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by cranekam 7y ago
Just wash your hands and try not to touch your face. Any virus that is on the bike isn't going to walk up your arms and down your throat. Personally I find it pretty easy to not touch my face. I doubt I am perfect at it but I catch mys
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by cranekam 7y ago
Facebook uses Chef to manage its base hosts [0] and its own container system [1] to manage most workloads. [0] https://www.chef.io/customers/facebook/ [1] https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-eng
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by cranekam 7y ago
In many cases testing shouldn't actually change the result, either. Suspected patients need to self-isolate, regardless of whether they actually are positive or not. Being positive doesn't necessarily require additional treatment
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by cranekam 7y ago
Any Gitlabbers here? I'm looking for SRE work and Gitlab looks great, aside from never having any job openings..
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by cranekam 7y ago
I don't know for sure but my assumption is that H1B holders (and potentially green card holders, which are "permanent residents") are not excluded from this ban. As many others have mentioned here it's not easy to prev
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by cranekam 7y ago
> but it suggests strongly that the heuristics in malloc either have a bug, or the parameters aren't set aggressively enough I think the author might be being a bit naive about the role of the allocator. Sure, it could aggressively
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by cranekam 7y ago
Very good podcast about drowning: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
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by cranekam 7y ago
I am a big fan of rail travel within Europe but I have to admit that at times it feels like playing on hard mode. I live in Switzerland now and travel to London somewhat often. Here's a list of things that have sucked by train: * Frenc
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by cranekam 7y ago
The train from Zurich to Paris is a TGV with included (mandatory?) seat reservations, air conditioning and plenty of bag space.
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by cranekam 7y ago
> Zurich to Paris just takes too long by train, and doing night trains isn't always an option. It's a nudge over 4 hours by TGV from Zurich center to Paris center. That is almost certainly comparable to getting from city center
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by cranekam 7y ago
Thanks for the list. I suspect it's not accurate (e.g. only credit cards issued by Credit Suisse work with Apple Pay, but it doesn't say that on the list) but I'll try to verify some of the others.
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by cranekam 7y ago
Of course. I understand the business decisions here. I'm just saying it sucks.
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by cranekam 7y ago
Not in Switzerland! Over here pretty much only credit cards work with Apple Pay. I haven't found a single debit card that works with it (other than Revolut, which is only a bank if you squint at it). I assume this is because there is a
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by cranekam 7y ago
Tell me about it. I'm trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on the thing (I turn off as many notification as possible, put timesucking apps out of easy reach, etc) but it still consumes much more time than I'd like. I despai
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by cranekam 7y ago
> To eliminate that problem, I put my phone far away from my bed at night. My wife and I recently started leaving our phones in another room overnight. It's a big improvement -- previously it was easy to mindlessly scroll through no
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by cranekam 7y ago
I agree they aren't a platform (yet?). I just don't understand why you're conflating this with an assertion that AirPods can't possibly offer any additional utility over a basic set of wireless headphones. I for one don&
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by cranekam 7y ago
> What on earth do you value in a $160 pair of earphones then? Well, all the things I just listed. It may be true that I could get 90% of the functionality of AirPods for half the price, but that would mean researching what to buy, deali
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by cranekam 7y ago
> Another thing to note is that they are still a substandard user experience compared to 3.5mm jack and decent headphones ($50+ with non tangle wires) No, this is your assessment of user experience. It’s opinion, not fact. Perhaps some $
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by cranekam 7y ago
I usually do it when autoindent is going to make a mess of whatever I'm pasting into the file.
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by cranekam 7y ago
"Awful" was mean. Sorry. I just meant that IMO it's more productive to get familiar with the shell and demonstrate powerful shell alternatives than learning a handful of situation-specific CLI alternatives. Getting to know th
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by cranekam 7y ago
It depends on what people use the GUI for. It's not inconceivable that people start up gvim to make a new file (instead of cat > file) or use some bulk-renaming tool instead of learning about shell expansions. "Awful" was
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by cranekam 7y ago
This article is awful. You're not going to "break your dependence on the GUI" by replacing 5 things you do a few times a day with obscure, less good CLI alternatives. What about things like manipulating files and running prog
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by cranekam 7y ago
What is even the point of scroll-jacking like this? Is there some SEO or monetization opportunity I don't get? Pretty much everyone (surely including the site owner?) who runs into weird chunky wrestling-an-oiled-pig scrolling like thi
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by cranekam 7y ago
Facebook doesn't run vanilla PHP. It runs on Hack, a language developed from PHP that runs on HHVM, a JIT VM it developed: https://engineering.fb.com/developer-tools/hack-a-new-progra...
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by cranekam 7y ago
Great circle mapper to the rescue: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-SYD