lamby

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by lamby 1y ago
This is not quite right. At least in Debian, only files that are newer than some standardised date are to that standardised date. This "clamping" preserves any metadata in older files.
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by lamby 1y ago
Strangely enough, sometimes using the epoch can expose bugs in libraries (etc.) when running or building in a timezone west of Greenwich due to the negative time offset taking time "below" zero.
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by lamby 1y ago
Debian's approach is actually to use the date specified in the top entry in the debian/changelog file. That's more transparent and resilient than any mtime.
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by lamby 1y ago
One of the authors of strip nondeterminism is here. The primary reason it's written in Perl is that given that strip-nondeterminism is used when building 99.9% of all Debian packages, using any other language would have essentially mad
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by lamby 2y ago
Now, how about drums; an instrument everybody loves?
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by lamby 4y ago
I think that's OP's point.
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by lamby 4y ago
Very true, but when there's literally 100s of years of women's legitimate medical complaints being dismissed (sometimes with fatal consequences), it is surely not too much of leap to speculate that this is part of the reason.
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by lamby 5y ago
> “Would you like to order the same thing you did last time?” The next iteration of this clearly for them to call you when you are likely to be hungry (and/or drunk) and ask you this. :)
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by lamby 5y ago
"It looks like you are writing a letter^W^W^Wexperiencing a systemic problem. Would you like an individualised solution to that?"
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by lamby 5y ago
> 2. The note D♭ is the same as the note C♯. Well, actually...
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by lamby 5y ago
> "If that were the case, surely Tour de France riders would..." Apologies for appearing to pick you out here, but your comment is representative of a number of eminently "logical" comments made here (as well as many
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by lamby 5y ago
Reminds me of the Daoist parable about the "useless" tree that never gets cut down.
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by lamby 5y ago
> The only non-pain recommendation that comes close is coffee Placebo or not, I'm a total pain without my coffee.
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When Hackers Were Heroes(cacm.acm.org)
87 points by lamby 5y ago|5 comments
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by lamby 5y ago
It would make an interesting essay or monograph to descrbibe the various similes and metaphors that people have variously used to describe the working of the human mind. Descartes, I believe, thought the brain worked via a series of hydraul
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Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains (2020)(arxiv.org)
2 points by lamby 5y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 6y ago
> That's the development. Adjust your outrage accordingly. Maybe folks are outraged that water is being bought and sold to begin with, but this is the first time they are hearing about it?
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by lamby 6y ago
May I ask which country?
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by lamby 6y ago
https://peertube.debian.social/
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by lamby 6y ago
Hubert L. Dreyfus's "On Internet" contains, amongst many things, one of the most succinct overviews about how one goes from novice to expert. I highly recommend reading this short book, especially in this time of online learn
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by lamby 6y ago
> ouple of rows in the likes table of a social media website Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoy this kind of obstinate reductionism and we don't remind ourselves enough that this is what driving lots of our interactions onli
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by lamby 6y ago
I'll remember this whenever someone waxes lyrical about the subversive 'genius' of their New Coke campaign.
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by lamby 6y ago
This assumes that you won't get another MagiCan at the next store. :)
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by lamby 6y ago
You may be thinking of a different chapter, but O'Brien's apartment wasn't in the Ministry, it was in a different "quarter of the town where they lived" where "the whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, t
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by lamby 6y ago
> or solar/wind energy Oh, wow, really? I'm sure it is a topic that is debated, but you would put that approximately on the same level as China/TikTok? (Not disagreeing, I just don't follow HN as closely as I used to.
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by lamby 6y ago
> Suppose we had cocaine snorting games or heroin smoking games Yes. Imagine.
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“Legal tender” – destroy a $100 bill over the internet (2009)(web.archive.org)
1 points by lamby 6y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 6y ago
> Facebook does a great job at removing violent content. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245537
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by lamby 6y ago
I guess "I personally disagree" with genocide. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...
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by lamby 6y ago
This actually represents a major and fundamental philosophical shift in the sense that it takes Musescore from being a tool of representation to a tool of creation. I may be overinterpreting this of course, but I am reading a lot into how t

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