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saba2008
·3 года назад·discuss
I've done this even with CDs.

50% figure for vinyl sounds plausible to me, considering cost of turntable and hassle of actually using it (unless you enjoy the ritual and experience of physical media). And vinyl makes great merch.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Single file + CUE sheet solves lead-in thingie problem, by storing both timestamps (time when player should start showing 'Track 2', and time which servers as zero for track-relative timestamps)

It pretty much mirrors actual CD structure of TOC (containing all necessary timestamps and metadata) and continuous sequence of frames with audio data
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
At least globbing should return fully qualified paths (not sure there is an established term for `(<directory>/)+<file>' paths, as opposed to `<file>` ones).
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
>Some things you need to hide from the end user. De-emphasize - maybe, hide - no. Garbage pile that is average Linux home directory is pretty much result of 'out of sight - out of mind' practice, enabled by dotfiles being hidden. I wish Linux settled on single `~/System/` directory, mirroring `/` structure.

On the other hand, dotfiles convention is useful for meta/"parallel" data, `.git` being prime example - something tighly linked with abitrary file structure.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Intelligence (in a metric, "this is intelligent way to do X", sense) implies some purpose. But life is just one big 'systems that survive and grow - grow and survive' tautology.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Only if you are designing another TempleOS. Thing for it's own sake, unaffected by any external requirements and completely specified, designed and implemented by one person.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
GIF compression is lossless, codecs used in WebM and MP4 are not.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
>These days

HashCash is older than Bitcoin, and Bitcoin sybil-attack protection is basically HashCash.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
It can be also tied to bespoke equipment, hard-to-transfer expertise and experience. If consumption grows relatively slow, it makes sense to expand single installation, rather than duplicate it with 'copy exactly (which might take too long to pay off).
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Promise is not disputed. There are no signed papers - there is no promise.

Whenever it was discussed at all is 1% a purely academic dispute and 99% demagogy.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
You can exploit it do distinguish whenever script is `curl | bash`'ed.

Add `sleep 1`, and detect pause on server. Then, if pause detected - serve attack payload. If not - somebody is careful enough to download and audit, so serve just the script.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Most other languages would require `eval` and having incorrect code as syntactically correct string literal.

But because Perl is parsed as it is executed, incorrect code raises syntax error only when it is reached by execution.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Somewhat related:

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof (2008) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770531
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
News at 11: greater fool pyramid scheme collapses.
saba2008
·4 года назад·discuss
Putting Unicode everywhere is great.

Turning Unicode into clipart collection is not.
saba2008
·5 лет назад·discuss
Yes, it is.
saba2008
·5 лет назад·discuss
It's less than 'final nail', but rather sign that government has no better topics, than crude mix of chauvinism an and emotional manipulation. Cf. Russian progression from 'ignore politics, look at economic growth' -> 'ignore politics for economical stability sake' -> 'ignore politics or homos will diddle your kids'
saba2008
·5 лет назад·discuss
Lack of private banking is pretty minor aspect. Comparing to, say, having de-facto scrip instead of proper currency.
saba2008
·5 лет назад·discuss
>You should be more open minded that different people and cultures have different values.

So I can start owning slaves, if I claim it fits my values? Or I need to gather some minimal number of fellow slave owners, so I can declare it 'culture'?
saba2008
·5 лет назад·discuss
Not really, if you consider that X is not 'ensure quizzes work', but rather 'how do we cover our asses'.