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by bhaak 8y ago
> It hasn’t completely replaced C The keyword here is completely . Rust doesn't need to completely replace C, it only needs to cover those usecases other languages haven't already covered. Or maybe just some and a completely
902.
by bhaak 8y ago
The main fallacy of this blog post is that he wants it to be one single programming language that replaces C. C has actually been already replaced mostly. C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, etc. have been chipping away for more than 20
903.
by bhaak 8y ago
I don't know if it's in the Play Store but you can download the APK directly from GitHub: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases Although Koreader has been originally developed for e-ink devices.
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by bhaak 8y ago
This is a problem since printed books exist. There are lots of different options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widows_and_orphans#Guidelines The kindle also doesn't support proper kerning. Sorry if I told you tha
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by bhaak 8y ago
> Because such long words would certainly be split up between their constituent words, not between random places. At least for German, this is not a requirement. Hyphenation doesn't happen at random places but at syllable boundaries
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Tech workers in China’s Silicon Valley face burnout before they reach 30(scmp.com)
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907.
by bhaak 8y ago
I enjoy the "how I almost became a millionaire because of Bitcoin" stories. I've read a lot of them online and I know surprisingly many people personally that have such a story to share. Those stories tell you a lot about the
908.
by bhaak 8y ago
For example proper runtime dependency management? Try updating a single homebrew package to a new major version and watch the other homebrew packages depending on it breaking. To be fair, that's not a problem unique to homebrew. Gentoo
909.
by bhaak 8y ago
> Gmane used to paper over this issue, but Gmane’s availability over the last few years has been spotty, to say the least (it is down as I write this). The Gmane web interface is not just down but shut down for good: https://l
910.
by bhaak 8y ago
The Odyssey is more like a spin-off than a sequel and that is one of the reasons why it's better. Odysseus wasn't the leading actor in the Iliad, he was only among the main cast (I'm not even sure if there is any person in th
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by bhaak 8y ago
That separates the real philosophers from the wannabes. The real philosophers can take it. Like when Sokrates and Seneca had to end their lives. They didn't lament the unjust verdicts but embraced it.
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by bhaak 8y ago
Without neovim, there would probably still be no asynchronous tasks in vim. Sometimes a little bit of competition is very well perceived. Others will probably chime in with the technical merits of neovim but for me, this reason alone is goo
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by bhaak 8y ago
Unless you mean something else, locale support was already introduced in AmigaOS 2.1. And I'm not sure what you exactly mean by "did it right". i18n and localization support is now in every OS and almost any UI framework avai
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by bhaak 8y ago
But how can the Accept-Language header be useless? I suppose almost nobody sets this header by hand and it is derived from whatever environment your browser is in. I mean if my Windows or my phone/tablet is set to German, showing me a
915.
by bhaak 8y ago
In Switzerland the term "Zeughaus" is still in use as the official term for an arsenal or armory.
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by bhaak 8y ago
But they were right to laugh at Columbus. He was right for the wrong reasons. Of course, if you don't ever try it, you can never be right for any reasons. Bitcoin is IMO likely somewhere in between. It kickstarted a new concept in IT b
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by bhaak 8y ago
Thanks for the link. I knew there were other consensus algorithms possible but I didn't know of any specific example. The main point still stands though, the different consensus algorithm allow you more insight than a simple centralize
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by bhaak 8y ago
Quoting Wikipedia: "Several companies have sued the DTCC, without success, over delivery failures in their stocks, alleging culpability for naked short selling. [...] Critics blame DTCC, noting that it is the organization in charge of
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by bhaak 8y ago
I don't see the problem with translating terms that have a strong visual component, especially if it's an introductory text. It also depends on how old the text is (fundamental concepts don't change much) and if the current n
920.
by bhaak 8y ago
You don't have to resort to countries with nomadic tribes. House numbering logic wildly differs between countries. In Tokyo, houses are numbered in the order in which they are constructed. I would expect a moved house therefore to keep
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by bhaak 8y ago
Plus codes work as long as your location doesn't change. Happens not so often. But it does happen that the coordinates of a building don't stay fixed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation
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by bhaak 8y ago
Git wasn't designed with your average developer in mind. Linus designed it for himself and for kernel development. This still shows. I don't think he ever intended it to be used outside of Linux development, maybe not even for lon
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by bhaak 8y ago
But then that package you wanted to install was not a Homebrew package? Otherwise the dependency management in Homebrew is even worse than I knew.
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by bhaak 8y ago
I would say that a package manager shouldn't break the runtime dependencies of your installed programs. That's really a poor design. But you can also just copy the previous version into the new readline directory. cp /usr&#x2
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by bhaak 8y ago
Money is involved. What do you expect? Most of the finance world is scammy, too. Bitcoin only got as much traction as it did because of the financial crisis.
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by bhaak 8y ago
The design principle of this chair is something you don't see: "accessible to everyone". An uncomfortable but functional chair that you can afford and own is preferable to a comfortable chair you can't afford and don&#x2
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by bhaak 8y ago
If you have Verdana. Otherwise the fallbacks are Geneva and then sans-serif.
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by bhaak 8y ago
My git related aliases: alias master='git checkout master' alias f='git fetch --all' alias s='git status --untracked-files=all' # go to the last branch I worked on, excluding master and the current br
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by bhaak 8y ago
> alias .....="cd ../../../.." How often do you use that and how often do you get it right? :-) My cd related aliases are the following. Especially the .<number> is surprisingly useful, although most of the
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by bhaak 8y ago
Overflowing is actually not that hard in NetHack. Score gets rather meaningless in NetHack as killing monsters always yields the same number of score points. So if you grind long enough, every high score is possible and overflowing the scor

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