afiler

When you say it's "obvious why this happens" are you referring to racism or something else?

So you'd rather be dead than poor?

If you find yourself taking this thought seriously and you're in the US, you can call 1-800-273-8255. Please take care.

Again, with "quality" versus "quantity" it sounds like you're saying that there could be a lower quantity of people (some people die) in order to increase the quality of life for others.

"Is life worth living if you're destitute and living in poverty or emotional turmoil?"

It sounds like you're saying you think maybe poor people should just die.

"The activity was sanctioned because of the oversight" seems to work for me with both meanings of 'oversight'

That was a separate news story from a couple weeks ago. "Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago" "The stemmed projectile points closely resemble those found in Upper Paleolithic Japan, also supporting the hypothesis of a coastal route."

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6456/891

The US also broke up Ma Bell in 1956, forcing the spinoff of Bell Canada and Caribbean operations, and before that in 1925, breaking off other international operations into ITT.

I think that's called interacting with people over the normal course of business, and isn't something that's thought of as requiring specific targeted effort.

Even during the cold war, Americans did business with Russia. No large computers or munitions, but Americans still ate Russian caviar. There was this call to boycott it at the same time as the Moscow olympics, but I don't think anyone called it "treason". https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/01/31/...

[2015]

Even on El Capitan, I was able to unlock with "root" on my first try. From there, I could add a new admin user. This seems... not good.

In the late 90s, my high school used a system called NovaNET, which was based on PLATO. It was used for individual learning, special education, etc. I learned a bit of Russian with it, other kids did remedial math and English, and some just played games. It used a Windows client to connect to the NovaNET "mainframe"(?), had some color graphics, and supported Cyrillic. It only shut down in 2015: http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2015/08/august-31-2015-the-...

EBCDIC seems elegant in its own way: http://www.quadibloc.com/comp/cardint.htm (scroll down) -- apparently it's descended from IBM punch card formats. The discontinuity in the alphabet seems inconvenient for sorting, but it looks like it shares some properties (like bit-flip to make lower case) with ASCII.

«“It’s an epic act of generosity and altruism,” says Don Bacigalupi, the museum effort’s president. “George Lucas, as with any person of great resources and great success, could choose to do whatever he wants to do with his resources, and he has chosen to give an extraordinary gift to the people of a city and the world.”»

There's an attitude here that's a bit... off-putting.

I have a tool to make this text, though I'll admit I never even thought about decomposing inputs like ü and then recomposing them after Fraktur-izing.

http://mar.cx/unicate/ or https://github.com/afiler/unicate

103 years ago, the UK government nationalized the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Telephone_Company. Within two years of that, the US justice department managed to extract from AT&T the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment. In this, AT&T, unlike NTC, was allowed to keep ownership of its respective telephone network in exchange for interconnecting fairly with its competitors.

There were fights at the municipal level too, but by that point, only a few medium-sized places like Hull in the UK, and Rochester, New York had phone companies that weren't owned by NTC or AT&T.

All of this seems strikingly familiar today, except that there seem to be a lot fewer politicians willing to propose any of the real profound changes like the ones that came a century ago.

It seems ever-so-slightly ironic that support for exotic architectures is considered a plus in this case, while support for exotic architectures is being ripped out of the OpenSSL/LibreSSL codebase. (Though probably not deeply ironic, since CVS is comparatively simple.)

This video with Rowan Atkinson contains all sorts of bad truck-related naming ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5tUc1S3cc

Selective enforcement can be a big problem in lots of areas, especially anywhere where race or class come into play.

The flipside is that if people gradually move into parking overnight in industrial areas, and nobody there cares, then homeowners are happy and people saying in their vehicles still have a (perhaps less convenient) place to go. Yet trying to get a rule passed explicitly allowing that in areas zoned industrial would be a lot harder than a rule that sort of evolves on its own.

This is by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis , who's done some amazing documentary work in the past, asking a lot of "big questions" like this.

One of D's improvements upon C/C++ is its ability to enforce "deep const-ness".

"Would you prefer to not have the choice to have access to this feature, and prevent others from having it too?"

Yes, I would prefer that. LinkedIn has not shown itself to be a particularly good or careful actor in the past, and now, even if I don't opt in to this, my email to people using this feature runs through LinkedIn servers. There are always third parties between me and the person I'm emailing, but as the number increases, the likelihood of compromise or failure of delivery increases.

OK, this turned out to be not that hard, just completely unfamiliar for me (having last used Tomcat in 2002).

apt-get install tomcat7 tomcat7-admin; sudo $EDITOR /etc/tomcat7/tomcat-users.xml # add user with role manager-gui

Then I just went to http://localhost:8080/manager/ and uploaded the .war file. Et voilà.

I'll eventually try it out, but I have absolutely no idea how to go from this .war file to a running web server. (I see some .war files actually have a web server built in so you can just to java -jar, but not this one.)

Is it open-source?

The __builtin_types_compatible_p technique used here would be a great complement to http://libcello.org/ seen on HN a few days ago.

Since this page is already full of weird unicode stuff, I may as well show off this fun tool that I wrote.

𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝐼 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑎 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒 6.0 𝑓𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑.

𝔼𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕕𝕠𝕦𝕓𝕝𝕖-𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕔𝕜 𝕒𝕝𝕡𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕖𝕥, 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕚𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕜 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕟 𝕆𝕊 𝕏.

http://mar.cx/unicate/

When Doug Engelbart presented the Mother of All Demos back in 1968, he introduced both the mouse and the chorded keyboard, yet the chorded keyboard never caught on. And in 1968, the mouse was a new competitor to the light pen, which had been introduced in 1952. And just in case you don't think the light pen got a fair shake, remember that the IBM PC came with light pen support on both the CGA and EGA cards, and with support in the BIOS and in BASIC. There was no support for the mouse.

Lund's (a snooty high-end grocery chain in Minneapolis) set up their new store in Old St Anthony (a fairly high-density area) this way too.

I've used your documentation before, and it's amazingly useful. It's let me solve keyboard mapping issues in the least hacky way possible, especially when combined with KeyRemap4MacBook.