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by unhammer 13y ago
What are your requirements for "something modern", compared to the out-of-the-box experience? My own .emacs is the result of nearly 10 years of tinkering, which I (like subsection1h) enjoy. Actually, I probably enjoy it too much,
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by unhammer 13y ago
I don't use full CUA unless I'm having other people type, but I do have this in my ~/.emacs: (when (fboundp 'cua-selection-mode) (setq cua-toggle-set-mark nil) ; o/w C-SPC doesn't set the mark if re
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by unhammer 13y ago
Why promote the preservation of obsolete species (including animals), when they can be satisfactorily preserved in museums?
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by unhammer 13y ago
I just use plain rsync and then do a btrfs snapshot each time. Very fast and easy to set up. Probably just as easy with zfs if you prefer that. Of course I've got some setup around creating datestamped snapshots and keeping the N last
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Compatibility Is Hard: CHARTEST.DOC Is From 1989, Was Not Readable By 2003 (bsdly.blogspot.ca)
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PTRACE_SINGLESTEP_BACKWARDS(lwn.net)
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by unhammer 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the tip about web-mode, I did not know about that one. I remember trying "mmm-mode" or something many years ago, and it was just too buggy to work with, but web-mode has worked with everything I've tried so fa
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by unhammer 13y ago
or rsync into (optionally LUKS-encrypted) btrfs filesystem with snapshots.
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by unhammer 13y ago
As a Norwegian taxpayer, I disagree :-) I don't know a single Norwegian who actually enjoys having to update Java again (and anyone who's turned on the news in the last 3 years here has heard of Java security holes). (And if thi
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by unhammer 13y ago
There are still a couple banks in Norway where you can get by without BankID.
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by unhammer 13y ago
For people interested in reproducability in computational linguistics and NLP, I recommend http://lingpipe-blog.com/2013/09/25/fokkens-et-al-on-reprodu... and the article linked within. One of the authors of
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by unhammer 13y ago
Science Exchange: https://www.scienceexchange.com/reproducibility Ioannidis' article on false pos/neg and stat.power: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
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by unhammer 13y ago
If you have a slow-starting program, you can use named pipes as its stdin/stdout. Then write a little script that writes to the inpipe and reads from the outpipe (interleavedly, so as not to fill up the pipe buffer, I think that's
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by unhammer 13y ago
This: http://slacy.com/blog/2008/12/on-mkfifo-and-doing-the-imposs...
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by unhammer 13y ago
It still requires manual labor. We used to have external usb drives per computer, with a script in udev that started rsync as soon as you plug in a usb drive with a certain id. So essentially, plug in a usb drive to take backups. Plug it ou
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by unhammer 13y ago
1 million people is meaningless. 7 billion people is everyone: yourself, your parents, your son/daughter, all your friends, your president, etc.
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by unhammer 13y ago
"An exabyte is roughly 100,000 times the size of the printed material in the Library of Congress; a zettabyte is 1,000 times larger." How big is a Mega-Library of Congress? Are people actually able to relate to that measure? (How
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by unhammer 13y ago
> The W3C is the guardian of the world wide web At least they were.
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by unhammer 13y ago
> Not really. I've tried it, and it still has pain points I'd not like to have in my filesystem. It's like ZFS almost a decade ago (and I'm not talking about features)... although ZFS on Linux vs. btrfs on Linux... ri
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by unhammer 13y ago
also, instead of just "you got it", how about a greeting in that language? also, how about localisation of the game?
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by unhammer 13y ago
Actually, after each try you could have a snippet about each language, e.g. Kannada Primarily spoken in: India # of speakers: 38 million Language family: Dravidian Writing sample: ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿ
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by unhammer 13y ago
If anyone wants to do it with Norwegian dialects, there's an awesome set of audio samples of the same text here: http://www.ling.hf.ntnu.no/nos/nos_kart.html ("I would be willing to guess that no speaker of t
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by unhammer 13y ago
The Norwegian postal service already has an encrypted email service, DigiPost. The selling point is that companies and the government should be able to send you email securely. Good intentions, but I have not tried it yet since it requires
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by unhammer 13y ago
Is this what DNSSEC is supposed to protect you from? (Or could they just change your dnssec records as well?)
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by unhammer 13y ago
The fact that law must limit law does not make "privacy technology" pointless. E.g. the dragnet would capture a whole lot more if no web sites used TLS at all, and three-letter agencies would have a lot easier time of it.
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by unhammer 13y ago
"when a burglar comes through the window, do you put more locks on the door? Better to just acknowledge that we chose to live in a dangerous neighborhood." So they start keeping both the door _and_ the window unlocked? If that hap
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by unhammer 13y ago
https://unhosted.org/ is also interesting
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by unhammer 13y ago
By the way, > "cat myfile | grep foo | awk '...'" […] indeed this is one of the most frequent performance sinks in shell scripts Is it really? I would've thought loops were a more common performance sink. I can&#
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by unhammer 13y ago
Fair enough; Unix certainly gives you enough ways to shoot yourself and your customers in the foot. I probably should've added the qualifier "wrt. succinctness" (that's e.g. the reason I move from awk to Python when I ne
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by unhammer 13y ago
Also, regarding the lockfile examples, Linux users get a much simpler method using flock: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/045?highlight=%28flock%29

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