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by dexen 10y ago
> The US consumer is the one that will be paying for the tariffs if they ever come. One of the dangers of over-reliance on single source of import, and a serious failure of long-term planning of several recent administrations. Imagine if
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by dexen 10y ago
>There's got to be some way of predicting which people will transform themselves It's predictable to a large degree. Between moral foundations ( Jonatan Haidt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI1wQswRVaU ) and
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by dexen 10y ago
I have a little bit of experience with PostgreSQL. Coming from MySQL background, I was pleasantly surprised how much abstraction you can build into your PostgreSQL database itself. With just a few views and perhaps functions you can abstrac
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Archived, as the bugzilla seems to be overloaded right now: http://archive.is/s5HMf
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Trump signs NASA bill, adding human exploration of Mars to NASA's mission(hosted.ap.org)
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In similar spirit, a Zip archive holding itself, by Russ Cox: https://research.swtch.com/zip Infinite recursion!
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by dexen 10y ago
Another quote mine is "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe the chemist. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing... Examples: http://blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F
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by dexen 10y ago
I'd like to correct the quote: Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on. [1] That's
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Fascinating read, thank you for the link!
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Speaking of forgotten audio formats: Tefifon, old german analog loop of elastic, non-magnetic, tape. More or less ``8-track meet vinyl''. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBNTAmLRmUg https://www.youtube.
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Oscilloscope Music – Pictures from Sound(youtube.com)
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To re-iterate what ManlyBread wrote above, the BS Detector tool uses a fixed list [1] of domains that are deemed to convey 'fake news'; there is no neural network / algorithm / heuristics being used in the tool. Just a b
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NanoTritium betavoltaic power source(citylabs.net)
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by dexen 11y ago
Railroad Diagrams are used to great effect in SQLite documentation, for description of mandatory/optional syntax elements, for example: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_update.html https://www.sqlite.org/lan
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by dexen 11y ago
The CLI quiz(6) program from bsd-games package, preferably with -t option. Should be available on, or for, most POSIX systems.
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by dexen 11y ago
sc [1], the venerable text mode spreadsheet, has `pt' (transpose) command. And yes, it's a visual program, in that you operate on grid of cells. [1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10699
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by dexen 11y ago
I am amazed by how close LISP, or at least some dialects, comes to what the OP asks for: * REPL * code/data duality * direct manipulation of the program * program always running and you edit the VM image, instead of editing sources and
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VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise(bloombergview.com)
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VW Scandal Will Speed Up Diesel's Demise(bloombergview.com)
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by dexen 11y ago
The tool for highlighting EXPLAIN output is provided on http://explain.depesz.com/ (as mentioned in a later slide). It's commonly used when asking for help and discussing queries on #postgresql on Freenode.
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by dexen 11y ago
Which is neatly surmised in epigram 102.: One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means. -- Alan Perlis, ``Epigrams in Programming'' http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quo
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by dexen 11y ago
I love this idea, and would be more than happy if Project Wonderful [1] provided such functionality for end-users. Oh the joy of being micro-patron of my favourite comics :) [1] https://www.projectwonderful.com/ ; they serv
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by dexen 11y ago
Ministry of Space [1] is a what-if short comics series by Warren Ellis, tellsing the very story of Britain being the first to launch into space thanks to V-2 tech. As expected of Ellis, it's full of references to the british culture
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Curiously enough a friend in Germany got "Live straming is not available in your country due to licensing issues" error on this video. As he said, `pretty [much] sums it up'.
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How the Smokey Bear Effect Led to Raging Wildfires(npr.org)
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Stealing Keys from PCs Using a Radio(tau.ac.il)
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He's on HN, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=CliffStoll [edit] As my friends (online and off) can attest, I make Klein bottles mainly for fun. It's a zero-volume home business, small enough to be run fro
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by dexen 11y ago
May be a mild case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning_kruger_effect -- you think you know the correct solutions, whereas actually there are no single, unique correct solutions for at least some of the questions
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Agreed, this should be solved server-side. Indeed it is possible to implement idempotent behavior of POST forms server-side. Even if a bit tedious to implement at first, it meshes very well with multi-user web apps, when several people may
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by dexen 12y ago
> Proof, yet again, that computers should be flying planes. If the computer piloting the plane was designed by the same criteria -- economics -- as the plane was, it'd have pretty much the same crash rate per passenger * mile. It

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