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 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Is th…

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JoL
Jan 22 19:57
@user111403 "This in no way implies that the person is subject to my rules, except in the sense that they can't enter without my permission" -- This is a whole lot of gymnastics. So, people entering don't have to obey any US law except those on who gets to enter? Or would you say that they're not subject to your rules except for all your rules? Simpler to say that they are subject to your rules. If you have authority over an area, that means people in it (birthed in it or not) are subject to your rules. The rules aren't for the dirt constituting the area, it's for the people in it.
JoL
Jan 22 19:57
@user111403 "no reasonable person would expect the interpretation to be 'you're not supposed to be here, but you're not under our jurisdiction so I guess I'll just have to let you go'." -- As a layman but hopefully reasonable person, rechecking the definition of "jurisdiction" and seeing "extent of authority", the interpretation I wouldn't expect is to say "You're not in my extent of authority, so I can't give this benefit you'd qualify for under my authority, but you're in my extent of authority, so I get to assert my authority over you and penalize you." That's trying to have it both ways.
 

 Discussion on answer by user10489: Ho…

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JoL
Jul 14, 2024 12:27
Huh. Nevermind my edit. On rechecking the manual, it turns out they are the same thing. TIL.
 

 Discussion on answer by Harper - Rein…

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JoL
Jun 6, 2024 12:31
@Bob I imagine there's variations. With tankless gas, there're some you can set the exact temperature you want, but others you can just set between large flame, medium flame, or small flame. I don't think those latter ones can maintain temperature. They just get colder as you increase the flow. The availability of electronics like thermometers might depend on whether its intended for indoor or outdoor use.
 

 Discussion on question by Noob_Guy: W…

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JoL
Jun 17, 2023 08:28
@Barmar OTOH, with the miniPC market of today, setting one up as a router is getting attractive. Not hard to find some with dual ethernet for this very purpose.
 

 Discussion on answer by rfl: Can a ba…

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JoL
May 17, 2022 22:09
@John I think airship balloons are probably not very elastic, if at all.
 

 Discussion on answer by Pieter Geerke…

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JoL
Aug 4, 2021 13:52
@phoog I must be experiencing some brain fog. Could you tell me a sentence that makes sense with "pound by weight"? I could interpret "weight by pound" using the definition of "by" of "with the use of" as in "weight with the use of [the unit] pound", as in "can you tell me the weight by pound as opposed to some other unit?". "Pound by weight" only makes sense to me if "pound"/"libra" refers to something other than a unit of weight, as in "do you sell X by weight or by piece?", but what definition of pound/libra could work for that?
JoL
Aug 4, 2021 13:52
"'libra pondo' which we translate into modern English as 'pound by weight'" -- I don't know Latin grammar, but I would think it makes more sense to mean "weight by pound", "libra" still being the unit of weight equal to the "pound". Perhaps the origin of the unit can be found by looking into the etymology of "libra". I can only find that it seems to originate from the Greek "λιτρα".
 

 Discussion on answer by Tetsujin: Cou…

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JoL
Feb 11, 2021 21:07
"nukerowave" -- On searching online, I see many places that use this term, sometimes as "nuke-rowave", but not one that defines it. Is it just another way to refer to microwave ovens?
 

 Discussion on answer by nohillside: H…

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JoL
Nov 25, 2020 19:55
Since they're using zsh, they can also select just the regular files using the . glob qualifier: *.vital(.)
 

 Discussion on question by fuschio: IT…

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JoL
Mar 17, 2020 11:39
Why would the IT guy care if there's a productivity drop? Isn't that beyond their role and responsibilities?
 

 Discussion on question by Nevi: Is tr…

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JoL
Mar 2, 2020 09:18
Nevi, the link in the answer you accepted now reads that Italy is "Level 3 -- Avoid Nonessential Travel—Widespread Community Transmission". It's the same level as China. In case you don't notice on your own, I'm commenting to let you know before your flight.
 

 Discussion on question by Azumentris:…

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JoL
Feb 13, 2020 11:17
This reminds me of Gate's opening scene.
 

 Discussion on question by IamAlex0005…

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JoL
Nov 29, 2019 19:16
@Cloud Given that I was able to obtain JoL, which I haven't on any other site, I think SE just lets usernames be duplicated. I think that's rather nice, if you ask me. You guys just got lucky and met each other, but that's probably rare (with the exception of users with the name "Reinstate Monica"). Also Cloud ID 91131, Cloud ID 19259 was actually the one that was here first, not you. :)
 

 Discussion on question by A. Fletcher…

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JoL
Jul 21, 2019 10:33
"have a third meal towards 9-10pm at night which I would consider a breakfast replacement" -- That's what I call dinner. I don't think it qualifies as breakfast at all.
 

 Discussion on answer by joeqwerty: Is…

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JoL
Jul 12, 2019 15:59
I think that's the point of the question, anyway. I don't really know much of anything about recruiters.
JoL
Jul 12, 2019 15:58
Anyway, the point is that "Why would it be rude?", because doing such personalized treatment as suggested in the question might go well beyond what the recruiter is expecting to do for their client at their price.
JoL
Jul 12, 2019 15:54
Whether that's considered rude or not might be dependent on culture. I think I've heard that in Japan it's not at all customary for a customer to ask for changes to menu items, while that might be more acceptable in the US. I don't know if they consider it rude or just odd of foreigners, though.
JoL
Jul 12, 2019 15:49
I think さりげない告白's original point might have been that it might be rude when such wants and needs go way beyond what is expected by a business. A silly example would be going to McDonald's and asking for your food to be served in a porcelain dish with silver utensils, for the burger to come with 3 slices of tomatoes with smiley faces drawn in mustard, or for 2 burgers to be decorated so it looks like they're alive with one eating the other.
 

