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by ck45 2y ago
This reminds me a bit of Nabaztags, or maybe the reverse. They would also read something that resembles NFC and could perform an action.
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by ck45 2y ago
I fully agree, and also think that if it's a professional environment pushing to the main branch itself is very questionable for most / code repos. Not only because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for public companies.
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by ck45 2y ago
No, it’s not, it’s number 27. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_Europ...
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by ck45 2y ago
Here's a link to the release notes: https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html
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by ck45 2y ago
It was originally invented by Donald Knuth in 1984. He created Web (not the World Wide Web) for this purpose. See e.g. http://www.literateprogramming.com/
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by ck45 2y ago
There's a novel by T.C. Boyle about Dr. Kellog's Battle Creek Spa: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24738.The_Road_to_Wellvi... In case somebody's interested in a less accurate version of the sto
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Spectrum of Covid-19: From Asymptomatic Organ Damage to Long Covid Syndrome(whn.global)
57 points by ck45 2y ago|70 comments
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by ck45 2y ago
Neal Stephenson’s book Termination Shock is about geoengineering by burning large amounts of sulfur. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_Shock_(novel)
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by ck45 2y ago
See https://github.com/SpenceKonde/DxCore
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New York Stock Exchange glitch triggers trading halts(axios.com)
1 points by ck45 2y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 2y ago
https://www.lua.org/pil/2.5.html “The table type implements associative arrays.” Simplified (and some hand waving): In Python associative arrays are called dict, in Lua they are called table.
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Why more young people are getting cancer [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ck45 2y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 2y ago
I meant that from my experience training is done in “real” interviews with candidates that passed the CV screening bar. I only have very little data points as in different companies but have been in lots of interviews with trainees conducti
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by ck45 2y ago
From my experience, no, training is done in real interviews, as the last stage of the training. But could be different in your case. Did you already search for interview experiences for that specific company?
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by ck45 2y ago
Link to press release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521055
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Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem(europol.europa.eu)
8 points by ck45 2y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 2y ago
For a quite long time, a very popular format was mbox (the most popular?), which is a single file. With the arrival of qmail, it was slowly replaced by Maildir.
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by ck45 2y ago
I’m still using the free OmniDiskSweeper from the legendary OmniGroup
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by ck45 2y ago
Reminds me of Lua in the NetBSD kernel https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/lua_in_the_ne... Edit: It made it to HN front page today.
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by ck45 3y ago
A classical cash register is not the same like the thing we call computer, but that's not my point. My point was that "a computer is a thing that computes while a calculator is a thing that calculates" does not sound correct,
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by ck45 3y ago
Aren’t those synonyms? Just before the arrival of the first actual programmable computers, the word was a job description for people who did calculations. From https://www.etymonline.com/word/computer “Earlier words fo
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by ck45 3y ago
I also prefer d2 over mermaid, from the language perspective. But mermaid integration is currently just so much better; there is support (native or via plugins) for Google Docs, GitHub, Confluence, and many more. For me that’s the killer f
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by ck45 3y ago
It‘s Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"
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by ck45 3y ago
125 pieces, according to https://www.syracuse.com/news/2015/07/oswego_breakwater_reco... which lists them at 4,000 $
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by ck45 3y ago
You are absolutely right, see the definition on https://refactoring.com/ Unfortunately, it has become common to refer to any kind of code changes as refactorings (not backed by any proof, just an observation)
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iOS 17.4: Safari search bar gone(discussions.apple.com)
1 points by ck45 3y ago|0 comments
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by ck45 3y ago
Past thread (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520906
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by ck45 3y ago
Isn't it about the authors have been overpromising and underdelivering since the beginning? https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html is a year older than this article, still interesting an
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by ck45 3y ago
"Recycling aluminium consumes only 5% of the energy required for primary aluminium production, resulting in a 95% reduction in carbon emissions." https://international-aluminium.org/new-iai-study-reveals-en...
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JJazzLab is a free backing track application for generating play-along songs(jjazzlab.com)
1 points by ck45 3y ago|0 comments

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