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by eddieh 10y ago
I think that is right, dwellings just don't compare to a temple or a colosseum.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Tourist do visit the ruins we have, Monk Mound, Mesa Verde, Montezuma Castle, Gila Cliff Dwellings just to name a few. I don't want to be culturally insensitive, but our ruins are not as impressive as the pyramids in Mexico, South Amer
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by eddieh 10y ago
Phones are boring and utilitarian too. The difference is I used my pre-iPhones and could nitpick about the UI and other aspects to no end. I get in my car and the only thing I nitpick is the shit integration with my iPhone, but I don't
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by eddieh 10y ago
Tesla replaced the tactile controls with a big touch screen. In my mind that is going backwards. The great thing about cars is the physical tactile controls that can be used without looking. Aftermarket stereos always have a worse interface
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by eddieh 10y ago
I'm a lifelong Apple fan. I own almost everything they sell, but I don't want an Apple car. Not even a little bit. I'm not even curious to see what they do. I just am not interested. With phones it was obvious that Apple coul
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by eddieh 10y ago
Gotcha. I didn't know what this was called. Basically it is what I meant, but a good portion of deployed code doesn't use this from my experience. Personally I'd use an ORM, but that's just me.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Haha, I didn't know that was what that was called. It has been a few years since I did database driven development.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Please explain! I assume you mean bind to a type, but how does that help when you build a SQL statement? Surely whatever type you use has a 'toString' (or language equivalent) that is explicitly or implicitly used with string conc
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by eddieh 10y ago
I think you underestimate how much stuff relies on string concatenation or string interpolation to build SQL statements that are also case-insensitive by nature. Yes, people should probably use an ORM and yes they should properly quote inpu
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by eddieh 10y ago
That's true, you're right. Overall coal use is declining, but it has be well established that at night when electric cars are charging you're probably getting power from even cheaper coal that could come from several states a
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by eddieh 10y ago
Yes, you can tell them you want to share a ride with a stranger. These are ride sharing services. Sometimes there isn't enough demand for sharing or you pay extra to ride alone.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Went to school in Flagstaff.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Actually, from a city pollution point of view, cars registered in Flagstaff do not even have to pass smog. Flagstaff does not suffer from pollution like much larger metropolitan areas. The local environment is completely beside the point an
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by eddieh 10y ago
Flagstaff, AZ gets electricity from the Cholla Power Plant in Northern Arizona. The plant burns coal and is considered one of the dirtiest power stations in the nation. Just consider that owning a Tesla or any plug-in electric in Flagstaff
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by eddieh 10y ago
It has me labeled as very liberal too, but I've "liked" guns, firearms, and more conservative politicians than liberal ones, etc.
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by eddieh 10y ago
I've used MacPorts since it was DarwinPorts. This isn't out of habit, I've tried Fink, Homebrew, Nix, and Pkgsrc. All of them can't hold a candle to MacPorts. I have a super easy way to evaluate package managers, so I do
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by eddieh 10y ago
Windows 95 is the best of Windows — no doubt about it. I think NeXTSTEP was the pinnacle of all UX and it is pretty clear to me that Windows 95 copied NeXTSTEP, albeit rather badly. If only Apple would return to a refined NeXTSTEP like inte
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by eddieh 10y ago
Not difficult, just tedious. My being lazy and wanting to do something productive isn't proof of anything. Also, there isn't really an advantage to digging them up, since it is clear you'll just refute whatever I dig up.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Sure, let me dig some up. [edit, adding a link to a comment] Here is one (th13's reply was downvoted): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11030447 (This is more tedious than I thought, I'll see if I can dig up s
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by eddieh 10y ago
Even HN has declined, but what bothers me most is that HN has a definite range of views that are acceptable. This limits useful discourse. e.g. someone should be able to criticize Elon Musk without being downvoted to hell. While HN does sta
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by eddieh 10y ago
Latest stable Safari on desktop (9.1.2). Getting jpegs actually.
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by eddieh 10y ago
Cool, but the contest page ( https://a-k-apart.com ) is 204.5 K. Disappointed.
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by eddieh 10y ago
> people talk about Visual Studio being a great IDE I think this is just something people regurgitate often and believe without evidence. I've used the IDE and it is terrible – probably one of the worst. Last I checked it couldn&#x2
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by eddieh 10y ago
For sure. I have it turned off my Macs. Having it off makes for an even flatter and very plain Mac. I hate it, but not as much as transparency.
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by eddieh 10y ago
All that stuff sounds awful, please stick to using Windows.
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by eddieh 10y ago
I agree the old window zoom, as it was called, was the best. I know Windows user hate it, and so many of the recent changes seem to have been to placate Windows user complaints. I liked my Mac the way it was. We don't need to appeal to
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by eddieh 10y ago
Removing the 3D effect on the Dock is the only visual change I'm onboard with. Too bad it looks so bad with transparency turned off. :/
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by eddieh 10y ago
The transparency is worse than pointless. It is so distracting and ugly, it makes using macOS awful. When scrolling though a webpage (on macOS & iOS) the flickering color of the titlebar always makes me think the display is starting to
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by eddieh 10y ago
Someone would ask why not write it in sh, if it was written in Python, Ruby, Perl, or Tcl. I prefer stuff like this in sh.
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by eddieh 10y ago
A ligature is what you're suggesting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

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