Somasis

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Comment · 5 years ago

Comment · 6 years ago

Except that the version most distributions that are ridding themselves of python2 are using is a new python3 ported version. As far as I know the maintainer of that repository isn't touching it anymore, which is why it isn't linked. https://asciidoc3.org/

Memory fades but our words are forever: In defense of plain text and chat logs somas.is

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Shellspec – a unit testing framework for Posix compliant shell script github.com

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Comment · 7 years ago

I've also had this happen to me- driving from Boone, North Carolina to Charlotte, I usually avoid highways because the interstates are a bit overwhelming to me. I took one different turn as I was trying to avoid downtown in a rural city I was driving through; they were having a block party and the usual route was blocked off. It's routed me through that turn ever since, so saying Google is learning from where people drive even enough to start making routes, that doesn't seem too farfetched for me.

Comment · 7 years ago

TIGER's great, but if you're going to use it you might as well just use OpenStreetMap in the end; a lot of the data in the US is based on TIGER data and then reviewed, as TIGER has had a lot of issues with things like misnamed roads and misalignments of roads.

Comment · 8 years ago

It's awesome to see that even Hacker News isn't immune to transphobia and falling into the lie that being transgender is ignoring biology. What a load of trash.

I looked up the author, and discovered that Libby Emmons is a transphobe (or more accurately a trans-exclusionary radical feminist), at least from reading this one in which she tries to posit that trans women are just in it because we're objectifying misogynistic parodies of women. Great. http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/03/how-the-hypersexual-tran... (check out that weak attempt to reference Kant's thing in itself near the end and how it completely misses the point that it is non-physical- which is exactly what gender is insisted to be by many trans people)

Comment · 8 years ago

I felt so silly trying to zoom in and see satellite images of my house as it was 240M years ago.

Comment · 8 years ago

Arm-chair diagnosing someone you don't agree with with psychological issues isn't very helpful to a conversation, you know.

Comment · 10 years ago

Comment · 10 years ago

Will it still kill my laptop's wifi connection speed if I try to use it?

Comment · 10 years ago

You know, cgit does come with two example syntax highlighting scripts... :)

Comment · 10 years ago

Don't read the comments!