yepguy

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by yepguy 8y ago
I don't think you've mischaracterized me, but you've given undue attention to statements that I consider tangental and would be okay with discarding. Let me restate my position, which I think I can do more clearly now: 1. The
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by yepguy 8y ago
I really don't think my opinion is so complicated. Your reaction should depend a great deal on whether they were being straightforward (doubtful in your case) or malicious. In neither case will you get very far by trying to control the
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by yepguy 8y ago
Transgender or not, the pertinent issue is not whether people have a right to choose their pronouns (they don't), but what gender the speaker believes the referent to be. If you're using third person pronouns, you're generall
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by yepguy 8y ago
I was just spitballing, I'm not committing to any hard and fast rule here. Someone referred to you with the wrong gender because they mistook you for a girl, and probably appreciated the correction. This is way different than the trans
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by yepguy 8y ago
No I'm not saying that, not sure why you made that leap.
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by yepguy 8y ago
I didn't choose my own name or nickname either, but I take your point that some people do. I guess I would say that pronouns are primarily syntactic constructs while proper nouns are not.
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by yepguy 8y ago
It's special treatment rather than common courtesy. I don't get to choose the pronouns that other people refer to me by, and neither does anyone else I know. I would only be offended by someone misgendering me if it were clearly m
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by yepguy 8y ago
Speaking of parity, while the Guix project may have some catching up to do in general, I think their documentation has been superior to Nix for a while.
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by yepguy 8y ago
Searching Google is the real dark art these days, especially if you don't use personalized results. I am constantly frustrated by Google straight up ignoring my most important search terms. At least with DuckDuckGo I know that it'
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by yepguy 8y ago
I've always thought someone should use guile to add support for elisp plugins to vim & neovim using their rpc interfaces. Then maybe if something like that existed the org-mode authors could be convinced to cleanly separate out the
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by yepguy 8y ago
Well my only examples were networking-related, but something like D-Bus could easily have a filesystem-based API instead. I'm willing to accept that files are a bad abstraction for graphics. I don't really know anything about that
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by yepguy 8y ago
I can't really disagree with most of your post. The reason Plan 9 or its ideas can't be resurrected very easily now is because every machine on the internet has to pretend to be UNIX and speak a thousand ad-hoc protocols. UNIX&#
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by yepguy 8y ago
I understand why it didn't take off, but I don't think it's true that Plan 9 was just a tiny incremental improvement over UNIX's architecture. Modern networking and distributed systems would be a LOT nicer today if Plan
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by yepguy 8y ago
I think you could have mounted your borg backup as a FUSE filesystem, and then used rsync to restore your files.
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by yepguy 8y ago
Have you tried UDF? http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/05/13/using-udf-as-an-improv...
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by yepguy 9y ago
Why can Google even see the plaintext of users' Google Drive? This is an obvious architectural issue.
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by yepguy 9y ago
I don't know if it's been fixed, but I recommend pointing mutt at an offline copy of your mail instead of directly at an IMAP server. Use isync or another program to sync your mail.
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by yepguy 9y ago
Did you not learn cursive in grade school? This looks exceptionally readable to me, and other than the capital letters it doesn't really have any flourishes. And given how practiced his hand looks, I wouldn't be surprised if he wa
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by yepguy 9y ago
My guess is that the solution involves squatting instead of sitting, although the West has lost the ability to squat comfortably for prolonged periods of time.
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by yepguy 9y ago
You can actually. If you use mandoc instead of mandb, it automatically generates and passes tag files to less. Then you can just type ":t e" to jump to the docs for the -e option, for example.
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by yepguy 10y ago
It was pretty easy to create a usable epub (not at all perfect but still very legible on an ereader). Make sure you have wget and calibre installed, then run: wget -r -l 1 -k -p https://meaningness.com/; ebook-convert m
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by yepguy 11y ago
In AsciiMath[1], x = (-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a) [1]: http://asciimath.org/
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by yepguy 11y ago
I disagree. While I think your suggested actions are reasonable, nothing distinguishes them from actions we would take if our hands were clean, and instead another group were at fault.
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by yepguy 11y ago
We don't need to decide to apply this rule sometimes but other times that rule. When we come to an ambiguous string, we apply both rules nondeterministically. Here's a pseudo-grammar that I think describes both possibilities.
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by yepguy 11y ago
Your post doesn't really agree with what I was taught. > the ambiguity rests in not knowing what is the lexical category of foo in "foo * bar". Right, so there are 2 possible parse trees. Being able to disambiguate them wi
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by yepguy 11y ago
As far as I know C is context-free. If C's grammar is ambiguous, that just makes it an ambiguous context-free grammar [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_grammar
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by yepguy 11y ago
Python 3 is okay-ish for developers who don't think about encodings unless forced to, but it actually makes it more difficult to do "the right thing": http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everythin
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by yepguy 11y ago
Does Guix have (the equivalent of) package signing? Last I checked Nix wasn't very concerned about this.
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by yepguy 11y ago
s/by enlarge/by and large/
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by yepguy 11y ago
Of course, but price doesn't just mean money. I think I read somewhere that AMD was willing to grant Microsoft & Sony more rights over the chips than their competitors. I don't know how much that was a factor though.

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