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by arkh 7y ago
The joys of JSONPath. Its documentation. Its implementations. Its capabilities. I'm waiting for more fun with JSONSLT the day someone has the idea to make a first limited and poorly documented implementation.
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by arkh 7y ago
> generally manifest excellent lane discipline Until you get to a road with more than 2x2 lanes. You have people half asleep in the middle lane going 10 km/h under the speed limit.
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by arkh 7y ago
Not dissing Wordpress. Just the redescovering of software you install and can configure easily / install plugins to get what you want without coding yourself. Lot of people hate on Wordpress but will go for other Nocode solution which
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by arkh 7y ago
> nocode apps Do you mean fancier Wordpress?
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by arkh 7y ago
> If I were writing a sophisticated user interface today—say, a programming language or a complex application—autocompletion is one of the primary constraints I would design it around. Early php did something like that just not for the s
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by arkh 7y ago
Not good for coding. But check documentation on the side? Maybe.
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by arkh 7y ago
> it's unreasonable Is it? Slower than on more recent ones I agree. But processors architecture and components has not changed a lot. If Microsoft manages 10 years on wildly more diverse hardware with their OS, I don't see why
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by arkh 7y ago
> The joys of the Android vendor ecosystem. Even when going with official Google phones: my Nexus 5 is way out of date OS-wise.
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by arkh 7y ago
> Parallel programming is not hard per se Last time I checked there was no "best parallel sorting algorithm". All depend on your architecture (core, memory, network).
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by arkh 7y ago
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "All employees" So I'll hazard a guess about a change in what part of those mining and logging industries hired: less manual workers and more office ones as they get consolidated into bigg
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by arkh 7y ago
When you don't have someone to spend your money to keep up with the Joneses you suddenly need a lot less: less space, less home decoration, less clothes, less going out for food, a smaller ride.
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by arkh 7y ago
Storing the language they want to use or other configuration.
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by arkh 7y ago
Simple problem: checking users have the rights to do something before you let them. Do you reconstruct the user account every time you want to check their rights (so, for every action they do)?
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by arkh 7y ago
Let me guess: they have a PhD and would like to live hassle free.
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by arkh 7y ago
"hard" SF is often about the physics being right. Dragon Egg is a good one: you get the effects of gravity around a neutron star but no details about some scientific vessel hardware. Or with the revelation space cycle where the sp
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by arkh 7y ago
> and as long as this remains the case And how do you think this can change but by having projects whose main language is not English?
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by arkh 7y ago
From their post about the $2k salary after taxes: > but they are close to most European/western countries
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by arkh 7y ago
> grocery store cashier who makes $2000 USD/month after taxes Not "close" to most European/western countries. You may be really disconnected from normal people revenues. > assuming average yearly yield with reinves
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by arkh 7y ago
Nay. > A picture says more than words Because it relies on a lot of cultural background. Which in the world of emoji changes fast. This won't be welcoming of new users when they have to learn 10 or more symbols for whatever you&#x27
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by arkh 7y ago
> Please make a public example of this termination within the group. Please also make it a very strong part of new hire training for the group. So already in 2007 a group of people at Google (all the hiring staff) knew about this policy.
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by arkh 7y ago
> the amount of times you miss-click because something pops in suddenly and moves the button you wanted down the page Browsers should have an option to let you send click events to what was under the mouse 200ms before it was registered.
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by arkh 7y ago
> A good way in game design is also to introduce randomness. Randomness management is one of the main transferable skills from one game to another. Most good Poker players tend to be able to easily become good at other games with randomn
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by arkh 7y ago
> Fission has been in development for many decades. You're thinking of fusion. Reading the comments here from France where 80% production is nuclear with a nuclear waste reprocessing site it feels like the USA problem has more to do
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by arkh 7y ago
I remember some fake news about Iraq and WMD around 2003.
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by arkh 7y ago
> It is now possible to escape question marks in SQL queries to avoid them being interpreted as parameter placeholders. Writing ?? allows sending a single question mark to the database and e.g. use the PostgreSQL JSON key exists (?) oper
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by arkh 7y ago
Here is what you get some days with solar and wind: https://i.imgur.com/m2snJgg.png . Germany using a lot of standard gas and coal generators.
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by arkh 7y ago
> If you break ground today on a nuclear generator, you will not see your first kwh generated for at least a decade. If Climate Change is so important, declare a total war against it like during WW2 against the Axis. With most production
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by arkh 7y ago
> nuclear waste is stored on the beach What?
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> Indeed the conspicuous embrace of “elite values” by journalists and academics is often little more than an aspirational attempt to remain connected to an economically distant elite—just as educated millennials’ conspicuous consumption
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by arkh 7y ago
> it's almost always less effort to optimize the DOM-based approach I remember browsers starting to not love dynamic tables with just some thousands of rows.

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