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Made this mistake w VirtualBox once - never again. I ended up somehow running the proprietary version which “phoned home” and some 30 or 60 days later corporate got a call. When it comes to Oracle, I take Nancy Reagan’s advice [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Say_No


How does mimalloc telemetry compare to jemalloc?


> light beans == more caffeine

For any single lot. Different varietals can have different caffeine levels -- so one can imagine a dark-roasted high-caffeine bean having more caffeine than a light-roasted low-caffeine bean.


Does this block things like the unconventional Google-filing trick of:

  myemail+90sdev@gmail.com
which gives me the “90sdev” tag for my emails, which still go squarely into my “myemail@gmail.com” address? I don’t know what the best route is, but I’ve certainly run into bad validators that block things that otherwise work, and that’s annoying. It seems to me the best thing might be to have a user twice input their address, then have the next step/confirmation done via email.


> unconventional Google-filing trick

Documented as "subadressing" in RFC 5233, and the default for both sendmail and postfix, amongst others. As such, often 'accidentially' supported by many mail providers even when undocumented. Google didn't introduce them, nor are they 'unconventional'.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5233


TIL


I don't do blocking or differentiating. Emails are literal, for better or worse.


> bad validators

Possibly these validators are working exactly as intended and don't want you to know which service sold your email to spammers.

Then again maybe spammers are smart enough to strip of the + from email lists they purchase.


The latter was motivation to get my own domain so I can have unlimited unique addresses with a wildcard entry.


I never get spam that makes it through the default filter, so I am unsure if this works, but I do get zero spam in general since switching off gmail. I like giving silly businesses that ask for my email their business name @ my domain.

Most of the time they're too disinterested to notice. Oil change places always notice for some reason.

I'll look through my spam foldsr tomorrow and see who's been naughty.


See too Gysin/Burroughs c. 1959.[0]

Bowie would have been ~12yo.

[0] https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques...


Apt reference to Burroughs, as he and Bowie ended up meeting in the early/mid '70s, and Bowie employed the cut-up technique somewhat often on his albums afterwards (starting with Diamond Dogs, if I'm not mistaken). So the Verbasizer was essentially Bowie's attempt to modernize a creative process he was already very fond of.


And one probably wouldn’t notice, but the buffer is backed by a “recno”[0] Berkeley DB instance[1].

[0] https://edoras.sdsu.edu/doc/BerkeleyDB/ref/am_conf/logrec.ht...

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


Isn't that how most editors manage infinite undo/redo? I wondered if there is some magic "prune the backend and its now linear" model.


> Libertarians took over a town in NH and abolished town wide garbage collection.

Presumably this is the case you’re citing: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21534416/free-state-...


That sounds like a case of "Tragedy of the Commons", which is not free market.

Also, police is a requirement because libertarianism relies on government to protect peoples' rights. Gutting the police department is what anarchists do, not libertarians.

If you want to know of a successful libertarian experiement, see the founding of the United States. (Excluding the slave states, of course. Slavery is antiethical to libertarianism.)


No true scotsman


??


You mean the Articles of Confederation that failed because the government wasn’t strong enough?


The Articles of Confederation were not the founding of the United States. The founding was the Constitution.


> CMake gets a lot of hate because a lot of large projects use it poorly and the syntax is strange

Sounds like a ”you’re holding it wrong”[0] defense. In my experience, it’s exciting to start using it, then you start pushing it and it’s annoying or simply falls down. I’ll admit I’ve avoided it for years now (maybe it needs a revisit), but I bought the book, I drank the koolaid, and I tried to like it. But imo it really is problematic, and I’m one of those people who’s since settled on basic (BSD) Makefiles.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/25/iphone.problems.r...


You found out being a good listener doesn’t just mean being within earshot. I don’t know how common or rare good listeners are, but I have one friend who is phenomenal, and it’s nearly mind-boggling what a difference that makes.


Just yesterday i saw this quote from Brian Eno -

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

I pondered it a bit and arrived at "learning is losing innocence", from the point of view of somebody who mulls over Enos process. I think that sort of ties-in with this article.


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