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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
Someone once said here on Hacker News: Before you say anything, ask yourself 1) Does this need to be said? 2) Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me, now? I hope you’ll take their sage advic
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> If you set your hard limit to $20, then Amazon should refuse to create more than 50 secrets. That's a safe behavior which limits your spend to at most $20. I have 100 secrets and no hard limit. Now I set the hard limit to $20. Wha
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
Are you under the mistaken impression that this feature is already implemented in mobile Safari on iOS 17.3? It isn’t. On iOS 17.4, you’ll be able to see that the divider is thicker and obvious. Long-press on the Safari address bar for an
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
Christianity would be the largest if they themselves didn’t separate the branches into Catholics, Protestants, etc.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
That’s right, JSX is also not HTML.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> I haven't yet found any great way besides email-as-todo list to manage this. Which is fine. Put them in a To-Do folder. The original formulation of Inbox Zero suggested three actions: 1. Take care of the e-mail right now. Then arc
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> Amazing this same story keeps getting reposted every other day. It keeps happening.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> Why trust software you can't inspect? Because for nearly everyone, that’s all software.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> Great discoveries are made by employing great discipline over a long time, not by hiring some rock stars. Why else would Elon Musk call one of his most ambitious ventures "the boring company"? Because it’s a company that make
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
GP isn’t actually saying that a parser isn’t a functor. They’re loudly and performatively saying that they don’t care .
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
I said nearly the same thing decades ago. Smashed a few friends’ so-called “wireless” telephones and showed them all the wires. Just look out a window; what’re those long, wiry things running between the utility poles, huh?! It’s ridiculous
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
`/0` refers to the arity of the function.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
To paste a value that’s too long, then remove some part in the middle. Otherwise, it’s truncated.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
It’s portable.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> You assume that it's the guy who you frequently see standing near the second mate. Men wearing steward uniforms frequently hanging around officers do tend to be stewards. > There is also no indication in the game of who killed
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
The game is completely solvable with no guessing.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
> What was the language which used backticks to transform any function into an infix binary operator? Ruby? Perl? Haskell.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
I think you have that backwards. “Two times infinity” is “infinity, two times” or “infinity, twice,” which maps to Infinity + Infinity. “Infinity times two” is 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2… forever.
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by chrisoverzero 3y ago
What open source company? Not Elastic, surely. > […] obviously paid a PR company to go on an open source charm offensive […] Please don’t do this here. Consider that others can disagree with you, or that you may simply be wrong. > Ple
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> Do you remember ConfigureAwait(false)? I remember it and still use it, and you should, too. It can be elided in ASP .NET Core, which is the web application framework. Outside of that, there’s no escaping that you have to know what you
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
Your advice is correct for ASP.NET Core (the web application framework), but not for all of .NET (Core or suffixless).
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> So long as everything is good and hot when you seal, you’re good. Good, maybe. Safe, no. Chicken stock is not acidic enough even for water-bath canning – it must be pressure-canned. Anything else is a risk of botulism.
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> You can use it in the dark. You can use Face ID in the dark.
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
Then don’t turn it on.
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
You've asserted something like this a few times on HN, and your responses are undetailed enough (or flavored with fake astonishment, like this one) that you seem to think it's obvious. Isn't the requirement of attribution the
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> We weren’t able to track down a copy of the prompt ourselves to confirm when and where it appears or what it looks like — which seems important if people are getting confused […] This is speculation presented as news. The confusion cer
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> “This implementation is difficult to unit test.” Horsepucky. No, this implementation is difficult to unit test. The rebuttal, “Just make a constructor […]” changes the implementation . The author’s zeal to decry DI frameworks has made
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
Here’s the claim: > [ed] does not have the immediate visual feedback when entering text that even mechanical typewriters have. …and here’s the counterclaim: .s/does not have/does have/g p See how you had to ty
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
> It's just a term to refer to your stereotypical middle managers high on their own farts. It means “young urban professional.”
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by chrisoverzero 4y ago
>If you agree its fine, would you apply the same reasoning to [favorite politician]? What, like Air Force One? https://twitter.com/USAirForceVIP

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