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by SEMW 9y ago
> It may be new but it is not a well-thought design. 110+ characters per line is hard to read and ugly Er, not sure if you're looking at the before and after screenshots the wrong way round? The new design appears to reduce the nu
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by SEMW 9y ago
Heh. I think they tend to phrase it ".. so as to appear to have taken leave of [their] senses", to leave open the possibility of sanity :) http://www.uniset.ca/other/cs6/2001EWCACiv789.html is a good e
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by SEMW 9y ago
Lots of people in this thread are acting as if the court held that the arms sale was moral, or even a good idea. Courts don't work like that (at least, Judicial Review cases in England don't). The court was asked to block arms sal
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by SEMW 9y ago
I haven't yet tried Idris (or even Haskell), so I could be misunderstanding, but surely in a pure language, a function with a type of String -> Int can't 'blow up', it can only output an Int? So if you want to tell th
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by SEMW 9y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by SEMW 9y ago
> I really hope they get this done quickly You don't have to wait for them to enable it for everyone. Enable it yourself by setting browser.tabs.remote.autostart to true in about:config (on ff48-53 this'll use one one process
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by SEMW 10y ago
> why change? They didn't. The syntax is explicitly stated to be a mixture of OCaml and Elm. The -- comment syntax is from Elm. Elm in turn got it from Haskell.
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by SEMW 10y ago
Congrats on the launch! > We’ve found that some of the most cost-effective charities can buy one year of perfect health (a QALY) for as little as $80 Which was that? IIRC GiveWell only claim $100/QALY for the AMF - have you found a
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by SEMW 10y ago
Shameless plug: if you want something almost as cheap but without having to drop the ability to subscribe from all client libs (not just js), queryable history, presence, connection state recovery, webhooks, stats, firehose to queues, etc,
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by SEMW 10y ago
Funny coincidence, I was running into this exact issue earlier today. Had a customer complain about high response times from even our /time endpoint (which doesn't do anything except return server time) as measured by curl, and tu
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by SEMW 10y ago
> As far as I am aware, neither Apple's warranty nor Apple Care does cover accidental damage I was going off the page you linked to[0], which describes it as: "an insurance product which provides up to two incidents of accident
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by SEMW 10y ago
> when the device fails in whatever way It's still not that simple. It's not like you get six years of unlimited state-mandated insurance. The 'six years' is just from the statute of limitations -- it's just the
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by SEMW 10y ago
> from the definition of Big O notation, O(0) is nonsensical Nitpick: not sure it's nonsensical. Plug g(x) = 0 into the usual definition, and you get |f(x)| ≤ k⋅0 for some k in R, which reduces to f(x) = 0. Which is not satisfiable
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by SEMW 10y ago
> what is the threshold that I can assume that my code will run sync, and when it cant? Generally you won't have a choice. If something in your function calls another async function, the function as a whole is forced to be async. If
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by SEMW 10y ago
Simple thought experiment: realtime messaging system; servers in multiple AZs; user A is connected to endpoint 1 in AZ 1, user B is connected to endpoint 2 in AZ 2; A publishes a message on a channel that B is subscribed to. Then it is an e
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by SEMW 10y ago
It's a nice design. But in this particular case, does it matter? What's the threat, that the credentials you enter into a fake basic auth box could be sent to the server? The credentials you enter into a real basic auth box are
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by SEMW 10y ago
> Alchemy was the search for the ability to transform matter (particularly Pb->Au). I rather think that nuclear fusion/fission are still consider worthy fields This is just a disagreement over definitions. If you define alchemy a
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by SEMW 10y ago
OK, so what makes you think the next one won't be till 2020? Leap seconds aren't like leap years, they're unpredictable, since the Earth's rotation varies in response to geological events etc. The IERS announces them six
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by SEMW 10y ago
Thanks for the well-thought-out response, I appreciate it. Of course you're right that for some usecases, rolling your own infrastructure on Kubertetes or Swarm with an open source solution rather than using a SAAS is the right way to
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by SEMW 10y ago
> Running your own pub/sub service is easy Yep, creating a barebones pub/sub service is pretty trivial (and fun!). But then you may find yourself slowly adding things that a decent pub/sub service should have. E.g. connect
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by SEMW 10y ago
Hi - Matt's tied up atm, but I'll try and reply. (I'm also at Ably). > For the rest of us (think young startups, smaller shops) your costs may be prohibitive ( almost 6K / year) I'm afraid I don't follow tha
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by SEMW 10y ago
> 500$ a month (as an enterprise client) (I work at Ably) Others have already replied to the main question, but just on this - the enterprise package is only if you want the features that come with that package, it's not like we try
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by SEMW 10y ago
> I figure someone at Google thought it was funny to say that blue moons occur approximately every ... 992 days. Not sure if your comment's implying it's a random number picked for amusement? That figure (2.7 years) seems about
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by SEMW 10y ago
> Accidental is not a valid reason, same as ignorance While this happens to be true in this specific case, as a general statement, it's misleading. It is true for copyright infringement because that is a strict liability tort, which
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by SEMW 10y ago
> But how would you even prove or disprove that someone has the key? The same way you 'prove' anything in criminal law: by adducing evidence that convinces a jury beyond reasonable doubt. If they don't have any evidence, t
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by SEMW 10y ago
> What counts as proof? Will a jury understand what doesn't count as proof? ... It is not uncommon for juries to accept flimsy and circumstantial arguments no matter how hard the defense tries to explain that the Prosecutor is spewi
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by SEMW 10y ago
> Yes, this is where the hairs rise on our arms: if you have a recorded file with radio noise from the local telescope that you use for generation of random numbers, and the police ask you to produce the decryption key to show them the t
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by SEMW 10y ago
Does it matter? If your connection gets MITM'd and someone changes the .sig files, they'll no longer validate against GNU's code-signing public key (which you may already have, or if not, the link to download it is https (
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by SEMW 10y ago
They've asked to, multiple times. The Ecuadorian embassy won't let them. " Last month, Ecuador’s prosecutor-general rejected a previous request from the Swedish prosecutor to question Assange in London. That office, in a lett
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by SEMW 10y ago
> I forget it's even e-ink ... looks like any other screen to me. That'll be because it isn't e-ink :) It's an LCD, specifically this[0] Sharp 'memory LCD'. Pebble brand it as "e-paper", but that&#

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