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by athenot 4y ago
The old MacOS (pre-X) did just that. Strings were all "Pascal strings", ie. with the first byte containing the length of the actual string. Building blocks for memory were also very different from stdlib, notably the use of Handle
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by athenot 4y ago
One way to curb this is to make these fines come out of the pension plan for these officers instead of the general budget (ie. taxpayers). This would better align incentives.
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by athenot 4y ago
They did the same for the weather on the Apple Watch. It used to show the next minimum temperature but sometime last year it changed to minimum within calendar day , which is just about useless.
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by athenot 4y ago
A code snippet showing a simple program right on the home page and "selling" whatever features makes it special would go a long way. It's quite off-putting to have to delve deep into a guide in order to get a feel for a langu
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by athenot 4y ago
Aren't most armed robberies a bluff too? "Give me your wallet or I will kill you." Even if the robber has no intention of actually killing the victim and just wants their money, this is still very much a threat, and whether
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by athenot 4y ago
Back in 2000, there was the "3 second rule": web pages should be fully loaded within 3 seconds. At the time it was very much optimization of image size as loading was pretty much serial, with no async HTTP requests. It saddens me
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by athenot 4y ago
Even in a corporate job, this is immensely useful. Maximizing my own productivity for the things I have to do frees up time for the things want to do at work. I'm talking about personal growth, not leisure (time needs to be allocat
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by athenot 4y ago
This is in the same vein as Imba, which their memoized DOM. https://imba.io
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by athenot 4y ago
You might want to check out the American Academy of Pediatrics' book: Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, Birth to Age 5. If you live in the Southeast of the US, you can get it for free at any Publix supermarket store. https:/&
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by athenot 4y ago
Apparently there are growler tap kits, so that the growler can be enjoyed throughout the week instead of a single sitting.
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by athenot 4y ago
The discussion of Microservices vs. Monolith feels a lot like NoSQL vs. Relational one. That is to say, Microservices are a bad idea right up to the point where monoliths won't work. Most services can be successfully implemented with m
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by athenot 4y ago
A funny example of this can be found by looking for nameserver entries for vatican.va. An apostle and arch-angel for the Vatican, mixed with an Egyptian god and apocryphal character for the Roma exchange they partner with. vatican.va.
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by athenot 4y ago
In the US, this is not true. First they will talk you down if there is imminent danger. There are some real skilled people that are good at de-escalation. They might try to get you in touch with any fiends or relatives you may trust, and ev
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by athenot 4y ago
What this article does describe, is how the fatal "adverse events" take place. It's useful to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms of action for undesireable outcomes. And of course it's one piece of a much large
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by athenot 4y ago
For all of Perl's permissiveness, this is one situation that is explicitely dissallowed: unless condition # do A else # do B end
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by athenot 4y ago
What's wrong with raw cilantro from Mexico? Geniune question.
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by athenot 4y ago
Oddly enough the wealthy suburbs are the ones where there are the most leaf blowing going on. Desire for manicured landscapes + money to pay for lanscaping services that normally service commercial properties = small armies of leafblowing w
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by athenot 4y ago
If that happens, it will spark the creation of a new ICD-10 code, probably somewhere under W20.8 "Stuck by object falling from..." space .
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by athenot 4y ago
One aspect that comes into play is shelf life / freshness of the apple. I normally find Golden Delicious apples to be completely devoid of taste. But they keep a long time so chances are the ones I come across are months old. I was at
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by athenot 4y ago
My email addresses do get more spam than, say my Twitter DMs. But my email provider (not Gmail) is good at identifying most and my own Mail client can pick up the rest. So the net number of spam emails in my email inbox is less than 1 p
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by athenot 4y ago
This is why I left facebook a few years ago: people who, in person, were reasonnable and nice friends spewing hatred online. I decided I'd rather not hear from those people very often and keep good memories of them (and the occasional
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by athenot 4y ago
Purely as a visitor, Zürich definitely felt cleaner and better organized than other cities in western Europe.
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by athenot 4y ago
> So, the best way to getting into the flow state and getting things done (pun intended) is to force yourself to just do it. And also reducing as much friction as possible. For me, that means, reduce temptation to style and ultra minimal
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by athenot 4y ago
Here's one stone: 99 Bottles of beer, in 1500 languages https://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net
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by athenot 4y ago
> GPT-3 is great at sounding coherent, but much worse at actually reliably solving problems. I absolutely see GPT-3 like things aiding with sales decks, but... it won't replace the sales person. Also, if your competitors are using G
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by athenot 4y ago
It appears to have mostly recovered (sorry for the ugly link) https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GBPUSD%3DX/chart?p=GBPUSD%3D...
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by athenot 4y ago
But from the employee side, RSUs are usually communicated (and reasoned about) in dollar amount, with the undersanding that one is getting a number of shares corresponding to that amount. So even if it's an honest miscommunication, it&
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by athenot 4y ago
With a small fine, it's just an annoying cost of doing business. With this ruling, there's a possibility it may actually change the risk/benefit assessment for companies that insist on doing whatever they want with user data.
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by athenot 4y ago
I have a wine fridge that uses Peltier cooling and it feels like the perfect application, since the target temperature is not as low as a normal refrigerator, and quietness is important.
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by athenot 4y ago
I use Add to Reading List in Safari, and like you for the most part don't look at it again... except when I'm on an airplane without wifi, because in the mean time it will have downloaded the page and synced with my phone. So I ha

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