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by cestith 4y ago
All of what you've both said, plus the number of people who thought or still think COVID-19 is "no big deal" who now have a pulmonary deficiency and long-term mental fog.
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by cestith 4y ago
One of the most helpful things for me when handling imaginary and complex numbers came not from a math class, but a physics class. My HS physics instructor said rather than "imaginary" we could think of -1 as a "hidden"
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by cestith 4y ago
32-bit versions of OS/2 and multiple versions of Unix ran on the 80386 and 80486 long before Windows NT ever ran on most desktops. Client PCs were mostly Windows 95/98/ME until the XP era. Servers and some professional workst
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by cestith 4y ago
It turns out after some reading that a reflective BO-PET should be reflective enough initially but will yellow and become brittle within fewer than 1000 hours of sun exposure. So as a very short-term use in an emergency if it's what&#x
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by cestith 4y ago
Would a mylar sheet work with the dish to shape it?
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by cestith 4y ago
Rust gives you so much more for the same compilation speed though.
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by cestith 4y ago
The driver was chosen because there was an existing, easy-to-follow PoC exploit for the vulnerability, though. There are bound to be other drivers that are vulnerable and the VBA would change only where the vulnerability in the driver diffe
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by cestith 4y ago
If you look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33334043 it turns out rascul was right and it appears to be only zsh that handles the reading of the redirected input without some other command to hand it off to.
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by cestith 4y ago
I've since tried in two versions of Bash (3.2 and 5.1) and in five different varieties of ksh (oksh, mksh, ksh93, pdksh, GNU ksh). It does seem to be a zshism. All the others do the redirect into the destination, but only zsh provides
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by cestith 4y ago
I think for your claim about what Twitter's good for to have much meaning we'd have to define "tweets" and what you dislike about them. Are you saying the whole idea of breaking a long writing into smaller pieces is out?
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by cestith 4y ago
Meanwhile HN doesn't notify you of the thread being updated. You have to click a few times just to see if anyone has replied to you. Long threads on HN have all this indentation to follow, while Twitter doesn't. Both UI decisions
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by cestith 4y ago
I think the point is why are you engaging here instead of pointing us to your blog?
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by cestith 4y ago
The page linked offers a Python version calling into Python's Xlib binding python-xlib. It's the third code box down, after the bare C version and the heavily commented C version. Xlib itself is in C.
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by cestith 4y ago
Also, as the repo name suggests, the Xlib version is ported to Ada in there.
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by cestith 4y ago
That's in zsh. Yeah, I guess there are shells where it won't work.
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by cestith 4y ago
Have you never tried it? % cat > foo fred barney wilma betty % < foo > bar % cat bar fred barney wilma betty % diff foo bar %
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by cestith 4y ago
GNU dd uses SIGUSR1 on Linux. Yes, it's unfortunate for people who move back and forth between them, especially when newer to one or both.
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by cestith 4y ago
Upstate? I'm not sure it's all that more expensive. IBM is in Armonk. Buffalo used to (and may still) have GM warehouses, with many of their cars made not far away in St. Catherines, ON. I don't think anyone would put a new i
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by cestith 4y ago
I think the problem in this case, although not stated very clearly, is working two jobs that require the same active hours. If you're doing two contracts and delivering work product on agreed terms, there's not much someone can sa
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by cestith 4y ago
Ken Paxton is up for reelection and is still under federal indictment for multiple felonies. This is a state right of action and if this election stunt works, don't look for any reimbursement to the wronged parties.
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by cestith 4y ago
Micron and GlobalFoundries are both building new fabs in New York. GF is looking at a new fab in an existing facility at around $1.5 billion. Micron is building a whole new facility for DRAM production, around $100 billion. Micron is also b
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by cestith 4y ago
There is a clearer way to subsidize than to require the purchases. One is to literally directly subsidize the industry. Another is cheaply lend or even grant money to the customers buying the product but only when buying domestically made u
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by cestith 4y ago
Pitching in on one's own space is different from being demoted to being a custodian that costs the company like an engineer. It's well within the company's rights to ask employees to keep a tidy office.
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by cestith 4y ago
Foone has asked repeatedly that HN not accept links to their threads. They've taken to deleting tweet threads that make it here.
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by cestith 4y ago
POSIX.2 wasn't a standard until 1992. Perhaps it's the standard at fault for specifying the -E and -F flags rather than specifying the tools that existed in v7 in 1979. Authors and publishers didn't just pause for 13 years to
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by cestith 4y ago
But it changes the behavior of the script in the UI. It can cause things like cron to send mail. It can cause other things wrapped around the script that are capturing both STDOUT and STDERR from the script to capture extra content. Any too
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by cestith 4y ago
It does output to STDERR an extra warning.
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by cestith 4y ago
Speaking of wasm, that's technically a language too. Looks like around 307 stories with "wasm" in the title, by eye.
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by cestith 4y ago
A great language to do this sort of data gathering with probably, too.
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by cestith 4y ago
Perl is 8 stories. I haven't looked at the other metrics.

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