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by amarshall 2y ago
Plenty of places would likely not have put in ramps and lifts if the law didn’t require them to.
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by amarshall 2y ago
Sure, maybe. Though eventually one may find lots of edge cases. What about files in the root that get deleted? What about programs that put wanted state within config dirs? What about programs that ignore symlinked files? What about when yo
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by amarshall 2y ago
> some software probably does. Browsers do, kind of https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/#rules-for-identifying-an-...
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by amarshall 2y ago
No, and I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.
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by amarshall 2y ago
That repo is not actually VS Code. What you get when you download compiled VS Code releases includes proprietary, closed-source components. If you build “VS Code” from OSS components, you do not end up with VS Code.
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by amarshall 2y ago
Many only accept it because there is little choice but do so if they wish to pursue the profession. Despite what you may think, many are not in it for the money, but genuinely enjoy their work (but wish it was fewer hours) and helping patie
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by amarshall 2y ago
Can’t even make it that far on mobile Safari: > Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).
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by amarshall 2y ago
> GitHub’s search is excellent Is it? I find it near-useless most of the time, and cloning + ripgrep to be way more efficient. Perhaps the problem is more in the UX being awful than the actual search.
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by amarshall 2y ago
Meanwhile, in NYC… https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/secret-man-cave-discov...
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by amarshall 3y ago
One thing this should mention is what game version it uses. Updates frequently change the stats and thus what builds are “best”.
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by amarshall 3y ago
> macOS outstripped its ability to throttle filling storage Does it actually do that? I.e. stop the user from writing new data when storage space is extremely low?
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by amarshall 3y ago
You’ve got the 0 and 1 flipped.
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by amarshall 3y ago
A big difference is that many taxes for using roads are paid regardless of road use, whereas a train ticket is obviously priced for the usage. (Yes, gas tax can indirectly be this, but different vehicles have vastly different fuel economies
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by amarshall 3y ago
The default in the majority of the world is that most creative works (including software code) are by-default copyrighted by the author, and the author must explicitly license away those rights. Some jurisdictions (e.g. France) put limits o
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by amarshall 3y ago
I don’t use Flox, but do use Nix + poetry2nix for a few Python projects at work. It is a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes, but because it’s Nix, it’s never a pain till something is deliberately changed. The result is that our dev environm
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by amarshall 3y ago
I don’t know anyone who is recommending against flakes these days. The “experimental” label is more about the API stability than completeness, bugginess, or anything else. There are certain scenarios where the performance can be problematic
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by amarshall 3y ago
Don’t forget the CDs with imaging.
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by amarshall 3y ago
> Since when has HN turned into Reddit? Read at least the last paragraph of https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by amarshall 3y ago
> essentially nullifying the second factor Not totally. It still protects from the password being disclosed via other means (e.g. server db leak).
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by amarshall 3y ago
> branch.sort -committerdate, makes git branch sort by most recently used branches No, it makes it sort by the committer date of the commit pointed to by the branch. Personally I find that to be of little use. To actually sort by recentl
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by amarshall 3y ago
> their querty keyboards Is this an unintentional misspelling, or an intentional one? That it’s italicized makes me think it’s an intentional reference or joke—if so, what is it?
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by amarshall 3y ago
> it has had this annoying habit of requiring me to restart my browser whenever it updates in the background This happens because Firefox detects that its files have changed underneath it while its running—this can cause problems due to,
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by amarshall 3y ago
curl, and likely many other tools, do not use IPv4 by default, but rather quickly and seamlessly fallback (“happy eyeballs”).
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by amarshall 3y ago
For Three Mile, indeed there is some disagreement on the long-term non-fatal health effects. That any causal effect is unclear does not mean it does not exist, but does suggest that, even if it does, it is likely small. (Admittedly, I have
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by amarshall 3y ago
The problem as I see it is that the costs of Three Mile are acute and fairly direct. Whereas fossil fuel power may have even an even bigger cost (from the environmental impact), but as they are slow, chronic, and indirect, they’re easily ov
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by amarshall 3y ago
Very unsafe? In the past 14 years there have been 72 fatalities involving US Air Carriers, out of around 250 million flight hours flown[1]. That’s fewer fatalities in 14 years than there are US motor vehicle fatalities in a single day (on a
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by amarshall 3y ago
The couch goes in the elevator, not the stairwell.
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by amarshall 3y ago
Suburban homes suck. If you get a neighbor mowing their lawn, weed-whacking, leaf-blowing, ignoring their dog endlessly barking outside, or partying late on their patio, there’s nothing you can do about it. Nothing. The police will not help
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by amarshall 3y ago
Loopholes exploit ambiguity or complexity in rules in ways that betray the authors’ intent. Following this definition, there’s no need to conclude that “100% of all income belongs to the government”.
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by amarshall 3y ago
Investopedia is misleading. AMT applies unless they were exercised and sold within the same tax year. AMT thus applies to the vast majority of pre-IPO ISO exercises. Many of those people are not in the top 0.4% incomes (I assume that’s what

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