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jjgreen
10,159karma·4,124submissions·February 7, 2014
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I live my life by the Latin dictum carpe diem: seize the carp.
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... or a minor work by Sartre
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Interesting question. Trotsky argued that the Nazis were essentially a middle-class phenomena, the forces of capital and labour being weakened to naught by the first world war; once the Nazis achieve…
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HN, the end is at hand ...
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Getting the eyes out of potatoes, working with tough meat like beef or goat, ... knives are the most popular weapon, but that just because we're not allowed guns. If you take the point from kni…
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There is (seriously) agitation in the UK to ban pointy kitchen knives ... first hit on DDG for example https://theconversation.com/why-stopping-knife-crime-needs-t... …
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Some?
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Sorry to be that guy, but actually ‖x‖
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Cash is the new vinyl
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Obvious slop.
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9-5 was good enough for Dolly
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Somewhere in my head I had that spaces caused a syntax error, and the UI for systemd is not obvious when you first start using it ... so if it's working then leave well alone. I'll be makin…
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Friend, you have changed my life
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key-value pairs where the = cannot be surrounded by spaces, so I have to write [Service]
Type=oneshot
WorkingDirectory={{ home }}/current/
Environment=RAILS_ENV=production
ExecSt…
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To be honest, I think either of those would have been better ...
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I've been almost convinced by systemd (and have switched to using it), but God the syntax of those service files is so ugly ...
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Apparently Nicholas Gowan of the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (the gag order, not the original ruling) https://securereach.net/digital-world/meta-strives-to-stifle.…
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I had js disabled on HN (and it's been that way forever), enabling it restores upvote functionality. Must have been some js-ification of that part of the site's code; problem solved, many t…
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@dang, just in case this in not as intended
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Just upvoted your comment, refresh page and the upvote button reappears :-|