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by fainpul 1y ago
People are just trying to grab attention by identifying the next "...-gate". In short: anodizing in general gives a very durable surface. The edge around the cameras is a bit sharp and can start showing blank aluminum after some r
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by fainpul 1y ago
You go into work and discover that a coworker isn't happy with some code you wrote because they don't like it. They go to your manager and tell them that you're being a problem by writing code they don't like. Your manag
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by fainpul 1y ago
But if no other crate depends on your crate and nobody directly uses it, why would any CI system download it?
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by fainpul 1y ago
I'm confused. Why did you publish this? Who "uses" it?
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by fainpul 1y ago
Oh, my bad - I wasn't aware that we're doing serious engineering here :p
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by fainpul 1y ago
One could use emojis instead, then the message could be hidden in plain sight in places where emoji-spam is common.
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by fainpul 1y ago
There's an excellent series of lectures from Stanford's Robert Sapolsky [1] about Human Behavioral Biology . While not about ants or insects, he brings up various examples from different species to explain the crazy "optimiz
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by fainpul 1y ago
But then you have to hardcode a timestamp, since this is not gonna work in uv.toml: exclude-newer = $(date -uv -14d '+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')
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by fainpul 1y ago
Not sure what you find clunky about PowerShell. On the other hand, I find nushell not mature enough to be usable. The very basics - displaying command output in lists and tables - is totally broken as soon as some long strings appear in the
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by fainpul 1y ago
They added a `Go` method to waitgroups, which wraps a function in the usual idiom, which is convenient, but it also adds about 3 new possibilities to write bugs. I'm not convinced this was a good "simplification".
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by fainpul 1y ago
I don't want the low contrast glassy stuff or even bigger corner radiuses on my iPhone or mac, so I disabled automatic OS updates for the first time. When I updated to iOS 18.7, it automatically re-activated iOS updates! Fuck you ver
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by fainpul 1y ago
You can't rip apart that word into "auf" and "passen" and then individually translate them literally. The result seems nonsensical. I would say "aufpassen" is literally "be attentive" / &quo
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by fainpul 1y ago
If that's so, can't he explain it ELI5 style instead of calling people idiots? I have a hard time believing that the GPU is somehow magically energy efficient, so that computing this glass stuff uses barely any energy (talking abo
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by fainpul 1y ago
Yeah, feels a bit like "I'm sharing this code I've written here. I haven't tried to compile it yet, but it should work."
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by fainpul 1y ago
To a certain degree, that might be true. However, small batteries like they are found in phones have relatively high internal resistance (voltage drops as current draw increases). They can't deliver huge currents like capacitors. A bee
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by fainpul 1y ago
Keeping all those devices charged is already too much of a hassle for me to do this.
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by fainpul 1y ago
You try to make an analogy with the passport, but you achieve exactly the opposite: you make it obvious that they are not the same. I don't "own" my passport. I'm not allowed to alter it in any way. I have to report it
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by fainpul 1y ago
> The software I've been able to build on a whim over the last 6 months is beyond my wildest dreams from a a year or two ago. If you don't mind sharing, I'm really curious - what kind of things do you build and what is you
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by fainpul 1y ago
It's my understanding that mice don't live long, because slower aging didn't provide a significant evolutionary advantage (lot's of predators, mainly). Instead the rate of reproduction settled at a very high level [1]. S
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by fainpul 1y ago
Your link doesn't support your argument.
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by fainpul 1y ago
Could just label the years 2000 - 2015. It just says "sixteen possible years", not where these years are on the timeline.
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by fainpul 1y ago
Clickbait title. Later on they call it "implant", not transplant. Of course they don't replace the spinal cord and there isn't even a donator involved. The procedure begins with blood cells from the patient, which are r
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by fainpul 1y ago
If you don't care for "buckle up, it's story time!", there's no need to read this fluff piece. Coin ridges were invented to combat a sneaky little trick called coin clipping. This was basically the 17th-century ver
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by fainpul 1y ago
> Who can forget that rat breathing liquid oxygen (or whatever they called it) I remember seeing the movie as a child with my parents and I was quite appaled by that scene (I hate seeing animal abuse). My father ensured me that was just
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by fainpul 1y ago
Coca cola is also good at dissolving teeth - makes it quite counterproductive.
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by fainpul 1y ago
Insects are made of chitin, as far as I know. You could chew on your fingernails...
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by fainpul 1y ago
By "got this right", the parent poster probably meant tab completion. You get that for free when writing a script or function, as well as basic syntax documentation. Both can be improved gradually by adding hints / comments i
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by fainpul 1y ago
These comments here about more or less clever text processing tools, each with their own syntax, feel like archaic hacks. Using something like Nushell or PowerShell makes this trivial. E.g. for the `ps aux` example, using PowerShell, select
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by fainpul 1y ago
I fully agree that proportional fonts are nicer to read, even for code. When I tried to use it, I got annoyed by Go, which autoformats code with spaces to align stuff and that looks very ugly with a proportional font. The solution would be

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