wtbob

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Interface Builder's alternative Lisp timeline(paulhammant.com)
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> I'll have headphones on all day, instead of 10-20% of the day. I worry about the damage that my office headphones have on my hearing. I wonder if there's some sort of OSHA regulation regarding it, and if I have recourse aga
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You're right, of course. Still, 'everything is a boolean' is close enough for government work:-)
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> I was even asked to meet with my company's architects and designers about a new space we were building out. I basically spent an hour telling them in every different form I could that what I wanted was a place I could go where peo
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> Linux (as in the kernel) succeeds because it's free, flexible, stable and secure. But none of those words are "pretty", "aesthetic" or "powerful". I think that StumpWM, i3 & dwm are all powerful,
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> I would take Windows 95's window manager over Ubuntu's Unity every day of the week. And I'd take StumpWM over Windows 10. Honestly, I'd take Windows 95's UI over Windows 10. I don't actually mind what the
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I personally find that movable-window designs are a UI failure, requiring too much user interaction. A tiling WM, OTOH, enables me to do what I want: work with one tool or another, and work with multiple tools when that's what I want
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This slideshow doesn't work on narrow browsers: a narrow browser window clips the text, despite there being more than enough window space to display all the information on the slide. Remember when the Web was automatically adaptive? R
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> One of their 'crazy, batshit insane,' conspiracy theories was that the government was recording all of our phone calls. > think of all of the circumstances we've become used to now that were the territory of conspirac
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> Is there a boolean predicate? Nope, because everything is a Boolean: NIL is false, and everything else is true.
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I did that as well, and it was Great and Good and obviously the Right Thing — right up until I pasted in a some shell code which used `` instead of $(). Never again. These days I use C-z for tmux. It works, and C-z z is easy enough to typ
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You're not wrong about the problem, but there is an issue: sometimes the defaults are really, really bad — e.g. C-a as a prefix character, when anyone who uses emacs keybindings is used to that keystroke taking him to the beginning o
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I really don't think it's some sort of conspiracy: it's just that it's more efficient for someone to grow all your food, someone to make all your clothes, someone to purify all your water, someone to generate all your el
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This is my favourite terminal. I have it configured to run tmux, and couldn't be happier. Lightning-fast, stable as can be, it gets out of my way and lets me work.
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> smokers can avoid feeling repressed simply by quitting smoking What gives you the right to oppress people for the behavioural choices? What gives you the right to tell someone that his health is more important than his happiness? I do
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Visually there's not a whole lot of difference. Ideally, you want something where the shape of each name is reasonably distinct from all the rest — otherwise folks will just ignore that odd blot before the prompt. And then, once you
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> Are modern-day people perpetually drunk on mass-media opiates from consuming up to a gallon of behaviorally-engineered dopamine shots each day? Yes?
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> If the ground-state of the human mind is tipsy, then is sobriety functionally an abnormal state we're maladapted for? I vaguely recall reading that the ancient Persians would make decisions twice: once sober, and once drunk. If t
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> It's incredible. Every country should do it. Yeah, it sure is wonderful to repress a hated minority. How dare they befoul our pristine public spaces with their benighted culture and their foul customs‽ Of course, the victims of y
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> The negative externalities of alcohol are substantially exaggerated. Public health researchers go crazy inventing externalities for things they don't like. … > With cigarettes the damage and causation is much clearer. Something
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I honestly think that things like $40 packs of cigarettes are pure bigotry (the only politically-acceptable bigotry at the moment). It's kicking a man when he's down. But then, I believe that cigars & pipes are an essential p
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> There is learning from a catastrophic fuck up, and then there is incompetence. We all start at incompetence, but eventually we — wait for it — learn from our experiences. Would you believe that Caesar, Michael Jordan and Steve Wozniak
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'db1' vs. 'db2' is still insufficiently clear, though. Even better would be e.g. to name development systems after planets and production systems after superheroes. Very few people would mistake 'superman' for
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Even better, move stuff to /trash/$(date -I), and have your cleanup script regularly clean out any directory from before a week ago.
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> She signed an oath to defend the constitution, not an oath of loyalty to Trump. Yes, indeed: and the choice available which is consistent with that oath is to resign.
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> When did America become so stupid to vote in these people? Well, in 1996 we re-elected Clinton, despite demonstrable evidence that he was a terrible president and an execrable human being. In 2004 we re-elected Bush, despite him viola
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> There's just the small matter that what he wants violates the law No, that's exactly what the Giuliani story doesn't indicate: it indicates the exact opposite, which is that they did this legally. Incidentally, I think
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> She signed an oath to defend the constitution, not an oath of loyalty to Trump. Yes, indeed: and the choice available which is consistent with that oath is to resign.
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> Obama used Executive Orders because in part he had a Congress that, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, stated openly that they had no intention of passing Bills on the President's behalf, even if good. So? Mr. Obama's executive or
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She had two legitimate options: execute the President's instructions if she thought they are legal and moral, or resign if she thought they are illegal or immoral. She doesn't have the option to refuse to do her job. Ministers an

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