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by darrenf 5y ago
For me, I had been too lazy to use Homebrew or Perlbrew since I don't develop locally per se, but I wanted `Perl::LanguageServer` for use with VS Code – which I'd installed via `local::lib` into `~/perl5/`. Post-upgrade
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by darrenf 5y ago
Regarding Perl, rather than removing it Apple actually upgraded it – from 5.28 to 5.30 – in Big Sur 11.3. I wasn't the only one briefly surprised and bitten by it: • https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues&#
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by darrenf 5y ago
“Ask” has had a noun form for as long as I can recall in British English. Phrases like “that’s quite a big ask” and “what’s the ask?” are commonplace IME.
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by darrenf 5y ago
`jq` can transform CSV to JSON and vice-versa, especially for simple/naive data where simply splitting on `,` is good enough - and where you aren't too bothered by types (e.g. if you don't mind numbers ending up as strings).
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by darrenf 5y ago
There's a UK company which is hoping to launch regular airship services for short routes within the next 5 years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/airships-for-c...
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by darrenf 5y ago
> Maybe not buying the cheapest cables available on the bottom of the Amazon barrel. That is definitely true. Given how many of my devices came with their own cables - presumably decent quality - I haven't needed to buy any 3rd pa
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by darrenf 5y ago
I genuinely don’t understand how I’ve managed to be so lucky. That is, I absolutely do not disbelieve the many tales of woe I hear on HN (like the many in this thread) - but I’ve literally never put any thought into what cable I plug in to
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by darrenf 5y ago
I find Bills of Mortality fascinating, and am somewhat disappointed that my favourite inscrutable-sounding cause " Rising of the Lights "[0] didn't make it into the list posted. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by darrenf 5y ago
There are plenty of airlines with ratings far from maximum on that site. Visit https://www.airlineratings.com/safety-rating-tool/ and sort by the Safety Rating column. Indeed Malaysian Airlines rates only 3 out of 7 h
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by darrenf 6y ago
NB. the headline (at 2021-04-20 16:34 BST) says " EU agency links J&J shot to rare clots, says odds favor use "
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by darrenf 6y ago
I saw and was sharing this privately just a few hours ago. It led me into a bit of a rabbit hole, where I stumbled across Etak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak The original Etak Navigator was a specially-packaged I
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by darrenf 6y ago
Sounds to me like you're describing GridCoin[0], which operates on top of BOINC[1] which itself was spawned from Seti@Home. [0] https://gridcoin.us/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_
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by darrenf 6y ago
> I am not even sure if there are any intention to bring vertical Japanese subtext feature to HTML. Perhaps not HTML itself, but the first draft for writing modes in CSS is over 10 years old: https://www.w3.org/TR/
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by darrenf 6y ago
Small nitpick: it doesn't, and never had to be, HTML that was emitted. Executables were/are responsible for headers (including `Content-type`) as well as the body.
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by darrenf 6y ago
> You can even background something like vim or a game that takes the whole terminal, and it's just fine! Focusing on this point, you can background vim just fine right now - I have tons of vim processes backgrounded all the time.
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by darrenf 6y ago
The UK does have a Creation Science Movement[0]. My partner and I unwittingly stumbled into their Genesis Expo[1] in Portsmouth the other year – we blindly walked in without noticing the building's name or any paraphernalia, just &quot
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by darrenf 6y ago
To be fair: • Corbyn has been an MP for Islington South since 1983 • Thornberry is MP for Islington North since 2005 • Margaret Hodge was on Islington council for 21 years So I would say it's somewhat unfair to accuse it of being a ste
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by darrenf 6y ago
Can concur with all the other responders to this post. You could buy official "wobble stoppers", but my dad made one from corrugated cardboard and a LOT of gaffer tape. I used to type programme listings† in, blind, while my family
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by darrenf 6y ago
See also “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0438327/ I’ve watched it several times after becoming fascinated by the place upon watching this (much) shorter piece on Youtube: h
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by darrenf 6y ago
For paid software with which I have no affiliation beyond being a happy customer, there’s Reincubate Camo: https://reincubate.com/camo/
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by darrenf 6y ago
AIUI, economists measure inflation by comparing prices of a "basket of goods" – the contents of which change over time, specifically to reflect changes in consumer habits, technological progress, and other non-monetary factors. If
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by darrenf 6y ago
Not "canvas" but "Canva", referring to https://www.canva.com/
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by darrenf 6y ago
I’ve never found the cw/dw case illogical. When I’m deleting a “word” (in prose or code) it’s rarely, perhaps never, my intention to leave a double space between the surrounding words. But if I am changing one, the likelihood is that
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by darrenf 6y ago
> AFAIK, there’s no standard way to bundle a webpage containing images into a single file. There’s mhtml, though I can’t speak to how well supported it is. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2557
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by darrenf 6y ago
The amount expressed in dollar terms needn’t match the quantity of mortgages, so both can be true - no?
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by darrenf 6y ago
Interesting. I haven't touched BIND for years and am out of the loop, plus memory is fallible anyway. Just looked at it and have ended up at RFC 8499 from January 2019: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8499 Mas
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by darrenf 6y ago
> the term is still "master server" and "slaver server", officially Can you provide a source for this? I was using "primary" and "secondary" back when I administered DNS in the mid-to-late 90s, a
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by darrenf 6y ago
FWIW, Oculus has the same system - IIRC, you can return for a full refund if you haven't played more than 2 hours in 14 days since purchase. I've used it, and IME it was seamless.
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by darrenf 6y ago
Specifically for "commute" mode, I tend to play a few solo games of Premium Bowling[0], or I hit "random" in Wander[1] until an interesting location to virtually explore pops up. [0] https://www.premiumbowling
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by darrenf 6y ago
I don't so much switch off , as switch modes , by forcing some kind of "commute". Sometimes this involves going for a run, or even a walk around the block; other times it's half an hour in a VR headset (I have an Oculu

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