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by burke 10y ago
I ran `convert -compress None puzzle.png` and the output was ~800 bytes. Clearly that's optimizing the image too, but basically the image seems wastefully large, and that makes me suspicious there's something going on there.
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by burke 10y ago
The count-the-pixels thing is too obvious, and doesn't explain why this is a compressed png that's almost twice the size of what you get when you decompress it. "'Twould be a shame not to count this art among the great t
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by burke 10y ago
Right. My hypothesis here is that, if there were, instead of JSON and YAML to choose from, three standards, one of which were something slightly less human-friendly but much simpler than YAML, I think it would be widely adopted. I think YAM
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by burke 10y ago
Piling on to the general theme of the rest of the comments here: I really wish there was a more popular middle-ground between YAML and JSON. People use YAML because it's the next step up from JSON if you need comments, etc., but I thin
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by burke 10y ago
> You have to explicitly do port forwarding > Tunneling Yes, that is what GP was describing.
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by burke 10y ago
I'm not sure. I think with the benefit of hindsight, I liked it better on balance, but I wasn't involved in the decision. It was definitely a terrible resource hog, even more so than Slack, and the iOS client wasn't quite as
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by burke 10y ago
We had this in flowdock before we switched to slack, on a team of probably 700 or so at the time. It made it far easier to filter out chatter when dealing with an urgent issue (no need to change rooms or remind people to be quiet for a whil
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by burke 10y ago
I don't disagree with this in general principle, but "how many straws can you remove from a bale" points pretty transparently to the failed mapping between our black-and-white language and the shades-of-grey world. It's
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by burke 10y ago
> what are the questions we're trying to answer in physics, particularly those that involve observable phenomena? (disclaimer: I am not a physicist, etc.) Between GR and QM, we can explain most observable phenomena, but it's in
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by burke 10y ago
> Continuing to "punish" them for something they fixed only sends the message that the fix was pointless It also sends a message to other companies that things like this aren't forgiven easily, whether or not that's t
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by burke 10y ago
I can't think of a place in Ottawa that I wouldn't feel comfortable wandering around late at night with my phone out.
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by burke 11y ago
I've borrowed this met?/meet API for another tool and found it to be a really useful pattern.
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by burke 11y ago
I think what happened here was that he asked the press to ask him about quantum computing, then when this guy tried to jab him for that tactic, he spun it around and turned it back into something that worked out even better for him. Clearly
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by burke 11y ago
> YAML expresses structure through whitespace. Significant whitespace is a common source of mistakes that we shouldn't have to deal with. > Both HOCON and YAML make the mistake of implementing too many features (like anchors, sus
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by burke 11y ago
You can change your Last Name to "<LastName> (<status>)". Lots of people at my Org do this.
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by burke 11y ago
If you're looking for a changelog from 1.5.24, here it is: https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/file/tip/UPDATING
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by burke 11y ago
And a completely incompatible non-POSIX syntax, which sounds great in theory but isn't nearly enough better to justify the departure IMHO.
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by burke 11y ago
Yeah, we'll see. I suspect there are chefs with more imaginative uses of this than you or I have. All I'm saying is you can't rule it out for the same reason as nutrient pills.
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by burke 11y ago
There's an important distinction between these two predictions which this comparison belies: * "astronaut food" completely sacrifices the art and enjoyment of food for efficiency. * 3D printing is a way to explore methods of
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by burke 11y ago
Right. That's the software stack. You may have to reinstall your OS at that point, but your motherboard is definitely not bricked.
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by burke 11y ago
I don't disagree with this, but I still think it's irresponsible of systemd to claim it's a kernel problem but not take steps to help people not brick their systems before it's fixed upstream.
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by burke 11y ago
Root is certainly capable, traditionally, of completely hosing all levels of the software stack. Usually it's the OS's job to protect even root from being able to hose hardware/firmware, especially by easy-to-make mistake.
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by burke 11y ago
> Don't get me wrong, the Ruby tooling situation for instance is probably just as bad Under the hood, it's comparably horrible, but IME bundler does a much better job of papering over that horribleness for experienced users and
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by burke 11y ago
For sure. I don't have a strong opinion either way on whether medicine is too conservative or liberal right now, which probably means it falls within the happy medium ground for some reasonable definition. Mainly, I think it's wor
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by burke 11y ago
> Primum non nocere As kauffj eludes to though, it's also worth considering the implicit harm done through inaction. It should not be the wild west, but conversely, articles like this are indicative of a bias toward increasing preve
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by burke 11y ago
Maybe not. It's not completely clear that, for example, string theory could ever be experimentally verified, since it operates completely at a level below all the manifestations of our observable universe. (AFAIK, I'm no physicist
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by burke 11y ago
Awk and perl. I use a lot of bash though.
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by burke 11y ago
I haven't either, but they just start with a #, right? What's the problem? EDIT: Oh, I see there are multiline comments.
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by burke 11y ago
Is that a problem (the non-renewability)? Even if we deplete our available uranium while transitioning to fully renewable energy, we've still quit dumping carbon into the atmosphere. At that point, economic pressures are adequate to fo
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by burke 11y ago
Because GNU/FSF is and always has been appallingly bad at visual design.

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