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by dnr 7y ago
That's why I said "or near". I figured it was common knowledge if you drive anywhere around the area. But it's true that it's not signed anywhere (that I know of), so if you're driving from farther away, it wou
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by dnr 7y ago
You lived in or near NYC and didn't know that right-on-red is illegal in the whole city, at all times? There's no possible confusion there (except maybe near the borders of the outer boroughs, but Manhattan is an island so pretty
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by dnr 7y ago
That doesn't work for the same reason that < and > don't work, right? They are existing operators in the language, so the parser would need unbounded lookahead. Using a different set of characters is unambiguous (and additio
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by dnr 7y ago
This is really bike-shed-y, but: I'm disappointed they didn't go with «» or similar to set apart type parameters. The answer in the doc is that they "couldn't bring ourselves to require non-ascii", but there's
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by dnr 7y ago
Fair enough. It's a small company and their ops seem competent, but yeah, I wouldn't trust confidential or sensitive information to it.
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by dnr 7y ago
Since other people are throwing out alternatives, here's what I use: https://dynalist.io/ I'm not affiliated, just a happy paying customer. I organize a pretty good chunk of my life in it.
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by dnr 7y ago
Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync is a command-line tool (in Python) that downloads (incrementally) your Google Photos content directly using the Photos API, not thro
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by dnr 7y ago
I think it's good to get more data out there, positive and negative, so I'll add: I'm using btrfs on a home server (and sometimes desktop) for half a year now and haven't had any issues. It's fast (on nvme ssd), I c
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by dnr 7y ago
I wish it were so, but it's not. I usually start interviews with 5-10 minutes of talking about a previous project of the candidate, digging in to see how sophisticated the work was, how they solved problems, etc. I've had plenty o
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by dnr 7y ago
That's addressed in the article: Could the plays’ many connections to Bassano be explained by simply assuming the playwright knew her well? “Shakespeare would have had to run to her every few minutes for a musical reference or
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by dnr 7y ago
I have no dog in this fight but that is a very uncharitable "synopsis". The main argument that I took away is that the plays contain many references to things (foreign cultures, social customs, musical instruments, etc.) that Shak
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by dnr 7y ago
But Google completely failed at "hopping on the social train". Are they now irrelevant? It seems now that that "realization" was just wrong.
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by dnr 7y ago
Not to push your expectations even higher, but visiting and seeing the Sagrada Familia literally moved me to tears. It's one of only two buildings that have ever done that to me. (And I'm not religious at all, and was not raised C
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by dnr 7y ago
I got some stuff in the mail, and eventually two checks for the two phases. I think they were something like $1100 and $7000. I was kind of annoyed because the initial settlement was apparently so embarrassing that the _judge_ rejected it,
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by dnr 8y ago
Someone on a flight once explained to me that the noise on an airplane is a large factor of why flying makes you tired: your brain is constantly processing all that background noise and looking for patterns in it. Since then I've alway
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by dnr 8y ago
Of those cities I've only spent time in the Bay Area and NYC, but NYC feels much more diverse than the Bay Area. The Bay Area has people of every race and ethnicity, but it feels very segregated both geographically and economically. Pe
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by dnr 8y ago
I'm not trying to deny your experiences, but sometimes you just have to accept the way the world is: there's no big company behind Linux support on laptops, so you have to go where the most users are. If you want to use OSX, you b
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by dnr 8y ago
I've noticed that whenever I describe my MDMA experiences to others, I feel a faint a faint version of the effects, sorta like a flashback. I chalked it up to something about the effects being associated with those memories, so activat
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by dnr 8y ago
It works at a job too: you get more attention rushing in as the hero to fight fires on a system that's blowing up than you do building it so it just works and scales better in the first place.
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by dnr 8y ago
The incentive is just not having to come up with and calibrate new questions. It takes a lot of effort to do that, and if you've been asking a "banned" question for a while and are comfortable with it, it's easy to just
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by dnr 8y ago
The old 7-row ThinkPad keyboard. Also Rdio.
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by dnr 8y ago
Btw, I realize this argument is very similar to the argument for dynamic typing + lots of unit tests instead of static typing: "you have to write the tests anyway, and the tests will check the types". I'd like to note that ev
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by dnr 8y ago
I was there at the time too and couldn't believe people were defending required. I had already run into enough problems with it that I stopped using it earlier, and I worked on a relatively small system with not that many moving parts!
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by dnr 8y ago
The author seems pretty confused about the geography of the bay area, and comes to odd conclusions because of it. First of all: > Google programmers living two to three to a bedroom in Bernal Heights, not even that close to BART. Why wou
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by dnr 8y ago
https://dynalist.io/ I haven't used evernote so I don't know all of its features, and I'm sure dynalist is missing many of them, but it's wonderful for all those things you mentioned (notes, lists, ideas
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by dnr 8y ago
If they're not in the config file, where exactly are they then? A text file sitting next to the config file? I can't see any benefit to that arrangement over just using comments in the file. Comments that exist in the file in the
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by dnr 8y ago
You're talking about comments that document the semantics of fields in a config file. Most other people here are talking about comments that describe why the _specific values_ present in a _specific file_ were chosen. Whether documenti
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by dnr 8y ago
Ubuntu has worked perfectly on my last two thinkpads, an X220 and X1 Carbon (4th gen). That's almost 7 years now. I think only the only real caveat is that the fingerprint reader isn't supported. I can't speak for other lapto
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by dnr 8y ago
I just used oxiclean whitening for the first time and it made a bunch of white shirts (dress shirts and undershirts) look nearly new again. Pretty impressive stuff, and cheap too. Only downside is it made the fabric feel a little stiff and
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by dnr 8y ago
That's probably not quite true. "google3 file access" most likely means the ability to open paths with the "google3 file library", which lets you use paths like "/gfs/<cluster>/...", a

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