I might be getting old and grumpy, or it may be the effect of a sixpack or two, or it might be my NoScript allowing Slashdot only, but I came here to whine about "News for nerds, stuff that matters" asking myself why the filesystem-check does this matter for nerds.
To make a good whiney comment, with citations and all, I looked for the slogan on the front page, but... colour [I learned English from a Brit, sue me, Arbeit macht mich frei] me surprised!
At first I didn't see the connection with using a terrorist attack to push political agendas to whichever side. At second, I didn't see the connection of that attack with news for freaking "nerds". At last, I didn't see the mention of nerds anymore.
Should I walk to the east and board an Elven ship to Valinor, for my time has passed?
"Yes, in an environment that can sustain life, heading to a place that might have something you want."
Early navigators didn't know that. Ridden by superstitions, doubts, inaccuracies. I've recently visited a -- they say -- size-accurate replica of Pedro Alvares Cabral's caravel. Official history say that he was the first to arrive in Brazil in 1500 A.D., a few years after Columbus's trip in 1492. It's about 100 ft in length (30 meters), and held about 150 men. Columbus's ship were about the same size. In that time, there was no GPS, no radio, no refrigerator, not even an engine. Maps were populated with "here be dragons", "end of the world" and such - today we know it - nonsense.
Today we know exactly what waits for us in Mars: cold; radiation; lack of atmosphere pressure; lack of breathable air; scant natural resources. We know exactly how to go there, and exactly how long it takes. So, is taking humans to Mars really as daunting a task as taking humans from Europe/Africa to the lands on the East?
This, a thousand times over. Thanks for reminding us of such a basic trait of human nature. Why go to Mars? Why colonize such a wasteland? As wanderers, nomads, explorers, seekers of the unknown, if not for simple instinct or survival like migratory birds/locusts/mammals, then for plain bragging rights, for "glory", to inscribe our names in History, to extend our necks and fulfill our human nature, that so much separates us from the animals! Not because it is easy, said your president a few dacades ago, but because it is hard! Because we FUCKING CAN!
Please remember devuan (http://www.devuan.org), a Debian fork which aims to do away with systemd and all that bullcrap. It's picking up steam, and I believe things like these make it more and more worth it to help the new fork.
Seemingly silly question, but actually a nice one. I'm right-handed, and I guess it depends on which hand is closer, so no preference in particular. Looks like left hand is preferred, though.
Even for non-GUI work, Qt is a blessing if you want to do cross-platform programming. The library does a lot, ranging from database access to network programming, all in a very well documented and well thought out API.
I'd love to have a real-life device like that for my car and my bike.
However, not long ago a man was arrested here in Brazil because the trap he made to catch a thief who repeatedly invaded his house killed the vermin. The police didn't act to stop the thefts, only when the victim decided to stand up for himself the law came forward. Against him.
Setup a local cgi script on your Linux machine. Telnet into its port 80. Assuming your cgi script is at/cgi-bin/test.sh, type the following in the telnet prompt:
GET/cgi-bin/um.pl HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Custom: () {:; }; while read -r l; do echo $l; done
Press ENTER twice after the last header.
If you don't use a shell builtin, the shell ends with a segfault and Apache shows an error, but the command is executed server-side. Scary.
My watch has a clock app and a slide-rule app, long battery life (3+ years), water proof to 200m (657 ft), and a user interface proven to work well over the centuries. Only thing that doesn't match your requirements is price is around 200 dollars. It's kinda hard to install new apps too.
Slashdot Mirror
Found it.
<title>Slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters</title>.
My second sixpack got in the way of my original whiney witty comment, however.
I might be getting old and grumpy, or it may be the effect of a sixpack or two, or it might be my NoScript allowing Slashdot only, but I came here to whine about "News for nerds, stuff that matters" asking myself why the filesystem-check does this matter for nerds.
To make a good whiney comment, with citations and all, I looked for the slogan on the front page, but... colour [I learned English from a Brit, sue me, Arbeit macht mich frei] me surprised!
