dwe3000

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by dwe3000 9y ago
True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using fossil fuels, when he could have just as easi
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by dwe3000 9y ago
The very last line of the article explains it all; this is to promote his soon to be release movie. As always, it's about the money.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
While I agree with the sense I get in general that modern, digital catalogs are better for search than the older, analog catalogs, I feel it has gotten worse for myself, and possibly others like me exist, that were not looking for something
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by dwe3000 9y ago
What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list item.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Interesting that you see a difference. Who do you think the democratically elected are? "Wealthy ..."
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by dwe3000 9y ago
As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hide and Seek".
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by dwe3000 9y ago
My problem with apropos (and man, for that matter) is related to how at least one major distribution handles the man pages. Rather than bundling the man pages with the applications, the man pages for many applications are bundled together i
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by dwe3000 9y ago
> Dr. DeConto and Dr. Pollard do not claim that this is a certainty Boil 'em in oil, the stinkin' deniers. Oh, wait, that's the scientists that this did this study about a time a century in the future. More sensationalist
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Thanks for the link!
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by dwe3000 9y ago
This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Good advice for anyone asked to look at some statistics.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
From the family stories I have heard, my great-grandmother raised rhubarb, so my grandmother had it because my grandfather was used to it. I was encouraged to take a stalk whenever I wanted growing up, which, at times, was twice daily. As f
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Thank you. Very informative for the newbie that I am. I've used Linux for some time but never delved this deeply under the covers.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
It's funny to me how comments on an article on digital librarians has strayed so far down a rabbit hole.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Interesting collection of ideas/graphics, but the first graphic has a person doing 9 hours of stuff between getting off of work at 5:00 p.m. and going to sleep at 11:00 p.m., just 6 hours later. If I could do that, I wouldn't have
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I don't remember how I came across it, but I remember reading it early in high school - 9th grade, I think - and loving it. While the philosophy was a great read, the ideas of understanding and caring for your equipment influenced my t
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Agreed. I would want "No lock-in" for IM to be a requirement. I wonder whether or not pure volume - e.g., Facebook Messenger - would be enough, however, to drive people in that direction even without the interoperability with othe
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I think part of the problem with getting rid of email is that it has proven itself flexible enough to handle a variety of communication needs, so to replace it, several tasks/apps need to work in combination. For example, an archived t
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Which is to say, yes, you are not seeing things.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I don't know if this follows the spirit of the question, but if I consider a 'wonder' as something that had a major affect on the coding world, wouldn't some virus/Trojans be applicable? Like the first, whichever th
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I remember my great-grandfathers: Gilbert, Clyde, Coit, and Sam. They mean something to me because I would not be me if they weren't them. Something would be different if their lives were different. There are connections. Life continue
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by dwe3000 9y ago
"How are you retrieving the web page?" would be my first question. I usually do `lynx -dump [ http://optional.com/]some.html` to get plain text. I know this works for links also.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
This reminds me of the thought that [real, long-term] writers write, not because of the attention or positive feedback but because of the internal drive. Attention and positive feedback are nice, but they're not the most powerful motiv
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by dwe3000 9y ago
The two code examples don't do exactly the same thing. Consider lvl=1000. That being said, I do appreciate the author's sentiment of insuring the code is easily readable by humans.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Is a quarter mile foot or horse race not a race just because it only turns left? I think not. NASCAR cars are tuned to their environment for maximum performance/speed, like difference in tire pressure for outside and inside tires. I ha
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Cool idea. Not to start a flame war, but wish there was a non-Emacs (vi?) version. Or notes on how it was started, so I could look into doing my own.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I kind of find it a fitting irony. An article which I want to read because the title - while probably click bait - irks me enough to raise my interest because someone else - a corporation that uses me as its product, no less - is going to d
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by dwe3000 9y ago
Includes more ideas than just the Bash unofficial strict mode.
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by dwe3000 9y ago
I think this type of instance maybe why the C64 has the reputation of encouraging hackers that it does. This is the perfect example to me of hacking to make something better.
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by dwe3000 10y ago
Reminds me of a quote/thought (I don't recall the original source): The worst waste of time is to improve (automate) something that doesn't need to be done. I've been there myself. I was asked to deliver to email a repor

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