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by u801e 3y ago
> There's just no reason to use a mailing list when forums, chats, pull requests and issue trackers exist. One thing that modern tools lack that classic tools had was an index view that allowed you to quickly navigate to the comment
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by u801e 3y ago
> If you embroil yourself in some debate you don't want, you will still see the subsequent posts, as you continue to be Cc:'d on the debate. CC's reach you directly, bypassing the robot. This is where client side filtering
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by u801e 3y ago
> I have never been able to easily follow a archived mailing list thread (why do the reply links bounce around and never are in chronological order?). The ease or difficulty really comes down to the client you use. If you use a email cl
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by u801e 3y ago
> My current mail reading environment is not well suited to situations where a large amount of the volume is uninteresting to me and I'm picking through it for the small number of interesting discussions of interesting issues. In a
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by u801e 3y ago
Even as a kid, I was able to read Roman numeral representation of the year. Warner Bros Looney Tunes cartoons would include the copyright year in their title credits and I was able to determine which year it was even though they were displ
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by u801e 3y ago
Presumably changing I to V or removing prefix subtraction characters (e.g., XIX becomes XX).
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by u801e 3y ago
Do they? Most movies and TV shows I've watched in the last 10 years or so just use Arabic numerals in their end credit copyright notice.
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by u801e 3y ago
> What's your ideal authentication solution? Client side TLS certificates used in combination with username/password. Had browser vendors improved the UX experience in generating CSRs and storing certificates, then it could ha
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by u801e 3y ago
If the bank is indeed salting and hashing the password, then what's the rationale of allowing certain special characters like '!', but not '+'? Hashing and salting should be character agnostic.
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by u801e 3y ago
> Don't they usually store a hash of it? Any bank that restricts which characters one can include in a password probably doesn't store a hash of it.
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by u801e 4y ago
> There is something fundamentally wrong with a UI/UX that takes a literal year to master. You can learn basic navigation in about 5 to 10 minutes reading through emac's built in tutorial. Mastering it means finding a configur
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by u801e 4y ago
They're still available, but I prefer getting writable discs with higher capacity, like DVD-R or BD-R. I still use my DVD-R as one of my offline backup methods (make an ISO, put a bunch of files and a sha256sum file on the disc).
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by u801e 4y ago
> Big highlighter on "deposit". No government or even FDIC money is involved in this. I have deposit accounts in several of the banks listed. So my money is involved in a potentially bad investment. At least the balances I ha
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by u801e 4y ago
Even the compilers are in on some jokes: $ gcc -xc - <<<"int main(int argc, char **argv) { long long long a; return 0; }" <stdin>: In function ‘main’: <stdin>:1:45: error: ‘long long long’ is too
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by u801e 4y ago
Before the advent of fiat currency, inflation wasn't really much of an issue, so loaning someone X amount of money and getting paid back the same amount of money didn't result in a loss. With inflation, interest at a minimum woul
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by u801e 4y ago
> it is literally in the founding documents of Pakistan. Have you looked into any of the other examples I cited in the last several comments I made? Why do you keep circling back to Pakistan and religion when I literally just told you t
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by u801e 4y ago
> Stop trying to manufacture a conflict between Buddhism and Hinduism where none exists. The point I'm trying to make is that these conflicts are caused by trying to place people of different ethnicities, religions, traditions, etc
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by u801e 4y ago
> Partition [between would never have been so hotly contested if this was indeed the case. > Buddhism and Hinduism have coexisted in relative peace (with a few exceptions) for millennia. No such thing would have happened. They weren&#
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by u801e 4y ago
>> A single state spanning most of the Indian subcontinent wasn't a political reality prior to colonial times. There were many individual kingdoms and territories prior to that time. > Never said it was. Had Europe been coloni
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by u801e 4y ago
> an independent Hindu–Muslim state. A single state spanning most of the Indian subcontinent wasn't a political reality prior to colonial times. There were many individual kingdoms and territories prior to that time. The political s
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by u801e 4y ago
> The India-Pakistan debacle today is an extension of a nearly millennium-long Hindu-Muslim feud. Not really. A lot of these arbitrary borders in modern times came about due to actions of former colonial powers. Prior to colonial times
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by u801e 4y ago
Presumably most people use an editor or IDE for coding and it's likely that editor or IDE could also be used to display diffs, so I don't really see colors or fonts being an issue. The IDE or editor could also be configured to us
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by u801e 4y ago
I've found piping the output of git diff to my editor makes it much easier to browse compared to using the UI. For instance, searching for a particular file or line of code it much easier in the editor compared to the browser.
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by u801e 4y ago
>> So basically, now we can do `git diff master` in a GUI. > One thing I do like a lot is that the diff I see is exactly what my code reviewers will see. What will they see in the diff that you can see using Github Desktop that yo
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by u801e 4y ago
> The goalposts moved pretty quickly from the original wildly false claim that their programs did not contribute to further proliferation in the region My original claim was that nuclear weapons did not proliferate in the region beyond I
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by u801e 4y ago
> When India did [nuclear weapons testing], it did lead to proliferation, specifically, in Pakistan. And, in the end, neither of them has used those weapons offensively or defensively in close to 50 years (25 years for Pakistan). > My
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by u801e 4y ago
India conducted their first nuclear test in 1974. Pakistan didn't do the same until 1998. > In fact you'd notice that is a pair. The counterparty to Iran having a nuke would be Saudi Arabia having a nuke, an extremely likely ou
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by u801e 4y ago
> nobody can remotely come up with a reason for why Iran getting a nuclear weapon would be a positive development for anybody. Whether it's a positive or negative development really doesn't matter. What matters is what actually
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by u801e 4y ago
Probably because the majority in the legislative is not filibuster proof, and there are always a few representatives or senators who disagree with the proposal and prevent it from going to a floor vote. Recent examples of such individuals a
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by u801e 4y ago
> The idea that "a bicycle is a vehicule like car" has not worked the last 70 years. What criteria are you using to make that assertion? From a safety and efficiency standpoint, operating a bicycle as one would operate any veh

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