HankStallone

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by HankStallone 11mo ago
find . -type f -name '*.foo' -not -path '*/.*' -print0 | xargs -0 grep bar
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by HankStallone 1y ago
"Democracy" in these discussions increasingly just means the 21st-century bureaucratic status quo. It no longer has anything to do with antiquated notions like "the will of the people." If the people want something diffe
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by HankStallone 1y ago
They've been saying 11 million for at least a couple decades that I can remember. It's probably a lot higher now, but no one in a position to find out has ever wanted to know.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I don't use docker, so I stuck with an ancient version of TT-RSS for years. But last week I couldn't get it to play nice with my new FreeBSD system and its updated PHP, so I installed from the git repo with surprisingly little tro
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by HankStallone 1y ago
If you bookmark Dave's blog, you have to check his blog every day to see if there's something new, even if Dave only posts monthly. Or you check less often, and sometimes discover a new post long after the discussion in the commen
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It's strange how all these modern communication methods (blogs, forums, RSS readers) so often fail to have features that were available in Usenet newsreaders 30+ years ago. We had threading, searching, killfiling or scoring, marking po
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Also, as programming languages have gotten more powerful, I think they've gotten so they require a particular kind of mind to work with. I could teach anyone with a little interest and aptitude to program in BASIC 2.0, because there ar
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by HankStallone 1y ago
It'd cost me about $10k to replace the stack of Commodore equipment I gave away to a scrap dealer 20-ish years ago, if I bought it all used now. But I'm still tempted to start, maybe with just one or two pieces.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
The monitor built into the C128 was a big step up. Not as good as an assembler since it didn't have labels, but you could do a lot with it.
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right. As I touched on elsewhere in the thread, our local jailers know all the homeless people in town because they show up regularly when their mental illnesses and/or substance abuse get them into trouble. The ordinary guy who wound
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by HankStallone 1y ago
A quarter of a percent still seems like a lot to me, even if it's not a "crisis." But we can't do anything about it until we face up to the problem. Spending more money won't help. I'm somewhat familiar with th
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by HankStallone 1y ago
I've always wondered: do speakers of other languages enjoy spelling bees and puzzles based on spelling and wordplay as much as English speakers do? It seems like spelling bees wouldn't be as interesting in a more phonetic language
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, my Linux desktop PC is five years old and definitely wasn't cutting edge when I built it, and I can't see any reason to upgrade it. I just put a new CPU/MB/RAM in my 9-year-old FreeBSD system, only because it was s
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Same here. I'm a fast typist, so the effort and slowness of pen and paper make me think more about what I'm writing. My longhand notes make me feel more like I've really gotten the thoughts out of my head and examined them an
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by HankStallone 1y ago
One option would be org-mode's capture templates. If you had a capture template for structured journal entries, you could keep your daily file open for notes, and then pop open a capture window when you want to start a journal entry. O
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, "underfunded schools" is a talking point that bears no relation to reality but was great for pulling at people's heartstrings, because "think of the children!" But taxpayers have learned better, because they c
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Especially since those private employers twisted their employees' arms (or fired them) not because they thought the employees were a risk, but because there was an OSHA mandate pending that was going to make them do it. The Supreme Cou
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, there's normal political corruption and graft, and then there are some who go above and beyond, taking unnecessarily destructive actions that don't even appear to benefit them in any visible way. Usually you can say, "S
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Indeed. We've been begging them to throw us in the briar patch of a government shutdown for decades. The first one I remember was about 1990 when Democrats threatened a government shutdown if Bush the Elder didn't break his no-tax
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My high school French teacher said if we really wanted to learn a language, go live there for a couple months. Of course, that's easier said than done (and paid for). But if you can afford the money and time away from home, it's p
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by HankStallone 1y ago
A few years ago the manager of our local Menards got convicted of stealing over a half-million dollars over 5 years. She only got 180 days, too, and was allowed to leave the jail for work. Depending on how high on the hog she lived for thos
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Unfortunately, she doesn't say what kind of fence she's talking about. The kind of fancy privacy fence people put up between yards, maybe; but I'd be impressed if they're cheaper than livestock fence, which is the contex
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right. Adam tells Ben to go die in a fire, and Ben says, "Come on, moderators, that's obviously a violation of the CoC." Then Adam says, "No, because I was only responding to Ben's offensive and unwelcoming langua
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Often the moderator is the project lead (or one of them), who may not be suited to adjudicating personal disputes and probably has better things to do. That can result in siding with the louder faction in the hopes that giving them what the
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right. I've seen a CoC used as a power-grab by people who had barely made any contributions to a project, when the people in charge were too easy-going or naive to shut down dishonest use of it, so they tended to side with the squeaky
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Right. If you had a swimsuit malfunction on the beach in 1995, a few people got an eyeful of your unmentionables before you could grab a towel, someone might whistle or laugh, you'd blush, and then the world would move on and you'
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by HankStallone 1y ago
Yeah, in the C64 days, when I could afford to buy a game at retail, it would often be an EA game, because they had some of the best. I still remember the logo flashing through the 16-color set, and how you could tell whether the game had a
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by HankStallone 1y ago
There's been a major shift just in the last few months. Those of us who have been concerned about this problem for years welcome them to the party, but with a bit of an eye-roll, because it's obvious that the shift wouldn't b
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by HankStallone 1y ago
My government requires me, by law, to send it tens of thousands of dollars every year, much of it to be spent on things I don't want or need, in order to stay out of prison. Requiring me to spend another $100 or so on a phone seems lik
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by HankStallone 1y ago
A lot of dirty stuff like stock yards and slaughterhouses also moved out of the main city toward the outskirts.

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