billpg

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   by billpg 6y ago

   Can all the DAB stations fit inside FM if they were all to adopt it?
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   by billpg 7y ago

   I suspect someone writing on a phone accidentally picked the wrong symbol, meaning to use @.
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   by billpg 7y ago

   If it required a custom plugin, what was significant about playing it in a browser? To me, the appeal of a browser game is that it is contained and you don't have to worry about malware. (Notwithstanding the occasional vulnerability, b
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   Covid-19 Retrospective(jacquesmattheij.com)

   2 points by billpg 7y ago|0 comments
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   by billpg 7y ago

   "You would never attempt to prove that 1+1=2, as 2 is defined as the value of 1+1."
6. 516.▲
   by billpg 7y ago

   Max returns a string with an infinite number of U+1FFFFs for an empty collection. True story.
7. 517.▲
   by billpg 7y ago

   Did the clocks built by dinosaurs include leap seconds?
8. 518.▲
   by billpg 7y ago

   Watch it happen... https://twitter.com/basiccomic/status/1099332074983641094
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   by billpg 7y ago

   Please jealously hoard your IPv4 blocks to make migration to IPv6 more attractive.
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    My Crazy Software Engineer Tattoo (that I didn't get)(blog.hackensplat.com)

    2 points by billpg 7y ago|1 comments
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    Hundred Year Mistakes(ericlippert.com)

    1 points by billpg 7y ago|0 comments
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    by billpg 7y ago

    I wrote a very similar piece six or seven years ago. People responded here that I was just making sematic arguments or otherwise fell over themselves to ignore the point I was trying to make. It is good to see from the responses here that w
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    by billpg 7y ago

    As I read this page, 19 comments are about the name, 1 comment is about the file system itself.
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    by billpg 7y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environmen...
15. 525.▲
    by billpg 7y ago

    Back then, the government were still talking about keeping the same benefits of membership after we leave.
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    by billpg 7y ago

    I use an RSS based podcast player for my drive to work and back. If a show doesn't have an RSS, I can't listen to it. I'm not going to jump to someone's website or switch between player apps while I'm driving along
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    by billpg 7y ago

    "We could roll out the patches, or we could make all our customers buy new phones!" Stagefright again.
18. 528.▲
    by billpg 7y ago

    I read the headline and imagined that someone had built a device you can leave plugged into a serial port and access remotely. I'm old.
19. 529.▲
    by billpg 7y ago

    On the other hand, I would be a upset if a service I used deleted my account without first making quite sure it was me.
20. 530.▲
    by billpg 7y ago

    Dear Genie. I know I wished that the 7-Zip installer was a signed executable, but this is not what I meant.
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    by billpg 7y ago

    I wanted to make a new website using emojis instead of "www" as a joke about the number of syllables. ("Angry Face Angry Face Angry Face" takes the same amount of time to say "www".) Browsers kept insisting on
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    by billpg 7y ago

    I vaguely recall that the double-hyphen used to be disallowed in domain names, reserving them for future definition. "xn--" becoming that future definition. I'm having trouble confirming this as the double-hyphen is now very
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    by billpg 7y ago

    If you use Windows, [Logo]+[.]
24. 534.▲
    by billpg 7y ago

    Compiling the entire project as a single (effective) file permits the compiler to optimize in ways it couldn't with separate files.
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    by billpg 7y ago

    If you search google for "wordpress sqlite", the first result is https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sqlite-3-database-file-w... The discussion can be summarized as "Don't even bother trying&qu
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    Dear WordPress. Please Stop Using MySQL(blog.hackensplat.com)

    2 points by billpg 7y ago|3 comments
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    by billpg 7y ago

    Is using Math.pow and Math.log (twice) faster than a tight loop that won't run more than six times?
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    by billpg 7y ago

    We need... 1. A code-point that starts a fraction. 2. A code-point that separates the numerator from the denominator. 3. A code-point that ends the fraction. So the sequence [START]x[SEP]y[END] would be rendered with
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    by billpg 7y ago

    In a world where HTTPS was the exception, I could see a use for this sort of service. Now not-HTTPS is the exception, not so much. Privacy from your ISP? Okay, but I've replaced that problem with privacy from my VPN provider. Is that a
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    by billpg 7y ago

    I've never used the number pad. Any time I want to type a number I will always use the keys along the top of the keyboard. Maybe because I learnt to type with a keyboard with no number pad and I never felt the need to switch.