbers
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by thyrsus 8y ago
In case someone else is just learning about these folks: ITL is Invisible Things Labs.
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by thyrsus 8y ago
The Bailey paper proposes three steps: 1. Women have been historically discriminated against. 2. Women are currently discriminated against by people using the Socratic dialog. 3. The Socratic dialog discriminates against women. The leap
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by thyrsus 8y ago
I'd reserve judgement until I saw measurements. Maybe all 32 jobs are using the same cpp/gcc/asm/ld binaries (or whatever the stack is these days) which never get evicted. And I presume this is running under DragonFly
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by thyrsus 8y ago
Was it not ever thus? Until the 20th century, it was common for navies to have little regard for the "basic rights" of their crew. See: etymology of "shanghaied". And I don't know why I say "until the 20th c
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by thyrsus 8y ago
We use Leo to organize about 1000 puppet modules managing about 500 linux systems (50/50 real/virtual), of which 60% are "unique", a.k.a., pets, not cattle. Geppetto in Eclipse is the closest thing, but Geppetto only he

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