neuromanser

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by neuromanser 2y ago
I too think we're growing hypersensitive, but that's not the only argument for switching to a different picture: the the model has requested the image not be used, long ago IIRC.
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by neuromanser 2y ago
Github can't even recognize syntax, let alone provide semantic diffs! In fact, Github can't even tell that foo.cpp.in is different from foo.mk.in! Any foo.t is declared to be Perl, with no way to fix it…There are a decade-old tick
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by neuromanser 2y ago
> Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax? Do you not ?
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Windows has focus issues too. Eg. when I launch Windows Terminal, whether from the Start menu or the pinned icon in Taskbar, it renders the window focussed at first, but as soon as the shell finishes initialization the window loses focus.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
This one is a little difficult: the book is laden with multilingual dialogue and notes apparatus; it's not for everybody. That said, I first read The Name of the Rose when I was 11 or 12, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Catch-22. I was maybe 11 on my first reading, and read it once a year until I was 19 or so. The book grew darker and darker on each reading, without changing a word. (I've read it a bunch of times since, just not every year. ) The Adve
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I don't know anyone who liked The Little Prince when they were kids, regardless of their appreciation of the book as adults. I disliked it as a kid for the same reasons I've loved it (and Exupéry's other aviator stories) as a
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by neuromanser 3y ago
The article is specifically about "finfluencers", which I can't help but read as "active participants in shitcoin pump-and-dump schemes", and find the self-reported numbers of "saved money" and "made
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> # yes | head -c 512 > foo How about `truncate -s 512 foo`?
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I, too, thought that chimps learning from each other was nothing new (Jared Diamond, etc). Besides that: I haven't read either study, just the article, so who knows what were the actual claims, but… The article opens with: > chimpan
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Children were most probably routinely exposed not just to nudity but also sex.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
How did you "commit locally" with Subversion twenty years ago? And if "local commits" were a thing, what was Svk for?
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Scrolling in the webpage crashed my browser (Firefox, ios).
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I understand these two formulations to be equivalent. Would you spell out the difference? For me? Thx!
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by neuromanser 3y ago
What do you mean? It's specifically for $(cat …) / $(< …): the latter is a faster equivalent of the former. Other than that, see my comment about $READNULLCMD.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> for multi-line strings, I almost always use |, and only |. It takes the indented block as-is Except it doesn't. Try using steps: - run: | > f echo not redirected in Github Actions.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
It's built-in in Zsh: The substitution ‘$(cat foo)’ may be replaced by the faster ‘$(<foo)’. https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Expansion.html#Comman...
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by neuromanser 3y ago
cat is a verb though
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Press alt and dot (full stop) to insert last word from the previous command line: $ cat file $ grep stuff alt-. Alternatively, make use off the READNULLCMD mechanism in Zsh: $ < file translates to $ ${READNULL
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Intel was receiving continuous beatings from AMD (Ryzen/Epyc) a few years before Apple came up with M1. 2016/2017 vs 2020. I don't think Apple and Intel are in much competition: Intel doesn't make laptops and lacked Appl
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the fourth-generation iPhone SE will feature a 6.1-inch OLED display. Well, there goes the humanely usable phone size, my reason to buy an iPhone.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> The functions defined in libxo are used to generate a choice of TEXT, XML, JSON, or HTML output. A common set of functions are used, with command line switches passed to the library to control the details of the output. https:&
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by neuromanser 3y ago
You mean it's not just a hypothesis. I would really, really expect users of this site to know the difference.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
And yet, biology has grown with the complexity of the cell as we know it, as opposed to the bronze/iron-age myths of near-east goat herders.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
What's the trademark situation? Can if keep using "nginx" in the name?
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I like the article, and I agree with the conclusion; I don't like that the title is click-bait.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Rest assured that a company that'll have domestic candidates jump through ill-advised hoops subjects the off-shore ones to the same bullshit.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
Incorrect. Perl (5.x) has seen 10 stable releases in as many years, IOW since 2014.
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by neuromanser 3y ago
> what you’re seeing is a good content, but worth considering when you get shown policy-charged content - when and why is this in my feed. That's always a worthy, necessary even, consideration. > you should try to answer the seco
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by neuromanser 3y ago
I have no experience with macOS, or trouble believing that it's even worse than Windows. That said: I can't use WSL or PowerToys at work for (enforced) dumb policy reasons - this is possible because they're optional bolt-ons

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