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   by awwaiid 4y ago

   I've always thought that until it is actually released, and especially if there is slightly misleading information that it is there but YOU can't try it (but really nobody can but that is downplayed), than it is indistinguishable
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   by awwaiid 4y ago

   Exploring and providing new and different approaches is worthwhile, and I doubt the tradeoffs of each technology is identical.
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   by awwaiid 4y ago

   The <<XYZ ... XYZ syntax for multi-line strings is worth learning since it is used in shell, ruby, php, and others. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_document . You get to pick the "EOF&quo
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   by awwaiid 4y ago

   Reading this is a very very different experience when you are actually reading the noscript text due to non-js feed reader. I read the whole thing before realizing that all the Alex Jones stuff never mentioned Minecraft.
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   by awwaiid 4y ago

   ... you mean the US, possibly allies? Not only is that broad enough to be meaningless, I don't know offhand of any military going to someone's house to require them (by force I assume) to change their GitHub repo name. What are yo
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   by awwaiid 5y ago

   Further down in the thread, crank or not, I found this note on their 'strand' theory very convincing from a FSM perspective: "Today is the first of April. Imagine strands as fluctuating, scaled-down, uncuttable, massless, end
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   by awwaiid 5y ago

   I thought web2 aka web-2.0 was AJAX+Unobtrusive JavaScript aka XHR+jquery aka SPAs. I guess we rolled The Cloud (rented server time) back into that at some point?
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   by awwaiid 5y ago

   How does this compare to https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer -- looks like it is more continuously updating and user friendly?
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   by awwaiid 5y ago

   This .... is delightful! There are several posts in the series. Thank you for your work!
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    IIRC my commodore 64/128 manual came with BASIC and some assembly documentation. Different world when your turn on the machine and ... Get basically a REPL. I did the same thing as the author, wrote BASIC until I needed a faster inner
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    The license of the previous code didn't magically become the GPL altogether, instead it by default became un-distributable. They were required to (a) stop distribution of the existing code since it at best had no clear license, and (b)
12. 162.▲
    by awwaiid 5y ago

    Maybe they keylog and incrementally hash everything including password subset? Seems implausible.
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    If it is an internal tool what is the problem?
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    ... don't they use stripe as their shopify-branded processor?
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    Here is the one I look at (might need desktop version), https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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    by awwaiid 5y ago

    I recall articles about it last September. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6937a6.htm
17. 167.▲
    by awwaiid 6y ago

    Survival of the fittest! Hahaha
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    I recently read, and recommend, The Dream Machine - great walk throught this and many related topics and events. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1732265119
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    Codeship does this too with their `jet` command.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    The buZzzzwords these days are: NoCode/LowCode tool for data insights. Generally I suggest deleting most of the text above the screenshots.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    What do you mean? I think on iOS it is still rendering with Safari.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    Unless we do this on purpose -- UBI or purposeful unemployment with the target of utopia.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    Yesterday I ran into this nice article on using cgroups to contain firefox memory usage, https://dev.to/msugakov/taking-firefox-memory-usage-under-co...
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    I think of this often, and generally call it the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox -- in addition to perceived absorbtion for stakeholders, I think the estimators too find more details the closer they l
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    I'd expect taking statins to then increase risk of heart failure, were it that simple.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    An important lesson from my openmoko days - "sorry I didn't get your call sweetie, see I needed a new video driver for my window manager animations so I recompiled my kernel and that broke the modem..." ....... turns out to n
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    I wonder if twitter used so much hardware when it was on rails.
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    I think that in some ways the semantics of Raku are closer to Ruby than to Perl5. https://docs.raku.org/language/rb-nutshell is a ruby-to-raku walk through. Among other things, Raku has first-class Roles that I think R
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    by awwaiid 6y ago

    There are a TON of experiments and language mash-ups in Raku. Let's see here.... Types can include guard clauses that are evaluated at runtime. Typed multi-dispatch on top of that. In addition to normal "sets" it has "ju