Toxygene

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by Toxygene 6mo ago
The idea was kind of amusing until I went to the GitHub page and was greeted with a Chudjak [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Crusius#In_popular_cul...
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by Toxygene 1y ago
To access a private CodeArtifact repository, you have to first fetch a short-lived token, then supply that as the password when you access it via npm/yarn, poetry, etc. In most cases, this is an inconvenience that can mostly be paved o
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by Toxygene 1y ago
At my job, we use AWS CodeArtifact to host a couple dozen internal libraries we use for Python and TypeScript projects. I suspect that this is a common use case for these kinds of artifact repositories.
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by Toxygene 2y ago
Very cool. I created a thermal printer project a few years back that prints (low quality) proxies of Magic: the Gathering cards based on the rules for "Momir Basic". It was a fun project, though formatting images to work with the
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by Toxygene 2y ago
As you correctly observed, step one does not normalize 'HYPHEN-MINUS' to 'HYPHEN'. Instead, that occurs in step three, using the confusables data file [1]. [1] https://www.unicode.org/Public/security
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by Toxygene 2y ago
Another option would be to detect and/or normalize Unicode input using the recommendations from the Unicode consortium. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/ Here's the relevant bit from the doc: > Fo
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by Toxygene 3y ago
If you are asking why the study isn't covering a period of time including winter, it's because the study goes for a full year and this is only a report at the half way point. > On Tuesday, the group released data on the halfway
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by Toxygene 3y ago
Have I lost my marbles? It doesn't work? (temp5) ~/temp5 pip install . ERROR: Directory '.' is not installable. Neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.
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by Toxygene 3y ago
While at a conference last year, I got COVID. My hotel refused to extend my stay, and wanted me to take an ambulance ride to another "COVID quarantine" hotel. I had a bad fever, was far away from my home and family, and didn'
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by Toxygene 3y ago
Migration was a complete nightmare for me. I had a couple of accounts for myself and kids. I used Gmail "plus addressing" for all the accounts. MS actively prevents creating accounts using email "plus addressing" so I ha
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by Toxygene 4y ago
> he's the only recent president who didn't start a new war Not for a lack of trying. The assassination of Qasem Soleimani was authorized by Trump and led to several direct attacks on each other and only stopped after Iran acci
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by Toxygene 4y ago
Reminds me of the Venmo scam I encountered a month ago. Some person I don't know sent me $50, then tried to send me a request for $50, but accidentally sent me another $50. I'm confident this was a scam, so I sent a support reques
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by Toxygene 4y ago
I was incorrect in that assertion. Abortion was not codified until Roe v. Wade.
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by Toxygene 4y ago
The question was not about the most recent finding of the SCOTUS. The question was, why wasn't abortion codified into law since Roe v. Wade.
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by Toxygene 4y ago
> [...] why was it never codified in law? The findings of the SCOTUS in Roe v. Wade was: The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fundamental "right to privacy" that protects a preg
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by Toxygene 4y ago
> as regex is a lot faster than parsing html This person would like a word with you -- https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 :D
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by Toxygene 4y ago
Yikes, the authors summary of Knox v US sure glosses over a lot of context about the case.
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by Toxygene 5y ago
The worst programmer I know is myself, six months ago. The most arrogant programmer I know is myself, in six months.
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by Toxygene 5y ago
> should make the idea of evolution a lot easier for some in various communities to finally grasp Only if the members of those communities are receptive to re-evaluating their ideas and changing their minds.
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by Toxygene 5y ago
Word of warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#2007_Bo...
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by Toxygene 5y ago
YMMV, but I just checked my neighborhood out and the satellite image is ~5 years old.
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by Toxygene 6y ago
I'm not sure if/when it changed on the site, but MySpace listed the time comments were made in the comment posters local timezone instead of the readers timezone. It was such a strange thing that I still remember it decades later.
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by Toxygene 8y ago
I'm a developer in the Midwest and my team participated in the signaling contest for the MTA Genius Challenge[1]. I handled gathering the raw data from our hardware and generating visualizations for testing, troubleshooting, and eventu
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by Toxygene 9y ago
I worked with Tony a number of years ago and have been following him on social media. He does a lot of public records research, and for the last two+ years or so, he's been fighting the Hennepin Count Sheriffs office over public record
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by Toxygene 17y ago
These shoes have nothing to do with the moonwalk.