rando14775
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Comment · 2 years ago
Why do I enjoy writing shell scripts then?
Comment · 3 years ago
My own and some other actually way more informative criticism of Orwell got deleted by the mods.
Comment · 3 years ago
> So once again, let’s invite the obvious: Orwell is lying when he calls himself a socialist. And again, once the possibility is admitted, the evidence piles up. Read Orwell’s correspondence with poor Victor Gollancz over Wigan Pier and you see the stolid, loyal Gollancz trying desperately to understand why his star writer spent so much time vilifying his fellow socialists in a book commissioned by them. Read that exchange and you’ll never buy Orwell’s version of himself as simple, honest man. He’s the Satanic diva, pushing Gollancz into objections which allow Orwell to play the lone, misunderstood hero.
> But if he never was a leftist, why did he call himself one? For Orwell, the red star was protective coloration. It allowed him to smuggle his hates into print, gave them a fine radical gloss, and spared him the cold, clear readings his essays deserved. (Only academics believe that writers want to be understood. Writers want to be misread to their advantage.)
https://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-chri...
Comment · 3 years ago
This article's list of privilige dropping tools is missing setpriv(1) from util-linux, which is the only one actually installed on my system.
Comment · 3 years ago
Imagine how many they would sell if it ran on something else besides a switch. I'm not paying $500 just so I can play the three switch games I'm interested in.
Comment · 3 years ago
The main reason English is used so much is because of the British (and later US) empire, and not because it's easy as a second language (that depends heavily on what someone's first language is). Empires always spread their official language far and wide, no matter how "easy" it is.
I agree that language purity stuff is related to xenophobia.
Comment · 3 years ago
The pointer/array confusion in C makes this way harder to understand than it has to be. The other thing is the syntax, which is too clever and too hard to parse in your head for complex expressions. Both of these things also tend to not be explained very well to beginners, probably partly due to the fact that explaining it in detail is complex and would perhaps go over the beginner's head. It's also stupid, so you'd probably have to explain how it turned out to be this complex.
Comment · 4 years ago
In Emacs, undo makes an undo pointer go down in the undo stack. Pressing undo again goes back another step. If you do any other regular edit, the pointer starts over at the top of the undo stack. Undo puts its own edits on top of the stack like any other command.
So if you "undo, undo" you undo two things. If you "undo, edit, undo", you're keeping the first undo but reverse the edit. If you "undo, edit, undo, undo", you're back to where you started (except your undo stack has now grown).
Comment · 4 years ago
You can save more energy probably if you only put a little bit of water, and then steam the eggs in the pot (no need for a steamer basket, just put the eggs in the shallow water). Also, apparently, peeling is easier when the eggs are placed in hot water vs cold. Look up Kenji's egg boiling experiment stuff.
Comment · 4 years ago
You sure? Germany is a (shit) coffee country and everybody has had electric kettles since the 90s.
Comment · 4 years ago
And nothing of value was lost.
Comment · 4 years ago
What is PDB?