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by bazfoo 6y ago
As with all things, this is a context where the important information was on-platform and the emails were opt-in subscriptions. YMMV. > It seems like a low cost to maintain people who subscribed but never loaded a tracker image. On the c
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by bazfoo 8y ago
> You know, I wonder if there's something here that a next-generation language can't get in on, some sort of help to provide to the developer who says "OK, I'd like to upgrade this package for people, could you please
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by bazfoo 9y ago
On the flipside, I see a lot of tools pushed that are more complicated, less flexible, and far buggier than the old tools. And then inevitably in a few years they're deprecated in favour of something newer and shinier and the old tool
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by bazfoo 9y ago
I concur with the sentiment. The risk is still there for dependencies, but it helps that the community for the most part follows "a little copying is better than a little dependency" as an adage.
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by bazfoo 9y ago
I'm in Australia and looking at a box of plain Ibuprofen. It also recommends limiting to a few days at a time unless told otherwise by a doctor.
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by bazfoo 10y ago
While the joke is relatively amusing, it would be better to seem more useful solutions contributed to the ecosystem like depscheck [1] for Go. [1]: https://github.com/divan/depscheck
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by bazfoo 11y ago
I found myself doing the same thing for Ansible. The problem I ran into was where I wanted to test service restarting in a systemd based environment. Older releases using sysvinit work perfectly fine.
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by bazfoo 11y ago
I'm having trouble finding data that is using the same methodologies. The CIA World Fact-book specifically seems to be lacking data for Australia. It would be good to see some solid data, because one thing that surprised me while trave
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by bazfoo 12y ago
And you can have something fun like the following in your bashrc to allow attaching to your running emacs daemon any time you need in the terminal: function semacs() { emacsclient -t -a "" "/sudo::$(realpath
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by bazfoo 12y ago
It seems to me that the explicit separation (and vagueness) of 'compter' and 'computer system' seems intended to have the latter cover networks. But perhaps you're right.
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by bazfoo 12y ago
Are there any good pointers to where the amendments have actually expanded surveillance capabilities? I've been going through the amendments and comparing them to the original bill, but so far I'm finding a lot of rewording. For i
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by bazfoo 13y ago
Had this happen recently. The error logs and console output ended up not being particularly informative, so I downloaded and installed the Steam client again. Sorted out whatever kink was hanging the client at start, and the game library
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by bazfoo 13y ago
I've developed this habit as a consequence of using history to understand the context of a piece of code. Big commits make life harder for future maintainers.