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by recoil 6y ago
I've wondered this too. I can only assume it's because they send infected patients home, and they spread it to their families. That and hospitals & nursing homes, where infected staff may be spreading it between the patients
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by recoil 7y ago
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic perhaps?
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by recoil 7y ago
One less launcher I have to have installed on my PC at least.
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by recoil 7y ago
Pitman covers this in his article: communication back then between Europe and the US was much more difficult. Sending UUCP emails meant at least a 48hr round trip and so the US committee basically couldn't be bothered cooperating with
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by recoil 7y ago
> Java is essentially never used for serious embedded work. I don't know whether it counts as "serious" to you, but literally billions of SIM cards and credit cards are running JavaCard: https://software.ac.uk&#
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by recoil 8y ago
> the control chars still appeared in the file (at least on some Unix version) That's a good point. My whole reply is a bit GNU-centric: the "col -bx" solution should work with everything except groff in ANSI mode (looks
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by recoil 8y ago
> you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that It isn't because the terminal is mis-configured and/or mis-interpreting those characters, it's because these characters have historically been used in a special
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by recoil 9y ago
Assuming you're talking about the incident in 2005... My wife and I to got stuck at Waterloo station for hours waiting for a train to Paris while the authorities sorted things out... :-) We were interviewed by a reporter from one of t
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by recoil 9y ago
> none of them save Russia & Turkey are larger than Texas I don't know where you got this bizarre notion. The populations of Russia (~144m), Germany (~83m), Turkey (~80m), France (~67m), The United Kingdom (~65m), Italy (~61m),
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by recoil 10y ago
The other useful term I've heard for these people is BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
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by recoil 10y ago
> First we had console editors, [...] Then we had full IDEs [...] Now the trend is toward "enhanced text editors" (VSC/Atom/ST): editors that can have modular plugin functionality and interact with the console so you
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by recoil 12y ago
By some trick of fate, I juust caught the launch here in Aus at 6pm (4am EDT)... Even though it was due to have happened hours ago I clicked the link to see how it had gone... At exactly 17:59:40! Thanks for sharing the link :-)
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by recoil 12y ago
Indeed. Ctrl-w in Emacs is actually "kill-region".
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by recoil 13y ago
Apple don't trust the AUD not to drop further than it already has in the last 3 months.
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by recoil 13y ago
> What is the longevity of Minecraft? There's an unofficial modding API and thousands of mods [1], some of which are extremely sophisticated. For instance, "Red Power" [2] includes an in-game 6502-based computer for which the author wr
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by recoil 13y ago
My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading the page is enough to
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by recoil 14y ago
Going back as long as I can remember (slashdot in the late 90s), all the completely unscientific web polls I've seen [1][2][3] favour vi(m) by at least 2 to 1. (FWIW, I am an emacs user). [1] From HN about a year ago - http://news.ycombin
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by recoil 14y ago
Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And it'll create a symlink called "file" in the current directory. That wouldn'
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by recoil 14y ago
There's a startup option (-w for word processor mode [1]) that changes this behaviour (as well as enabling word wrap). It's a big improvement, but not quite perfect IIRC. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/#Invoking
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by recoil 14y ago
As I understand it, the kernel is pretty much a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD, and I don't think you can really say that it's more of one than the other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU There's definitely more BSD in there than just the use
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by recoil 14y ago
Longer ago than that... More than 30 years ago there were themed sets with somewhat custom pieces: http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6630/ http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6880/ (To pick 2 completely random examples) Bac
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by recoil 14y ago
I also grew up in Scotland. At one point I worked with a Swede and was interested to find that many Scots words are closer to their equivalents in Scandinavian languages than they are to those in English. For example, "greet" for "cry" is
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by recoil 14y ago
So OS X is really just a skinned FreeBSD?
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by recoil 14y ago
In my case I assumed until I started primary school that all boys had blue eyes and all girls had brown eyes, because this observation just happened to hold for everyone in my immediate family as well as all of the neighbours' children that
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by recoil 14y ago
It's actually worse than that: US government spending on healthcare per-capita actually exceeds per-capita government spending on healthcare in countries like Canada or the United Kingdom that have universal healthcare [1], let alone tota
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by recoil 14y ago
It's interesting that "set autoindent" is so common. I replaced this with "filetype indent on" some years ago, since I'd rather have language-sensitive indentation.
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by recoil 14y ago
This works really well with the suggested --color=always, because it highlights the line number, the filename and the separators in different colours.
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by recoil 14y ago
Only three years ago we were hearing how twitter was doomed because teens don't tweet! [1][2] On the other hand, while I'm not a teen (by a long shot), I do find facebook more restrictive in terms of the things I feel I can say. Somehow
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by recoil 14y ago
> The major problem facing the world economy is excessive sovereign debt, and you cant blame the banks for that. In a country like Greece this may be true, but in Spain - for instance - the country's sovereign debt before the financial
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by recoil 14y ago
If I search for something where I might expect a regionally-customised result, like "newspaper", I get "The Sun", "The New York Times" and "The Guardian" from encrypted.google.com, but I get the SMH, "The Australian", etc. etc. from a regul

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