obezyian

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by obezyian 3mo ago
I've been living for the past few years in another coastal region in Indonesia, which happens to be flooded since a millennium ago, probably more. The flooding the article is talking about is relatively recent so the disaster aspect is
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by obezyian 3mo ago
The gtk3 docs give the following reason for the deprecation: Menus are not meant to be torn around. Yeah, they are meant to be implemented with web technologies and look like shit. BTW, this tear-off style is probably quite old. Long ago,
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by obezyian 3mo ago
> store №20 > MEAT. FISH. That's some Edward Bernays-level trickery right there. /s
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by obezyian 3mo ago
> didn't have access to birth control. Babies weren't really planned, they just happened. An early form of birth control in my home country was naming your baby Enough (Dosta). Not very efficient, obviously. edit: it seems this
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by obezyian 4mo ago
Developing new vaccines is expensive, and if the target population is mostly in poor countries, there's nobody to foot the bill. That's why these diseases are called "neglected". https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by obezyian 4mo ago
> They are not a significant food source for other animals In Indonesia for one they are. Every night, countless geckos come out, both indoors and outdoors, and start hunting for mosquitoes. Even lullabies sing about it [1]. The above so
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by obezyian 4mo ago
There is a crazy guy in our neighborhood, not unlike the one in the story. He would walk around the streets all day, yelling, and swinging fists exactly when someone passes by him. People from the neighborhood know him, and are not afraid.
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by obezyian 6mo ago
Apparently, people with celiac disease do have "anxiety or something": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease#Dietary_challe...
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by obezyian 6mo ago
This is country-specific, though. In my country, despite voicemail being available since the introduction of mobile phones decades ago, I am yet to hear of a single instance of anybody actually leaving a message.
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by obezyian 6mo ago
It is bad ergonomics only on modern keyboards. Back in the day, there were keyboards with "lower case parentheses"[1]. Same case for vi - the : key was in a different place, and no Shift necessary[2]. Nowadays, I use a bespoke lay
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by obezyian 6mo ago
And it's kinda old, so maybe #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 1 #include <old-man-shouting-at-clouds.h>
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by obezyian 6mo ago
> Disabling C-z (suspend) because accidentally suspending Emacs in a terminal is never fun This reminds me of a story from a past job. I have to get it out of my system. There was this bearded sysadmin guy who was very proud of his &qu
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by obezyian 8mo ago
Behind every successful man, ...
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by obezyian 9mo ago
I use the piping feature of less to add some interactivity to git-log. When a commit is "selected" (at the top line of the screen), usually after a series of n/N, I can press a shortcut that invokes an action on this commit.
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by obezyian 9mo ago
I think by "out of the picture" PP meant that the shell is not processing the input, not that it has exited. C-z is not processed by the shell but by the terminal "infrastructure". You can disable it, or change the key b
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by obezyian 10mo ago
> designed by people who are deep in Linux life. > it actually feels UNIXy. It feels like home. They use single dashes for long options. This is not home. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ocaml
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by obezyian 1y ago
> but TFA never claimed it was supposed to be "easy". TFA> Another reason to use it is this turned out to be a surprisingly easy task.
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by obezyian 1y ago
Articles like this one are more likely to drive people away from make(1) than teach them to appreciate it. This Makefile is anything but simple. It uses advanced features that are meant for complicated situations, just to create a few symli
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by obezyian 1y ago
A couple of Java programmers from my first job were stopped by police while drinking in a park. When asked what they do for a living, they said they were programmers. Then the police officer went: – Oh, I see. HTML.
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by obezyian 1y ago
I went through this shit an year ago. The reports had to be weekly, though. Everything sounded very mandatory, but a couple of months later nobody was asking about reports anymore.
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by obezyian 1y ago
Near the bottom is this gem: > kthxbye is the pinnacle of English's advancement, shortening All correct, Thank you, God be with you. into seven lowercase letters.