u/jsproat

Gump sat alone on a bench in the park.

"My name is Forrest" he casually remarked.

We just went through this.

Check all nearby DL offices for availability every day. Most of them will have at least one cancellation each day, the larger sites might have a dozen or so. You're likely to eventually get lucky and score a same-day appointment that fits your schedule.

At least, that's how it worked for us. Moved a September appointment into June because we looked at the website at the right time.

Something else to consider: the larger DL offices (e.g. the one in Arlington) also accept same-day walk-ins but you might wait literally all day. It doesn't hurt to drive up and ask the folks at the door.

There's nothing holy about this war.

And the inside lanes.

And the shoulders.

And the off-ramps.

Iron Man == Fe male

Is there a risk of breathing in your own exhaust air by doing this? I'd love to give this a shot while plugged into an oximeter.

I think that's a stretch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks

Sounds kind of like Captain Blood?

are you really sure you're looking at the correct vdi file(s)?

Gah, I feel really stupid! (But in a good way.) That's exactly it.

Last year when I resized this thing, I also copied it to a local HD because the NAS was too slow. I had forgotten all about that, and so today I was staring at the old copy. For some dumb reason I also ignored the VDI file's timestamp, even though I HAD to have looked at it while I was comparing file sizes.

(At least I now know how to force a read-only fsck on ext4 in verbose mode without umounting the partition, thanks to today's issue.)

Thank you for asking the obvious in a way that finally made sense to me. I love this kind of learning experience, I think it's a good reminder to not get complacent.

It probably happens more than we know, but probably not as often as it ought to. Go read up on any number of Medal of Honor citations. In the beginning these were handed out like candy, but they've evolved to become the United States' highest recognition for battlefield valor. Other nations also have similar awards.

Here's one from the Korean War, US Army Private Hector Cafferata:

Private CAFFERATA waged a lone battle with grenades and rifle fire as the attack gained momentum and the enemy threatened penetration through the gap and endangered the integrity of the entire defensive perimeter. Making a target of himself under the devastating fire from automatic weapons, rifles, grenades and mortars, he maneuvered up and down the line and delivered accurate and effective fire against the onrushing force, killing fifteen, wounding many more and forcing the others to withdraw so that reinforcements could move up and consolidate the position. Again fighting desperately against a renewed onslaught later that same morning when a hostile grenade landed in a shallow entrenchment occupied by wounded Marines, Private CAFFERATA rushed into the gully under heavy fire, seized the deadly missile in his right hand and hurled it free of his comrades before it detonated, severing part of one finger and seriously wounding him in the right hand and arm. Courageously ignoring the intense pain, he staunchly fought on until he was struck by a sniper's bullet and forced to submit to evacuation for medical treatment.

It really gets bonkers. Cafferata survives this and goes on to say in an interview:

For the rest of the night I was batting hand grenades away with my entrenching tool while firing my rifle at them...I must have whacked a dozen grenades that night with my tool. And you know what? I was the world's worst baseball player.

Thanks for laying that out.

It sounds like we really just need a higher common denominator.

That sounds nifty. Is that the sort of API that would eventually allow me to use CTRL-h in vim over putty?

True color is fine, I guess... What I really, really want is a terminal emulation standard that lets me send keyboard codes instead of ASCII codes for key presses. It's 2018, so why does <CTRL-H> still mean <BACKSPACE>?

I found this comic book to be pretty informative and entertaining on the subject. Not 100% historical, but probably as close as Crichton gets.

EDIT: Nice, it's referenced in this wikipedia article, and has its own page as well.

Good catch, thanks!

Non-youtube link: https://github.com/michaelmacinnis/oh

I've been collecting links for alternate shells lately. Here are some that haven't been mentioned yet:

Next Generation Shell (this page also has links to other alternate shells and shell-like ideas)

Ergnonmica

Wiki (not even sure if this qualifies, it's pretty weird and really needs non-interactive examples)

shok

shill

Ammonite

rc of Plan 9 fame, and its descendent es

Personally, I'm a huge fan of Powershell, warts and all, but I haven't used it on Linux yet. I think that Powershell as implemented has too much baggage to successfully make the leap to non-Windows platforms, but the ideas in there are really important: objects in the pipeline, a syntax that isn't painful to type in a command line, functions and script blocks being first-class objects, modules, easy access to a large and powerful API, etc.

I've been pretty happy with the ideas implemented in elvish, though it's not stable yet and has its own share of weird quirks (like 2 unsynchronized stdout streams, wtf?)

Interesting. Do you empty and wash your water reservoir with vinegar regularly?

Sure, but in my defense I did say I'm super paranoid about it. :-,

I've been using CPAP nightly for about 6 years now. I've only put water in mine twice. I got rainout on the first one, and both times the humidity was suffocating, and so I decided that was that. I've mentioned to my sleep doctor and the clinic folks, and no one ever seems alarmed by it. I'm assuming this means it's safe.

My throat is parched when I wake up, which makes speech an amusing challenge.

Also, I do get pretty dehydrated if I don't remember to drink lots of water. I figure I put down about a half gallon before lunch on a typical day.

I will double-check the heater setting every time I turn the CPAP on, because I'm super paranoid it'll accidentally get turned on and then burn out, like with actual fire and everything...but it's never happened. Other than that, I haven't had any problems going dry.

I do like the benefits: I don't have to wash the hose as often, and I don't ever spill water halfway between the bed to the bathroom sink.

YMMV, of course.

I'm reading this right now. Holy cow is it epic. Nausicaa has a clear character arc, and has much to say about the nature of humanity in the process.

I really wish they'd adapted the whole series. Soooo many panels were clearly intended to be seen on the big screen.

I want a framed copy of the Declaration Of War (The Short Form).

The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime. The issue is whether you must keep buying your life, dime by dime, from any beggar who might choose to approach you.

Isn't this moving the goalposts?

A society that "redistributes wealth" through taxes isn't forcing the taxpayer to choose between paying taxes and ceasing to exist. It's the threat of legal retribution, not the threat of dying, that prompts taxpayers to contribute.

Rand's argument is especially heinous in a democracy, where taxpayers have a say in whether the taxes are collected and how they are distributed. That she can twist this experience into a threat upon one's existence is mind-boggling.

I haven't come across anything that simplifies this process...but you might want to take a look at the chordpro format. It's a markup for song sheets that's readable in raw form. Think of it as something like what Markdown does for formatted text, without actual Markdown formatting.

It's very old, and most google results are for dead apps, but I'm sure there's something out there that's modern.

If you use a Mac (which I don't, so I'm just spitballing here), you might find this useful: http://tenbyten.com/software/songsgen/Songs/