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by wnoise 11y ago
> Once you have done the math, you really understand the problem, but that is a very steep mountain to climb. s/really/actually/ And yes, it is hard, but it actually works.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Current law (as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court) allows even for calling for the murder of people, as long as it is not "imminent". Saying that group X should be killed in general at some indefinite time in the future is pe
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by wnoise 11y ago
While I think extending IMAP is the better solution, it is already too complex, as many clients and servers treat things just slightly different enough to be really annoying.
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by wnoise 11y ago
> It's hard for me to trust the values of a man who thinks sex with children should be legalized. [citation needed]
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by wnoise 11y ago
I'm disappointed it's not is.py .
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by wnoise 11y ago
Defense-of-others, strictly speaking, is not the same as self-defense, but they're discussed in the same breath and generally legislated together, and usable in the same circumstances. Thus references to one are generally read as enco
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by wnoise 11y ago
> there are words in other languages that are difficult to articulate in English. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us.
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by wnoise 11y ago
The shell is my development system. The editor is a small part of it. Starting it should be as fast as, say, opening a window in an IDE.
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by wnoise 11y ago
> Sometimes, it’s simply an unfamiliar phrase, or doesn’t translate well, which means it can be hard for people encountering us for the first time to know what the project is about. Instead, we'll use a name that guarantees people w
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by wnoise 11y ago
WINCH comes from the terminal driver, not from the "window manager".
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by wnoise 11y ago
It's community, not generational, IME. I know old hackers that don't use it, and relatively young physicists and aerospace people that do.
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by wnoise 11y ago
> codes Scientist/engineer detected. In the standard programming dialect, "code" is a mass noun. "Program" or "library" is countable.
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by wnoise 11y ago
> IS would be properly categorized as a non-state actor. Given the exclusive control of territory, even with contested edges, it looks like a state to me... Obviously other states don't recognize it as one, which is generally consid
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by wnoise 11y ago
And CRT is short for Cathode Ray Tube.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Are there any filesystems that support empty names? If not, clearly the second is correct.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Oh thank goodness someone is making a saner API.
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by wnoise 11y ago
It turns out that "Can't run faster than Molasses in January" isn't all that slow...
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by wnoise 11y ago
To the rich, the middle class is poor; they just haven't finished making them quite as destitute yet.
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by wnoise 11y ago
It's more "make the poor use public transportation."
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by wnoise 11y ago
Note the complete lack of security. (A shared secret sent in plain text is not security).
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by wnoise 11y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stock-in-trade
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by wnoise 11y ago
That's funny since signed over/underflow isn't defined, while unsigned is.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Typo: the second requirement for pseudo-inverses should be Adagger A Adagger = Adagger, not A.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Which is good, as that is indeed an unsatisfying explanation. You can, however talk about _what_ it computes and _how_ it computes, which might be interesting or useful explanations.
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by wnoise 11y ago
Is it named after the Usenet grepper?
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by wnoise 11y ago
Shouldn't it be expanded by the shell when it is first set? FOO=~/bin/vim export FOO env | grep FOO shows it as expanded.
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by wnoise 11y ago
SMS?
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by wnoise 11y ago
GPG is awful; GPG is terrific.
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by wnoise 11y ago
See also OpenSSL.
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by wnoise 11y ago
> The majority of times, this is the case. At least one exception is when the shell pattern does not match one or more files in the directory Thankfully zsh has the NULLGLOB option which will do the right thing and expand to an empty lis

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