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by cgh 10mo ago
There are still annoyances. Our TV finds every opportunity to send you to its home screen of apps, requiring me to reset the input to the PS5 that we use for Netflix etc. And regardless, I don't want to pay for a lousy customised Andro
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by cgh 10mo ago
“Compressible rodent” was not a phrase I thought I’d ever hear but I’m glad I did. Worth the price of a couple of coffees.
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by cgh 10mo ago
That’s what the article is about.
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by cgh 10mo ago
Essentially enough syntactic sugar so you could write eg the Allocator interface without manually specifying the vtable and the opaque pointer. But yeah, Go’s system is nice and simple. I am not sure, but I think the fact that Zig programs
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by cgh 10mo ago
Proper interfaces would be nice. I realize that eg tagged unions work for most cases but the syntactic sugar would reduce a bit of friction.
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by cgh 10mo ago
Most of the article is about why they didn’t use C or C++.
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by cgh 10mo ago
https://paulgraham.com/avg.html Paul Graham is one of the founders of Y Combinator, the company that hosts Hacker News.
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by cgh 10mo ago
Nissan VQ series, 1994-today
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by cgh 10mo ago
This comment really reminds me of that old Onion column The Outside Scoop by Jackie Harvey.
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by cgh 10mo ago
It’s worth looking at this polar map to get a visual sense of the ramifications of this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle#/media/File:Arct... Notice the red line, marking where the averag
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by cgh 10mo ago
According to Wikipedia, the mean daily minimum of Helsinki in January is -5.6°. In Quebec City, it’s -17.7°. Not the same, at least according to Wikipedia.
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by cgh 11mo ago
This is a variation of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by cgh 11mo ago
Canada as a whole is roughly 70% hydroelectric.
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by cgh 11mo ago
Since 2010: 3GS, 6S and now an SE. All of them were dropped, submerged and generally knocked around. The SE fell off the top of a moving vehicle. I do use an Otter case.
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by cgh 11mo ago
I still have the code for the first 50 problems in GitHub. The last commit was thirteen years ago. I don’t know why I checked these in rather than treating them as throwaway code like I did for so many other things, but I’m glad I did as I’
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by cgh 11mo ago
I experimented with taking 10,000 IU a day for about a year. I had my D levels checked with my normal yearly blood test (lipids, etc) and it put me into the high normal range. I still take 5000 IU daily and have for years with no ill effect
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by cgh 1y ago
When I was nine years old, we moved to an asbestos-mining town for about a year and a half. Sometimes dust settled on our house when they were blasting up at the mine site. It’s closed now and the road into town was decommissioned. It’s a r
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by cgh 1y ago
I have a 3rd Gen iPad Pro from 2018 and iPadOS 26 runs fine.
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by cgh 1y ago
The point is that KDE from 2015 will still run on today’s hardware.
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by cgh 1y ago
Also, I believe in the US ordinary dividends are taxed at the income tax rate which is much higher than the capital gains rate.
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by cgh 1y ago
My friend had one of these when we were little kids and I remember being impressed by how smooth and high-quality the joystick felt. This was mid-80s so maybe it’s because the competition was lacking. Also, I’m pretty sure this was the only
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by cgh 1y ago
Child of God and The Crossing are two of my favourites by him.
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by cgh 1y ago
A surprising conclusion to me at least is that a lot of programmers simply don’t like to write code.
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by cgh 1y ago
I once submitted a typo fix, among other things, to XFree86 way back when. Talk about love of the game, good grief.
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by cgh 1y ago
Was just about to type this comment. Allegedly, the guy who came up with the term “First Nations” was from a group (Athabaskan? I don’t remember) who were historically at war with the Inuit, so he left them out. Pretty ridiculous. I’m prett
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by cgh 1y ago
Heck if I know. All I know is I am a lot more worked up about the misuse of “less” when the correct word is “fewer”.
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by cgh 1y ago
There’s an outdated rule in English that states you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition. It dates back to a time when writers applied Latin’s grammatical rules to English. It’s mostly ignored now.
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by cgh 1y ago
Java is hugely popular and widely used on large backend systems. I guess a lot of people here don't work on such systems? I'm always surprised when I see comments like the parent, since in my career exposure to Java is near-ubiqui
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by cgh 1y ago
> Spanish flu was not created in a lab. Neither was covid-19: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
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by cgh 1y ago
Is the fundamental problem with npm still a lack of enforced namespacing? In the Java world, I know there’s been griping from mostly juniors re “why isn’t Maven easy like npm?” (I work with some of these people). I point them to this articl

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