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by Udo 11y ago
I have been searching for the same thing, ideally I'd like to buy an electronic scale with a digital I/O port. You may have more luck finding these in the US than I had in the EU, but in any case I wasn't able to find anythin
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by Udo 11y ago
The grandparent wasn't asserting media conglomerates are actually failing in any way that matters. Still, the question about the validity of these scare-o-mercials remains. Somewhere deep in these corporations there are obviously peopl
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by Udo 11y ago
Just as a counterpoint, I have found many, many uses for Pis in my life. One is hosting my home automation software, I have built several information radiators with it, one is acting as a network-controlled media player, I even made one tha
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by Udo 11y ago
> Get on steam with no 'greenlight'? Where does it say that? If that's true, it would bring the overall quality of Steam indie titles down even further, so why would they do that? Don't get me wrong, there is some g
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by Udo 11y ago
So our disagreement boils down to language "gotchas"? Yes, you got me. Although one might argue that labeling something a regression is not a value judgement when things have indeed gone back to how they were in the past - but if
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by Udo 11y ago
Just because some people suffer from side effects doesn't mean it's a bad option for everyone. Both medically speaking and from a maintenance point of view, the pill is still a good default for most women. Cultural support may hav
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by Udo 11y ago
Yes, my personal opinion seeped through a little bit here. If that offended you, so be it.
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by Udo 11y ago
I said it's a culture shift, I didn't mean to pass any judgement. As someone with a male body I'm not really in the position to tell. I have a strong feeling of what I would do if I had been born female, but I was not, so...
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by Udo 11y ago
To someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s like me, this seems like a strange regression in some ways. The overwhelming majority of girls were on the pill pretty much when they became sexually active, and when I look at my age group right no
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by Udo 11y ago
No, I'm curious. Aren't you? Or does everyone besides me already know what it means and what the connection is to the software?
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by Udo 11y ago
"By the people and for the people"? What's up with the political message on top of this?
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by Udo 11y ago
Since we have no idea what dark matter is, it's unknown how it interacts with black holes. If it is really a form of actual matter, it can become part of a black hole like anything else in the universe. Whatever its nature, a sufficien
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by Udo 11y ago
Everything about the universe as we see it would be a mystery to them, because the only way of them interacting with our universe is through gravity. But if you see it from our side, to us dark matter is just an incomprehensible field of
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by Udo 11y ago
I can't even count the number of times I made a short script/tool for some task that could have been accomplished by stringing together some highly arcane command line invocations. Sometimes, I had legitimate reasons for this beca
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by Udo 11y ago
It's the same in German, probably all northern-european languages. "Korn" is a generalized term for cereal grain, and I think the best literal translation would indeed be "grain". I suspect it's related to the
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by Udo 11y ago
The entire point about being careful of our environmental impact is because we are destroying our own habitat . Sure, the advent of human civilization might be a mass extinction event, but the Earth had these before, and nature will go on.
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by Udo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or local engagements throughout Europe or the US. I'm specializing in getting MVPs done, mostly web apps and full-stack work on websites. My daily rate is $550. Languages: JavaScript,
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by Udo 11y ago
> We need more of these freeform interactive management sandboxes. If you haven't checked it out yet: Rimworld. You manage a group of people who crashed their spaceship on a planet, and they found a colony. The game has a storytel
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by Udo 11y ago
I'm looking forward to this in PHP7. My current workaround, which exists for the same reason as the coalesce operator ( https://wiki.php.net/rfc/isset_ternary ) is a custom function: $v = @first($var1, $var2, &#
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by Udo 11y ago
I already talked about my reasoning. But you are correct when you say this is a form of implicit error silencing. Dynamic languages usually have many features which could be described as implicit error silencing, and even statically typed o
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by Udo 11y ago
It's debatable whether this behavior was a good fit for Objective-C, since it's not actually a dynamically typed language. People reasonably expect their Obj-C compiler to do static checks and in this context dynamic behavior is a
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by Udo 11y ago
I agree that the invokation idea is relatively wild, that's why I made it into a separate point. There are somewhat successful languages out there where sending a message to a null object doesn't do anything. If this is a class of
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by Udo 11y ago
I think a good case could be made that, if you're designing a new dynamically typed language from scratch that doesn't have to support older code, safe array/object navigation should be the default. My argument for this is yo
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by Udo 11y ago
If you want your stuff to live on, there is an easy fix. You can set up your will so some or all of your stuff will be uploaded to a public place, such as GitHub or whatever. Or you can ask a friend to go through your digital possessions an
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by Udo 11y ago
Well, if I'm going to be a poor culture fit anyway, it may as well be on my terms.
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by Udo 11y ago
I think you should have marked this "Show HN", it might have gotten more attention.
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by Udo 11y ago
That's not the point. With the built-in encoder, people create movies which they make money from. Now, Youtube recodes those when you upload them, however, the "original" movie was created on a Mac. And apparently the license
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by Udo 11y ago
Interesting, this means you can't use OS X to make your videos if you're a Youtuber.
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by Udo 11y ago
I mistyped, too late to edit it now: I meant to say the "Freelancer" thread. I don't have to contact anyone myself. In fact, I never had much success getting business from people who didn't contact me first.
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by Udo 11y ago
I've been working as a freelancer for a bit more than a year now and let me offer a counter perspective. This article is a report from the absolute bottom. Part of the problem is the clientele: data scraping jobs are the shadiest, wors

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