wtbob

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An ambivalent view on Vim superintelligence, contrasted with GNU Emacs(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by wtbob 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtbob 10y ago
I've been running Debian on my work & home laptops & desktops for many years now, with very few complaints. I'd recommend it. I think maybe the encryption issue you refer to is a really bad bug several years ago (2008?) w
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by wtbob 10y ago
> my guess: somewhere lurks an AS/400 Not a bad guess. Of course, they're flawlessly receiving their statement, every month, without fail — so my guess is that somewhere lurks an AS/400.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> After what happened with both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union misrepresenting scientific research to 'support' their policies, I suspect a lot of researchers want to avoid their own work being used for the same purposes. Bu
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But Go has to be special and use a special directory or else it throws a hissy fit. I just set GOPATH=$HOME, and then all my source (Go & otherwise) is in ~/src, all my binaries (Go & otherwise) are in ~/bin, &c.
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by wtbob 10y ago
If each man page has different random numbers (perhaps seeded on the man page section and name), then I could see that it might be a memory aid, kinda like having different floors of a building painted different colours, while different lay
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by wtbob 10y ago
The 90s were a different time, that's the only explanation I can come up with. Short key IDs are yet another 90s-crypto wart.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I don't know why more folks don't display keys and fingerprints as Base64; it seems to me that "q68RxlopcLEwq+PEeb4+QwBBGIY=" (Linus's real key) and "D2oUZTLYaa7kOPdLYhGqOwBBGIY=" (Linus's fake key) a
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's this sort of blame-driven, individual-focused, ask-the-unachieveable answer that makes it completely impossible for organizations to move beyond a relatively low level of quality/competence. Keeping one's finger off
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by wtbob 10y ago
Y'know, a lot of government organisations use Windows; I wonder how they feel about having all their information going to Microsoft …
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by wtbob 10y ago
> For example, if we rsync -a /source /target, we trust that the contents of /target will exactly match the contents of /source You might trust that, but you'd be wrong: $ cd /tmp $ mkdir foo $
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by wtbob 10y ago
> My feeling is that Spy vs Spy got their popularity rather through the games than through the comic strips in Mad. They were compiled into books before the computer games even existed, so that's probably not the case.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Unable to continue finding work, and fearing for the safety of his fellow El Mundo workers, Prohías, unable to speak a word of English, headed for New York. It's important to note, for those whose only knowledge of the Cuban Revol
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by wtbob 10y ago
The answer to that is better, sterner discipline, not guards who can't actually, y'know, guard .
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by wtbob 10y ago
> "Beyond all reasonable doubt" is fine for throwing someone in jail and putting the key all but permanently out of reach. But I think that, as a society, we must retain the ability to say "oh shit we fucked up very much
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I feel like Lisp kind of did win in the sense that Clojure is a reasonably sane Lisp that's gaining popularity and that lives on the JVM. 'Reasonably sane' is a matter of opinion. I really, really dislike Closure. I
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It might be quite trivial to modify parameters, but verifying that the software still works reliably might require a whole testing department. That responsibility (for running full tests, or being responsible for damages caused by not
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by wtbob 10y ago
> And now that we have good, modern high level languages with robust but flexible type systems I'd choose Haskell or Ocaml or maybe Swift over Smalltalk or Lisp if I wanted to stick my neck out technically on a project. I consider d
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I trust a somewhat skilled mechanic more to get his car modifications reasonably safe, than a random software modification Those are not comparable things. The correct comparison is between a mechanic and a programmer (after all, any
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by wtbob 10y ago
If you enjoyed this, I can recommend The Billionaire's Vinegar, which is a great book about this sort of thing.
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by wtbob 10y ago
I followed Ars Technica's article years ago, and modulo a few minor alterations, their instructions seemed to have worked pretty well. I will note that I mostly receive , rather than send email, but I've had no problems I'
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Any other comparable language (basically with static types) would want to use would require an IDE too. Go is both statically-typed and perfectly usable without an IDE. > Or at least configuring Emacs for the task, which can be a fu
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The JVM is a treasure just sitting there waiting to be rediscovered. It's the result of man-centuries (man-millennia?) of work, yes, and as a result is really, really impressive. But imagine if that much work had been put into so
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by wtbob 10y ago
> That's the problem state income taxes are supposed to solve, isn't it? Silly me, I thought state taxes were meant to finance the operation of the state, not punish people for making unpopular choice.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's a parasitic process which benefits one part of the whole at an overall cost to the whole. Surely when government compete for citizens, people benefit by living under governments more to their liking?
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by wtbob 10y ago
I love rail as a user, but the cost is … a bit insane. > In July, the feds awarded $13.1 million, just shy of the $14.5 million the state was seeking … The grant application estimates it would serve 519 riders daily, within the range of
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Currently, internships are open internationally to women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Additionally, they are open to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American,
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Sftp, hopefully. Ha! I've had precisely one vendor ask for an SSH public key to set up file transfer. The world runs on FTP. It's sad. Even sadder, it's often a Windows FTP server!
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Find the exact combination of browser/OS that does more than show "return true to win" on a white background to win. I see: return true to win (Come back in a few minutes.) What do I win?
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc. > Or is this not how it works? I think that the orthodox position would be that man was meant to be in God's image & likeness, but th

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