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by donaldihunter 5y ago
That para makes 2 more important points: "Vaccination status: those who have received three doses of a vaccine and test positive for COVID-19 are more likely to be infected with infections compatible with the Omicron variant compared w
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by donaldihunter 5y ago
This thread! Talking about ourselves in an ironic / un-ironic / post-ironic way. There is room for more meta hacker news.
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by donaldihunter 5y ago
Evergreen comment.
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by donaldihunter 5y ago
Reentrancy is a problem for yacc. Bison can generate reentrant parsers https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/manual/bison.html#Pure-De...
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
> K9sAlpha contains the next generation of features and enhancements for a nominal fee. That's $99 for: Resource lists limited to 20 entries or $199 for: Unlimited resource lists
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K9S Paid Version(k9salpha.io)
1 points by donaldihunter 6y ago|2 comments
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Very clickbaity title. It may technically be a serious incident wrt the AAIB, but the sum-up is: “ Despite the issue, the thrust used for the departure from Birmingham on 21 July 2020 was only “marginally less” than it should have been, and
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
I wonder how low TTL compares to browser URL bar queries with respect to impact on DNS user experience.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
With clickbaity misrepresentations of correctness, unfortunately.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
I came here for this. E.g. https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo19.pdf "This file, pocorgtfo19.pdf, is valid as a PDF document, a ZIP archive, and a HTML page. It is also available as a Windows PE execu
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Saying Goodbye to the Scotch Trooper, Brett Ferencz(thewhiskeywash.com)
1 points by donaldihunter 6y ago|0 comments
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
This! Raku introduced the concept of NFG - Normal Form Grapheme - as a way to represent any Unicode string in its logical ‘visual character’ grapheme form. Sequences of combining characters that don’t have a canonical single codepoint form
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Only if you ignore the rest of what the post said. First it should make things easy for ‘normal’ tasks, then it should make everything else possible. > Basically, users should definitely _not_ need to understand the deeper details of Uni
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
> JS (modern) LOL. JS is what, 25 years old, versus Python at 30.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Back then it would have been maven 2 which supported version ranges in a similar way to OSGi manifests. But I really only mentioned maven as the first build tool I used which reached out to public repos uninvited and could break my builds a
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
This was inevitable from the moment we let build systems and runtime systems fetch things automatically and unsupervised from public repos. This is the simplest and most blatant approach yet, but taking ownership of existing projects and ad
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Extraordinary Patient Offers Surprising Clues to Origins of Coronavirus Variants(npr.org)
9 points by donaldihunter 6y ago|2 comments
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Fascinating article. But I struggle with this kind of writing: > In other words, perhaps, the coronavirus virus uses long-term infections as a mutational testing ground. While inside one person, they can try out all these different combi
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Really nice. It needs a style that is suitable for a terminal with white background though.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
This inspired me to install --HEAD which I have been considering doing for a while.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
It doesn’t advance past the first level for me, on mobile (ios) Edit: after exiting Chrome, now it’s rendering the controls at bottom of the screen. Edit: and it’s really fun.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
First two bullets could do without the qualification, IMHO. “keeping an eye on the newbies” is just condescending. My take: * Typed languages are generally better. * Standups are actually useful. * Process is helpful, when not used as a str
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
I haven’t used Raku for anything big, but I do use it for a lot of small projects. I find the expressiveness great and I can get things done with minimum fuss. It’s especially good for command-line tools where a MAIN function gives a CLI wi
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
That is useful feedback. As far as I know, Raku docs have changed in the past to remove cultural in-jokes or smells.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Raku definitely embraces multiple approaches and syntax, continuing the “There is more than one way to do it” motto of Perl. In addition, Raku aims for consistency and composability while introducing new language constructs like laziness, g
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
The goal is definitely that it can enable greater optimisation and I agree that it's not a reality yet. The other benefit is that it constrains types so that you get compile time type checking, which is very useful.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Gradual / optional type declaration, grammars as a first class language feature, async / parallel programming, rational numbers, lazy evaluation, OOP with classes and roles and an underlying metaobject protocol.
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Worth trying Emacs 28. The speedup is impressive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24117853
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
I’ve been using macOS notes for a couple of years for daily note taking, because it is just so convenient with cloud sync. I have been planning to transcribe everything I want to keep into a git repo of .md files, for exactly the lockin rea
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by donaldihunter 6y ago
Ethereum is definitely the new kid on the block here.

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