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Interesting remarks, thanks! When discussing remote vs non-remote with a colleague some time ago over lunch, he mentioned that "remote is an extreme version of yourself", so those …

arXiv replaces any URL in the text of the abstract with a link with text "this http url"; it seems the authors did not know this and just embedded a bare URL in their abstract.

One thing that Git and the other DVCS's massively improved over Subversion is that commits are local, and you only need to talk to a remote endpoint when you push/pull. In Subversi…

`s6-sudo` [1] is an alternative that does exactly this: connects to a running privileged daemon and asks it to execute a command. [1]: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-sudo.html

I'm curious: why the `printf '%s\n' "$(pwd -P)"` ? wouldn't just `pwd -P` achieve the same?

It really depends on what your current and wanted roles are... When it happened to me, I would have had to interview again because there were no other roles in my career ladder lef…

IIRC, Linux' ext2/3/4 support an 'a' attribute that make a file append-only.

I guess they redirect you to a different IP than they publish in the public DNS?

I agree, but how is this different from polls, fidelity programs at department stores, statistics on various topics, etc - all of which have existed for decades?

So Ur- comes from Urdeutsch? :-)

Impressive! But one stated goal of the software is to be compatible with STOS and AMOS, so one has to use an 80s BASIC for programming AOZ.

Maybe we should establish a sort of expert-led central archive of rock-solid, battle-tested C libs/functions/snippets that one can trust ? GNUlib [1], albeit marketed as a "portabi…

(There should be a 2nd part to your post, where you send a very good report to the colleagues, and note their reaction.)

Julia [1] has macros (not necessarily based on s-exprs though you can use s-exprs if you want) and a REPL [2] with some decent tooling (e.g., [3] [4]) [1]: http://julialang.org/ [2…