ChoHag

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by ChoHag 10y ago
Actually while they're useful, they're not that useful. The point is that being able to divide the day up into 10 chunks, which is just about the only thing we can't yet evenly divide it up into[+], is even less useful. It&#x
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by ChoHag 10y ago
> Well, the decimal calendar had 12 months of 30 days each, with either 5 or 6 extra days depending on leap years. So not 10^x, 10^y and 10^z consistently without the constant need for special-case exceptions? > Months had three ten-
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by ChoHag 10y ago
The advantage of decimalisation is the geometric expansion it engenders which cannot happen because the year is not 10, 100, 1000 or any other multiple of 10 days. It is not an integer multiple of anything days. It is evidence that no matte
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by ChoHag 10y ago
The problem he has is that while we're obviating the need for a wall, we're also denying even the possibility of an attractive ironwork fence.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
So a month will be 36.524ish days. Where in the metric regularity does 36.524ish fit? I can see that it's somewhere between the 10s and the 100s column... A year isn't 100 days, it isn't 1000 days, and the whims of naked ap
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by ChoHag 10y ago
That is the point. There is no way to cleanly divide up the time taken by the earth's orbit by the time taken by the earth's rotation. They are simply incompatible. It is impossible to say objectively that any one scheme is
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by ChoHag 10y ago
The reason decimal time did and always will fail is that no matter how you slice it, 365.24ish is not divisible by 10. Moreover there is nothing inherently natural about 10 as a base. Like many of our modern conveniences it is entirely arbi
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by ChoHag 10y ago
Unfortunately, though, the earth is not a cube.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
Generating jobs is easy. If generating jobs were the goal, unemployment would be zero, internationally.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
What has outstripped coal for baseline production?
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by ChoHag 10y ago
But continue to find themselves stumped?
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by ChoHag 10y ago
If you've allowed your code to grow so far that refactoring is impossible, you have bigger problems to fix than a messy codebase.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
I didn't think they were equated. I got rather a sense of exasperation that javascript includes them at all.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
> Just made for fun, not expected to see any wide use. Well that's jinxed it.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
But but but the copyright cartel promised me that if we can reverse engineer the products we own then starving African cat babies will die. Or something. But I'm pretty sure there are lots of cars and lots of car companies. What went w
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by ChoHag 10y ago
Your web site says "yet another entitled CS-grad hipster" and so I suspect you do too. Entitled coders are impossible to work with, however good their code is. Entitlement combined with the exhuberant inexperience of youth... You
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by ChoHag 10y ago
It's interesting that Florida's solution is still fraught with abuse because those conditions are about the broadest I'd consider reasonable when removing a person's autonomy.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
It's worth considering that there are differing opinions on what constitutes danger. Some would consider religious indoctrination dangerous. Few would agree on the definition of indoctrination.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
Getting a million users isn't all that hard. The test is whether you keep them.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
btrfs is the only file system that's ever lost data on me.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
LXC/LXD is not fashionable.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
> First do no harm. Protect your user experience at all costs. Make their trust sacred. Why isn't this first?
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by ChoHag 10y ago
35. Just jacked in ~£100kpa for a 55% pay cut to an undemanding role in order to spend more (all) time at home.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
If you're trusting your traffic to wifi, authenticated or not, there's no need to fear Mr. Questionable. That horse already bolted.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
I think that's about as French as it gets.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
> I’m sure there’s some historical reason for valuing short variable names. ... Maybe in the past our ancestors had to pay by the letter Yes that's it.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
It'll fit right in then.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
Once we have a minimal and sane variant of humans without ambiguities, edge cases and silly symbols we can get right on that.
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by ChoHag 10y ago
> It's not easy for most people to know if their routers, DVRs, and other Internet-connected devices are infected. Now that's just untrue. It's the easist thing in the world to know if your consumer networking equipment is
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by ChoHag 10y ago
For a time it was touch and go between qmail and all the other non-sendmail servers available at the time. qmail lost entirely because, I'm convinved, of its ridiculous licensing requirements. DJB's code is good and would do the w

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