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by u801e 6y ago
> People read the text on their Uni systems, where they got free dialup, rather than chew up their ISP connection time quotas. At dialup speeds, the only practical binaries one could download would be images. mp3 files were practically t
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by u801e 6y ago
> I'm a broken record on this, so you may have seen me point it out before, but NNTP started dying in the mid-late 1990s, I didn't start posting to usenet before 1999 and was a regular poster in a few groups from that time up t
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by u801e 6y ago
Most free and ISP based usenet feeds had a lot of missing posts, especially since they allowed older posts to expire. Even the commercial usenet providers only started their archives about 12 years ago.
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by u801e 6y ago
Maybe someone could set up a public inbox[1] instance that allows access to those groups either via HTTP or NNTP. [1] https://public-inbox.org/README.html
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by u801e 6y ago
If you use vim, you can do this within vim: :r !git log find the log entry you're interested in, move the cursor over the sha1 value, type yiw to yank it into vim's " register (by default). Then open a new window by p
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by u801e 6y ago
> Many schedules do not allow for daily 60 minute exercise routines at the gym which take 10-15 min to get there by car. You can get that 60 minutes of exercise/physical activity if the transportation to various destinations is chan
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by u801e 6y ago
> What we "google" she "youtube's" - who has time to read when you can watch a demo or a presentation... A video will take more time to get through compared to just reading through a tutorial.
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by u801e 6y ago
> Chain restaurants and fast food restaurants have had online ordering for quite sometime. Many of them don't require creating an account to order. How does a chat based solution lead to a better experience compared to an establishe
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by u801e 6y ago
> PSTN-based 2FA in 2020 is not a vote of confidence in the security team's competence. A lot of companies go with email and/or PSTN based 2FA for customer convenience and to get them to use 2FA for their accounts. I try to avo
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by u801e 6y ago
> We can fight it by electing the correct people. The spying is supported by both major parties.
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by u801e 6y ago
Those commits do not necessarily need to be in the history. The commit with the working implementation could explain that X alternate solutions were considered but those solutions didn't work with the details of why they didn't w
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by u801e 6y ago
> I think docker works better than most solutions thus far primarily because developers can run and test their code locally That can also be done with a locally run VM on the dev machine and provisioning it with config management like ch
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by u801e 6y ago
I started using the Facebook container extension for Firefox to prevent things like this from happening.
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm actually a member of several active public and private groups on Facebook where many posts have informative discussions. I rarely ever look at my newsfeed though. If I only had the newsfeed, I would have dumped Facebook long ago.
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by u801e 6y ago
While a variation of that statement is used in defense of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution, some people have thought of how the second amendment might apply to cryptography[1] [1] https://repository.uchastings.edu&#x2F
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by u801e 6y ago
It works for my scanner, but I have to reset the usb device after scanning each page. I use the C program I found in this Stack Overflow[1] answer to handle resetting the device. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/645
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by u801e 6y ago
> I don't understand this analogy at all. UI/UX design changes frequently involves changing the appearance and possibly location and even functionality of familiar things. And that's the fundamental problem because that do
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by u801e 6y ago
> A lot of people aren't interested in learning about file systems or how DNS operates. They want to know what button to order from Amazon. That's like saying people aren't interested in learning how to use a phonebook or
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by u801e 6y ago
> I still have the same keyboard layout as back then but MS Office now has some janky "ribbon interface" which bears no resemblance to how it used to be. This is a general pattern for GUIs as of late. It changes every so often
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by u801e 6y ago
You could if you also have the output of git diff. Then you could stage and unstage hunks or parts of them using a combination of recountdiff and git apply --cached
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by u801e 6y ago
> Who goes digging into old commit messages to understand what a piece of code does? I know I don't. A lot of people do. If you've ever used git blame on a file, you can see which commit each line in the file is associated wit
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by u801e 6y ago
I actually type my commit messages in a new window in the editor (vim). :r !git status -v Type my commit message above the output, and then visually highlight the lines of my commit message and then run :'<,'> !gi
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by u801e 6y ago
Maybe something like fold -c -s -w 80 | git commit -F - <<EOF Fix issue Hello world... EOF
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by u801e 6y ago
Github you mean. Prior to git, people also did similar things with svn and other VCS software.
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by u801e 6y ago
> Refusing to use version control is a prime example. The industry as a whole has unanimously decided that version control is necessary, but he still argues that his backup of an entire directory that he does once every 2 months is more
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by u801e 6y ago
This will also work: sed '/^###/!d'
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by u801e 6y ago
I'm not saying that I haven't been harrassed, but something like that might happen once every couple of years. In contrast, when I used to ride closer to the edge of the road/lane, I frequently experienced close overtakes.
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by u801e 6y ago
Products like MSN messenger, AOL instant messenger, Yahoo messenger, ICQ, etc are either no longer around or are far less popular than they used to be.
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by u801e 6y ago
> But until drivers can handle cyclist in the middle of the lane without road rage and dangerous behaviour My personal experience (over the last 15 years) has been that the vast majority of drivers will treat it as a non-event and just c
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by u801e 6y ago
What has your experience been when riding in the center of the general traffic lane?

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