vmarshall23

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by vmarshall23 5y ago
What page in Dante's Inferno is that alluded to?
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by vmarshall23 5y ago
Heh. I actually replied below before I saw this, but the sendmail.cf file immediately popped into my head when I read the post’s subject line.
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by vmarshall23 5y ago
sendmail.cf
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by vmarshall23 7y ago
Not really on topic, but Steve Jackson has made great games for years: http://www.sjgames.com/
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by vmarshall23 7y ago
Same. Read every other Adams book at least a dozen times. That one sits on the shelf untouched.
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by vmarshall23 7y ago
I have a copy of that game sitting in my basement. Loved it, the book, and the whole package. I must go dig it out.
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by vmarshall23 7y ago
It's also the awesome slogan of the Dark Brotherhood in Skyrim, so in that regard, kind of awesome.
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by vmarshall23 7y ago
Textbook example of: GOOD_IDEA < GOOD_EXECUTION
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Good!
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Loudest voices to the dumbest people
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
You'd probably like this as well: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112066.Moments_of_Doubt_...
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Amen. I've shown the exact same application on a dingy thinkpad and a shiny new retina iPad, and had diametrically opposite reactions.
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Isn't that precisely the job? I had to automate my job when working full time in grad school, otherwise I never would have passed a class. Since I entered the work force, most jobs have been some version of "automate some task f
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
For fuck's sake. Don't people like work at work anymore?
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
aka the Golden Rule. aka "don't be a dick"
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Seems a little dodgy to redirect output from an apparent scammers website to an apparent root shell.
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Also, WTF, the last thing I'm worried about in SF is not having enough restaurants.
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Amen. San Francisco is ground zero for well-intentioned, but ultimately awful public policy. Often these policies further make whatever problem they're trying to solve worse, because it gives the illusion that they've actually don
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
Part of the problem, if not a large-ish part of the problem, is that apparently drugs and alcohol are usually restricted from homeless shelters. And addiction is a large component of homelessness, but if you're still addicted you'
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying home recycling is completely pointless. I think it does a lot to raise awareness that "all this has to go someplace, so at least think about it". But that's PR, not a solution. I'd pref
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
So someone still has to sort it. Raise taxes. Hire sorters. Save time and money by having software engineers spend more time learning software engineering, not whether a corn-based plastic spoon should go in compost or recycling.
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by vmarshall23 8y ago
This has long driven me crazy. I have a version of this argument with my wife every few weeks. I live in a city that has three bins: compost, landfill, and recycling, and overall the city (SF) does a really good job apparently of sorting tr
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
Well, for nerd books, "Modern Operating Systems" by Andrew Andrew Tanenbaum. It was until years later that I realized just how much I had learned from that book, and the consolidated notes from the Usenet flame war between him and
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
Was anyone else completely blocked from reading that article because all the ads wedged the browser?
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
Well at least we can all agree that "Coming Home to a Shipping Container" is still preferable to "Coming Home in a Shipping Container" </snark>
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
turn evil? Patents aside, isn't there a fair amount of FB behavior that already falls in that bucket?
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
"Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons" is good as well.
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
Wow. Other than Metallica, I don't own an album by any of these people, and other than Metallica and Michael Jackson, I don't think I'd be able to name a single song by the few others that I do recognize the name. Oh, and I
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by vmarshall23 9y ago
Open Source Voting Machines - with a take-away symmetric key paper receipts for auditing.

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