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by wtbob 10y ago
I'd love to think of something to do with GreenArrays, although AFAICT they're kinda dead. The idea is fascinating, but I honestly don't know what I would use it for .
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by wtbob 10y ago
The title is an instance where automatically substituting 'humanity' for 'mankind' leads to a contradiction in terms: humanity is the quality of being humane, or benevolence, and there's nothing bad or malevolent ab
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> Almost nobody runs mobile Firefox, so that turned out not to matter much. FWIW, I love mobile Firefox and I really don't understand why folks use Chrome instead.
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by wtbob 10y ago
Since it predates CSV, it wasn't an alternative to it: it was the original. I suppose the Excel or 1-2-3 team either didn't know about the separator characters, or they did but then-current text editors weren't useful enough
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I don't think so: just as reading, writing & speaking are still our primary forms of communication (rather than pointing & grunting), so too will CLIs last.
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> The use of out-of-band characters like NULLs to separate pieces of text does help, but I don't think there is a complete solution. NULL is actually in-band, not out-of-band, and in fact it illustrates the issues with in-band commu
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> When you find swaths of knowledge that younger people don't know, you've found success in the overall human goal of abstracting concepts and building on the shoulders of those who came before us. Abstracting, yes, but I don&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
Ubuntu is trying very hard to abide by the letter of Free Software but not the spirit. Is there a solution? Simple: don't use it. There are many other distros out there which do abide by the spirit as well as the letter. Canonical
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's important that it be affordable to everyone, regardless of wealth. That's the whole point of giving each child's parents that child's share of public-education funds. > If it's private with public fund
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by wtbob 10y ago
> you'll probably be happier with fish's defaults. Probably (although I use a zsh distribution to get a sane setup). I definitely appreciate the idea of sane defaults, rather than forcing the user to set everything up properly
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you haven't tried fish, I highly recommend it. It takes a little getting use to, but overall it adds a lot of really amazing functionality that I find really useful. Serious question (that I've asked elsethread): what does
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Fish has been mentioned here (which I've used for 2+ years). It's amazing and adds a lot of good functionality. What does it add exactly? As far as I can tell, it's needlessly incompatible with POSIX shells, and doesn&#
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by wtbob 10y ago
But Ptolemy's formula's aren't completely wrong, either: they're actually very effective at predicting the movements of the planets and stars — just not good enough , it turns out, and rather more complex than they need
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by wtbob 10y ago
> A good public schooling system is incredibly important for a functioning democracy, because a functioning democracy relies on a well educated citizenry. A good schooling system is necessary, but must it be public?
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Apple investigating why AirPods randomly disconnect(macrumors.com)
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> My child goes to daycare and it is infinitely more stimulating than anything we could do for her at home even if we've "given our best effort". Is stimulation the most important thing in childrearing? > What is the sp
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How is that chilling? Were those ads false? Swaying votes away from one's opponents is the definition of running for office. Back in 2008 the Obama campaign ran a very successful information shop and was widely lauded for it; why is i
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> In this election, dark posts were used to try to suppress the African-American vote. According to Bloomberg, the Trump campaign sent ads reminding certain selected black voters of Hillary Clinton’s infamous “super predator” line. It ta
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> "Making every contact count", a UK initiative to make sure that doctors[1] use every opportunity to promote smoking cessation, alcohol use reduction, weight loss, and other lifestyle adjustments. Wow, that's truly the na
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> Our Constitution spells out in very clear terms that blacks are to be considered 3/5th of a white man for the purposes of representation in Congress. If that term itself isn't an example of how wrong it is to be a strict text
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by wtbob 10y ago
> To not beat a dead horse: every single decision made by the Supreme Court is effectively in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. > Any part of the Constitution can be interpreted, modified, or nullified by a decision of the Supr
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by wtbob 10y ago
> But the bag was on my shoulder rather than on the floor by my feet so the dog just walked straight past me. There's a hack to remember. I've been asked to take my bag off my shoulder so the dog could sniff it. I wouldn't
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by wtbob 10y ago
Of course, that also means that you can only customise once. I use separate Firefox profiles in order to have different add-on configurations, e.g. in my daily driver NoScript is set to whitelist mode, while in my special JavaScript-permi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> For anything where I want to log in or have a persistent identity (stackoverflow, gmail, etc), I set up separate Chrome profiles and manually open each site in the appropriate profile. FWIW, this is also doable in Firefox: try 'fi
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> If you choose the first one, your client has to preserve spaces, tabs, linebreaks, and everything else byte-for-byte intact. An email client which doesn't do that is broken; why would one use a primary email client which is broken
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by wtbob 10y ago
I guess I should have mentioned that Lisp is my language of choice. I like the ease with which I can implement anything. But it does have a cost: everyone else implements everything himself, too. I actually think Quicklisp has helped.
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This illustrates the power & the problem of Common Lisp: the power is that it really is easy to add channels (and pretty much every other feature) to the language yourself; the problem is that it's generally easier to write your ow
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> But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread that Donald Trump would either pull the plug on one of the great achievements of the last eight years, or worse — he might order the best and brightest to work on projects tha
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I think we're talking about after-tax money; unless you live somewhere that has a wealth tax, once you've paid all your taxes on income (wages or capital) then you're free and clear.
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by wtbob 10y ago
That right there is genius! I'm adding it to my .sig file.

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