lousyd's comments

Maybe something like Jupyter? Text documents with sections of code or commands?

But... scp is deprecated, isn't it?

From the headline, I totally thought they were gonna be talking about keyboard key combos. Ctrl-S and so on.

It doesn't sound at all like the kind of thing ALEC would do.

I haven't checked it out yet, but... Wouldn't one not want html text in the feed, if one chose to use a blogging platform whose focus was text and simplicity? I prefer to read feeds with plain text myself.

Low bandwidth could be a feature. You'd know that your winking product can't be sending a whole lot of information about you that way. Or at least it would take a while to do so.

Titles are overrated anyway. Not useless, just overrated.

The argument here seems to be that LSD can be dangerous, meditation is kind of like LSD, and therefore meditation can be dangerous.

It does seem like a possibility, but you'd think if someone were going to write about it they'd try to present evidence of some sort to support the point.

And draw.io, I recently learned. "You can have the source, but we're not interested in your opinions about it, tyvm."

Perhaps there are people who don't want the civilisation and platform we operate in to be paid for.

I think of web3 in a different way than I see it commonly talked about. I think the idea behind the changes in the Internet that people identified as "Web 2.0" was that the Internet was opening up to more people with the creation of sites that allowed user participation. It was a recognition that although the early public Internet allowed anyone to participate, in reality the cost, effort, and know-how involved in setting up a website was a hurdle most people couldn't overcome. So with Web 2.0 the internet was opening up to more people. We now know that this led to a perverse centralization of power. Yes, more people could now participate, but mostly on a few corporate-controlled platforms.

Web 3.0 is supposed to be a continuation of the trend of making the Internet "of the people". Web 1.0 was open to anyone. Web 2.0 was more open. Web 3.0 will be even more open. (In theory.) Web 3.0 isn't about Reddit or the other sites this person mentions. It's about all the new technologies people are coming up with to enable participation on the Internet free from the control of a few centralized corporate platforms. Blockchain is a big part of that, and cryptocurrencies. But so is tildeverse and Mastodon and Gemini and all that stuff.

Also, it's not the case that ARPANET was designed to stay up "if the Soviets took down important cities or strategic datacenters". Bob Taylor, the man who literally made the decision to authorize and fund the ARPANET, has said so himself. "The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war."

Cripes this is a long read. Is there an animated version?

Perhaps you're thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29

Ugh. Why braces ( { } )? That's the biggest tiny pain of using awk. It's an odd stretch for my fingers to type them and I have to look down to be sure I hit them right.

Who could possibly not be a vested interest? It's hard to think of more than a few cases where I've personally wanted to learn about something and didn't, at some level, hope for one answer or outcome over another. "Ban vested interests" is an impractical policy. stevenhuang's suggestion to be aware of them is much more practical and has the benefit that "vested interests" who truly do wish to fund an objective study aren't stopped from doing so.

Only a web programmer could believe that man pages "just aren't used that often". It drives me nuts when compiled cli programs don't have a man page. It says to me that the author of the program doesn't know Unix conventions or doesn't care enough to put the effort into meeting his or her users where they are, and so I'm gonna have to be careful about how I use the program lest it do something unexpected. Use man pages.

The awscli is just terrible in this respect. There's no man page for 'aws' so I say "aws --help". It then literally tells me "To see help text, you can run: aws help". OpenShift's 'oc' sucks at this only a little less, with no man pages and for some inexplicable reason you can only get a list of global options in a dedicated global options help subcommand instead of at the bottom of every help page. The documentation system for 'git' on the other hand is a work of art. Pure beauty.

I'd second that recommendation. I live just down the road in Wilmington, NC. I would love to move to the Triangle area. There's so much of everything there. But I like my job here in Wilmington and instead of 4 hours to the ocean I'm, like, 15 minutes.

It looks to be more of an "island" than an island. I mean, the piece of water barely separating it from the rest of Georgia is called a "creek", for pete's sake.

The article says that "tiling the plane" is:

"If you can cover a flat surface using only identical copies of the same shape leaving neither gaps nor overlaps"

So the trick, if I'm understanding this, it's that the shape must have sides that can push up against other of its sides, leaving no gaps. Obviously a circle isn't gonna do it.

Does the plane have to be a plane in the mathematical sense, i.e. infinite? Because then you're obviously not going to cover it with anything. It goes on forever.

If just a section, does the plane have to be a square or other rectangle?

I can't see an email or button being any different than the telephone. I would prefer being able to cancel online. But I don't see forcing companies to offer that as being all consumer protectiony.