DemocracyFTW

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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
If that was meant as a counter-argument, it's not. Because it's not about 'wax paper', its about '"wax" paper', as you correctly write.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> Global cities should simply be built up into the stratosphere by decriminalizing construction, anything else is a policy failure. Physics, anyone?
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> When did a building in Tokio crumble from an earthquake last time? Not exactly Tokyo, but nearby Touhoku region suffered devastatingly with entire cities being levelled a mere ten years or so ago.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Christ what an asshole.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
(off to buy domain names efbe.com, effbee.com, ...)
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Don't know why this comment got downvoted b/c it's a valid concern. 8 out of 10 websites do this wrong in my experience. It's an avoidable nuisance.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
works for me except the last paragraph with abilitools Text Zoom to increase font sizes https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-zoom-to-incre...
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This is a solved problem. The community provides a handy system overview[^1] that should be good enough for most cases. [^1]: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
You say "Nixon is a President" but also "President Nixon".
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> Paradoxical compression is mathematically impossible. This repository contains a description of how to nonetheless achieve it, as well as a demo implementation. That's AWESOME show me! > Of course I am slightly cheating here
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> Subtext is both a PL and a DB to me this is really the desirable core idea
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> You don't choose. It's decided for you I does sound great I must say. I've also found those Gammas are quite happy people on average. Some people call them 'cogs' but those are haters and deltas.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> The Y combinator is not generally useful for instance I wish I had been told that before trying to understand and actually use it. I once wrote a JS benchmark based on Rosetta code to compute Fibonacci numbers. Not only is the Y combin
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
そう言う事ですね〜ッ。は〜い
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
To be sure, the example they give is the worst they could possibly find. I man, to keep out the current date is a laudable goal for a useful log function. But to make the current date a constant is OMG. This could even be useful in a li
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
A Country where people are haters of people will die. A country where people are looking for excuses to own people killers (aka 'pacifiers') will die. I have not read any of the apologies in this thread, I refuse to do so, and I s
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I think those are just fake, right. I mean 'fake Internet points'. Whatcha gonna do with those?
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I disagree with literally all you said. Modules in the browser used not to exist until very recently. NodeJS/npm is a very decent ecosystem. It's not perfect, it's software. NodeJS explicitly strove to keep its standard libra
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I frequently have this problem and I'm always aghast that no OS that I'm aware of has a good method to restrict resource usage to ensure the user can still perform essential tasks like terminate a problematic process. Instead, the
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Postgres gives you named views, named schemas, and transactions that undo even table and view creations, so that's what I use to implement an iterative dev cycle.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This is what I thought would be a good tip when I first learned about CTEs. Turns out I use them sparingly and much prefer to create views to represent steps of data refinement. The benefit of doing it this way is that I can inspect interme
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
> You don't notice the data loss Wait, is that a feature or a bug?
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
That's because a shell isn't a crustacean, it's a mollusc.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
you can write your own table-valued, aggregate and window functions when you use better-sqlite3 (see https://github.com/JoshuaWise/better-sqlite3/blob/master/doc... see Database#function(), Database#aggr
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This literally begs the question whether the prescriptive approach is to be preferred over the descriptive one.
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I for one am in theory very interested in graph DBs, but in practice I yet have to see how do implement a solutions for my particular set of data (and my ideas about the data) in a graph DB without it becoming a huge ball of spaghetti. If y
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
to the author's credit, he does describe himself as a "Opinionated software engineer" /s
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
I tried using tmpfs to create and exercise a file-based SQLite DB, and it performed significantly worse than a RAM-based DB (opened with an empty string or ':memory:').
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
For one thing it's easy to build a bash line or even a NodeJS script that produces a lot of output that is dominated by the terminal's capability to render. When you benchmark it against the same thing but with a `foo > /t
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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
This page, or series of pages—The State of Python Packaging in $YEAR—should have no reason to exist in the first place. But things being as they are, https://xkcd.com/1987/ is as relevant as ever. Compare what's g

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