Doxin

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by Doxin 3y ago
Non native too, but I think "The last person you want to be stuck in traffic, is you" is a better phrasing here. It avoids accidentally calling your customers the worst anyways.
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by Doxin 3y ago
One example of the sort of trivia that's burned into my brain: You never want to use the utf8 encoding. It's broken. What everyone else calls utf8 MySQL calls "utf8mb4". MySQL is filled to the brim with this sort of th
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by Doxin 3y ago
I can heartily recommend his "The Machinery of Life" book. It's one of these gorgeous illustrations next to a page of text explaining things for many pages. It really gives you a good sense of how things work at these scales,
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by Doxin 3y ago
Blender is like six or seven different programs in one. It's nothing short of a miracle it works as well as it does.
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by Doxin 3y ago
So it's essentially a bass shaker track?
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by Doxin 3y ago
> an IP address is not an individual As far as I can tell an IP address is Personally Identifiable information as far as GDPR is concerned, but it's not an individual. E.g. media companies here have a LOT of trouble trying to su
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by Doxin 3y ago
Wago's are rated for stranded wire aren't they? It's wire nuts you need to be careful about wrt stranded wire.
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by Doxin 3y ago
I somewhat recently got my drivers license and was taught to never grip the steering wheel with my thumbs on the inside because, and I quote my government certified instructor, "The airbag will rip your thumbs clean off." No clu
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by Doxin 3y ago
I think the reason for being so specific about using tripple quoted strings is that this stuff needs to be parsed out without running it through the interpreter . e.g. pip needs to be able to fish out the pyproject.toml data to install dep
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by Doxin 3y ago
not OP, but what works surprisingly well for me, is doing chores when I am in the mood. That does sometimes mean cleaning out the dishwasher at 3AM, but at least it gets done sometimes instead of never. Just keep an eye out for producti
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by Doxin 3y ago
step one: disable spanning tree, because the LAN is so big it takes half an hour for a port to come up after plugging something in step two: plug a very cheap switch into the network step three: have someone move their desk around, and plug
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by Doxin 3y ago
> Dutch use it on highways to make everyone miserable. There's a couple places it's used and the only people it makes miserable are people who speed . Unlike in some places over here the speed limits are generally sensible,
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by Doxin 3y ago
Regardless of whether it's designed to shorten the game, it lengthens it significantly. Monopoly only ends when enough money leaves the economy. With the free parking lottery a LOT less money leaves the economy, leading to extended pla
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by Doxin 3y ago
Having used I'd sooner file it under "C, with just enough added, removed, and fixed to make it a pleasant modern language", but then my native language is python so take that with a grain of salt if you're a C/C++ p
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by Doxin 3y ago
> Our transit authority reminds riders to arrive at the stop 5 minutes early. For reference, In the Netherlands you only strictly need to be at the stop 30 seconds before departure, as that is when the doors close in preparation for de
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by Doxin 3y ago
The problem here is not the cyclist -- though that's for sure a dick move -- but the lack of proper space for cyclists to exist. There'll be seventy-two lanes for cars, and maybe one cycle lane which'll end up occupied by p
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by Doxin 3y ago
As far as I understand it, it was initially an experiment to determine some figures around when things go critical. Then it turned into a demonstration. Then it turned into a party trick.
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by Doxin 3y ago
I was expecting this[0] video. That "whoops" gets me every time. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2CsO-Vu7oc
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by Doxin 3y ago
going for 150m increments instead of 500 feet increments is only an error of ~8 feet. that doesn't seem so bad. On the topic of switching over: obviously you'd not do it all at once, but phasing in metric on new planes would at le
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by Doxin 3y ago
Can I just say I appreciate the framing of this as an attack? Somehow I hadn't yet mentally filed Google and friends under "Man in the middle" but that's pretty much exactly what's going on. This Web Integrity API i
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by Doxin 3y ago
As a linux user: I don't mind this? Sure ideally games would be properly supporting linux, but as-is all this stuff means linux is even running most of these games at all . In an ideal dream world this keeps going until most of gaming
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by Doxin 3y ago
One of the main issues with that form of mortgage is that people didn't realize, for they were not informed, the payment for the entire house was due in full at the end of the run time. It left a lot of people going "Wait, what? I
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by Doxin 3y ago
While (obviously) child prostitution is awful, we should be careful to not slide into "child labor is good, actually". I don't have any solutions here.
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by Doxin 3y ago
> Of course, you'd need a lego-sorter-style device to separate the sand into different colors afterward. Well that nerd-sniped me. Maybe a very small vibratory feeder so you can handle individual sand particles? Would require the sa
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by Doxin 3y ago
> Debian just works, and is popular enough that it often has packages for third-party software. A lot of the time debs made for ubuntu work perfectly fine on debian testing too, which is nice.
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by Doxin 3y ago
Not all "shaking up" is good shaking up. I'm reminded of this[0] comic about wanting change. [0] https://i.imgur.com/CXoUdMC.jpg
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by Doxin 3y ago
Well, that seems more than a little draconian. Where I live there's banned dogs too, but that mostly pertains to pugs with incredibly short snouts and other such health problems. Never mind that the police can't just seize your do
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by Doxin 3y ago
Reverse osmosis systems (like the one speculated with a membrane) has operating pressures between 40 and 82 bar when using seawater. The ocean is pretty deep but having a 16 kilometer pipe straight down seems like it has its own engineering
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by Doxin 3y ago
The meaning of bitmap here is essentially "bit array". Roaring bitmaps does a bunch of tricks to e.g. compress long runs of identical bits, which also happens to make bitwise operations a lot faster.
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by Doxin 3y ago
> What they're really listening for now are reactor plant noises. Which is why old timey diesel electric submarines still sometimes have the edge over modern subs. No plant noises at all if they are running silent. This leads to som

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