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by Affric 2y ago
I worked in a place where excel was used for ad-hoc calculations. We became a Google shop. Sheets was a piece of junk compared to excel. Anyone who did any real work rather than just looking at a spreadsheet or using a template got Excel ba
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by Affric 2y ago
Jonny Ive left and Apple decided thinness wasn’t the only value. 100% Apple Silicon is that for computers. Very rarely do my fans whizz up. It’s noticeable when someone is using an x64 and you’re working with them because you will hear thei
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by Affric 2y ago
My only regret is getting base RAM. It’s not a server so it’s not a crime to not always be using all of it and it’s not upgradable so it needs to be right the first time. I should have got 32GB to just be sure.
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by Affric 2y ago
> Wild species Praise be to the finger lime
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by Affric 2y ago
Not a kids event but kids at the centre of it
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by Affric 2y ago
Halloween is deeply rooted in the shortening days, the harvest, the spookiness of the transition, the otheworldliness. In Australia it’s considered fine to go out during the day. It’s really centred on the lollies/candy/sweets. D
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by Affric 2y ago
It used to be fully inflected (what you want).
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by Affric 2y ago
Sometimes things change, sometimes we chose the wrong abstraction. Unless you’re writing the Linux kernel you shouldn’t write it like the Linux kernel.
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by Affric 2y ago
Halloween is interesting in that I never really felt like I owned Xmas, Easter, or New Years as a kid. But Halloween (and also the nearby Bonfire Night, and at the end of winter Beltane) was just so hugely part of our world. Harvest in the
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by Affric 2y ago
Thank you. That was beautiful. Demonstrated the difference in design/engineering philosophies from two of the greats.
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by Affric 2y ago
We can. Scientific notation with 1 significant figure can be meaningful because we can use it to figure out order relations. It’s an infinite language.
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah, I imagine every moment of communication a child receives is new information not just baby talk about getting the spoon in their mouth and asking them if they have pooped.
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by Affric 2y ago
Pick up the benefits of ending IPv4 development sooner. One less thing to ship with every bit of network software. One less learning outcome taught in every networking course. One less piece of organisational complexity in every ISP. Fewer
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by Affric 2y ago
Static IP here in Australia costs AUD 5 per month for residential users… I think it’s just a price signal to entirely disincentivise it to anyone who doesn’t need it.
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by Affric 2y ago
> in Germany we have the peculiar horror of getting the IPv6 address and all delegated prefixes changed on every redial. This is oh so very German. In normal times it is massively overkill. I have to wonder if, heaven forbid, the things
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by Affric 2y ago
Agree to some extent but let me take it in a slightly different direction: None of them seem to be in use. Show me how they look at full occupancy. Let me see how they are for a year. Then I will judge. The biggest problem with architecture
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by Affric 2y ago
I can’t think of anything I want less from a laptop than it playing sound when I open it… and yet apple bring it to me as though it’s a feature.
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by Affric 2y ago
I will be staying on ptpython then.
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by Affric 2y ago
The Dutch are direct. In Britain you’re not allowed to be.
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah the Portuguese keeping Brasil secret is seductive conspiracy theory. I think that America being there at all is super hindsight-y. A priori there were no states in America that had made contact with the people’s across Eurasia and Afri
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by Affric 2y ago
Yes! I started typing up a moon comparison and half way through gave up because it just sounded so insane. Thanks for this.
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by Affric 2y ago
Other people brought the receipts. He fully just wishfully thought the earth was smaller. He continued to refused he hadn’t landed in the indies for the rest of his life. Idiot was a strong word. But not as brief.
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by Affric 2y ago
Why is the ‘reconquista’ “ill named”? Also, Columbus largely made his own legend. Everyone told him he was wrong (and he was) but he just so happened to discover land people might actually want. And so he was very much vindicated by the dis
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by Affric 2y ago
I agree but I always thought YouTube was a great name for what it was. It was me choosing what was on (no pesky programming) and us making videos. It’s very different now but “you”, as in me, was very central to my idea of what YouTube was.
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by Affric 2y ago
Often you’re not allowed on your medication for any of your other health issues.
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by Affric 2y ago
Managed decline. Artificially high population of cats. Almost no human population to feed them. They performed non lethal surgery on them so there wouldn’t be a population of cats dying of starvation when the last residents pass.
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by Affric 2y ago
RIP. Thank god addressable memory.
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by Affric 2y ago
Many documented cases of non zero marginal cost energy systems failing. And in response we have learnt to eliminate, minimise, and manage risk better in those systems. But apparently, in zero marginal cost energy it’s impossible. The only e
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah, but the problem with that is EPIC isn’t great on Linux, the licenses aren’t portable, and the stores can increase their fees at will once they gain market position. In fact, if you become market leader for AAA it would arguably be you
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by Affric 2y ago
Thanks for posting this. I think it casts a pretty harsh light on criticisms of awk. Ultimately awk is one of the all time great languages. Small. Good at what it does. There’s something satisfying about using it which languages like Python

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