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True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using fossil fuels, when he could have just as easily been there via a teleconference. I don't mind people that walk the talk, but Al Gore avoids that.

The very last line of the article explains it all; this is to promote his soon to be release movie. As always, it's about the money.

While I agree with the sense I get in general that modern, digital catalogs are better for search than the older, analog catalogs, I feel it has gotten worse for myself, and possibly others like me exist, that were not looking for something specific. I enjoyed the discovery possible by browsing through a card catalog - with lots of information without having to walk and scan through the stacks like I was looking for something specific.

Improvements are always being made, but my memory of the first digital catalogs are that they were highly specific, so other than finding other books by a specifically searched for author, discovery was severely limited. I hated digital catalogs at first. And for many smaller libraries, I find walking through the stacks easier than trying to discover something via the digital catalog.

What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list item.

Interesting that you see a difference. Who do you think the democratically elected are? "Wealthy ..."

As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hide and Seek".

My problem with apropos (and man, for that matter) is related to how at least one major distribution handles the man pages. Rather than bundling the man pages with the applications, the man pages for many applications are bundled together in one base package. When this is done regardless of whether or not the application is actually on the system, apropos and man continually return information on applications which are not on the system.

> Dr. DeConto and Dr. Pollard do not claim that this is a certainty

Boil 'em in oil, the stinkin' deniers.

Oh, wait, that's the scientists that this did this study about a time a century in the future.

More sensationalist journalism just stirring up emotions.

Thanks for the link!

This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.

Thanks for the link. Good advice for anyone asked to look at some statistics.

From the family stories I have heard, my great-grandmother raised rhubarb, so my grandmother had it because my grandfather was used to it. I was encouraged to take a stalk whenever I wanted growing up, which, at times, was twice daily.

As for location, I grew up in Illinois, my grandmother was from Arkansas, and my grandfather and his mother, while being from Illinois, traced their family roots back to Pennsylvania Dutch.

I still prefer the raw stalk to anything else.

Thank you. Very informative for the newbie that I am. I've used Linux for some time but never delved this deeply under the covers.

It's funny to me how comments on an article on digital librarians has strayed so far down a rabbit hole.

Interesting collection of ideas/graphics, but the first graphic has a person doing 9 hours of stuff between getting off of work at 5:00 p.m. and going to sleep at 11:00 p.m., just 6 hours later. If I could do that, I wouldn't have any time management issues ever.

I don't remember how I came across it, but I remember reading it early in high school - 9th grade, I think - and loving it. While the philosophy was a great read, the ideas of understanding and caring for your equipment influenced my thoughts on all the technology I use, even if I'm not a mechanic.

Agreed. I would want "No lock-in" for IM to be a requirement. I wonder whether or not pure volume - e.g., Facebook Messenger - would be enough, however, to drive people in that direction even without the interoperability with other systems.

(I am not a Facebook user; just recognizing that they do have market share on their side.)

I think part of the problem with getting rid of email is that it has proven itself flexible enough to handle a variety of communication needs, so to replace it, several tasks/apps need to work in combination. For example, an archived text messaging/IM handles part of it, possibly including identity, but something would also need to stand in for the long-format or large file transfer (like Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.).

Which is to say, yes, you are not seeing things.

I don't know if this follows the spirit of the question, but if I consider a 'wonder' as something that had a major affect on the coding world, wouldn't some virus/Trojans be applicable? Like the first, whichever that might technically be, but I'm thinking of the Morris worm [1], though I know it wasn't the first.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

I remember my great-grandfathers: Gilbert, Clyde, Coit, and Sam. They mean something to me because I would not be me if they weren't them. Something would be different if their lives were different. There are connections. Life continues.

Yes, we should live our lives not worried about appearances to others. Most of our accomplishments will be fleeting at best, but the lives we live influence our children and our grandchildren, and that influence passes along, whether they remember my name - because of a shared passion for family genealogy - or not.

"How are you retrieving the web page?" would be my first question. I usually do `lynx -dump [http://optional.com/]some.html` to get plain text. I know this works for links also.

This reminds me of the thought that [real, long-term] writers write, not because of the attention or positive feedback but because of the internal drive. Attention and positive feedback are nice, but they're not the most powerful motivation. I think the same lesson for bloggers can be said for programmers or hackers, at least for open source.

The two code examples don't do exactly the same thing. Consider lvl=1000.

That being said, I do appreciate the author's sentiment of insuring the code is easily readable by humans.

Is a quarter mile foot or horse race not a race just because it only turns left? I think not.

NASCAR cars are tuned to their environment for maximum performance/speed, like difference in tire pressure for outside and inside tires. I have no doubt that if the tracks were different, the vehicles would be tuned differently.

Cool idea. Not to start a flame war, but wish there was a non-Emacs (vi?) version. Or notes on how it was started, so I could look into doing my own.

I kind of find it a fitting irony. An article which I want to read because the title - while probably click bait - irks me enough to raise my interest because someone else - a corporation that uses me as its product, no less - is going to define for me what being a better citizen is ... this article is blocked unless you subscribe.

Includes more ideas than just the Bash unofficial strict mode.

I think this type of instance maybe why the C64 has the reputation of encouraging hackers that it does. This is the perfect example to me of hacking to make something better.

Reminds me of a quote/thought (I don't recall the original source): The worst waste of time is to improve (automate) something that doesn't need to be done.

I've been there myself. I was asked to deliver to email a report that anyone could get at any time by opening a browser, but they wanted an email instead (their communication path - if our office used IM/Slack more, I can easily see them wanting that instead of the email).