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I just want a world where you go into a cell store, and they don't tell you they've got a great idea, just make your PIN your birthdate. If they actually took part that seriously, …

Are you sure? Today is July 31, 2018 in the United States, which adopted the Gregorian calender per the act of British parliament entitled "An Act for Regulating the Commencement o…

On BSD (including Mac OS X), you can also type ^t at dd, and it will print status information. If that doesn't work, do stty status ^t first. This is SIGINFO; it's been in BSD for …

Of course that's not true. All you must do is find a counterparty willing to take Facebook stock as payment for Amazon stock. (I am not aware of any exchange listing such a contrac…

Well the IPO price is the price at which the company sold new stock to the public. Then the price moves however the market causes the price to move. They're not going to sell new s…

There is none. On the first day of trading there would be an opening auction as is done with every other stock listed on the NYSE. Prior to open, everyone interested in trading sub…

cat could tell but it probably wouldn't be a good design. Calling isatty is easy, and I think GNU cat already does so and buffers differently. But how can it tell what raw binary d…

The shell needs to print a prompt and read input. This is I/O, which involves the kernel. The shell is (when running interactively) attached to some terminal. These days it's usual…

I always set network.IDN_show_punycode to true in Firefox to force it to show me ASCII. Perhaps I'd feel differently if I spoke another language, but as it is, the risk of lookalik…

> Okay, you got burned by Pulseaudio. But why was it your job to debug these issues? Because it's his computer? Who else's job might it be? He only has a few options: fix it himsel…

I've been setting browser.showQuitWarning to true for years to stop ^Q from killing the browser and with it my state.

Lawyers are rather fond of such doublets and triplets. Consider free and clear, null and void, terms and conditions, and even law and order. The origin of a lot of legalisms is the…

> And for OSX naming... I thought Apple is an international company. Tiger, Leopard etc was easy to read and understand as a word for us foreigners and now what? El capitan? I must…

I haven't needed to configure X on OpenBSD at least five years now. The X server does that automatically, just like on Linux. For the record, I haven't needed to on FreeBSD either,…

Just so you and others know, the L in ALSA stands for Linux. It doesn't run on DragonFlyBSD. I think DragonFlyBSD uses a re-implementation of the OSS API that they inherited from F…

The OpenBSD developers are unwilling to do anything that makes some architectures better than others, and M:Tier is unwilling to build stable updates for everything. Perhaps this w…

I like that. It helps me to see where one comment ends and another begins. I can't stand these modern sites which have no borders at all, making it very hard to visually distinguis…

It gets even less useful as time goes on. Eventually it'll say one year ago. A timestamp would give the exact time rather than a huge range.

> When you join ssh-chat, not only do I know who you claim to be, but I can also permanently and securely attach an identity to your connection without any user intervention on you…

It's not being updated at all. You are looking at the version in ports. This can be updated to a GPLv3 version (as 4.9.3 is a GPLv3 version) just fine. I don't know why it isn't; p…

I've had the same results as you, though without the glasses. I really don't understand why people prefer such blurry fonts. The biggest practical problem I've had with turning ant…

Obviously they were never exclusively marketed towards technical users, but Apple was definitely targeting the UNIX workstation and multimedia workstation markets in the early 2000…

> regularly used as Facebook or Twitter or Reddit or Soundcloud And there's the problem. I don't use any of those four sites regularly, but I have visited all of them. Hyperlinks p…