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msingle

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About msingle

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/msingle; my proof: https://keybase.io/msingle/sigs/N6uZQHfUaKnlW9C2wDOy7P320zgXL461NGtrRbgmDpM ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31595262

    What are you talking about? I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional... . But this looks like political maneuvering between parties more than the queen …

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    Comment #30037292

    What do you think is illegal? This posting refers to several positions (none of which say that men can't apply), but the posting itself is targeting women. If there was a posting a…

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    Comment #29372170

    So? I'd be more concerned if the companies engaged in questionable behavior regarding licenses - MIT is pretty easy to deal with.

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    Comment #28427782

    if you're feeling adventurous, bitkeeper ( https://bitkeeper.org ) handles binaries well. It's no longer supported by a company, but it's open source.

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    Comment #28059518

    NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy (each of which won a Hugo award) is phenomenal; it has more of a fantasy flavor, but plot/character-wise is amazing.

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    Comment #27874219

    right now - my understanding is once the self-hosted compiler is done, LLVM will be optional.

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    Comment #27538549

    This is kind of neat, but I am intensely irritated at software on github whose license is: pay us money before you use this ( https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf/blob/master/LICENSE.m…

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    Comment #26979963

    Judging solely by Betteridge's law of Headlines, the answer should be "no", but maybe that's just referencing the "official" part. But yes. It's a failure. Throw some more money at…

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    Comment #26955028

    I'm unsure if this is more your perceptions, the places that you've worked or a combination. Why do you phrase it as "public accountability ritual"? I'm sensing my definition for a…

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    Comment #25792869

    I guess firefox 85 (or at least mine) doesn't like the .club tld? This keeps popping up as an attachment. works in chrome though.

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    Comment #24060328

    I think the first page of the commit history ( https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?after=f235275097... ) is a little better

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    Comment #20477424

    it was, but it got converted to a normal purchase. The funnier part is that they (Diageo, the owners of Guiness) discussed moving out of the original brewery and the people got so …

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    Comment #20417209

    I'm really suspicious of any paper when 5 of the 6 citations are by the same authors.

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    Comment #19645785

    http://rebble.io/ seems relevant for you and other like-minded persons.

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    Comment #18883492

    Did anybody else read this backwards? That SML was doing something to support VSCode? But more importantly, Hooray for SML, and people making the tooling easier!

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    Comment #17549226

    How does this compare to https://plus.codes/ ? I know that people (maybe just one) on the google maps team came up with plus codes for similar use cases.

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    Comment #17326804

    one could write an assembler - http://doc.cat-v.org/henry_spencer/amazing_awk_assembler/

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    Comment #16605058

    I'd be okay with them all following his lead

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    Comment #16542466

    the odds of truly randomly generated UUID's conflicting are .... really really low (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#... ). If you had a collision, t…

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    Comment #16517962

    Makes Stanislaw Lem seem even more predictive than usual ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel) )

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    Comment #16254645

    Worth pointing out here is harvey ( http://harvey-os.org ). Which is a descendent of Plan 9 but with updates for toolchains & architecture.

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    Comment #16049281

    The more relevant deadline is for Winnie the Pooh (first published in 1924). Pooh is worth several billion dollars per year to Disney, so don't be surprised if they try to change t…

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    Comment #16029006

    I think you meant NCAA (not NAACP)

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    Comment #15364237

    Mentioned at the end of the video is the [Magit kickstarter]( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1681258897/its-magit-th... ) which is ending soon! Magit is a great piece of prod…

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    Comment #15103466

    I think it is worth noting that Sameer Ajmani is the manager for the Go team. While some people like to throw around strawman arguments about the Go team not liking / not seeing th…