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by callahad 4y ago
For what it's worth, all gates in Atlanta are connected airside, so you can use that checkpoint no matter which gate you're ultimately flying out of. If you haven't done so, it's actually quite nice to skip the Plane Tra
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by callahad 4y ago
Yep!
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by callahad 4y ago
Moved from Homebrew and Nix to MacPorts for a while around the M1 transition. Came away quite liking MacPorts; it was simple, and it worked. Moved back to Nix when it was ready for Apple Silicon, mainly for better isolation / reproduca
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by callahad 4y ago
I've been using Nix (and, occasionally, MacPorts) instead of Homebrew for a few years now. Works great, and doesn't have that particular issue. If Nix seems like a bridge too far, the Devenv project offers some nice, lightweight p
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by callahad 4y ago
I find it really fascinating to see how the tenor of reporting on Bing has shifted in the past week. In seven days, we've gone from "Microsoft made Google dance" to "Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar." That&#
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by callahad 4y ago
Assuming Wolfram Alpha's CPI data is correct, I think you'd have to go back to 2002 for $100k now to be worth $60k then: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2460%2C000+from+2002
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by callahad 4y ago
Last time I was at IKEA, the majority of bulbs on shelves were smart. I wonder what portion only ever get used on dumb switches.
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by callahad 4y ago
Oh sure. I think we're interpreting the parent comments differently (i.e., I'm understanding sokoloff's and aflag's comments to be about more general precautionary isolation based on symptomatic illness, not necessarily
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by callahad 4y ago
> one week and a half of school when you're 8 I think you're vastly underestimating how often kids exhibit symptoms potentially consistent with Covid during a school year.
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by callahad 4y ago
All else being equal, it's nice to do what little I can to support a competitive CPU market.
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by callahad 4y ago
> I’m expecting it to blow grandma’s mind. Nah, the average person doesn't have the context to understand that something impressive is happening at all.
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by callahad 4y ago
Propublica just ran a good article on UHG's attempts to deny coverage to a university student with severe ulcerative colitis. Apparently the insurer has its own panels of MDs that it can deploy to lobby the patient's doctor into d
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by callahad 4y ago
You can find the Graphing Calculator website at https://pacifict.com/ Or, try the System 9 version of Graphing Calculator at https://macos9.app/ in the Macintosh HD -> Applications folder. It has a &quot
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by callahad 4y ago
I have Covid and it's late in the UK, but tried poking at wasmtime-py for the first time and got this far: https://gist.github.com/callahad/81b33e4e4456e4b27a5934c1a36... If anyone else is awake and wants to pick
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by callahad 4y ago
The startup I'm working at is basically trying to do exactly that as a service, but a one-off thing for a regular Python application shouldn't be as hard to figure out as it is. Can you link to the Mastodon thread (darn lack of
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by callahad 4y ago
The blurb above the table notes that the ranking is "the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa," and that it is based on data from IATA. Basically, the same data as used by airlines to assess documen
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by callahad 4y ago
Advisory 028 is a nationwide ground stop: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=28&adv_dat...
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by callahad 4y ago
I don't know how these things work, but the most recent advisory, 027, seems to imply that United Airlines has a full ground stop until 15:00 UTC / 10:00 Eastern. Edit: Of course as I was typing that, Advisory 028 pops up with a n
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by callahad 4y ago
It's open source as well (and I believe it predates Hyperpaper). Great place to start to see if this kind of organizing works for you.
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by callahad 4y ago
I moved from the US to the UK. I don't feel like my access is any different, aside from the many North American sites that block all European IPs for fear of the GDPR. Notably, smaller ISPs tend to be exempted from the surveillance and
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by callahad 4y ago
It shouldn't be the role of the ISP, but in the UK content blocking is legally mandated. E.g., "The Digital Economy Act 2017 placed the requirement for ISP filtering into law and introduced a requirement for ISPs to block pornog
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by callahad 4y ago
I can access Tutanota on Three UK, even with the filter enabled. When this blew up last Friday[0], Three's response was, paraphrased, "you contacted the wrong department, here's how to contact the correct department. Their tu
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by callahad 4y ago
O2 is the only provider that still has reasonable plans with global roaming included, if that's important to you. Grab a PAYG SIM card and test out each provider's network before you go through the pain of porting. We switched and
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by callahad 4y ago
[I work for Suborbital] We're both all in on extensible software powered by WebAssembly, but the scope and domains differ. Suborbital is more of a turnkey / batteries-included service that handles the full lifecycle of extending
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by callahad 4y ago
Yes, at which point you'll have to update the build script... but until you do that, the current build script will still pull in the previous version of the software and all of its dependencies, including system-level ones, so you wo
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by callahad 4y ago
"Builds" is the operative word there: that specific isolation is optional and only applies during compilation.
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by callahad 4y ago
Ah, yes, you're correct. You can use Nix to cross-compile for Windows, but you're not going to run Nix itself there.
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by callahad 4y ago
> the build and configure steps may change over time. Unless the original maintainers start building for nix, would not this be too hard to maintain? This is indeed very hard, but Nix's deep locking makes this a tractable problem:
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by callahad 4y ago
Not yet. There have been some efforts around adding IPFS support to Nix, as well as making its storage fully content addressable, which would allow for peer-to-peer archival and distribution of source. https://blog.ipfs.tech&#x2F
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by callahad 4y ago
Strictly compared to containers, the big advantages are reproducibility and lower overhead. Overhead: Windows and macOS can't run Linux-based containers natively. Instead, there's always a full Linux virtual machine running in the

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