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A blast from the past! Back last century I had tried multiple "pile of floppies" installs of early Linux, but they always failed. SLS was the first linux install that worked, possi…

The "ASCII" page in the Jargon File gives a few names for "-". It even says that the official ANSI/CCITT names are "hyphen" and "minus". https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.ht…

Getting the lucky break is only half of it. Recognizing a change as a lucky break and being able to take advantage of it is also important.

I don't see how my comment about using python 3 rather than the obsolete python 2 has anything to do with Lisp.

Python 3 is not ... what?

Another vote for getting into the Arduino world, which includes the ESP32. To learn the basics there's still no better route than getting an Arduino Uno (or clone) starter kit and …

A note from the article says: I suggest Python 2.7 for this code No, just no. Use a later version of python 3. The article is 24 years old.

Don't know about .gov websites, but the ArsTechnica link is a horror in Brave and FireFox mobile browsers.

My comment was about the lack of any sort of link showing what you claim.

Surely a simple search on "vpn server cayman" finds some (or a lot) of possibilities. You'll have to dig a little to see if you want to try any of those hits.

Interesting. A "zero code" implementation?

> They care that the product works. And that's the problem.

No, they were built to deliver some of your money to the app author. That's all.

I understand what the page is actually talking about. If I thought it was about extraterrestials I would be less worried.

If whitehouse.gov hasn't been hacked, if this is a serious statement, then it's past time to get very worried about the current US government. We have seen madness like this before…

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Nope.

Might want to proof-read a bit more: Free Shipping | Afterpay Availbale

Simple answer. Microsoft bought github so I moved elsewhere. I find my life to be less "interesting" if I minimize my exposure to Microsoft.

Vi, or whatever actually gets executed when I type "vi" at the shell prompt. Used for python, C or whatever other language I'm using at the time.

Physics has nothing to say about social systems. Leave the last sentence out, it weakens your argument.

I missed the result. What was the cause of autism?

Thirty years ago I spent a year working in central Illinois. I liked the people there but the company I was working for was quite badly managed and treated the employees poorly, in…

While everybody is talking about it, any action is unlikely because that would require too many spines to be grown in the executive branch.