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Would you mind backing that up with a link?

One of the problems I face when somebody comes along and tells me that they're now on Telegram, Cryptocat, Wire, or whathaveyou is that I might recall an issue but there doesn't se…

Please start with this log entry > 2016-09-29T23:57:32Z Xach: I dropped com.informatimago because I do not want to have to discuss anything with pjb again. I have never enjoyed dis…

His projects were removed from quicklisp in September (see e.g. http://blog.quicklisp.org/2016/09/september-2016-quicklisp-d... ) over this matter.

There are two sides to this and I think they're important to distinguish: If the person in question was wrongfully accused, this could do undeserved damage to him. This would be a …

A person can be smart in one domain and stupid in another, so much is clear (think Grothendieck in maths and politics) But a person cannot be both respectable and disrespectable at…

Please scroll further. I understand that some of it is French but you should notice rather quickly nonetheless that this did not just happen on a single occasion. Essentially every…

PJB has become a bit (too little for my taste) of a persona non grata in the common lisp world (which has a large overlap with the emacs world) ever since it was suggested and so f…

Comparing this with surgery is not fair, I think. Here (with a food like soylent) the gains are low and the risks are high. With surgery, the risks are high but so are the gains. B…

You're not alone: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-travel-...

With Safari entirely unable to handle this page, I really feel like I'm missing out on the modern web with it for the first time.

Another false negative: Pinterest.

The use-case? Well, you have a process that will run for a long time. You don't want to keep a terminal open. You /could/ just detach it. Now what if you want to kill it? Open anot…

This is already addressed in the article, e.g. here: There might, however, be a dark side to the story. There is a good reason we were designed to have finite sensitive periods. Ta…

I didn't mean to imply that you did; sorry if that came out wrong.

I take the attribution in the first link (references to "Führerbunker" and "Führer") to mean that the author is comparing Lennart Poettering to Hitler. That's not funny, it's just …

You probably mean `git fetch` or `git pull`. There is no `git update` in the default feature set.

Google Allo: Why people such as Edward Snowden are advising against using the app http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...

"Sign up to view more plans" Except that after I sign up, I still can't view the plans until I set up my billing details. Meh.

Quick rundown of alternatives and up/downsides (e.g. everybody has Debian so that's not noteworthy) of which I've personally used the first four: - DigitalOcean has FreeBSD has Fed…

Their customers should rightly be outaged.

Since they make it so clear that they're '[..] not interested in building “crazy libertarian utopias for techies.”', I wonder: Who is? And where can I sign up for that?

Even though this is not what this article is about, quite a few comments suggest better ways to compute the midpoint of two doubles, where "better" is supposed to mean "such that u…

I'm sufficiently interested to ask for further details :)

It's not that surprising, it is? I would expect Italian wages to be considerably lower.