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    " Use Unix line feeds.
    :set fileformat=unix

    " Use Windows line feeds.
    :set fileformat=dos

    " Shortcut
    :set ff=unix

    " See the current format
    :set ff

dwyer

9 lat temudiscuss

He didn't declassify them. They were scheduled to be declassified. Trump's involvement was that the IC asked him to stop them from being declassified and he ignored their request, probably out of spite for the IC.

dwyer

9 lat temudiscuss

I'm no Chinese expert, so somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I've found that the Chinese word 茶 (cha) doesn't always necessarily mean tea, but can refer generically to a number of different brewed drinks. e.g. barley tea (大麥茶), ginger tea (薑茶), golden oats tea (燕麥茶), etc. all of which translate to tea, but often contain no tea leaves. It may seem like a nitpick, but when you're in China and order what you expect to be a ginger flavored tea, only to receive a cup of hot water with chopped ginger at the bottom, the distinction can be important. That isn't to say you can't simply order 茶 in China and receive what you would expect, as long as you're expecting green tea. Likewise, if you simply order tea in England, you'll likely receive what the Chinese call 紅茶 (red tea). So in my mind, the words aren't exactly equivalent and I wonder how much the different variations of tea and cha relate to themselves and each other.

Edit: Applied jpatokal's correction.

dwyer

9 lat temudiscuss

Or maybe he deactivated it to get attention.

dwyer

9 lat temudiscuss

Why would you ever exit vim?

dwyer

10 lat temudiscuss

How does one secure a deer to their bumper anyway? I figured a better place would be the roof or the bed of a truck. A Google image search for "deer on the bumper" only turns up roadkill.

I'm beginning to think either these quotes are fake or James Hetfield doesn't actually hunt.

dwyer

10 lat temudiscuss

The problem that the author describes is that eBay does not accept proof and offers no way to submit it.

dwyer

10 lat temudiscuss

Do you mean Ramblin' Jack Elliot? If so then it's ironic because Bob Dylan wrote in his autobiography about Elliot's voice and guitar playing and that he was jealous when he first heard it because it was more or less what he wished he could sound like. I personally also think he has a great voice.

dwyer

10 lat temudiscuss

It's all fun and games until somebody with less noble intentions hacks his account to access all those passwords. I'm sure somebody's working on it.

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

> maybe I should go back to Snow Leopard; I can't think of a single valuable change to OS X since then...

I wish I had that option, but I'm an iOS developer, so I upgrade when Apple forces me to, and right now their forcing Mavericks and up.

> Linux is only free if you don't value your time.

Amazing how the largest server farms on earth are all run by administrators who don't value their time...

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

> most of the public content is under free licenses

Is it? I've read reports that all but a fraction of Github repos are single-commiter code dumps.

> the TOS explicitly dictates that you grant certain licenses to other users for free

Where?

https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/

The only stipulation I see is:

> By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories.

Unfortunately, the TOS doesn't provide a clear legal definition of fork. Does it go beyond clicking the fork button and copying the repo across Github servers? Does it including cloning the repo to a local disk? Or running the code? Or maintaining a derivative project?

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

> one of the leading complaints being that it takes a lax approach to software licensing

I never understood this criticism. There's plenty of software I haven't bought a license for. I don't feel that just because somebody shares their code or archives it in public that I'm entitled to a free license.

That said, I've been approached on Github about licensing my code and I'm happy to grant one. For the most part, however, I just dump code to Github because it's a convenient way to backup and dealing with licenses just creates friction. I'd rather know that somebody out there explicitly wants the code before dealing with it.

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

Much better article IMO. Introducing the low level commands that the higher level ones wrap around is a much more fun and interactive way to understand the .git schema to me.

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

Yeah, the non-phonic nature of written Chinese leads to dozens of dialects in which two Chinese speakers can read the exact same sentence without a single overlapping syllable between them.

Regarding scientific communication in particular, the most obscure Chinese characters are for words unique to scientific fields, so while the average English speaker might not be able to understand an English physics paper, the average Chinese speaker can't even read a Chinese physics paper. In other words, you must possess above average Chinese skills to communicate about science.

dwyer

11 lat temudiscuss

I've been using http://10minutemail.com/ for years now. It's not pretty, but it works and I can't recall any of the generated addresses ever being rejected.

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