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by cgh 4y ago
Imagine if it were Tim Cook who called Vern Unsworth, the British diver who helped rescue the trapped Thai kids in the flooded cave, a "pedo guy". Or, if you want to picture an amazing shitstorm, Barack Obama.
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by cgh 4y ago
It appears to be nothing more than a distributed, append-only log file. Edit: basically a blockchain implemented in Javascript
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by cgh 4y ago
For sure, I was taking issue with the absoluteness of the assertion that all terrestrial mines are leaching from their tailings piles/ponds. It’s not true of many (most?) modern mines.
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by cgh 4y ago
Point 4 is mostly confined to old abandoned sites, as mentioned in your link. Modern tailings aren’t left to leach acid all over the place, at least not in North American mines. I get that all bets are off in eg Africa, however.
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by cgh 4y ago
I had a specific book of the exact thickness required to support the back of the RAM pack to keep it from wobbling. I remember how proud I was of this solution and it might just be the first real issue I ever had to troubleshoot on my own a
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by cgh 4y ago
Cool list, thanks. We were camped near Seton Lake this summer as it's somewhat nearby and I had no idea that it's apparently the 24th deepest lake in the world. The things you learn on here.
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by cgh 4y ago
Ah right okay, I wasn't aware of those things. I've never used GraalVM or written for Android. Thanks for the info.
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by cgh 4y ago
I think this is addressed in the article when he discusses "authors" vs "writers". Le Carre is the former and Fleming is unapologetically the latter.
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by cgh 4y ago
There's nothing particularly special about LTS releases. According to Ron P, they are basically arbitrarily decided by sales and marketing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33039539
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by cgh 4y ago
Or, just don't work in webapps. Get into embedded programming. Or join a games studio. I have a friend who is writing code to run on a sort of exoskeleton meant to benefit disabled people and help them walk. He has never in his life &q
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by cgh 4y ago
Yeah, The Peripheral is quite good. Gibson seems pretty happy with the adaptation too, which is a good sign. I still haven't read the books. The Sprawl trilogy was one of my favourite series when I was young. I'd like to see it ad
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by cgh 4y ago
My first degree was anthropology, with an emphasis on human evolution. I was accepted to a masters program when things in my life changed and I finally realized the importance of money. So I returned to school and finished my almost-complet
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by cgh 4y ago
> I will be using x64 assembly with the AT&T syntax as it is objectively superior than the Intel syntax. This made me laugh because it must be a reference to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33652023 > I
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by cgh 4y ago
The code in the article is Javascript, written by a chicken and I feel there’s a lesson there somewhere.
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by cgh 4y ago
Feasibility is kind of what the article is about. Also, this quote seems salient: >> Finally, Houde said, geothermal is “the perfect energy source to take advantage of the largest workforce in the world, the oil and gas industry.” Tha
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by cgh 4y ago
While I agree with this in principle, it should be mentioned that a great deal of software, perhaps even the majority of software written depending on who you ask, is used internally and is never sold directly. In fact, there are accounting
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by cgh 4y ago
I understand the hesitance to rely on oil and gas, but what’s wrong with mining?
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by cgh 4y ago
I follow scientists, mathematicians, authors, comic creators, comedians and so forth. I stay away from politics for the most part (I'm not American so they mostly don't apply to me anyway). I do follow some military analysts re Uk
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by cgh 4y ago
I follow various scientists, authors and so forth and I like to read their thoughts or see their recommended reading. And as silly as it sounds, it's wild to see eg William Gibson and Gerry Conway, two guys responsible for some of my f
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by cgh 4y ago
I'd like to add Dr. Bloodmoney and A Scanner Darkly to your recommended list.
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by cgh 4y ago
From the author’s About page: “I mostly work with Ruby on Rails. A professional, Open Source platform which powers enormous (e.g. Twitter.com) and tiny applications.”
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by cgh 4y ago
Based on the legendary Grid Compass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass Note that the Compass had an extremely cool magnesium alloy case. No cheap plastic here.
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by cgh 4y ago
That is completely false. Stop repeating this. Entire Reddit groups and Twitter accounts exist to track restocks, eg r/CanadaPS5.
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by cgh 4y ago
Essentially unavailable in Canada unless you buy a bundle, and even those sell out in minutes.
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by cgh 4y ago
One of my first jobs out of school was implementing internationalisation libraries for an application that ran on Windows and a variety of Unixes (AIX, HP-UX and Solaris, if memory serves). It was predictably horrible and understandably no
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by cgh 4y ago
> - you will get no credit for avoiding a catastrophic failure that didn’t happen. Worse, people may wonder what you’ve been doing (y2k anyone?) This is so true it hurts. I worked for years at a certain Silicon Valley BigCorp on a low-le
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Mutation Linked to Difference Between Human and Neanderthal Brains(the-scientist.com)
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by cgh 4y ago
Desktop apps that query/update the db directly were a thing back in the '90s. They were an example of what we called "client/server". They were swiftly superseded by the web, which sort of hijacked the client/s
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by cgh 4y ago
Exactly right. Everyone dumps on enterprise software in general, not just SAP, but the truth is that enterprise software is hard. There are so many requirements and specific workflows that it becomes everything to everyone and thus “horrid”
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by cgh 4y ago
The GP is referring to SQL’s mathematical roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_relational_calculus

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