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For anything more complex than linear shell scripting, I prefer ruby --disable-gems these days. As you say, Python is horrible for composing and executing shell commands, but Ruby'…

> You'll frequently see white and blue I've never seen white; in order of prevalence, I've seen black, blue, red, and yellow. But such colour coding is not standardized, every manu…

That's still an astonishing design failure: different ports have different connectors for a reason. Can you imagine a what would have happened if the car charging infrastructure wo…

Rather, this is institutional crime. Organised crime is when crime operates its own control structures in defiance of government enforcement; this is the government actively allowi…

A corporate death penalty does not necessarily imply all jobs are lost. The government can simply nationalize all assets, use standard vulture capital methods to restructure the bu…

> never understood why that didn't work on the past AIUI, Android simply didn't support it. The original way for apps to install other apps was via ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE, which is…

The images don't load without javascript, which sadly is customary for the modern web experience.

Ok, I'll bite. Which parts of the kernel should not be there, given that Linux is not a microkernel? I maintain that most of the code is there for hardware support, for security, o…

I'd say like Bach and Rossini. Rossini was perfectly aware of the form of traditional opera, but deliberately chose to engage with it in a much less reverent style.

It's working as designed, not working as intended.

> IF there was a secure and trustable way that a trusted government could retain DNA information How long does that government need to stay trusted and secure? For the lifetime of …

The babies, obviously.

I expect Nvidia to survive the crash on its own, and everyone else except Softbank to be bailed out with US taxpayer money.

Blending is just one of the functions of a food processor. A food processor can usually also do kneading, mincing, and slicing, or (depending on extensions) even rolling (pasta) do…

> unlike most other software, its UI doesn't change unless I tell it to change My entire reason for switching from vim to neovim was that vim did change its UI, by neutering /etc/v…

A short-lived credential would reduce the risk that the key is still valid when an agent gains access How does that work? If the agent is reading the credential from the live confi…

> Camus doesn't say HOW to imagine Sisyphus happy Huh? Do you mean that in a literal sense, that Camus doesn't give instructions on how imagination works? To me, the quote certainl…

> a new national league in the US, say called the National Football League How thoroughly un-American. A proper US national league would have "world" in its name.

With a bit more structure, you could change that to: every package in AUR is actually registered as foo/maintainer under the hood, and installing the package without maintainer nam…

Off in the distance, an app store rings its 30% bell.

...and Infantino was the UEFA secretary under Platini before taking Blatter's place as head of FIFA.

I'm not convinced. There's plenty of large clubs in Europe owned by foreign capital and those clubs have already tried to push a pan-European league for themselves. I can see the F…

A comment from an earlier thread alleged that Spanish policy says that forests that are destroyed due to fire don't have to be rebuilt, the land can be re-purposed. That's what's d…