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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> is still vastly safer than driving on a per-distance-travelled basis I did the math one time with very conservative numbers (thinking it'd be an easy win) and got shockingly close: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
My very naive understanding of ultrasound techniques is that they can work very well, but in cases where they don't work they end up creating a mess of things (scar tissue, etc) that make subsequent removal pretty much impossible as th
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
But why?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
So, there are files?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Doesn't the Great Firewall mandate (or at least strongly suggest) that those Chinese-controlled root certs are installed for devices behind it?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
This is a great story. Next up: I'd love to see the sub/super proposal get some more attention and effort. https://github.com/stevengj/subsuper-proposal
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
More cores _actually_ running simultaneously means more likely chance of encountering sporadic race conditions. Also makes it easier to measure (and thus work to improve) high thread-count scaling.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I mean, they wouldn't have really wanted it to be formatted like a list, even if the numbering was correct.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Cripes, you're clearly smart enough to understand that the author meant "to [literally] store [all the digits/bits of] a number that repeats forever [in the given base] would require an infinite amount of memory." Talk a
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
(with airline points)
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
The site seems to be having some trouble keeping up; here's an archive/cache/mirror: https://archive.is/efTT9
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's particularly amusing/frustrating/enraging because they have already shown that it's possible! Up until today, I've had some workspaces with the old (and functional!) text entry, and some with the new one — in
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Because it's not a notebook chip? 105W is... a little toasty.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Hunh? There was an active campaign to distribute and install lead-certified filters. Looks like they're still available for free pickup: https://www.michigan.gov/flintwater/0,6092,7-345-73954-36627...
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
He didn't claim the water was not contaminated. He claimed that the _filtered_ water with a _correct_ filter _properly installed_ was safe to drink. Was that not the case?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Those releases are 12 years apart and are definitely not using SemVer. I’m not at all against breaking changes, nor am I trying to litigate which languages are harder to extend non-breakingly, I’m just surprised that there’s no compatib
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
My point is really an aside, but none of your examples actually require eval. Any code could have used `async = 1` directly as a variable, for example. And dynamic languages needn't support eval, though they typically do. It's ju
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I don't think that has anything to do with `eval`. It's just hard to do with a dynamic language. And that's not to say it shouldn't be attempted!
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Ok, sorry, replace "not possible" with "very difficult and not recommended." I don't see how that changes what I wrote in a very meaningful way.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Naive question: does Python follow SemVer?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It's not the creation that's the problem. It's the dissemination of others' content and ads (and the choices in what gets promoted/highly ranked/etc).
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
It was a fiasco because it wasn't possible (until much later) to support both Python 2 and Python 3 in the same code base. This made for a gridlock between dependencies and users.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
The 3.x releases _are nothing like_ the 3.0 release. You have a valid complaint about the 3.0 release, which was 11 years ago. If you've not tried updating from 3.x to 3.y — which is a very different process — then you have no stake
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Then this is an unfair critique of this new release process. If you had issues with breaking changes between minor 3.x versions, then I'd fully understand.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
I was curious how this changed from their previous process. It looks like they've historically averaged about once per 18 months for the past few releases. 3.4.0 — March 2014 3.5.0 — Sept. 2015 3.6.0 — Dec. 2016 3.7
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
My mother bought a spinning rust iMac two years ago, sold to her as a "fast" machine. It was not fast. It took 15-30 seconds+ to do the most basic of tasks. It was unusable. I did what I could to remove background tasks and it
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Why do you think your analogy is at all comparable?
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Did you read the article? She wore the skirt as she defended her thesis. FTA: > She defended her Ph.D. dissertation in the handcrafted regalia, not in spite, but to show that rejection is a natural part of the process in achieving goals.
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
> -In the past people found it "morally upsetting" that no matter how smart you are or no matter how hard you work, that doesn't matter to the DNA you pass down to your kids. That may not be true entirely true — in additio
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by 3JPLW 7y ago
Anecdotally, I think answering and immediately muting calls from unknown numbers is a deterrent to repeated calls. They're almost always robocalls that wait for someone to start talking before launching into their shpeal. Without any

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