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One thing I've found nano useful for: git commit messages.

If the commit file is empty, that cancels the commit. Nano will tell me how many lines it actually wrote, so if I have second thoughts I can cancel with certainty. Nano may well not be unique in that regard, but I tripped over another editor that saved what I thought was an empty file as a single line with just the EOL character.

From Merriam-Webster: "a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of a country as a great person who should be admired and loved". Wikipedia mentions the use of mass media, propaganda, spectacle, etc. "to create an idealized, heroic, and worshipful image of a leader, often through unquestioning flattery and praise". I see nothing there about splitting the party and revenge. Remember these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJFC1qFCgyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTm5rp8r6fE&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtGr1JFCnE&feature=emb_imp_...

The Democrats had their cult of personality in the Obama years.

> Lets put it this way, no one is suggesting to blacklist the WSJ or the National Review.

Yet.

Stuttering is an unfortunate condition, but it has to do with pronouncing words and problems speaking fluently. I've never heard a stutterer say the sorts of things Biden says.

It's ironic that the Institute for Public Education should be concerned about monopoly technology platforms. The educational monopoly to be concerned about is government schools.

Jack up tax and let the market decide? Those seem inconsistent.

Just for the sheer heck of it (and because my father got me some polar coordinate graph paper) I spent part of a summer in the early 70s making a circular hexadecimal slide rule. Back in the day people used printed log tables. Attach your protractor to the graph paper appropriately centered and mark off 360 * log(x) for your base of choice for a lot of values of x.

There are those who have been stuck paying for kids who are not their children. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/man-forced-to-pa...

Of course, there are some programs that are intended to run potentially forever, e.g. servers. Does Alan have some way to allow a non-terminating top level while constraining all the pieces underneath?

Could be a conspiracy, could be concern that being targeted if they are somehow identified as Trump supporters.

First, what on earth does a likelihood of 2, or -3, mean? The graph is a bit puzzling.

Second, even those who master those "subtle social cues" (which have the important feature of plausible deniability) have to learn them at some point, and nowadays the price of error is extreme.

So, just as airline pilots "fly" in simulators, I suspect that someday people will have to spend time with something several generations improved over current sex robots learning to have a relationship before trying it with an actual human.

Or possibly poking fun at meat that is equally incredulous at the notion of AI.

Yup. I rather liked _Night Beat_ ("Copy boy!").

Yup. I understand that Al Capone ran soup kitchens in Chicago.

Yup. The Signetics 68070 that was used in CD-i was like a 68000, but slower because it didn't have that second ALU.

The first? Algol 68 allowed implementations to have language-specific versions of keywords. I remember seeing a French language Algol 68 book in the stacks at the OU library that had listings with French keywords. I don't remember what they did with the portmanteau words that Algol 68 (and much more so in the Revised Report) favored, like "ouse" and "elif".

In my case, I get 1 Gb/s (symmetrical, no data cap, and they gave me the modem/router) internet from CenturyLink for $65/month, and we decided YouTube TV was the best choice that gave us local channels (not their subchannels, darn it, and CW is still "on demand" rather than live from the local affiliate), which is important to us because the apartment we're in is the worst possible place to have an antenna. Even with the YouTube price increase it's well under what Mediacom was socking us for after the first year for 60 Mb/s down, 10 Mb/s up, tightly data capped internet and an admittedly wider choice of TV, so for now we'll stay (but start researching alternatives). (Sports? I have the Rhett Butler attitude towards them.)

Has anyone gone out there with a sound level meter? If it's that loud, won't it drown out sirens or car horns??

I'd be very interested in any example of C++ having "Code that is simple and easy to read, understand, and write" as a goal.

If it's signed int, unless you know the value is positive you can't just shift right 1--if the result of the shift is negative, you have to add 1.

People have run Hitachi 68C09Es at 5 MHz. May not sound like much, but the 6809 (which the 6309 is an improved version of) takes fewer clock cycles than Z-80 or 808x take to do similar work. OpenCores has a 6809 core, not cycle accurate, that can run at 40 MHz if I understand the description rightly (https://opencores.org/projects/6809_6309_compatible_core).

I like SPJ's use of Comic Sans for presentations.

As others have said, overuse and misuse have caused the hatred of Comic Sans, and at least from what I see, that overuse has receded, now replaced by other fads like pseudo-handwritten "brush" fonts that do for (or to) brush fonts what Bodoni does for Roman, and extremely condensed light sans-serif all caps.

So... without that overuse, one can actually appreciate Comic Sans, and I do because seeing it in presentation slides means I'm almost certainly looking at an SPJ presentation, which is always a delight.

tl; dr version: SPJ is the only guy cool enough to use Comic Sans for presentations.

If syntax doesn't matter at all, then why haven't more people switched to [insert name of esoteric programming language]? Programming is indeed about design and structure, so why create tools that gratuitously distract programmers from design and structure?

Surely it's better to confine it to a package labeled unsafe that one must import to use (and which by Go's rules one can't import and then not use) and to make a point of only using it where necessary and paying particular attention to it in testing and code reviews.

RIP Mr. Suess, and I hope you're not cringing too much at "Mr. Suess and Mr. Christiansen built their electronic bulletin board using a personal computer called the S-100."

"...bootstrappers find that many different spin-0 particles are possible."

Is that a typo, or is it really possible to have spin -0?

See also the portion of "The Humble Programmer" starting with "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. In the case of a well-known conversational programming language..."

I'd say those who claim that speech is violence (and therefore merits a violent response) would be a really good example.

They are different attacks. They're not EEE-ing by not giving Wine devs access; they're maintaining the applications barrier to entry.