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> It would be interesting to know how they will judge the results of this experiment when it concludes. Personally, I don't plan to discuss politics any more or less than when this…

I used to be somewhat interested by stats on passwords, etc. from breach data dumps. haveibeenpwned is a helpful and legit site, though I think it should have used email confirmati…

You have inventory. Now is the time to start selling them. See it as an opportunity.

What I've learned about parenting: * Your kids may grow up to act like you, so act in a way that you want your children to emulate. * Talk to them in a way and have expecations of …

It would also good to address arbitrary size floating point numbers in Rust. Huon Wilson worked on an implementation a year ago: https://github.com/huonw/float Related- there was a…

> Businesses complaining about greedy Americans being overly litigious may want to look in a mirror. Sure, but it goes both ways. On one hand, companies are overly litigious for re…

> "This 4/6 MAC issue was well documented in BCP128 back in 2007. The control-word drafts mentioned that there would be dragons related to 4 and 6 back in 2004." This reminds me a …

It's ok to try tackling a big problem, as long as you know when pause for a while and come back to it later. What if Ramanujan had been told by Hardy to stay home and stop working …

Explosions and threats of explosions bring many kids (middle/high school/freshmen) into it. If you have money, this is nice for the younger ones: https://melscience.com/ Or one of …

Looks like it's in a few Slackware repos but I'm having trouble finding it in deb/yum/Arch pkg: https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs JASSPA version (the package is jasspa, but searching …

It's also available in deb/rpm/pkg: https://pkgs.org/download/mg Note: pkgs.org list is not all-inclusive; there are more Linux distros in which it's included.

Kilo's supported commands are[1]: CTRL-S: Save CTRL-Q: Quit CTRL-F: Find string in file (ESC to exit search, arrows to navigate) It's available in a lot of well-used distros: https…

I've loved and used Emacs for ~20 years, but if Emacs were to become slow, then if I were to have a replacement editor that could do the following (w/no X or window manager) withou…

> Emacs dumper has always been a dumpster fire. This made me laugh. Thanks!

> By 2022, India aims to power 60 million homes by harnessing 100 gigawatts of solar energy. That could power 82 Doc Brown DeLorean time machines[1]. In comparison, the 2013 estima…

> Definitely read the comments. I agree. I'm very senior now, bordering on ancient (or at least in the last part of the age tail), and especially over the past 8-10 years (perhaps …

Although I think it's strange what they exclude. For example, they didn't include Calculator in Windows Server 2016 LTSB: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-server-2016-ltsb-what…

Since the post had mentioned what Linus uses... For the OS, Linus had been using Fedora Workstation at least until a year ago, last I heard. Linus doesn't like how Gnome deals with…

For the screen, I'd suggest checking it out in the store first and making sure it feels right. The 13" on a macbook (air/pro) feels larger imo because of bezel and the different as…

> Would't be better if they tried to "fix the planet" instead? It would be, but based on what I hear, it's too late. Also, you can't easily keep Earth from being hit by a giant met…

The main two reasons we wouldn't settle anything beyond Earth would be: 1. Lack of interest. 2. Lack of time. #1 is the biggest problem as far as we know right now. #2 is a problem…

Can anyone say what the easiest development platform is to use to write a 2D game that uses code instead of a GUI, has tutorials that don't expect that you know the language/API/en…

Maybe they are reburying the Atari 2600 E.T. cartridges using a deeper hole this time in an undisclosed location. Perhaps they were never meant to be uncovered.