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721.
by efficax 8y ago
Lenovo knows about the love for the retro Thinkpads, and even tried to take advantage of it: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-ser... It was a decent showing, but not what I want
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by efficax 8y ago
yes
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by efficax 8y ago
thanks. i hate it
724.
by efficax 8y ago
It sucks that many of the great innovations from Plan9 never became widely adopted, but systems research still goes on! Containerization, for example, and virtualization, have given rise to a whole new field of systems research. And a lot o
725.
by efficax 8y ago
I agree with a lot of this but magic links are great and I love them. Don't take away my magic login emails.
726.
by efficax 8y ago
I hate Electron too, but the bi-monthly hour of Electron hate on here is a little tiresome. It's clear that it solves some major issues from a development standpoint for a lot of organizations, and it's here to stay. Slack isn&#x2
727.
by efficax 8y ago
Indeed. I hack on a web app with over 100k daily users and we only just last month decided to drop support for IE8 , and that only because some third party libraries that will simplify things for us don't support it
728.
by efficax 8y ago
We'd all be better off if nobody had ever discovered the Voynich Manuscript
729.
by efficax 8y ago
I read somewhere that in Germany it is (or was) traditional to "luften" the rooms of a house every day by opening the windows for a while to let fresh air in (even in the winter). After hearing about this I started doing it myself
730.
by efficax 8y ago
I'm going to join in and say: you should be able to puzzle out the pseudocode for a BFS, not from "memory", but by thinking about the structure of a tree and asking yourself what would be required to touch each node at each l
731.
by efficax 8y ago
Makefile for essentially a bundle of shell aliases? Weird flex for PHP but ok.
732.
by efficax 8y ago
Salaries around 150k for senior engineers aren't even that common in the states outside of the Bay Area and New York. Can you keep your current position but work remotely from the EU?
733.
by efficax 8y ago
I'm not familiar with the australian context but this is simply untrue in the american case: https://psmag.com/news/whats-behind-the-myth-of-native-ameri... There has not been nearly enough time since the inventio
734.
by efficax 8y ago
much more useful for automated building and testing in a mac environment remotely. Would be much less useful if it were straightforward to run macOS under virtualization.
735.
by efficax 8y ago
I'm also an ABD PhD in Philosophy (the clock on that is almost 4 years old now so there's little chance of me actually writing a thesis at this point) turned software developer. We failed philosophers turned hackers should form a
736.
by efficax 8y ago
You might be interested in the resources available via the National Coalition of Independent Scholars: https://www.ncis.org/national-coalition-independent-scholars...
737.
by efficax 8y ago
I also find the march of new languages a little exhausting. But I handle that by just taking a glance at them and moving on. Kit never has to trouble me again and I'll have already forgotten it by the time I hit reply here. And my life
738.
by efficax 8y ago
support is a huge factor in reducing churn. can they reach out and is your team/you responsive? if they complain about crashes can they get a credit for the month while you fix, etc? good support will cut churn
739.
by efficax 8y ago
do we hate boingboing now?
740.
by efficax 8y ago
we need a new "manhattan" project to tackle the problem of bacterial resistance. Seriously we should be investing hundreds of billions of dollars into research into more effective means of controlling infectious diseases. We'
741.
by efficax 8y ago
Seems Europe-focussed (which is fine). Definitely inaccurate readings for the US. Shows a 5 hour drive as an 8 hour one, for example.
742.
by efficax 8y ago
failed fyre festival founder, that's quite a tongue twister.
743.
by efficax 8y ago
Who is ray peat and why do we care? This is some late 90s weird internet. It’s good to see the crazy is still going but this stuff seems more speculative than evidence based
744.
by efficax 8y ago
I quit a phd in philosophy to be a lousy full-stack web-magician. Dunno which was better, but at least I can afford a nice meal these days.
745.
by efficax 8y ago
I dunno if shadow banning is a thing here but we can see your comments
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by efficax 8y ago
In NYC, I'll take a cab. Just about everywhere else in America I get a Lyft. Why? Because taxi dispatch sucks. The cabs never come, or they come very late. The dispatch operators are rude if you ask where the cab you called is. In some
747.
by efficax 8y ago
I bet argania would grow fine in other regions, like southern california and mexico. It sounds like the restriction is the traditionally labor intensive mode of producing the oil. From wikipedia: "The most labor-intensive part of oil-
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by efficax 8y ago
It's hard to nail down Putin's wealth, but some people estimate him to have assets worth somewhere between $10 and $50 billion. http://time.com/money/4641093/vladimir-putin-net-worth/
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by efficax 8y ago
It's perfectly possible to have a wildcard and respond to every subdomain. But otherwise just use nslookup/dig/host
750.
by efficax 8y ago
Eh, IRC networks split and individual servers went down all the time. But yes, there rarely was a complete EFNet outage even if sometimes there were 2 versions of the same channel going at once. That being said although I like some slacks f

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