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by u801e 6y ago
I think this may have been an attempt at humor by ruined where the post they made employs similar phrasing that dang uses when he's informing a user about a violation of the HN guidelines.
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by u801e 6y ago
Astraweb's landing page states they have 4000 days of retention (which corresponds to March 2010 as of the time of this post). I guess certain text groups have signfiicantly longer retention times.
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by u801e 6y ago
Based on what I've seen in several groups, a lot of spam comes from posts made via Google groups.
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by u801e 6y ago
I was regularly posting to several groups as late as 2014. But setting up access is no different than configuring a mail client.
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by u801e 6y ago
> No ISP I have used in recent years does. They have all been switched off, with the ISP citing low levels of use. The event that lead to a lot of ISPs dropping their NNTP service was when Andrew Cuomo, when he was the attorney general o
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by u801e 6y ago
But if you want to find a particular post, it really depends on the retention policy of the server you use. Free ones may have a year of retention. Commercial one's have 12 years or so. The only one that I know of where one can find po
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by u801e 6y ago
What does an email like social network protocol provide over something like Usenet or IRC?
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by u801e 6y ago
The fundamental issue with the argument you're presenting is that Pakistan is not a secular country, unlike England or the USA. An example of a country that bases their government on a particular religion allowing citizens to freely d
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by u801e 6y ago
> the early internet- content discovery was really hard for users. It wasn't as good as google is now, but search engines of the time did allow for discovery.
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by u801e 6y ago
> Summarize What You are Following Up > When you are following up someone's article, please summarize the parts of the article to which you are responding. This allows readers to appreciate your comments rather than trying to r
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by u801e 6y ago
I have said no. I just say I have to help my kids with their virtual class or some other excuse to get out of it.
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by u801e 6y ago
The way children socialize compared to adults is completely different. So you really can't make a valid comparison between school and work in terms of socialization.
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by u801e 6y ago
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! Is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
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Al Gore may not have invented the internet, but he did come up with algorithms.
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In my experience, passers by don't care. I've heard many car alarms continuously going off and everyone else just going about their business.
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by u801e 6y ago
> If you live in the rest of the United States, which is spread out and some quite rural, a car alarm can quickly notify you someone is messing with your car. That really depends if you're close enough to the car, or in a building t
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by u801e 6y ago
About you specifically, nothing. Based on pattern recognition pertaining to news reports and analysis of various events over the last 25 or so years, many analysts who are now excusing and making distinctions between various types of peopl
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm willing to bet if it was thousands of Muslims involved in that event, you would not be making this argument.
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by u801e 6y ago
> 2FA absolutely will protect you from a phishing site using the password it stole. That's assuming one used a different password for the email or mobile provider.
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by u801e 6y ago
The netrw plugin that comes with the default installation of vim on many distros allows you to navigate the directory listing like a file, but it won't let you edit the text. The terminal buffer is similar, but you have to enter a spe
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by u801e 6y ago
I've been using vim for decades, but was not aware of the messages command. If it's anything like the version command or the K key for displaying the man page for a keyword under the cursor, that's also an annoyance of mine.
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by u801e 6y ago
I grew up in a rural area in the south and seeing people with confederate flags, engaging in blatant racism, and espousing ideas like neo-nazim wasn't unusual. What was unusual was to see these things normally seen in sparsely populat
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by u801e 6y ago
> the core modal interface of vim is related to historical limitations at the time it was created. While that's true, the type of text manipulation and navigation one can achieve in normal and command mode far exceeds what one can d
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by u801e 6y ago
>>The great thing about Emacs is that everything is a buffer[...] > It frustrates me endlessly that this one simple, almost self-evident piece of Emacs wisdom failed to gain traction almost everywhere else. Even the venerable Vim d
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by u801e 6y ago
I found when using Firefox, it did take me to the proper page. When using Google chrome, was redirected to the landing page I was referring to. Which browser did you use? Testing it again in Firefox took me to the landing page. Maybe it
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by u801e 6y ago
This is what happens if you link to his website from HN. Arguably NSFW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/
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by u801e 6y ago
The commit message [1] removing JWZ from the AUTHORS file isn't very informative. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210116154429/https://gitlab.gn...
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by u801e 6y ago
You should look at the git mailing list. They actually send patches via email using the git format-patch and git send-email commands and have complex discussions around some of the patches.
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NACTO standards for protected intersections provide insufficient visibility for the cyclist and motorist on approach to the intersection [1]. For example they claim that for 25 mph traffic, the total clear sight distance should be 50 feet
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> Why does it have to be in the US or Canada, places known to have extremely few protected bike lanes, and almost no protected intersections? Because then you can make a direct comparison in terms of crash rates, counts, etc. between roa

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