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If you search for the exact phrase you'd see it is fairly commonplace in literature.

Precisely. The phrase is pretty popular in prose, particularly when prefixed with 'perfect'.

Considering that the defence lawyers are representing a real estate company this isn't entirely surprising. The firm would be looking up such records every day.

...and what if it is in the low single digits? 1% of 10000 is still a 100 (potentially paying) users. Should we abandon accessibility efforts as well because of the low single digits users?

What kind of thought lead to such questions even being asked in this community or presumably intelligent people ?

I just finished reading the first couple of volumes of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe and have learned a lot about dinosaurs from that.

I get what you're saying but it would more likely be half-Dino, half-chicken :-)

As an aside though, wasn't there a place to reintroduce wooly mammoths? Wonder what happened to that.

It is a customised yocto Linux iirc.

Also, AuthorizedKeysFile may also be set to none to skip checking for user keys in files altogether!

Or choose to disable keys based authentication if using certs.

Or customize keys so that they get served from a db or some such, the only requirement for this is to write a script or binary.

I linked to all of this in another reply and it was downvoted for some reason. Odd.

Not sure why this is downvoted. Anyone care to explain ?

My sarcasm rose out of the way your question was framed. Seemingly to suggest that the only options are either being gifted in multiple fields or being a fluke by nature of being gifted in only one.

Perhaps my comment missed highlighting those facts that she wrote a book on homosexuality back when India didn't even acknowledge it exists and that she contested elections standing against the then Prime minister of India.

But even she hadn't why was the question framed as though the only explanation for her abilities, in the case she wasn't a polymath, is fluke?

You can store the keys in a database, ldap or whatever and set the AuthorizedKeysCommand of your ssh server to a command that looks up the keys given the user. The keys store can be the same as your user database (eg: AD etc)

If you use openssh as your ssh server you may want to look at the AuthorizedKeysFile option

https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#AuthorizedKeysFile

Other useful options are AuthenticationMethods and AuthorizedKeysCommands.

Perhaps you should give sc-im a go. It's no excel but a good enough spreadsheet with vim like keybindings.

https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im

Weren't they always ? ...if you consider editions. Which essentially is what the author's promoting - access to draft editions (and presumably updates, post-release -- this wasn't clear).

Just tried findka out and going back to my comment about Stumbleupon, what I used to love the most about it was reading the reviews about the content I ^stumbled upon^ before even looking at the content. Pretty much the same manner in which most people use HN.

Additionally, reviews led to discovery of people with shared interests, when I saw the same people liking, sharing and commenting on stuff I liked. Following these people then added another layer of filtering to my ^stumbles^.

Might be food for thought.

This reminds me of Stumbleupon[1] from back in 2005-ish. I used to love using it before they decided to pivot and remove all of the things that made it great.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StumbleUpon

For perspective, here's what HN looked like this day 10 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2010-06-10

...have things really changed that much ?

While I sympathize with the OP and try to imagine what it would be like, I have to wonder whether there /really/ is that much of change if we are speaking strictly about linux, the internet and programming in general since the last 10 years.

I know for sure that it isn't hard to get back to it based on the experience of a friend of mine.

She was a sysadmin back in the 90s. A proper one. As geeky as any other linux geek running Red Hat 6.2 with window maker as the desktop environment as her main computing environment. At the turn of the millennium, she quit her job, got married and had a couple of kids. After quitting her job she barely ever kept in touch with computers. Of course, she browsed the web, used email shopped online but I'm willing to bet she didn't ever open up a command prompt. Her personal laptop ran windows and the house had one other computer (a mac, IIRC). Everything in her life revolved around her family and kids. She indulged in her other more satisfying interests of books and music if she ever had any free time -- which was very very rare.

3 months ago, now that the kids are old enough to not fuss and worry about, she decided to install linux and get back into everything with the intention of getting a job.

Last week she gave her first online talk for beginners (kids/teens). It was about container fundamentals. She introduced container concepts, docker and k8s.

