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JNRowe
7,426karma·1,207submissions·February 3, 2014
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The documentary is available on iPlayer¹; You may need to be in the UK or have an IP that at least looks that way to see it :/ It immediately made me think of Channel 4's alternative Christm…
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Many years ago there was confcache¹, that for a time was integrated in to portage via a FEATURES flag for Gentoo users. It wasn't particularly useful in the general case, and never really work…
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A bazillion comments from a discussion a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541 …
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A lot of comments from a couple of days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33348716
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I can't quite put my finger on what felt wrong to me. I think it was partly the verbosity, but in the end I talked myself in to being annoyed at having to get to the end which was never going …
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Graham Greene's wikipedia article is a wonderful rabbit hole of weirdness and apparent coincidence¹. Famous spies, well-known con artists, involvement in huge moments in history, etc. ¹ https:&…
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Lacking the shame to avoid asking for recommendations from time to time¹. Imagining you're the type of person that really wanted to like Machines Like Me for its concept but found the exposition …