 Discussion on answer by EvilSnack: Di…

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JoL
Jul 12, 2019 08:35
@sds This site says that it was first published in this page of The American Historical Review, Vol. 11, 1906.
 

 Discussion on answer by Peter: How do…

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JoL
Jul 5, 2019 18:46
They don't have to be at the desk when writing it... they could be in the restroom or at their home.
 

 Discussion on answer by TomTom: My mo…

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JoL
Jul 1, 2019 11:07
Calling the police seems like a really bad idea. I think OP's mother simply misunderstands what being a co-signer means or that their kid is now a grownup and that the car is something their kid paid for and not the parent, different from probably most cases before OP reached adulthood. It's something that can be worked out by talking. Calling the police would definitely forever terminate any familial relationship OP might have with their mother.
 

 Discussion on answer by Juan Jimenez:…

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JoL
May 26, 2019 09:29
@JuanJimenez When talking about the 747 as frame of reference, the stable horizon and clouds do not matter. You're thinking of Earth being the frame of reference. The shuttle does go upward with respect to the 747. Pick a second. Is the shuttle above the 747? Record the distance between the 2. Let a second pass. Is the shuttle still above the 747? Is the distance between the 2 further than the previously recorded distance? If the answer to all 3 questions is "yes", then it means that it's moving upwards with respect to the 747. That's all I'm arguing. I agree with your definition of dropped.
JoL
May 26, 2019 09:29
@JuanJimenez I don't want to pick a side on what the definition of "dropped" is, but to Skyler's point, your video does show it departing upward with the 747 as the frame of reference (i.e. it goes upward with respect to the 747, not the ground, irrespective of whether or not the 747 dived). Skyler is arguing that "dropped" means that when the 2 objects detach, what's being dropped should move downward with respect to what dropped it.
 

 Discussion on question by mguijarr: T…

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JoL
May 19, 2019 18:38
@Joshua Not really. I just wrote what I was seeing on HN. I've used neither black nor YAPF.
JoL
May 19, 2019 18:38
I thought I should mention that black is currently the No. 1 post on HN. There is quite a bit of dislike for that tool because it seems highly opinionated. There is a mention of another tool called YAPF that is supposedly more configurable. Maybe switching to that and agreeing on a set of guidelines by vote would be more agreeable to the developer in question.
 

 Discussion on answer by terdon: date …

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JoL
May 9, 2019 20:44
@MontyHarder "2" is shorter: date -d '2 thursday'. You can also write 2nd like this, if you really want: date -d '2(nd) thursday'.
JoL
May 9, 2019 17:51
@MontyHarder From the same link: "‘first’ and ‘next’ both stand for 1. Because the word ‘second’ stands for the unit of time there is no way to write the ordinal number 2"
JoL
May 9, 2019 16:29
@terdon "but there's no mention of last there" -- It's there. In the subpage "General date syntax" it says: "the word ‘last’ stands for -1"
 

 Discussion on question by Lura: How t…

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JoL
Mar 11, 2019 13:00
At least Firefox has the option to screenshot webpages. It doesn't include the chrome parts of the GUI (the addressbar, bookmarks, tabs, etc.). In the address bar, there's a 3 dots button, which on clicking presents the option to "Take a Screenshot".
 

 Discussion between JoL and Niko Gambt

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JoL
Jan 20, 2019 02:01
It is very interesting.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 02:01
And that, my friend, is why I posted the question.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 02:01
If I do cat >(cat -) then it isn't.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 02:00
It's still a child.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:59
Guess what. Doing cat 2> >(cat -) | cat - - in one terminal and then pstree -spa on them shows that >(cat -) is actually a child process of the first cat.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:54
You mean a separate dup2() per process?
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:53
sorry... command1's and it's possible to do this via "inheritance" so can't we just accept it as so?
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:52
Haven't read it, but the point of this discussion is what makes sense with the observations we can make. command2's stdout is the same as command1
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:51
Maybe what's missing is coming to an agreement as to what command1 is. I'm taking it as everything after fork, including the shell's code before exec'ing the command.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:49
It seems we've come to an agreement that command2 does inherit command1's stdout and not the shell's.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:47
dup2'ing them before forking the 3rd process for the readlink subshell.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:41
I imagine that sets up the pipe to cat after forking for true but before exec'ing true, and before forking for readlink.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:40
Which is effectively inheriting the stdout of true.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:37
If readlink inherited from the shell, it should be a terminal device as you say, right?
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:35
Ok. Can you tell me why `true 2> >(readlink /proc/self/fd/1) | cat returns pipe:[714338], since the shell's stdout is a terminal device?
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:32
I've just noticed that extending this example to use | cat causes one to use zsh's MULTIOS redirection, which probably makes the concept more murky. What about this:
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:29
I'm trying to think of how to make this clear to you, but I'm running out of ideas.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:27
The problem with that example (not using | cat) is that you can't see the difference. command1 and the shell both have the same stdout, so how can you tell where command2's stdout was inherited from? The point of | cat is to make them different and allow us to differentiate them. You know what's interesting, is that before asking this question and the previous one, I also thought that these subshells inherited from the shell and not command1, but these example commands prove us wrong.
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:22
Why do you say that command2 inherits from the shell? The shell's stdout is a terminal device, yet readlink /proc/self/fd/1 tells us that command2's stdout is a pipe. It also just so happens that command1's stdout is a pipe. So why do you say they are different?
JoL
Jan 20, 2019 01:22
Your second paragraph says that command2 does not inherit the file descriptor 1 of command1 that has been redirected and instead inherits the file descriptor 1 of the shell. I'm practically quoting your second paragraph. In this last example with the pipe we can see that it does actually inherit that of the command and not of the shell. If it were of the shell, it'd stay as a terminal device and not the pipe.