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by blep_ 4y ago
> they select for students that had the luck (or the right parentage) to go to either a private school or to a public school in a well-funded school district You're not wrong, but I interpret this as evidence that the problem is ear
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by blep_ 4y ago
This is also really kind of an artifact of how GROUP BY works in most database engines. I've always liked the way MySQL/MariaDB let you omit things from the GROUP BY if they're provably unique in each group (here, if foo_id i
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by blep_ 4y ago
Legitimate curiosity from a non-golf person: how would one cheat at golf?
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by blep_ 4y ago
> With jupyter and spyder I have been bitten by lingering obsolete state from re-running cells or code blocks various time. I find the program much easier to debug if it runs on a clean slate and builds all the state from scratch. Hm, re
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by blep_ 4y ago
Because lots of languages have first-class functions, and prototypical inheritance isn't actually that good an idea and most people just use it to implement bad class systems.
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by blep_ 4y ago
You're missing the } and { around your else, btw. I'm only mentioning that because I immediately saw it and got ready to read a horrifying story involving the text "#define else".
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by blep_ 4y ago
That sounds very complicated. What advantage does it have over wiring the two in series and having an open circuit indicate an obstruction? edit: it gets you protection against one of the two failing closed, duh
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by blep_ 4y ago
You may also be interested in `grep -P`, where `P` is short for `Please just use PCRE like everything else in this century`. I don't think any of the others support that though.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Does your keyboard have ^ and $ as unshifted keys?
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by blep_ 4y ago
Twilio, at least, has an API specifically for looking up the carrier of a phone number. (You can't do it based on number ranges, because portability.)
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by blep_ 4y ago
Yes, that's why I described it as "overly broad".
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by blep_ 4y ago
I can think of a few ways to abuse it while still spinning it as "for research". The obvious one is to buy a $9999 gaming machine with several of whatever the fanciest GPU on the market is at the time, and say you're doing ma
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by blep_ 4y ago
Do you have examples?
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by blep_ 4y ago
Cheating answer: the entirety of Wikipedia and every textbook I can find, encoded to a very long base64 string prefixed with "Base64 is [brief description], and you should use that to decode this:" Now you can include images too!
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by blep_ 4y ago
Silly dystopia ideas: police seize an NFT of the suspect.
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by blep_ 4y ago
I am thoroughly confused, because I did read your comments, apparently somehow differently than you read them. You wrote: > Had that been the case and probably we would never had the phase of JIT everywhere, followed by doing websites in
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by blep_ 4y ago
WebAssembly is "AOT compiled" in the same sense that code for the JVM/CLR is "AOT compiled".
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by blep_ 4y ago
How do you verify the information being put into the blockchain is correct?
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by blep_ 4y ago
There's an argument to be made that they shouldn't actively make other things worse in the process of pursuing their own cause. It's the difference between "we're not actively campaigning for improvements around c
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by blep_ 4y ago
iPhones are not food, clothing, or shelter.
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by blep_ 4y ago
TIL what B matter is called. I, like most of the rest of this thread, prefer the brevity. That people skim the longer text isn't a feature, it's a symptom of the problem that the author included too much irrelevant bullshit.
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by blep_ 4y ago
Transactions... have destinations? I may not be understanding your question. My ISP has a consistent name over time, and my bank already stores and displays that on each transaction with no effort on my part.
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by blep_ 4y ago
This requires you to know up front which expenses you want to track, though. If you don't, and you change your mind later, you get to do that table scan anyway, so you may as well actually record the metadata that makes it possible. ed
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by blep_ 4y ago
I would argue that, categorically, tracking the balances of external entities isn't useful or meaningful, at least for personal finance. (I don't know enough about business finance to form an opinion.) I'm considering "e
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by blep_ 4y ago
The turbo button actually slowed the machine down from its maximum speed to a speed that was backward compatible with older software that relied on CPU cycles for timing. I started to wonder if there would be any noticeable power savings
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by blep_ 4y ago
> Reddit won't show me certain subreddits on the mobile website. They're only available in the app. You may enjoy i.reddit.com, which has the advantage that I'm pretty sure they've forgotten they run it and so it neve
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by blep_ 4y ago
Mythology, but in the Greek sense, where all the (gods|rich people) are actually terrible people, but you have to play along or your life will get worse, and we spin all failures to do so as personal failings.
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by blep_ 4y ago
What work can be done remotely but not from a rented apartment in a LCOL area?
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by blep_ 4y ago
Any assembly language gets you the same thing, and 6502 assembly is likely not the one your current machine understands natively. (if it is, I would like to read your blog)
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by blep_ 4y ago
This is an accurate description of my thought processes at the time.

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