By what I described it is perhaps hard to imagine just how disconnected she was from what 'we'[1] call tech but she really was -- she quit tech when Ubuntu was not even a thing !! ...and yet she was able to ramp up fairly quickly.

[1] I'm acutely aware that for non-tech people tech chops could also mean being able to use keyboard shortcuts where most people would use a mouse

>...this guy has no idea what he's talking about.

This guy is Cory Doctorow. I wouldn't say he has no idea what he's talking about.

Actually, it has a webapp which you can acess via your browser over the wireless or USB connection ip, which allows you a rudimentary upload/download :

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266133...

That said, there are whole lot of sync tools that users have created which work very well with Linux (for example, I personally use remarkablefs, which is a Fuse based filesystem to mount your remarkable)

https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable/blob/master...

Besides the obvious benefits of git annotate and git log, the ability to do a git bisect to isolate the exact commit that caused a regression is invaluable. So, to answer your question, yes we do get immense value out of it.

You might want to read '500 lines or less'[1]. Here you not only read the code but also see it in the context of the 'bigger picture' of the design / architecture / problem being solved.

[1] https://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

Forgive me my ignorance but isn't this scemantically how branch prediction and pipelining in cpus work ? As in when you are writing code that looks like 'isMultipleOfThree(n) && isMultipleOfFive(n)' in a lower level language, the compiler and cpu work together to produce the logic that computes both and sync()s on the answer ? I do not see the benefit of pulling this complexity upwards into the problem domain or the manner we model solutions to real-world problems.

OTOH, if one were to think about it, we do anyways build software in the manner described -- the only difference being that we 'sync()' on a different layer of abstraction -- the OS, the network, the libraries, the apis ..etc. Building software to be modular, pluggable, extensible, swappable at those layers has always been considered to be good practice. Is the benifit of creating additional absraction layers within the software itself really worth the complexity ? I'm not convinced.

I'm 42 and I think a lot of people here would find it surprising that my life just 20-25 years ago was radically different than it is today. To give an example -- then, the only way to contact me when I was not at home was to leave a message with anyone who answered the phone at home. If nobody was home, tough luck, try back sometime you think someone would be home (ie: no answering machine, no cell phone). Email ...meh once a week when I'd go to the cyber cafe to browse the net, chat with strangers online ..etc.

...and if that is surprising, the more surprising thing is a lot of people still live this way in large parts of the world.

There's always a long lead time between technology becoming available and becoming ubiquitous the world over.

Those who like HTTPie might also like http-prompt[1] which is an interactive prompt built on top of it.

[1] http://http-prompt.com/

... And if people were truly reasonable then your original statement would make sense.

Umm no. Can you read threads in whatever client you are reading this on?

The post I replied to said that they were put off by a CoC and alleged that this is being pushed by bad actors. My point was to say that the CoC exists in the repos because of the same reasons open source exists. Not because of insidious acts of bad actors.

You do realize that he is not an average Joe with business requirements to fulfill because he decided to mount that high horse, right ?

This argument of 'Oh, he'd be singing a different tune if he had to deal with today's reality' is so naive.

The fact that he doesn't (/doesn't have to) deal with everyday reality is his whole point -- he has claimed that it is unrealistic to use software that confirms to his set of values, so he denied to participate in that reality.

> Because reasonable people already know how /letting people use/modify/redistribute modifications is good for software/ and don't need a /license/ to tell them. I've never seen a case where a /copyleft license/ improved software.

Don't you see the absurdity of the argument ?

Here let me be even more clear for the downvoting-without-commenting cowards :

  > It's a wretched, insidious *code* sneaked in by very bad
  > actors into mainstream open source repositories.

How would have OSS projects historically dealt with code pushed by someone, which was deemed detrimental/inferior to the overall intent and purpose of the software ?

Isn't it the presumption that whatever gets absorbed / pulled in, reflects the consensus of the community involved and that the future of the project is determined by the sort of natural evolution ? ...the bazaar ? So, if the bazaar now puts value on CoCs ...you may either contribute or dissent and start up your own competing replacement. Isn't that the way it was supposed to work ?