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by zeveb 7y ago
Miss Stern graduated high school in 2018, so she is probably too young to purchase or legally carry a pistol — that age is 21 across the U.S., to my knowledge and perhaps with a few exceptions. I would agree that arming herself is a really
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by zeveb 7y ago
> I don't think Google should add permissions or warnings for this either When I buy a phone, it's my phone. Not Google's, not Apple's, not anyone else's: it's mine . And I have a fundamental human righ
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The Gadgets of the Decade(theverge.com)
2 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
> If the 404 is due to the client calling the wrong URL, rather than trying to access an entity/record that doesn’t exist, the client code will incorrectly assume the entity/record doesn’t exist when it actually does. There&#x2
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by zeveb 7y ago
This comment here was what struck me immediately upon reading the story. Surely the Greek state has thought of that? Surely?
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think it is. A lot of the 'stagnation' is due to the fact that the standard is a standard, so Lisp implementations aren't changing the definition of characters willy-nilly — and so code written twenty years ago is still co
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by zeveb 7y ago
A Common Lisp implementation may have static types: (defun foo (x) (declare (type fixnum x)) (1- x)) If you don't specify them, types all default to T.
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by zeveb 7y ago
> While it’s admirable for companies to fill the day-care vacuum, the absence of a national solution is an indictment of American policy. California is very different from Vermont which is very different from Mississippi. It doesn'
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by zeveb 7y ago
I wonder if modern media — with their incentive to run negative stories — skew perceptions such that ever-more folks think that it's strategically better to cheat, even if that's not actually true .
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by zeveb 7y ago
> They could only do it for a handful of servers, change request took months and the systems were not to be 'touched'. Those old ways of doing things were indeed slower than they needed to be in many cases, and I'm glad th
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by zeveb 7y ago
> In UNIX systems you already can adopt many of plan9's design ideas. I don't think that's really true. You can't do the sort of things with namespaces and filesystems that one can do on Plan 9 in e.g. Linux.
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by zeveb 7y ago
A plot that sounds really neat while you're in the middle of it, but afterwards doesn't really make any sense — sounds a bit like a J.J. Abrams production. I don't mean that flippantly, I'm serious. Sounds like GPT-2 mi
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by zeveb 7y ago
I agree with his point, but I think that it's also important to note that there was a reason why 'tough on crime' was electoral gold for so long: the U.S. really did have a problem with violent crime (still does, in compari
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by zeveb 7y ago
I don't think it's that — it's that the Supreme Court has become the unchallengeable super-legislature, and thus both sides of any issue desperately want to get their guys onto the court, so that they can get the laws they wi
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think the real flaw is thinking that there is single axis of quality: really, there are multiple axes. There's code quality: Plan 9 probably is superior to Linux, Windows or macOS. There's popularity: Plan 9 is inferior to the
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by zeveb 7y ago
MIT-licensed, which means that if they have any decent ideas in there Apple and/or Google can just take them all and slap them into the latest Safari or Chrome. AGPL would really be in the best interest of their codebase.
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Deploy Common Lisp Apps with Confidence(darkchestnut.com)
3 points by zeveb 7y ago|0 comments
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by zeveb 7y ago
You know, I really wish that Plan 9 had done better. To a very large extent it's Unix carried through to completion.
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by zeveb 7y ago
I kinda like it — reminds me of a class taught by an erudite professor who has to constantly reign himself in from following tangents.
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The puzzle itself wasn't very difficult, you could do it by hand if you really wanted to, but it required you to know how to read and parse lines in a file, handle compound data structures, iterate through, and perform basic opera
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by zeveb 7y ago
> For profit healthcare in America is devouring its people and economy, full stop. We can either have a society where half a million people go bankrupt from medical debt each year, thousands die from treatable illnesses or lack of access
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by zeveb 7y ago
> If Google were to direct some of its employees tomorrow to restrict the flow of information relating to a hot-button political issue, right in the middle of an election cycle, would it be crazy for some of the employees to attempt to
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by zeveb 7y ago
I think he was serious, and I agree with him — and I believe that most users don’t want the majority of what JavaScript-laden pages offer over clean HTML-only pages.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Putting a type into a type-specific package like that is considered (IMHO at least) unidiomatic in the first place, so this isn't a situation which can happen in practice.
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by zeveb 7y ago
Hey, kudos to you for admitting this! I mean that seriously. There are very few folks who actually try to learn and understand things: it appears that you're one of them.
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Hasn't globalization directly contributed to making the American working class poorer? My understanding is that our standard of living has continued to increase throughout my lifetime, and thus that the American working class is o
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by zeveb 7y ago
> I like having Bluetooth on a device like a keyboard How secure is that, really? I can easily imagine that it is very easy to sniff e.g. passwords from the Bluetooth connexion. But maybe they actually put in the hard work of getting en
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by zeveb 7y ago
> The problem with unregulated US-style definition of "freedom of speech" is that this definition only works with (and it was designed with) the 17th to 20th century media model, with newspapers, radio stations and later-on TV
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by zeveb 7y ago
> It takes roughly 10kw to provide a decent instant hot water shower. Electricity is currently about 12¢/kwh, or 1¢/5kwm. If I'm doing the math right, that means that a 10-kwm shower costs all of tuppence. That's a s
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by zeveb 7y ago
> Since the release of Android 6 apps have the ability to back up data to a Google account. That does have the unfortunate side-effect of giving Google your application data.

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