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by avip 7y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cow-orker
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by avip 7y ago
The common-sense approach would be not to introduce such defaults. def foo(bazzes=None): _baz = bazzes or [] ...
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by avip 7y ago
Yes, weirdly missing. Also omitted: my_dict.get('existing_key', foo()) does not short-circuits foo() . That always felt like a bug to me.
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by avip 7y ago
WW III - the missing CC mitigation plan in project drawdown.
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by avip 7y ago
Pretty apt "Where was Gondor" case. HK-ers are alone. No one will help them.
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by avip 7y ago
YMMV. How old are said kids?
607.
by avip 7y ago
### Call for maintainers This family could use some help. If you're an experienced parent, and have some extra time, please contact us.
608.
by avip 7y ago
I don't think that's a very subjective observation. It's really challenging to let urban kids be unsupervised (and, in some places - it's borderline illegal)
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by avip 7y ago
Expect different, not necessarily less. The context is obvious: Parents get less house time, do more house-irrelevant things during said time, and most importantly - the outside is more hostile, so more and more kids life is organized and i
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by avip 7y ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-france-for...
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by avip 7y ago
What does the article say about the pine beetle? The spread and outbreaks are well known to be correlated with higher temps.
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by avip 7y ago
Not in vain they are dubbed TripleSpam
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Yuval Noah Harari under fire for removing Putin criticism from Russian version(newsweek.com)
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by avip 7y ago
I've read this subthread 3 times and can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
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by avip 7y ago
Addiction is not a binary state. I simply have a demand for tech discussions. Yet I’m addicted to HN. It’s fairly easy to identify addiction - you try to quit.
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by avip 7y ago
http://theazollafoundation.org/azollas-uses/as-a-co2-sequest...
617.
by avip 7y ago
Is there a sequel? First ever tweet, HN comment, SO question... tinder profile?
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by avip 7y ago
Not the case in any of the abovementioned languages.
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by avip 7y ago
Assuming is not something "good developers" do.
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by avip 7y ago
CGI is still "widely" (I don't know how to quantify) used in web interfaces for IoT devices that did not drink the Lua kool-aid. That's a lot of CGI out there. Not dead yet.
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by avip 7y ago
The example is interesting. if isDelivered and isNotified: isDone = True else: isDone = false; is not the same code as isDone = isDelivered and isNotified in ruby, python, js (and more?). [edit: while I'm nitpic
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by avip 7y ago
slack has an eye-pleasing page https://slack.com/pi
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by avip 7y ago
Could you elaborate? Enhanced Weathering is questionable on many levels. Have you compared it to other approaches?
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by avip 7y ago
The general lack of ability to engage in logical facts-based discussion is an existential threat to humanity. Even in this civilized forum reasoning not always wins. Things are definitely dire.
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by avip 7y ago
It’s all Latin for we know something you don’t
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by avip 7y ago
Linkedin has years of experience filtering.
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by avip 7y ago
The median HN reader is missing the point of LI because it's not for developers. So you think "man, this sucks". You're like a carpenter looking at a welding machine saying "who needs this huge thing?". We deve
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by avip 7y ago
People say that all the time (we could take all that money from X and invest in Y). It's called a false dichotomy.
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by avip 7y ago
Completely coincidently I've heard it today first time starting with Angel-dust and flowing with YouTube's suggested. I'm completing my GSH education as we speak.
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by avip 7y ago
Let's fix some false assumptions first. 1. The cost of a solar power plant is dominated by real-estate and infrastructure. 2. Energy companies are already building large scale solar farms, and have been for over 15 years. As any non-tr

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