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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
They've been down most of the day in North America. I've been using the service for about a year or so, without any problems but they have had at least some down time almost every day for the last few weeks. How common is it for b
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
Goodreads doesn't get enough love from Amazon, It always seemed really odd to me that the recommended books in the kindle store were better than goodreads even though it's all the same company. It seems like a wasted opportunity.
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
HA! That error handling was one of the more tedious parts of golang to me. Though Rust has it's own quirks, the error handling was one of the more compelling reasons for me to switch my side projects to use Rust instead of Go. That bei
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
The blame is always shifted to the consumers, the logic being that consumers would make more sustainable decisions if they really cared about it, totally ignoring that it's either prohibitively expensive for many or almost impossible t
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
I'm a Canadian residing in the United States and have been on a TN for a few years and was selected in the H1B lottery this year. Would the visa ban prevent me from re-entering after October when I receive the H1B? Would it also preven
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
He asked for too much money
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
That polar bear was depressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_(polar_bear) He was the first zoo animal to be given anti-depressants. There's even a song about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
Fantastic book! I only wish there were more in depth books like this. I've read Countdown to zero day as well almost immediately afterwards and was similarly engaged.
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
+1 for rustlings, it's fantastic, I went through it right after reading through the book. The books are good, but it's hard to compete with being hands on like rustlings is.
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by armSixtyFour 6y ago
I remember reading it was everyone's favorite weekend language. There's certainly more people using it over the weekend than using it professionally. Maybe that's why there's so much of here today.
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
I read a little over 50 books this year as a personal challenge. I think only one of them wasn't worth reading and only because it was really out of my wheel house and I just didn't enjoy it. It took up a considerable amount of ti
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
Exactly this, and if looks good from a social perspective that's just an added bonus.
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
My guess is there's more to it than that. I think that they have less confidence in the financial prospects of those projects as well.
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
Because Keystone is in the name, and the keystone XL pipeline has been on Canadians, and Americans minds for about a decade now, that's the only reason this is getting attention right now. the proponents for pipelines will see this as
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
Maybe, but it's working great already for everyday use. Besides, Google does nerdy stuff like this all the time and people love them for it. I've been using it full time for a bit longer than two years. In the beginning I think I
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
I use vim binding in the shell a lot, typically for stringing a bunch of commands together. For replacing one word would using the `^` work? ex: `$ echo "hello"` > hello `$ ^hello^goodbye` > echo "goodbye" > goo
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by armSixtyFour 7y ago
Unemployable with millions of dollars to invest in whatever it is they want. It's not all roses, but it's not as if their lives are over.