desert_boi

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by desert_boi 6y ago
`with` is not allowed in strict mode (from ES5) and with ES modules (which imply strict). It's a bit of a relic.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
Got a link to Rome's docs? Babel is a little easier to google for.
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by desert_boi 6y ago
The USSR only died for a moment in Belarus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_State
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Blocks are handled via indentation. let function1() = for i in 1 .. 10 do printf "%d " i printfn "" function1() borrowed from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fshar
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by desert_boi 7y ago
There are some caveats to the structural type system in TypeScript. The most glaring of which is multiple versions of the same typings will not align with each other regardless of sharing the same shape.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
BCL is something that's new to me. Anyone know what it stands for?
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by desert_boi 7y ago
The entirety of the American West is subject to seismic areas. We're still having aftershocks from a magnitude 6.5 earlier this week in Central Idaho. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpd
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by desert_boi 7y ago
For the sake of Economic Piety. It's an easy number to track, but it's not all there is. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/emphasize-... I lived in Germany for a couple years an
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I was hoping to see the source for the lib, but I can't find it in the npm package listing. Anyone manage to track it down?
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Think of the dead and dying standards that competed against those listed above in the marketplace of ideas (SOAP, Gopher, ECMAScript 1.4[1]). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#4th_Edition_(abando...
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Now we've got more storage than we'll ever need. > On a larger scale, he says that the world's data centers in 2010 accounted for 130 million tons of CO2e, or a quarter of a percent of the world's global total. Berner
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Cilantro is indeed from Spanish and a later borrowing. https://www.etymonline.com/word/cilantro#etymonline_v_13705 And Coriander is from Old French https://www.etymonline.com/word/coriander?ref=ety
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Singapore does have a climate where without those trees it would be crazy hot walking. It was ~36C in October when I was there in October. I sweated through my shirts immediately going outside. But my home state in the winter ranges between
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by desert_boi 7y ago
It was announced that Idaho could test 800 to 1000 people. Not a day, total. The state has a population of 1.8 million people. It is the only state with no confirmed cases besides West Virginia, as of this morning. > It takes anywhere fr
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Crying gentrification is just one more way the housing crisis is exacerbated by folks that already got theirs. We need to build denser period.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Bugs are absolutely socially acceptable to eat in the US and Canada, provided they came out of water. [Crawdads]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish ), lobsters, crabs, and shrimp are all arthropods.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
BuckleScript ( https://bucklescript.github.io/ ) is used for using OCaml to output JavaScript. Reason can target native just like vanilla OCaml syntax can.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
San Francisco's problems have rippled out to places like Boise, ID and Reno, NV. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/business/economy/reno-gro... Both of these cities (and metros) are low densit
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by desert_boi 7y ago
You should read "Cities without Suburbs" if you want to know the politics around consolidation and how hard it is in most of the states. A lot of it boils down into tiny municipalities being able to avoid a cripple larger metros t
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Is there an ML on the JVM? The best part of F# is it felt like a simpler version of Scala, even without things like higher kinded types that are present in OCaml.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
> Subcultures were the main creative cultural force from roughly 1975 to 2000, when they stopped working. Why? I suspect the author was 25 at some point in that range of time. It's hard to keep going when an essay starts out that wa
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I believe they meant niche.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
It is not sarcasm. Stanford does indeed have the most alumni who founded unicorns. But Harvard, UC, and MIT round things out nicely, for American schools at least. https://www.theatlas.com/charts/HJSgAUdPx
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I think you're not giving the meritocracy at MIT enough credit. I went to a state university.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Not even capitals, if you look at cities like Hamburg.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
For anyone that hasn't seen it, _Cities Without Suburbs_ is a book that lays out the case that fragmentation and infighting are a major hindrance on American metro areas. San Francisco is bounded on all sides from expanding, so it&#x27
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by desert_boi 7y ago
At least in Idaho, the speed limit is routinely flouted up to 90mph.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Java's Optionals can be `Some | None | null` right? They're just reference types still.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
I've lived in ID and MT (bordering BC and Alberta) for most of my life and people mostly say canadian geese even though I've heard that canada geese is preferred.
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by desert_boi 7y ago
Boston (and metro) is better about green space than SF IMO. I lived there years ago in the West End where Thoreau Path was. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Necklace Rent was indeed astronomical,

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