EdiX

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by EdiX 5y ago
How about the 20 million they spend on awards and grants? It doubled between 2019 and 2020, isn't it weird that they spend 10x as much in awards and grants than they spend on hosting everything?
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by EdiX 5y ago
From the same data scientist that concluded non-linear growth from two single data points...
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by EdiX 6y ago
> 20% of the world speaks Mandarin Chinese (not all as a first language tho). And, about the same % as speak English natively, speak Hindi (+ dialects) natively, and again about the same amount speak Arabic, and again about the same amou
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by EdiX 7y ago
This story was told before many times but what I thought was interesting is that this actually tells us the name of the diner where UTF-8 was invented, which still exists today under a different name: https://goo.gl/maps&#x2
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UTF-8 turned 20 years old (2012)(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
1 points by EdiX 7y ago|1 comments
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by EdiX 7y ago
Broadly speaking, I agree with you. I was responding to the hysteria about the trim wheel in this thread. I'm getting the impression that some users think the trim wheel, or its behavior under extreme aerodynamic conditions, is a &quot
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by EdiX 7y ago
> The planes are already unmanageable, even if MCAS is fixed: human pilots aren't strong enough to turn the trim wheels manually in an emergency. Operation of the trim wheel and the forces acting on it are the same as the 737 NG. I
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by EdiX 7y ago
The trim wheel is the same as in every other 737, and it's one of the safest airplane types ever built.
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by EdiX 7y ago
None of this is true. His "rant" was a well researched memo with extensive links to state of the art research. You should actually read the real thing, once, instead of the maimed version published by the guardian. But honestly it
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by EdiX 7y ago
Why is John Gruber reprinting anonymous emails that are clearly lying? Richard Stallman was never married so he never had an "open marriage" either. Given that the person writing the email didn't even bother to verify this ea
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by EdiX 7y ago
> I don't get it. A linker's task should be straightforward. In Go the linker also generates DWARF, does deadcode elimination and a bunch of other stuff described in the associated document. > And how can it be that a binary
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by EdiX 7y ago
> Kennedy Glad to finally know that cancer actually has a name. Kennedy made me stop using Google Reader and the GMail web UI.
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by EdiX 7y ago
I think the cave and torch metaphor is underselling me on my editor's ability to have split windows.
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by EdiX 8y ago
The sad part is that it's not better in the app. I tried it.
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by EdiX 8y ago
If I didn't make any mistakes 20 quadrillions are equivalent to 20000 TFLOPS. Wikipedia says you can get 12 TFLOPS with a high end graphics card for 1200$. 4000$ inflation adjusted is 6000$ which means you can get 5 of those for a tot
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by EdiX 8y ago
You check out the dependency you want to change and add a replace directive in go.mod. Either a temporary one to a file system path or a permanent one to a forked repository.
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by EdiX 8y ago
> Why are vendor directories a bad habit ? They aren't, not having them is.
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by EdiX 8y ago
> Right now, "module mode" is mutually exclusive with "vendor mode" and I don't think there are any plans to change that. This is not true. If you pass -mod=vendor, or place it in $GOFLAGS, go will build somethin
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by EdiX 8y ago
What makes this the first "True" Word Processor? Looking things up on Wikipedia I find that IBM's Expensive Typewriter, a computer program for the PDP-1, existed in 1961, several years before the Redactron Data Secretary. Bo
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Searching the Creative Internet(crawshaw.io)
119 points by EdiX 8y ago|46 comments
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by EdiX 8y ago
>This is said every single time when "JIT" is mentioned but I've never heard an argument how that might be possible I'll explain it but you have to pretend that we are in the 90s, so before you continue reading click
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by EdiX 8y ago
This is amazing. Not even their own examples work. I tried "blocks until the server has shut down", which they suggested, and it gave me 3 results, none of which were code blocking until the server shut down. I'm surprised th
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by EdiX 8y ago
I guess this must be it. IRC could in theory do everything Slack does but setting up a server is a pain and shiny clients are rare... I wonder about the rest of the competition, for a while everybody was using hipchat, I never used it mysel
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by EdiX 8y ago
> I wonder how much longer Slack’s web client is going to remain a first class product? It never was? The Android client takes 10 seconds to start, runs my device hot and the UI is so bad that the first time I tried to respond to a threa
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by EdiX 8y ago
You should try cinnamon. There's no accounting for taste, but after using gnome 3 for three years I tried cinnamon (version 3.6, older versions weren't good) and I found it better across the board.
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by EdiX 8y ago
I've read this opinion a few times and at one point (before trying mobile slack) I believed it. Is this true for iPhone users maybe? I've used slack on mobile and I find it worse than the desktop version. It starts slightly faster
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by EdiX 8y ago
With the post about golang branding this is the second time in the space of a few months that I read a branding post that sounds like a parody. Look at the images at the bottom. Look at that hip guy wearing D&G sunglasses and a hip, obv
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by EdiX 8y ago
go get will update a dependency and edit go.mod for you automatically. And using go mod -fix will fix misleading versions specified in go.mod (i.e. if you require version X but are getting version Y because of a transitive dependency the re
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by EdiX 8y ago
By definition sex workers are the opposite of monogamy. Also what are you objecting to here? Prostitution in general? Having it subsidized by the state? This argument: > They point to how in the Netherlands, the disabled have access to s
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by EdiX 8y ago
Maximum bounds only help you if cool-framework developer knew about the incompatibility with boring-library when version 1.5.0 of cool-framework was released. If boring-library 1.5.0 was released after cool-framework 1.5.0 or the author of

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