At first I didn't see the connection with using a terrorist attack to push political agendas to whichever side. At second, I didn't see the connection of that attack with news for freaking "nerds". At last, I didn't see the mention of nerds anymore.
Should I walk to the east and board an Elven ship to Valinor, for my time has passed?
This too :) C language helps good developers to keep their jobs.
Show him this story to indicate your attention to him and use C instead of this new-fangled and still-evolving language anyway.
You'll get better debugging tools, more productivity (since you know C better) and a wider pool of replacement developers should the need arise.
"Yes, in an environment that can sustain life, heading to a place that might have something you want."
Early navigators didn't know that. Ridden by superstitions, doubts, inaccuracies. I've recently visited a -- they say -- size-accurate replica of Pedro Alvares Cabral's caravel. Official history say that he was the first to arrive in Brazil in 1500 A.D., a few years after Columbus's trip in 1492. It's about 100 ft in length (30 meters), and held about 150 men. Columbus's ship were about the same size. In that time, there was no GPS, no radio, no refrigerator, not even an engine. Maps were populated with "here be dragons", "end of the world" and such - today we know it - nonsense.
Today we know exactly what waits for us in Mars: cold; radiation; lack of atmosphere pressure; lack of breathable air; scant natural resources. We know exactly how to go there, and exactly how long it takes. So, is taking humans to Mars really as daunting a task as taking humans from Europe/Africa to the lands on the East?
This, a thousand times over. Thanks for reminding us of such a basic trait of human nature. Why go to Mars? Why colonize such a wasteland? As wanderers, nomads, explorers, seekers of the unknown, if not for simple instinct or survival like migratory birds/locusts/mammals, then for plain bragging rights, for "glory", to inscribe our names in History, to extend our necks and fulfill our human nature, that so much separates us from the animals! Not because it is easy, said your president a few dacades ago, but because it is hard! Because we FUCKING CAN!
No one is asking YOU to go; if you don't like it, fine, don't go, but don't take away the freedom of those who want.
Leftists...
Please remember devuan (http://www.devuan.org), a Debian fork which aims to do away with systemd and all that bullcrap. It's picking up steam, and I believe things like these make it more and more worth it to help the new fork.
Seemingly silly question, but actually a nice one. I'm right-handed, and I guess it depends on which hand is closer, so no preference in particular. Looks like left hand is preferred, though.
Are you this dumb on purpose?
Kids these days... Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping, and they call it lightweight! Bah, humbugh!
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lameness off.
Your what? That looks like a serial number of games of yore...
Even for non-GUI work, Qt is a blessing if you want to do cross-platform programming. The library does a lot, ranging from database access to network programming, all in a very well documented and well thought out API.
Good luck.
You must be single.
APL would be strictly a zero-letter programming language, right? A language which shall not be named? Just "a programming language".
And how often does a NASCAR car turn right?
Great idea! And in time it could be seamlessly integrated with the init system, providing an accross-the-board synergetic user experience!
Not even with hot grits?
I'd love to have a real-life device like that for my car and my bike.
However, not long ago a man was arrested here in Brazil because the trap he made to catch a thief who repeatedly invaded his house killed the vermin. The police didn't act to stop the thefts, only when the victim decided to stand up for himself the law came forward. Against him.
Funnily enough, Debian unstable doesn't carry a fix yet. Bash 4.3-9, as of 2014-09-24 20:42:47 UTC
Of course, replace um.pl with test.sh; whatever, you get the gist.
Setup a local cgi script on your Linux machine. Telnet into its port 80. Assuming your cgi script is at /cgi-bin/test.sh, type the following in the telnet prompt:
GET
Host: localhost
Custom: () {
Press ENTER twice after the last header.
If you don't use a shell builtin, the shell ends with a segfault and Apache shows an error, but the command is executed server-side. Scary.
My watch has a clock app and a slide-rule app, long battery life (3+ years), water proof to 200m (657 ft), and a user interface proven to work well over the centuries. Only thing that doesn't match your requirements is price is around 200 dollars. It's kinda hard to install new apps too.
I'm getting old, but can't help smiling when I read things such as "I like to have my wii hooked up to it (...)".