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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
> A super hackable editor (what more could a tool-obsessed coder want) That's why emacs has existed for decades now.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
What is "a standard implementation"?
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
What does this 130 litres include? Food? Meat? Clothes?
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Blacks and coloureds tend to be more poor. But maybe many of the blacks are too poor to smoke, while the coloureds are not so poor, but still as poor as a poor American.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
The beauty of inline quoting is that if you don't see a need to use it then you don't. It is in no way arrogant to suggest a method of replying which is unambiguous. Nobody is suggesting that it is used in places in which it is no
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
You misread my post. Black and coloured is not the same thing in South Africa. Coloured has a significantly higher rate than other ethnic groups (black and white). The clash with American terminology is unfortunate, but in this case there i
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
I used to try this. Imagine being the only person using some weird text based thing instead of just simply using "email" (ie. logging on to webmail). Remember there is a huge number of people who have not used anything but webmail
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Coloured, not colored: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloureds
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
One of the things that surprised me in Germany was the extremely high smoking rate. Apparently the adult smoking rate is between 40-45%. My experience was that it is by no means limited to poor people either. It was really surprising to me
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
A guy in an English suit asking for cultural appropriation to be made illegal. Oh the irony.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
I started using emacs for email back in my uni days. I used Dovecot to run an IMAP server locally which would get my mail when it could. This made it very quick in emacs because it wouldn't have to wait for any remote server. But, unfo
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
How big do you think the intersection is of people who can use git and people who want to use Microsoft Word?
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Really? The Internet scaled effortlessly across the entire world because it was designed correctly. I'm not saying it's easy, but these problems have been solved.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
That they can mess up even text chat is unbelievable. These are problems in networking that have been solved for decades. An undergraduate should be capable of writing a text chat program with 100% accuracy. This is pathetic.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
First of all, maybe you should try learning a fantasy assembly language. It's not as hard as you seem to think. You know how driving many different cars makes you a better driver? It's the same with computers. The best programmers
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
The expressive benefit is that you can do anything you can do with a real computer. Using a high level language forces you to see the world through that lens. But the book is not concerned with how you implement algorithms in C, it is conce
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Oh how the bar for "great web design" has fallen.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
The answer to both is quite possibly, but we don't know. History has seen many mathematical curiosities gaining important practical applications, sometimes hundreds of years later. Indeed, much of computer science is based upon mathema
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
I dress up for work. I am one of the better dressed people at my work. I wear a coloured shirt, smart jeans, brown dress shoes (brogues) and a sports jacket. Yes, for my workplace, this is "up". I wish I could wear a suit and whit
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Just to make your point explicit, you can't change your identity/biometrics/fingerprint if it is compromised. You can change your keys.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
This lifestyle is not unique to the US, but the big, inefficient car thing seems to be. South Africa is on a similar scale to the US and probably much more mountainous in general. Yet most of the cars there are European sized. And it's
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Road safety is much better in Europe than the US. The US seems to have a problem with driver education. I actually think the prevalence of automatics is part of the problem as they present themselves as a big toy and convenient luxury rathe
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
"Today's decision sends a clear signal to companies that they must comply with all aspects of EU merger rules..." More like: "Today's decisions sends a clear signal that it costs €110M to escape EU merger rules.&quo
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Red Delicious are very sweet without much actual flavour. Granny Smiths are very tart and I can't understand why people actually like them (I have a theory it's because they consider them medicine rather than something to actually
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
What if there aren't any? Or what if they just don't get leaked due to lack of whistleblowers or better security? You can't say Wikileaks has an agenda because it only receives certain type of leaks.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
It's fun to write an interpretor for a lisp in Common Lisp. The book Lisp in Small Pieces goes through this.
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Why are you even using Windows for this?
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by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
Also for forcing restarts for everything. Back when I cared I needed to I used to use ksplice to patch linux without rebooting. If Microsoft made something like this it would stop people switching off the updates.
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by torrent-of-ions 10y ago
Yes, we engineered our way out of them providing better conditions for future generations. We are not engineering our way out of the problems I listed, but rather making them worse and worse and creating worse conditions for future generati
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by torrent-of-ions 10y ago
Yes. I saw this title and thought "oh, wow, they've now made a Windows Subsystem for Linux!"... Nope, it's the Linux subsystem for Windows.

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