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by MarkSweep 2y ago
It is defined in the first two sentences of the article. I’ll duplicate those sentences here: > The word "prig" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it will sound familiar. Google's isn't bad
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Not necessarily. In many US states, tips count for a portion of the minimum wage. So if you tip a minimum wage employee but the tip does not cause them to go above the minimum wage, you have only reduced the amount the employer is required
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I feel like Progress Quest from 2002 is the spiritual predecessor of the clicker genre: http://progressquest.com/ In that it distills the game mechanic of “make number go up” into a simplistic form. It just lakes the clicki
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Some growth team probably has goal to move a metric. This promotion is one of their experiments. If they move the metric, they can cite that in their performance review. If the promotion causes bad PR (see this thread) and none of the pre-l
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Is there any similar campaign to have something done about loud vehicles?
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Just don’t park in a bus stop. It’s not that hard. We have so many parking spaces dedicated for vehicles there is no excuse in Alameda County. Other comments in this thread complain about the difficulty of finding a legal place to drop peop
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
One idea for catching this sort of break in the future is monitoring the source people use to acquire your app. It looks like the App Store might support tracking which website referred people to download your app: https://develo
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
The referencesource repository is only relevant if you are using the legacy .NET Framework. Modern .NET has a special case for passing a List<Task> and avoids the allocation: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime&#x2F
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Raymond Chen has an article discussing whether or not this should be taken into account: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20210629-00/?p=10...
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Thanks for this reply, it was more informative than the original "dunking" one.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
There is a runtime (not C#) feature that has been added that is relevant to the article: ref fields in structs. Before these, only certain runtime-blessed types like Span<T> could contain refs directly. In case anyone is interested, h
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I think it’s “provably secure” in the same sense that end to end chat apps can be provably secure. You can compare codes in the apps to prove that your conversation are noting man-in-the-middles. You still have to trust the software running
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Looking at an Japanese to English dictionary: https://jisho.org/search/%E7%94%9F%E3%81%8D%E7%94%B2%E6%96%9... Besides the examples you mention, the French phrase “raison d'être” is commonly used in English well.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
As long as we counting Go as an alternative to Rust, there are a whole host of other garbage collected languages that provide memory safety benefits compared to the status quo of C and C++. Languages like Ruby, Java, Python, C#, and PHP. Pe
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
This is not quite the same thing, but if you want to see the latency from your computer to GCP, there is this website: https://gcping.com/
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
That explains why they have been unable to implement CSV export of transactions all these years.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
To my eyes, the TCL that makes up configs for AutoSetup as well as the tool itself are much easier to read and audit than the M4 used in AutoTools projects. So I think this is an improvement. See the sources in FossilSCM for an example (aut
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
> I'm not sure if XmlSerializer ever caught up in that regard. Not really. The one thing that exists to make this easier is xsd.exe, which can generate the code for these classes from and XML Schema file. https://learn.mi
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I like the concept. A similar idea that is no longer on the web was “shady url”. It would make links that looked like http:// shadyurl.com/nader-for-president.exe
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
If you are in a large company that VPNs all your traffic to one point, you can get rate limited if you visit GitHub without logging in. If you are getting the GitHub API, the rate limit is 60 request per hour, per IP. That is easy to hit. I
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Hypothetically you could talk to all your neighbors. But I understand the tradition is only communicate with apartment neighbors with percussive modes of communication (I.e. pounding on the wall).
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
If you include the ability of 32-bit versions of Windows to run 16-but Windows and DOS applications with NTVDM, it is more like 40+ years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine (Math on the 40 years: window
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I like these sort of "small scale data problems". There is a lot of design space when you in this area when you don't have to be "web scale". My approach for this particular problem is to check some TeX files into G
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I appears that this is using HttpListener to implement the HTTP protocol: https://github.com/sisk-http/core/blob/main/src/Http/HttpSer... HttpListener, while not deprecated, is frozen and not t
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
The author has another post that describes how the website worked, including how it changed over the course of its existence. But briefly, yes, web sockets are used to stream updates from the server. http://eieio.games/essay
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
> Does that mean that this mono project and its associated repo and what is within the dotnet repo are not the same and could (if they have not already) diverge? Yes, they have diverged. Just as Microsoft forked the CLR to create CoreCLR
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I found someone requesting that it be added to Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/%3Ca%20href=%22bugreport.cgi... So far no one has mentioned licensing being an issue.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
.NET Core is available for Debian, you just have to add Microsoft's APT source [1]. Fedora [2], Ubuntu [3], and FreeBSD [4] build .NET from source themselves. A lot of work has been done to make it possible to build .NET from source [5
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Their 2023 annual report does report an “adjusted EBITDA margin” of 47% for 2023. But their net income margin is 13%. They are borrowing money to upgrade their network for each new technology, so I think it’s fair to include depreciation an
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I don’t think that number is correct. T-Mobile’s net income in 2021 was $3.024 billion. I think you might be confusing the first number on the page (postpaid revenue of $42.562 billion) for profit. See page 45 of https://s29.q4cd

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