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by dak1 8y ago
Where I went to University in upstate New York, there was a Taiwanese tea house run by a Korean family, a Japanese sushi restaurant owned by a Taiwanese family, and a Korean restaurant managed by a Japanese woman. When I go to a Thai restau
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by dak1 8y ago
Part of the idea behind Connexions (and later OpenStax) is that educational resources are made available under a CC license, and tools are provided so that educators can use, combine, re-write, and modify the educational texts they use. In
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by dak1 8y ago
cnx.org was the URL used when the organization was called Connexions. It was re-branded a few years ago to reflect its growth and expanded missions. Connexions became OpenStax CNX, within the larger OpenStax organization. They are all a par
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by dak1 8y ago
Evergreen browsers provide a stable API surface as well, because the APIs are backwards compatible. Adding support for CSS Grid does not break Flexbox or anything else I was already using. It simply gives me another tool.
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by dak1 8y ago
I'm somewhat heartened that 6 Justices were in agreement that cell records should be protected from warrantless lookups. Gorsuch appears to have dissented because he disagreed with the rationale of the decision and felt the 4th Amendme
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by dak1 8y ago
This is a good reminder that defaults should be simple and human readable. Advanced options should be behind flags for power users, not the other way around.
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by dak1 8y ago
~100 times the intensity required to kill even the hardiest microorganisms, bad. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerfu...
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by dak1 8y ago
const x = NaN; x === x; // false
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by dak1 9y ago
You may be thinking of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/588004/is-floating-point... 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 // false However, R is not immune to this problem either: https://stackoverflow.
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Gulp 4 Released(github.com)
1 points by dak1 9y ago|0 comments
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by dak1 9y ago
Terry Pratchett would have thoroughly enjoyed that concept.
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The contribute.json Mozilla Standard(contributejson.org)
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by dak1 9y ago
The US has never recognized the One China policy or China's claim over Taiwan. Instead, the US merely acknowledges China's position. Of course, as a superpower, you have a little bit more negotiating leverage. However, China'
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by dak1 9y ago
This is so common one of Murphy's Laws of Combat Operations is: "No combat ready unit has passed inspection. No inspection ready unit has ever passed combat."
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by dak1 9y ago
This is a teachable moment for a young student. Let's avoid crucifying them. We've all made mistakes, most of us were just fortunate enough that it didn't end up as the top link in Hacker News.
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by dak1 9y ago
I found I learned more faster just using vimtutor, although the idea of learning Vim through a graphical game is still pretty neat.
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by dak1 9y ago
How does this compare to AirDrop (besides obviously being cross platform)?
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by dak1 9y ago
Yes, fetch is basically sugar around XHR. This is just XHR injection using a nice API in the library itself (which some browsers still don't support). From a user's perspective, you could create the exact same experience using van
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Comment on FCC Proposal to End Net Neutrality(gofccyourself.com)
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by dak1 10y ago
Without numbers to put this into context it's a fairly meaningless claim.
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by dak1 10y ago
> When they shouted, "Black lives matter!" a rallying cry of protests that broke out after several black Americans were killed at the hands of police in recent months, O'Malley responded: "Black lives matter. White li
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Climate Change and the Astrobiology of the Anthropocene(npr.org)
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“Baffling” “signal” “from HD 164595” is probably none of the above(setiathome.berkeley.edu)
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by dak1 10y ago
Effectively. My project still gets pushed to GitHub and lives there, but I've disabled every feature I could (you can't disable PRs, but it's easy enough to redirect PRs over to GitLab). Code Climate can still happily read fr
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by dak1 10y ago
I've recently moved to pushing all my open source code to both GitLab and GitHub, but using GitLab for actual issue tracking, continuous integration, build tests, etc. I've found GitLab's integrated toolset to be superior to
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Linux bug leaves sites vulnerable to serious hijacking attacks(arstechnica.com)
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by dak1 10y ago
Being classified as a "superpower" is a term in political science that means the country has the ability to project unparalleled influence on a global scale. Don't let the prominence of discussions of China's "rise&
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by dak1 10y ago
There's definitely an overhead to tax breaks. There's a difference between simplifying the tax code, which would theoretically reduce overhead, and providing an itemized tax break, which actually increases complexity (and yes, the
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by dak1 10y ago
> - First class concurrency: Actors, async/await, atomicity, memory model, and related topics. This area is highly desired by everyone, as it will open the door for all sorts of new things on the client, server and more. We plan t
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by dak1 10y ago
From a layman's perspective, it certainly sounds like the legal system needs to be changed, not replicated.

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