explainplease

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by explainplease 8y ago
Some would argue that Lego and Technic are too complicated, and we should all play with Duplo. Thankfully, Michelangelo and Leonardo were not in large teams. Which do you aspire to be: a cog or an artist?
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by explainplease 8y ago
You don't have to do it like that. You could do: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z) (* y z))) Or: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z) (* y z))) Or: (= (* x (+ y z)) (+ (* x z)
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by explainplease 8y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point: forgiveness is withheld, even after repentance. Admitting guilt is double-punished, and doubling-down is comparatively rewarded.
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by explainplease 8y ago
No, you are arbitrarily deciding that "shaming judges the person," and that shaming means, "You are a bad person." That's what you think it means. You do not get to decide what "shaming" means to every
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by explainplease 8y ago
Your distinctions between shame and censure are arbitrary and meaningless. e.g.: Censure: "You shouldn't have done that." Shaming: "You shouldn't have done that. Shame on you." The point is the same. If an a
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by explainplease 8y ago
Why? My time is valuable. If they want such detailed feedback (i.e. free business advice) from me, they can compensate me for it. I would get nothing in return for spending my time explaining why I'm not going to give them any more
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by explainplease 8y ago
Cyber war would be such a situation, after first strike. Or before first strike, and attack from sources outside the country. In which case, seeing Russia go dark would be like an indication of cyber "missle" launch, but with pro
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by explainplease 8y ago
> A few times, even in the last election, the popular vote did not match the election outcome. That is not in dispute here. Why are you repeating that? > I think that's totally fair, the federal government should be mainly conce
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by explainplease 8y ago
> Instead a mere 30% of the US can vote on who is president and the rest doesn't get a say. [The electoral system for voting the president is so weighed that if you were to win the right states, getting about ~30% votes would be suf
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by explainplease 8y ago
Raw democracy can also lead to undesirable results. It's not true that whatever 51% of the population wants is right or good. Do you disagree? > They can both lead to anti-democratic results. In fact the Presidential election proc
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by explainplease 8y ago
What if there are no other factors? User A, new account, posts a single comment: "Illegal immigrants should be deported." User B, new account, posts a single comment in reply: "You're a racist." What does Tildes do?
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by explainplease 8y ago
Well, for example, the U.S. federal government was designed to cope with that problem: the Senate represents the states equally, regardless of population, and the President is elected by the electoral college, limiting the ability of large
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by explainplease 8y ago
Thanks for being open to the idea (unlike the downvoters). HN is so tiresome.
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by explainplease 8y ago
Isn't the whole point of semver that it's not complex or nuanced? A version is either backward-compatible or it's not. The fool's errand would be expecting semver to encode all information about a version. That'
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by explainplease 8y ago
It's quite annoying to have to enable JS for 3 different domains just to see something other than a blank page. It also prevents non-JS browsers and retrievers from seeing content. If you were to use e.g. org-mode for the source docum
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by explainplease 8y ago
Regardless of how one feels about Facebook, has anyone stopped to ask why Facebook and Zuckerberg are getting such an avalanche of negative coverage from the mainstream media? Why have they suddenly united against him?
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by explainplease 8y ago
The emacs-gif-screencast package does this very well. Each keystroke (technically, each command) is recorded as a frame, with timestamps used to set the appropriate duration of each frame. e.g. if you stare at the screen for 30 seconds, n
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by explainplease 8y ago
Have you run any numbers to back up your beliefs?
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by explainplease 8y ago
It may not be much help, but I've found minidlna to be a reliable, simple, lightweight media server on my LAN. I expect it could run well on a low-power device. Any DLNA/UPNP device can stream from it.
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by explainplease 8y ago
All this talk of being understanding and non-judgmental, but here you are, passing judgment on his words without caring to understand his intention. More concerned about how you think he ought to have said it than what he actually meant.
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by explainplease 8y ago
I think you misunderstood my comment. I'm aware of the apt security model and the nature of this bug. My point is that these Ubuntu repo servers are not available over HTTPS, which seems like a problem. In the context of this bug, a
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by explainplease 8y ago
$ sudo sed -i 's/http:/https:/g' /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo apt-get update ... Err https://us.archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Sources F
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by explainplease 8y ago
> he was not "harassed out of the project," he was removed by formal action. Ah, yes, the standard bureaucratic cover for abuse: retroactively justify it with formal committee action, by asking people to submit examples of badt
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by explainplease 8y ago
I wish I understood why you like Source Code Pro so much. For example, in Emacs, I just switched to Source Code Pro (on "normal" or "medium" weight). With the frame maximized vertically, I could see 60 lines of text, a
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by explainplease 8y ago
Emacs is much like that, as everything the user can do is an interactive command, which is typically a named function. So tools like Helm, Ivy/Counsel, as well as the built-in completion for M-x, let the user find and execute commands
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by explainplease 8y ago
The horse's mouth: https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2018/12/msg00032.htm... Downvoters: If you're honest, then do your homework instead of downvoting. If you're dishonest, and you'
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by explainplease 8y ago
The Debian LaTeX maintainer was essentially harassed out of the project by the Anti-Harassment Team.
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by explainplease 8y ago
I disagree that ESR's HTAQTSW is condescending. The fact that people, over years of time, have written and updated that guide for the benefit of others is the opposite of condescending. IMO calling it condescending is tantamount to v
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by explainplease 8y ago
I guess it's not what you want to hear, but that probably is a hardware problem. It may work on other OSes, but if it's not behaving correctly, then it's probably not a well-behaved USB device. And there may be software w
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by explainplease 8y ago
You actually think you are contributing to the demise of the entire human race. You are so lost in apocalyptic despair that you are not thinking rationally. So much technology, the pace of development accelerating exponentially, so much ha

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