ThJ

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by ThJ 8y ago
People have two layers. Behavioural psychology tends to pretend that the deeper layer; the one that comes out when you're depressed and shatters all your illusions; doesn't exist. People know. They just block it out and invent rea
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by ThJ 8y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about setjmp() and longjmp(), which can be used to implement this kind of mechanism.
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by ThJ 8y ago
It's funny that this even needs to be a blog post. I can see why simple key-value stores have become so popular in recent years. Developers don't want to learn SQL properly, and end up using the database as if it were a key-value
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by ThJ 8y ago
This is a very American sort of story. The long hours, the lousy paychecks, the lack of universal healthcare, the reliance on fast food. It's possible to not live like that, but America doesn't want to.
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by ThJ 8y ago
This guy is both smart and stupid at the same time.
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by ThJ 8y ago
I had to stop reading when he claimed that the BSD heritage of macOS is only of academic interest. The guy has clearly never tried to use macOS.
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by ThJ 8y ago
Last Apollo mission was in 1972, so only 5 years after. I honestly didn't check the date of the last Apollo mission but I knew it was in the 1970s. Point is, both UNIX and VMS are ancient, and it doesn't matter, which was my entir
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by ThJ 8y ago
Right, but that's the output end of it. What about the input end? Developers are also users of libraries and frameworks. My question is perhaps more about why poorly documented frameworks end up in production systems than why people do
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Why don't developers seem to care about good documentation?
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by ThJ 8y ago
The UNIX heritage of macOS may be from the Apollo era, but so is the UNIX heritage of Linux, an operating system that pretty much powers the infrastructure of the Internet. Using macOS isn't so different from using something like Ubunt
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by ThJ 8y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing you'd say to make people who don't believe in the myth try to smoke banana peels anyway. "It worked that one time, oh, what a mystery, we must find the secret..."
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by ThJ 8y ago
Pretty much. I just check it occasionally. Did the same thing back when I was a Gmail user, because Gmail has false positives too from time to time.
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by ThJ 8y ago
When I said legit newsletters, I meant the sort you get from sites you've already signed up for. Newsletters that arrive out of the blue are not legit and you should of course never interact with those, but that's self-evident f
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by ThJ 8y ago
I have a mail server for my personal email that I've been maintaining for the better part of a decade. It started out as Qmail/Courier, changed to Postfix/Courier and finally Postfix/Dovecot, always with Spamassassin as
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by ThJ 8y ago
Can't read article due to paywall.
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by ThJ 8y ago
Apple had a good run. I'm in a twist. I don't like Windows or Android and Linux just isn't there on the desktop. I made the switch from Windows/Android around 2012-2014 and it was a relief. Now I hate all their new hardw
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by ThJ 8y ago
I wonder if these aircraft contain any accelerometers, and if they do, how many?
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by ThJ 8y ago
Location: Oslo, Norway Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe (best to relocate within the EU since self-taught people rarely get H1B visas) Technologies: JS (functional/reactive style, node.js, express.js, React, React Native), assemb
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by ThJ 8y ago
I'm a native speaker of Norwegian, a language which also has three grammatical genders. I don't experience it as having to memorise genders. I only notice them when they are wrong. They're not completely useless. "Det re
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by ThJ 8y ago
I don't see how this is different from what the United States federal government attempted with the Metric system back in the 1970s. Granted, the effort failed, but more due to cultural inertia than due to any resistance from the state
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by ThJ 8y ago
If we draw an analogy to stagecraft and "Ann Anchor" is a character from a popular play, it isn't unreasonable to expect a performer to dress up for a role. Actors sometimes go as far as losing or gaining weight or muscle mas
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by ThJ 8y ago
Are you a first-timer MEP? I didn't catch from the video who you are. The voting does look too fast. What are they voting over? Something they don't give two shits about, judging by the pace...
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by ThJ 8y ago
Well, as the article points out, and other articles have pointed out, Metformin has a modestly positive effect on longevity. The diseases associated with diabetes type II (metabolic syndrome, syndrome X) pretty much overlap with the main di
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by ThJ 8y ago
The free software movement likes silly things like these.
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by ThJ 8y ago
You are conflating what SSH does with what the terminal you're running it in does. SSH barely knows what terminal emulation is. You can literally pipe binary data into it at one end and receive that data into a program at the other end
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by ThJ 8y ago
Why don't doctors recommend them for type 2 diabetes? Well, my general impression is that doctors live under this illusion that patients will somehow succeed in making lifestyle changes that will cause the disease to go into regression
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by ThJ 8y ago
I have type 2 diabetes and I've always been a bit envious of insulin pumps, not because I love having a machine plugged into my body (I don't), but because they offer better control of blood glucose peaks, since they use fast-acti
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by ThJ 8y ago
Earlier today, I made a little scatter plot comparing the tax burden (tax revenue to GDP ratio) of a bunch of countries against their UN World Happiness Index. This is the result: https://snabeltann.no/system/media_atta
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by ThJ 8y ago
I won't get the answer to that question, it seems, because their site doesn't work properly on mobile...
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by ThJ 8y ago
They keep writing articles about this, but I have yet to meet a manager who cares.

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