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by tpoacher 4y ago
Ooph, back when I was a pianist, I caught myself thinking random crap WHILE DOING A CONCERT all the time; then suddenly you think "dude wtf, you're in the middle of a concert, snap out of it", and then the shock from the cont
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by tpoacher 4y ago
how is this different / "better" than apt-file?
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by tpoacher 4y ago
The thing that impressed me the most from this story is how it didn't just end at paragraph one with the words "I called customer service but didn't manage to speak to a human".
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Before reading the article, I thought he was talking about negative indices. I was reading K&R the other day and spotted the bit where they mention c supports negative indices and gave an example. My mind was blown.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Mint is flatpak based? Since when? (writing this from my Linux Mint OS).
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by tpoacher 4y ago
So what you're saying is that it is not in their enemies' best interests to allow them to remain peaceful. > China is doing everything it can to signal to its own population that war with Taiwan is imminent I haven't seen
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by tpoacher 4y ago
No shit sherlock. "Video streaming won't hurt DVD sales, people preferring video streaming over DVDs will." "Online news won't hurt paper print, publishers publishing online instead of in print will." "Gun
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Assuming a is an expression, which could well be a call to a function, then the two are equivalent. Note that the argument here is one of declarativeness vs imperativeness, i.e. whether it is at all practically possible to ever have progr
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by tpoacher 4y ago
In America, you inform airport official when you travel. In Soviet Russia, airport official informs YOU!
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I've replaced most of my repositories on github with notices like this one (for the same reason): https://github.com/tpapastylianou/process_optargs I wonder if there's a licence out there already that enables
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by tpoacher 4y ago
There's a drug called Orlistat, which blocks absorption of fat from the gut. The obvious side-effect is that your poo becomes very fatty and disgusting. Hence the affectionate nickname for Orlistat in the biz: "Orlyshit" (i.e
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by tpoacher 4y ago
This "Mark" dude seems to be everywhere these days. /s
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by tpoacher 4y ago
This just means that the potato dna-source-code devs were being evaluated by management against a "kLOC" metric.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Indirectly this also betrays the kind of job where you had the "luxury" of being in a position to be able to take such forced breaks in the first place. This is already a good situation to be with regard to burnout. I'd love
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by tpoacher 4y ago
You reminded me one of my favourite quotes: "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists" ~ Quote by a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park, on why it is hard to design
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I was about to say finally they've seen the light, first flathub, now snap, this is restoring my faith in ubuntu. Then I saw all the comments noting today's date. Oh well.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> you can actually distribute Janet programs to other people. You can compile Janet programs into statically-linked native binaries and give them to people who have never even heard of Janet before In theory you "can" do that w
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Can someone explain 'immutability' (in this context) more clearly? The article doesn't really explain anything. The filesystem is read-only (from the perspective of the user) in all linux distributions. How is this different?
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I often find the reason for all this hell is, ironically, an effort to help people who dont know "how computers work", by offering "useful automations". And then these automations clash and fail because of the complexity
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Worse. As many have pointed out: "If he gets arrested, he's your next president." Wouldn't be the first leader whose arrest led to raging popularity and revolt.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> And application developers have to essentially wait for each distro to repackage their app before it becomes available on that distro. Nonsense. Developers can do their thing, and distro maintainers can do theirs. The two have very dif
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Say a term enough times and it gets established by people who repeat it. Like "nanoparticles", or "data science" or "codes". Ironically, by venting about how BRICS is not a thing, you've helped a tiny bit
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by tpoacher 4y ago
idk. i take the point, but this also screams of normalcy bias to me. just because people didnt become obsolete then doesnt mean that will always be the case. especially when obsolence through technology more generally isnt even a rare thing
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I have a similar reactance. The more AI gets advanced / hyped, the more I find myself attracted to simple stuff like writing nice makefiles or whatever.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
Magnesium deficiency can cause Potassium deficiency. Trying to fix Potassiun alone wont work because Magnesium is required to absorb it, or something like that; can't remember the full details now. And obviously if your symptoms are ac
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by tpoacher 4y ago
> Familiarity breeds respect Nice.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
May I suggest providing a nice list of supported distros on github? Preferably categorised by OS family (e.g. linux vs bsd vs dos...) Also, I'd love to see things like syllable, haiku, sky os, etc.
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I couldn't disagree more with this article. In fact, every time I see someone grab a book in perfect condition off a shelf and then proceed to crack the spine as if it's some sort of required ritual before even considering whether
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by tpoacher 4y ago
I dont wanna take credit or anything, but this post appearing within 24 hours of me posting this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308954 makes me wonder if I'm partly reaponsible for this post now ^=^`
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by tpoacher 4y ago
My favourite word processor is html. Being serious here, not even trolling. I've gone through many things, and always come back to writing mostly raw html for my own needs. Occasionally I write a small bash script to automate some stuf

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