SifJar

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by SifJar 6y ago
Looks like lightning breaks the formatting a little, at least for me. Otherwise, very cool. Guessing lighting is a unicode char & not being counted "correctly", which I believe is a challenging thing
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by SifJar 6y ago
For what it's worth, Skype does have the ability to invite people to group chats via shared links - I don't think it's always had this, but has had it for a while now
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by SifJar 6y ago
Plus no commute leaves more free time in the evenings for exercise etc. Obviously not everyone will be doing that, but anecdotally a few people I've talked to from work are going for more walks & cycles etc.
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by SifJar 6y ago
But then how would you know when a given person has updates to see? Sure you could just check periodically, but say there are a dozen people you care about seeing updates for - it gets a lot less convenient than seeing those all in one plac
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by SifJar 6y ago
Risk with that approach is that your complimentary products could become irrelevant or redundant as the open source project evolves e.g. training material could become outdated as functionality changes, a product that relies on some API cou
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by SifJar 6y ago
One further thing to bear in mind here is that some causes of death can be expected to be decreased on account of lockdowns e.g. accidents - less people out and about, less people driving etc. will naturally lead to less accidents. Of cours
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by SifJar 6y ago
newest =/= new something can be quite old, but if nothing has replaced it, it's still "newest" and "most up-to-date"
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by SifJar 6y ago
Yep, for a while Shakti was k7, but then Arthur started over & it became k9. Not sure what happened with k8 k5 was also known as "kOS" and was to be a version of k as a full OS that could run directly on hardware - I believe t
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by SifJar 6y ago
On K - there are now two "real" implementations, one by Kx Systems (i.e. the version under the hood of kdb+) and one by Shakti (new company from Arthur Whitney, original author of k). The Kx one is k4, Shakti is k9. Having said th
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by SifJar 6y ago
> greater ease of use of Termux compared to WSL pretty subjective, I'm guessing most people find terminal-based stuff easier/nicer on a computer with an actual keyboard, rather than a (relatively) small phone screen with a touc
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by SifJar 6y ago
but if using the ASCII separators was common, excel would support that and it seems like this workflow would be unaffected?
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by SifJar 6y ago
To be fair, 40 is "dozens" - a little over 3 dozens, to be exact
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by SifJar 6y ago
> So if anyones analysis is broken, they can still set options(stringsAsFactors=TRUE). But what are the chances that someone stumbling upon supposedly reproducible analysis happens to know that in R >4.0.0 they need to do this? Especi
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by SifJar 6y ago
> Also, i would guess that Windows users are not likely to be free software purists The ones looking for an X server may be more likely to be
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by SifJar 7y ago
> Supposedly, the free market should correct this when consumers stop buying the flawed product. Surely this is only true if the consumer _values_ security? Even assuming every (potential) consumer is educated enough to recognise securi
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by SifJar 7y ago
> Is this really helping Walmart/NewEgg/Amazon/etc vs them just selling the same products directly themselves? Why do this -- are they just trying to avoid these sellers starting competing no-name e-commerce sites? My thou
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by SifJar 7y ago
From the Flutter link: > We do not yet use dartfmt. Flutter code tends to use patterns that the standard Dart formatter does not handle well. We are working with Dart team to make dartfmt aware of these patterns. So it looks like they w
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by SifJar 7y ago
Probably doesn't help with figuring out when to meet, but would maybe help with communicating the time by removing any chance of ambiguity. Or if you're asking e.g. "Does 10.30am work for you?" etc. But really, it's
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by SifJar 7y ago
Use a cookie?
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by SifJar 7y ago
In addition to what others have said, I think the effectiveness of this likely depends heavily on the target audience - to a non-technical user, this will probably come across as lazy. From their perspective, everything else works fine on A
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by SifJar 7y ago
I think when entering a store, it is reasonable to assume that there will be messages about the products carried in the store. I think it is much less reasonable to assume that there will be messages about products not carried in the store
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by SifJar 7y ago
Might be worth mentioning that current evening use is probably much higher than typical evening use, due to people staying home & streaming TV/movies or video chatting with friends, instead of going out & visiting people etc. S
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by SifJar 7y ago
> A company that sells vegan supplements that places advertising in the POS (Point of Sale) is targeted advertising - why should we ban something that has the consent of everyone involved? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but is the cons
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by SifJar 7y ago
I don't think it was setting up the dual boot that GP was saying was impractical, more having to constantly reboot to switch back & forth between OSes.
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by SifJar 7y ago
Actually, shakti is now k9 (it was originally k7 but k7 is now abandoned)
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by SifJar 7y ago
I assume it'd be a chain e.g. db 1 - issue 3141 db 2 - issue 12 (originalid:3141) db 3 - issue 4 (originalid:12) etc.
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by SifJar 7y ago
> I don't see the reason to shorten stuff like printf and main. Reducing key strokes adds something? Bugs hide in the extra chars. On a more serious note, there are several (debatable) benefits to brevity (in programming & in ge
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by SifJar 7y ago
kx also have a version for ARM (available here https://kx.com/download ). Note this is the non-commercial version, not sure if they have a commercial version for ARM. Their frequent mention of IoT is (I think) more to do w
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by SifJar 7y ago
> it's hated by programmers who actually have to write code in it False. Many people really enjoy programming in it (myself included). > It doesn't tell you what caused an error or even where it happened. It just tells you s
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by SifJar 7y ago
It is not "leak user's trades to other traders", it is accepting payment from a third party in order to execute the trade via that third party.

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