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by combatentropy 5y ago
I get it out through prayer and thinking on Bible verses. Occasionally I let it out to a trusted friend or family member, but that is a precious resource that I try to use sparingly, because it's taxing on the other person to endure a
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by combatentropy 5y ago
This began as a story about the importance of well-worded commit messages. It ended as yet another testimony against pop-ups.
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by combatentropy 5y ago
I think your first step might be to take a single class at a university, on whatever subject interests you. Your question is at first straightforward. You say the "arts", which to many means the Fine Arts: painting, sculpture, mus
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by combatentropy 5y ago
I'm curious why Apple went with USB-C for laptops but not phones. With laptops it was more surprising, because they ditched the beloved MagSafe. I see no technical advantage in Lightning over USB-C. So the only reason I can think of fo
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by combatentropy 5y ago
This is an old project, released in 2003 by Dean Allen (1966-2018). His personal website was textism.com, and he also invented a markdown language called Textile. I've never used it. It bills itself as a "Content Management System
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Before rendering judgment, please read SQLite's own page on the subject. I think you will see that the choice wasn't sloppy but thoughtfully designed, https://sqlite.org/datatype3.html My takeaway from that is: (1
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by combatentropy 5y ago
> Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards The top users of these pieces of software have all been canned, since they obviously were doing no real work.
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by combatentropy 5y ago
In 1982 Apple was having programmers report lines of code. Bill Atkinson refactored Quickdraw and put down a negative number, -2000 lines of code. Then they stopped asking him to fill out the form. https://www.folklore.org/S
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by combatentropy 5y ago
It's not so much that you need to reduce your accent but that you must acquire a different accent, the one that happens to be mainstream. I don't know if that helps, but that is what a linguist would say. Everyone has an accent. I
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Lawmakers urge probe of breathing system on F-35 fighter jet [video](youtube.com)
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by combatentropy 5y ago
So is that a bug or a feature ;)
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by combatentropy 5y ago
It's nice to know what the ANSI standard is, but what's a practical example? The only time I use a limit-clause is to paginate. On the other hand, if I wanted to make sure to get all rows whose column value was between 1 and 3, ev
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Right. It isn't something I recommend running in production before every insert. It's just something I have done sometimes, like as part of a big database change, and only to "reference" tables. Like suppose there is a t
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Do you mean enumeration, whereby an attacker starts at some ID and tries several in sequence? It has never been a problem for me and my applications. Just because you know a record exists, doesn't mean you can see it. For example, if y
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Thank you for uncovering this edge case. To summarize, Postgres reserves a batch of 32 serial numbers from its sequence objects. Then, in the case of a crash, or the promotion of a "follower", that batch is lost. I consider ID num
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Newspapers had the same rule, called the inverted pyramid, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. Well, first of all, I would echo some of the advice of others here. A sabbatical can salve burn-out, though you rightly sense that as soon as you go back to work, the feelings will foam up again --- unless you address th
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Burnout happens to many. What's curious is how young you are, and there's nothing in your post to point to the reason. Do you know the reason?
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by combatentropy 5y ago
You should let your child have lots and lots of freedom to do whatever he wants, even if that is often watching television or whatever. Ideally you would have a lot of outdoor places for him to roam --- whether that be a large amount of lan
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Why not instead apply syntax highlighting to the URL?
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by combatentropy 5y ago
It isn't for that kind of tech writer. It is "for pundits, journalists, bloggers, and assorted scribblers who write about technology".
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by combatentropy 5y ago
> And what follows is an ordered list. Isn't it just a numbered list? You can number things, but that doesn't mean it's in order of importance, just the order it popped into the writer's head. > Of mostly unsubstan
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by combatentropy 5y ago
A post three days ago highlighted comments here that had the phrase "why not simply": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27415725
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Hacker News often trims clickbaity words from headlines. Modern headlines are low on substance and high on curiosity-inducing phrases ("How", "Why", "You wouldn't believe..."). This is in contrast to the s
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by combatentropy 5y ago
I don't know why such a short, lightweight, 9-year-old article was plucked from the past and upvoted 50 times onto Hacker News' front page. > Happiness research is a great example of why psychology isn’t science. How exactly sh
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by combatentropy 5y ago
12 is a Highly Composite Number, which means it has a lot of factors: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6. In fact, it is a Superior Highly Composite Number. I have heard this makes it extra useful for fractions. --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by combatentropy 5y ago
Yes, and discussed here about a week ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26749737
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by combatentropy 6y ago
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by combatentropy 6y ago
The article is pretty light on how these platforms do so. Do they not simply bubble up popular posts: ones with likes, retweets, and comments? That might mean a politicized post, but it also could be a positive one about the kindness of a s
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by combatentropy 6y ago
When I first heard about it in grade 8, I thought it was the dumbest thing ever. The first pair, Introvert or Extrovert made sense. But I could never make up my mind on the rest: Intuitive or Sensing, Thinking or Feeling, Judging or Perceiv

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