ChoHag

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by ChoHag 1y ago
> But if you take my cookies, add sprinkles then resell them, I can expect a modest donation to keep the bakery running. You cannot expect any such thing. You gave them away for free. If you want to get paid, don't give your work aw
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by ChoHag 2y ago
If the dependencies wanted to get paid they should not have given their work away for free. If you give your work away for free you cannot expect to get paid for it. For people who deal with intractible logic all day it's amusing how m
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by ChoHag 2y ago
> First, because the social media is not reading, or newspapers, it's a different thing altogether Are you suggesting that historical books and newspapers were not pandering to populist whims? Of course they did. Is the difference
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by ChoHag 2y ago
You don't see the homeless people who keep themselves and their belongings out of your sight.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
Now that is what a dry academic paper about cats is supposed to look like. Cat pictures on every page.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
We have conkers in London.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
FFI is the shell's only job.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
That's so much better than bourne/bash, which requires this monstrous wart of a code blob: autossh() { # Tiny delay after failure in case of connection errors while ! ssh "$@"; do echo Restarting ssh &
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by ChoHag 2y ago
Is supporting wordpress development part of the license offered by wordpress that WP Engine agreed to? No? If you don't want people to use your stuff, don't give it away for free. > there's nothing wrong with publicizing t
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by ChoHag 2y ago
> If you absolutely must parse ls ... stop and rethink your options. You may be able to get away with parsing the first columns of ls -l but even then a pathologically named file could make itself look like a line of ls output. It's
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by ChoHag 2y ago
> What happens when it's no longer fun, but 150,000 people depend on it for their job? Then 150,000 people should open their wallet, or crack open a text editor, and pay. > design the licence, and more, to enable you to walk away
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by ChoHag 2y ago
It's very revealing that this response is so disliked that it's going grey. But it is the truth. Do you not like the truth? It is not a job. Nobody asked you to do it. You do not get to be sad when nobody pats you on the head. You
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by ChoHag 2y ago
Terry Pratchett.
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by ChoHag 2y ago
> what's the current state of the art ? Wayland is going to make 2024 the year of Linux on the Desktop! Any day now...
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by ChoHag 3y ago
So you found out about the vulnerability in the firewalls on your critical infrastructure, waited for a week before telling anyone and then sat on it for two more? Nice dramatisation though. Very intense.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
Back in the days when you could go into the cockpit for a chat, the pilots turned the engines of our 747 off (well, idle) over the middle of the Atlantic to show my brother and I how the autopilot worked.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
> Electrical stimulation of this same area triggers a monkey’s hand to make a grip motion while its mouth opens, and its hand moves to its mouth. Fixed Action Pattern (?) which didn't quite go away.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
After a while this may invert and you find that whatever time you go to sleep (within some degree of normal) you'll wake up precisely n hours later, for whatever value of n your body's settled on. No more need for an alarm clock.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
I can't lie, I like the look of that one that hangs them out the side window. Can we get them for planes?
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by ChoHag 3y ago
IE didn't die until YouTube publicly dropped support for it.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
Correction: It's the success story of western progress at the expense of the rest of the world, which must find its own way because we've ripped up the steps.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
If you read that more carefully you'll see that the letter writer isn't complaining about Beethoven or his music but that his imitators can't do it as well as he does. He's not complaining that the burgeoning romantic mo
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by ChoHag 3y ago
Don't forget 4: Bold assertions that this couldn't possibly happen in our corporate 'topia followed by silence after the non-apology by the company that did it.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
No it's very simple. If Russia didn't invade, Russia wouldn't be killing people and blowing up their stuff. Russia's actions are Russia's responsibility, not America's.
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by ChoHag 3y ago
If HTTP or HTML were binary formats 1000s of embryonic engineers would not have been able to learn them by hacking codes into telnet or notepad and the web would now be even more concentrated in the hands of the few players who are busily e
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by ChoHag 4y ago
And that is why it keeps happening. Ignore the crazy person. Don't listen. Don't try to understand. Don't learn how to stop the outbursts of crazy before they happen. It works so well. Why change? Don't listen to me.
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by ChoHag 4y ago
Because it's not called a cookie, eg. in the UK we have biscuits which are therefore not subject to the GDPR. It's not tracking users, it's just a special user-identifying operation.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
It's something you have which also represents something you are. A password is something you know.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
And this is a surprise because ... ?

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