I've wondered this too. I can only assume it's because they send infected patients home, and they spread it to their families. That and hospitals & nursing homes, where infected staff may be spreading it between the…
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic perhaps?
One less launcher I have to have installed on my PC at least.
Pitman covers this in his article: communication back then between Europe and the US was much more difficult. Sending UUCP emails meant at least a 48hr round trip and so the US committee basically couldn't be bothered…
> Java is essentially never used for serious embedded work. I don't know whether it counts as "serious" to you, but literally billions of SIM cards and credit cards are running JavaCard:…
> the control chars still appeared in the file (at least on some Unix version) That's a good point. My whole reply is a bit GNU-centric: the "col -bx" solution should work with everything except groff in ANSI mode…
> you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that It isn't because the terminal is mis-configured and/or mis-interpreting those characters, it's because these characters have historically been used in a special…
> none of them save Russia & Turkey are larger than Texas I don't know where you got this bizarre notion. The populations of Russia (~144m), Germany (~83m), Turkey (~80m), France (~67m), The United Kingdom (~65m), Italy…
The other useful term I've heard for these people is BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
> First we had console editors, [...] Then we had full IDEs [...] Now the trend is toward "enhanced text editors" (VSC/Atom/ST): editors that can have modular plugin functionality and interact with the console so you…
By some trick of fate, I juust caught the launch here in Aus at 6pm (4am EDT)... Even though it was due to have happened hours ago I clicked the link to see how it had gone... At exactly 17:59:40! Thanks for sharing the…
Indeed. Ctrl-w in Emacs is actually "kill-region".
Apple don't trust the AUD not to drop further than it already has in the last 3 months.
> What is the longevity of Minecraft? There's an unofficial modding API and thousands of mods [1], some of which are extremely sophisticated. For instance, "Red Power" [2] includes an in-game 6502-based computer for…
My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading…
Going back as long as I can remember (slashdot in the late 90s), all the completely unscientific web polls I've seen [1][2][3] favour vi(m) by at least 2 to 1. (FWIW, I am an emacs user). [1] From HN about a year ago -…
Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And it'll create a symlink called "file" in the current directory.…
There's a startup option (-w for word processor mode [1]) that changes this behaviour (as well as enabling word wrap). It's a big improvement, but not quite perfect IIRC. [1]…
As I understand it, the kernel is pretty much a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD, and I don't think you can really say that it's more of one than the other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU There's definitely more BSD in…
Longer ago than that... More than 30 years ago there were themed sets with somewhat custom pieces: http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6630/ http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6880/ (To pick 2 completely…
I also grew up in Scotland. At one point I worked with a Swede and was interested to find that many Scots words are closer to their equivalents in Scandinavian languages than they are to those in English. For example,…
So OS X is really just a skinned FreeBSD?
In my case I assumed until I started primary school that all boys had blue eyes and all girls had brown eyes, because this observation just happened to hold for everyone in my immediate family as well as all of the…
It's actually worse than that: US government spending on healthcare per-capita actually exceeds per-capita government spending on healthcare in countries like Canada or the United Kingdom that have universal healthcare…
It's interesting that "set autoindent" is so common. I replaced this with "filetype indent on" some years ago, since I'd rather have language-sensitive indentation.
I've wondered this too. I can only assume it's because they send infected patients home, and they spread it to their families. That and hospitals & nursing homes, where infected staff may be spreading it between the…
The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_flu_pandemic perhaps?
One less launcher I have to have installed on my PC at least.
Pitman covers this in his article: communication back then between Europe and the US was much more difficult. Sending UUCP emails meant at least a 48hr round trip and so the US committee basically couldn't be bothered…
> Java is essentially never used for serious embedded work. I don't know whether it counts as "serious" to you, but literally billions of SIM cards and credit cards are running JavaCard:…
> the control chars still appeared in the file (at least on some Unix version) That's a good point. My whole reply is a bit GNU-centric: the "col -bx" solution should work with everything except groff in ANSI mode…
> you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that It isn't because the terminal is mis-configured and/or mis-interpreting those characters, it's because these characters have historically been used in a special…
> none of them save Russia & Turkey are larger than Texas I don't know where you got this bizarre notion. The populations of Russia (~144m), Germany (~83m), Turkey (~80m), France (~67m), The United Kingdom (~65m), Italy…
The other useful term I've heard for these people is BANANAs - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
> First we had console editors, [...] Then we had full IDEs [...] Now the trend is toward "enhanced text editors" (VSC/Atom/ST): editors that can have modular plugin functionality and interact with the console so you…
By some trick of fate, I juust caught the launch here in Aus at 6pm (4am EDT)... Even though it was due to have happened hours ago I clicked the link to see how it had gone... At exactly 17:59:40! Thanks for sharing the…
Indeed. Ctrl-w in Emacs is actually "kill-region".
Apple don't trust the AUD not to drop further than it already has in the last 3 months.
> What is the longevity of Minecraft? There's an unofficial modding API and thousands of mods [1], some of which are extremely sophisticated. For instance, "Red Power" [2] includes an in-game 6502-based computer for…
My solution to this is just to go into the Task Manager and kill the Flash plugin about 30 seconds after every restart (This saves a load of memory too). When I actually want to watch one of the videos, just reloading…
Going back as long as I can remember (slashdot in the late 90s), all the completely unscientific web polls I've seen [1][2][3] favour vi(m) by at least 2 to 1. (FWIW, I am an emacs user). [1] From HN about a year ago -…
Another trick nobody else has mentioned is to remember that the 2nd argument is actually optional, so you can do things like: ln -s /path/to/some/file And it'll create a symlink called "file" in the current directory.…
There's a startup option (-w for word processor mode [1]) that changes this behaviour (as well as enabling word wrap). It's a big improvement, but not quite perfect IIRC. [1]…
As I understand it, the kernel is pretty much a hybrid of Mach and FreeBSD, and I don't think you can really say that it's more of one than the other: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU There's definitely more BSD in…
Longer ago than that... More than 30 years ago there were themed sets with somewhat custom pieces: http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6630/ http://letsbuilditagain.com/instructions/6880/ (To pick 2 completely…
I also grew up in Scotland. At one point I worked with a Swede and was interested to find that many Scots words are closer to their equivalents in Scandinavian languages than they are to those in English. For example,…
So OS X is really just a skinned FreeBSD?
In my case I assumed until I started primary school that all boys had blue eyes and all girls had brown eyes, because this observation just happened to hold for everyone in my immediate family as well as all of the…
It's actually worse than that: US government spending on healthcare per-capita actually exceeds per-capita government spending on healthcare in countries like Canada or the United Kingdom that have universal healthcare…
It's interesting that "set autoindent" is so common. I replaced this with "filetype indent on" some years ago, since I'd rather have language-sensitive indentation.