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I've done this even with CDs. 50% figure for vinyl sounds plausible to me, considering cost of turntable and hassle of actually using it (unless you enjoy the ritual and experience…

Single file + CUE sheet solves lead-in thingie problem, by storing both timestamps (time when player should start showing 'Track 2', and time which servers as zero for track-relati…

At least globbing should return fully qualified paths (not sure there is an established term for `( /)+ ' paths, as opposed to ` ` ones).

>Some things you need to hide from the end user. De-emphasize - maybe, hide - no. Garbage pile that is average Linux home directory is pretty much result of 'out of sight - out of …

Intelligence (in a metric, "this is intelligent way to do X", sense) implies some purpose. But life is just one big 'systems that survive and grow - grow and survive' tautology.

Only if you are designing another TempleOS. Thing for it's own sake, unaffected by any external requirements and completely specified, designed and implemented by one person.

GIF compression is lossless, codecs used in WebM and MP4 are not.

>These days HashCash is older than Bitcoin, and Bitcoin sybil-attack protection is basically HashCash.

It can be also tied to bespoke equipment, hard-to-transfer expertise and experience. If consumption grows relatively slow, it makes sense to expand single installation, rather than…

Promise is not disputed. There are no signed papers - there is no promise. Whenever it was discussed at all is 1% a purely academic dispute and 99% demagogy.

You can exploit it do distinguish whenever script is `curl | bash`'ed. Add `sleep 1`, and detect pause on server. Then, if pause detected - serve attack payload. If not - somebody …

Most other languages would require `eval` and having incorrect code as syntactically correct string literal. But because Perl is parsed as it is executed, incorrect code raises syn…

Somewhat related: Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770531

News at 11: greater fool pyramid scheme collapses.

Putting Unicode everywhere is great. Turning Unicode into clipart collection is not.

Yes, it is.

It's less than 'final nail', but rather sign that government has no better topics, than crude mix of chauvinism an and emotional manipulation. Cf. Russian progression from 'ignore …

Lack of private banking is pretty minor aspect. Comparing to, say, having de-facto scrip instead of proper currency.

>You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values. So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values? Or I need to gather some minim…

Not really, if you consider that X is not 'ensure quizzes work', but rather 'how do we cover our asses'.

Or just nobody did care. Contractor's main expense are kickbacks and actual product is made by cheapest subcontractor.

>a bit of nightmare to sanitize The fact that mail has to be sanitized at all is already a nightmare, and a perfect example of where inappropriate reuse of existing standard can le…

>there’s no natural way for it form on Earth. 'Naturally forming' elements on Earth are limited to uranium fission products. Lithium (also aluminium, magnesium, sodium) distributio…

Doesn't even need to be 'wealthy', just be above payday-to-payday survival and have savings.

Because it confuses and pushes users toward wrong mental model of surrounding world.