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by ddek 5y ago
I certainly found it amusing. There's absolutely nothing about how to use the API...
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by ddek 5y ago
If anyone’s reading from the UK, St Andrew’s University is known for the number of marriages it creates. It’s not surprising, given you’re spending 4-5 years in a tiny, predominantly student, town. Also, the university has an ‘academic fami
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by ddek 5y ago
Not at all, IMO. I did a little bit of reasoning after reading this thread (I fucking love paternosters), and thought that any measure you could take to improve the safety or efficiency would likely have a detrimental effect. For example, i
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by ddek 5y ago
Sadly, impractical in this case. The ski lifts work because there are (usually) only two (but occassionally 3) terminals. In contrast, the point of a paternoster is that every floor is a terminal.
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by ddek 5y ago
I wish they weren't as dangerous. They really are a huge improvement on the conventional elevator in terms of efficiency. At Sheffield, many people are scared of the paternoster so choose the elevators opposite. I'd guess the pate
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by ddek 5y ago
'accidentally' Like, there's no problem with going around the top. At Sheffield, the mechanics are all hidden away enough that the risk of catching something is fairly low. These areas became a site of illicit advertisements
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by ddek 5y ago
I've used cursor pagination on daemons doing large batch processing. It worked fine. If you're using a cursor, you should be iterating the entire (or at least most of) the result set over the course of the connection. I wouldn&#x2
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by ddek 6y ago
Absolutely. I found similar advice to that in this book propelled my insomnia about 4 years ago. My insomnia responded to CBT-I extremely fast. After 18 months, 2 nights of sleep deprivation (4 hours in bed) and the corner was turned. Now,
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by ddek 6y ago
If you're into most alt styles, /r/indieheads is pretty good too. I quite like going on rym and playing whatever's on the front page, that's exposed me to many genres I'd have skipped otherwise.
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by ddek 6y ago
> 3) Electronic music is "done": most interesting permutations of notes, rhythms and timbres have been tried already Have you heard last week's release 'Promises' by Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the LSO?
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by ddek 6y ago
The OAuth 2.0 RFC specifies the 'password' grant type, where the user provides the username and password directly. I'd contest the claim that OAuth was not intended for authentication, because there are no authz uses for the
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by ddek 6y ago
Vaccines are ways to mimic infection (hopefully) without the side effects of real infection, like getting sick. The immune system is complex and layered. The body's primary response to an infection is to make the body inhospitable. We
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by ddek 6y ago
It's often labelled as a more accessible alternative to SICP, mainly because it's lisp-based.
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by ddek 6y ago
I followed them a long while ago, they're fun but you'll probably find they move too slowly. Seriously though, they are fun. Racket's way of programming with pictures is great. Maybe following the book at your own pace would
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by ddek 6y ago
I'm wondering about whether this translates into work. In a sense, corporate ladders are social ladders. Someone might be difficult to work with through insecurity. If they assume that showing weakness hinders their ability to climb th
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by ddek 6y ago
I've got a few issues with most of these studies. The media tends to make this worse, because these articles (and their accompanying social media discussion) seem to exist solely for writers and readers to claim superiority over the pe
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by ddek 6y ago
A local restaurant to my parents (UK) has been doing similar things. Not Michelin starred, but close. It helps that their food has always typically been slow cooked, which always keeps better. It’s a reasonable experience, but a way off eat
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by ddek 6y ago
Except I’m not sure they’re related enough. If OP’s book was a productivity guide based off bloom, for sure. Instead it’s a collection of learnings discovered while (although likely not exclusively while) developing the product.
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by ddek 6y ago
And you can still use the full names in scripts (rather than directly in the shell), so you don’t rely on future readers knowing the aliases.
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by ddek 6y ago
Ooh I only disagree about bitcoin having imaginary value. I believe a bitcoin has real value, because we have chosen it to have real value, much like we collectively chose the USD to mean something. I don't have any real opinion on the
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by ddek 6y ago
Well, yes, but that completely misses the point. Bitcoin is currency, and you can reason that all currencies solely have imaginary value. We only value dollar bills because of an intricate system of promises that assures us we can exchange
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by ddek 6y ago
Open source is kinda irrelevant IMO. The answer is, of course, it depends . How much do you value language integration? Do you have muscle memory for vim or emacs? There are many more questions here. VSCode supports language server protoco
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by ddek 6y ago
I’m always biased in favour of opensaas. If you go opensaas, your customers would need motivation before they started paying. Opensaas isn’t going to guarantee that your product succeeds. Going closed won’t either. I’m trying to say that if
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by ddek 6y ago
Hosted has two benefits: the host assumes liability, and the host takes on all admin costs. This is why it’s a mistake to compete on price in the SaaS game. It’s not about small orgs self hosting, they wouldn’t pay you much anyway. A large
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by ddek 6y ago
It amuses me how the Northern line is generally the right shape, but is upside down.
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by ddek 6y ago
Yeah I just combined an unrelated set of feelings into a single sentence. > morally ambiguous No character (save some in S5) is totally black or white. Take Omar, for example. When Omar responds to Levy in the S2 courtroom scene, we symp
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by ddek 6y ago
The Wire. I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes. I think it helped that I quite quickly saw it as a morally ambiguous discussion of the institutional ineptitude of conserv
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by ddek 6y ago
All anecdotes, but In my Chem degree we used MATLAB, as did all the (non software) engineers I knew. My brother is a physics PhD student in Zurich, he uses MATLAB almost exclusively. I think the universities use it for two reasons. Firstly,
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by ddek 6y ago
As you say, the API feels similar. However, result types have many benefits over exceptions, with a few drawbacks. With a result type, in most languages, you can't just ignore failure. You must handle it, if you want to access the valu
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by ddek 6y ago
Hmm. I'm having a hard time relating the '1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team' to anything in my life though.

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