andrewla

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by andrewla 3y ago
My understanding of the article is that for the purposes of the cherry-pick, it "pretends" that the parent of Y2 is the base of the merge. Contrary to what the post says, git only cares about contents, not patches or diffs. The ef
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by andrewla 3y ago
Roku has done the same thing with their appliance. If anyone from Roku is listening, I would pay a significant premium to never again see an ad.
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by andrewla 3y ago
ABC is the other major player in the space besides MusicXML and Lilypond. The Mutopia project [1] is magnificent but largely abandoned in favor of MuseScore [2] which uses MusicXML. The amount of music available there is staggering but lock
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by andrewla 3y ago
I need to play Kerbel Space Program. I have absolutely no intuition about this sort of thing. Some intuition around orbital mechanics from my physics days but rocketry is a bit of a mystery.
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by andrewla 3y ago
I only skimmed the article; but as I understood it the liquid hydrogen here is being used strictly as ejecta. It is not being combusted, the way that it is used in the space shuttle boosters. If that is the case, liquid hydrogen seems like
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by andrewla 3y ago
That's even worse because it will just do the wrong thing when I'm on a different setup. At least with an alias the system can say "yeah, I ain't never heard of 'ff'" so I can fall back on a default.
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by andrewla 3y ago
> “can be fast-forwarded” I find this one annoying because I generally don't want to run `git pull` -- I almost never `git pull`, I usually just `git fetch` and update my branches as necessary. I do wish there was a built-in shortcu
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by andrewla 3y ago
The story in many ways is even more subtle than that -- the carbon cycle (both natural and augmented by human activity) generates ~200Gt of carbon annually, and absorbs ~200Gt of carbon. Human activity yields about 6-10Gt annually. So CO2 e
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by andrewla 3y ago
Mauna Loa is not the only source of historic CO2 levels, though it has the oldest data. You can see all the other ones that NOAA keeps track of through their data interface [1]. Most of the data sources report very similar numbers, especial
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Recursive Drawing(recursivedrawing.com)
124 points by andrewla 3y ago|12 comments
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by andrewla 3y ago
Also brings to mind http://recursivedrawing.com/ , which has been discussed here previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19680149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16728049 http
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by andrewla 3y ago
> But there is a real argument that fictional beings and places don't belong in a serious encyclopedia I'll bite, though -- why the passive voice? What is the argument? The first blush here is that these topics are non-serious
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by andrewla 3y ago
I mean, maybe it would make sense. But having the pages on wikipedia has a bunch of huge advantages -- not least of which is piggybacking on the ad-free nature of wikipedia. The size of the editorial community is much larger too. The reason
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by andrewla 3y ago
What purpose would the theme change have? Is there a risk of confusion?
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by andrewla 3y ago
> no matter how "notable" you think Beedrill might be, it doesn't need it's own separate wikipedia article This has always been my sticking point with deletionist thinking. Why doesn't it need it's own separ
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by andrewla 3y ago
Yes, this is one of the avenues that I've chased down a bit. One problem is termcap/terminfo itself. The definition has expanded greatly over time, and documentation is poor to non-existent. In many cases termcap/terminfo has
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by andrewla 3y ago
Every time my terminal blows up because I wrote some binary data and I have to run `reset` or `stty sane` I'm amazed that we let things get to this point. Frankly I'm surprised that there are not significantly more vulnerabilities
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by andrewla 3y ago
Let's say you have more fine-grained capacity in a given metro than Cloudflare has in an attempt to provide additional value in that metro than Cloudflare can offer. You are blocked from doing so if endusers are using Cloudflare DNS. I
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by andrewla 3y ago
Thanks for the clarification and link! I do think that this has the effect of locking customers into Cloudflare's geoip data, which seems a little sketchy. The operator of archive.is claims that the data itself is bad[1] but I can&#x27
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by andrewla 3y ago
If I understand this correctly, that's hilarious -- Cloudflare is essentially saying that nobody can layer their own cloudflare-like offering on top of their DNS. Edge-routing is their bread and butter! If you want to use the client&#x
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by andrewla 3y ago
Wait -- I'm genuinely curious -- does that mean that data-throttling plans from mobile providers do not exist in California? All the plans I see (in New York) say things like "unlimited but video will be SD instead of HD" whi
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by andrewla 3y ago
My muscle memory can adapt. In terms of day-to-day use, I found it nearly impossible to deal with the behavior of the key combination "xd". "x" is "select-line" and "d" is "delete". So this
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by andrewla 3y ago
I find it less clear what exactly the article is alleging. It refers to a police practice, and says that a judge can extend it further, but the press release says that the police did not apply this practice. And no information is given abou
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by andrewla 3y ago
The article lays out a factual description of the detention law, and lays out the description of the so-far detained members of the group, but fails to connect the two. Nothing in the police report indicates that the law was applied, just a
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by andrewla 3y ago
Not speaking to law, but in principle this seems like a case-by-case decision that (in the US) I would expect a judge to make. I would expect a competent judge to weigh the societal cost of the crime vs the probability of re-committing it v
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by andrewla 3y ago
On the face of it, this sounds very bad. I can't find confirmation that this is happening outside of the statements of the "letzte generation" group itself [1], and the article states as much. The statement from the Munich po
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by andrewla 3y ago
For me, it's the use of Lua. I switched to neovim in no small part for the sane defaults, the XDG layout support, and the async/terminal stuff (and I found the code simplification, addition of tests, and removal of ancient legacy
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by andrewla 3y ago
I'm sure that Chrome's rendering is buggy as hell, but people design websites to work with the bugs; so they design them to work with Chrome, and in Firefox they look wrong unless they make the effort to work with both browsers. I
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by andrewla 3y ago
The most recent data loss incident was when I was trying to use the New York DMV website to upgrade to a RealID driver's license at the same time that I was changing my address. Validation error on one page became unrecoverable (fixing
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by andrewla 3y ago
> It's 2023, Safari and Firefox have been very good for a while. This has not been my experience. Every once in a while I try to make the switch (to Firefox because I'm not generally a mac user, but I use safari on iOS and I&#x

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