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by ferzul 7y ago
Yes, as i read it, my thought was “at least it's a draft; i wonder if an updated version with proper spelling and grammar was ever released. (considering the document is a snarky comment about form, i think the usual proscription again
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by ferzul 7y ago
On the contrary; it permits it. Since its purpose was to prevant misattribution of internet-drafts to the ietf, we can surely now claim with certainty that the ietf teaches fake news about the demise of ancient egypt.
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by ferzul 7y ago
In that case, in javascript, i always just write a function. { init() } const init = () => { if (fail) return doSomething() } (there's a few other cases i introduce functions for syntactic
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by ferzul 7y ago
If Rust devs took an everyday English word and gave it a different meaning, isn't it their fault when they have to train everyone into discarding their intuitions? It sounds like it means “code that is unsafe for a particular reason”;
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by ferzul 7y ago
Exceptions in Haskell are unavoidable and awful. If you want to write code that responds to the errors that could occur, even some of them, you basically have to read the library source because they're completely undocumented in many
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by ferzul 7y ago
the moral to this story is don't dilute your data. if your data is delivered in gda94, don't convert it to gps coords so all your data is in the same format. instead, when you render it, render it from gda94 into your own coordina
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by ferzul 7y ago
there's a map in the article pp misunderstood where nsw and vic are, so it's going more anticlockwise than clocwise.
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by ferzul 7y ago
if you're relying on that map, it's an old one not current with the text in the article actually, victoria and nsw moved only 1.5 m in it, less than average and certainly less than the areas that moved the most, which are parts of
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by ferzul 7y ago
well, plenty of places could have moved out of their box. many urban properties are quite narrow; i lived on one not even 2.5 metres wide, so every 3m box would be in use (and potentially then some) on that street. (i didn't have an ad
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by ferzul 7y ago
Php has had some really poor errorhandling and lots of magic. The idea that good error handing is just ignoring it is so wrong, that every update to php is basically a list of “this error will now be presented to you”. How many scripts cont
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by ferzul 7y ago
Roundabouts are great for cars, and awful for just about everyone else. People, bikes, buses, trucks: all face difficulty or death in their presence.
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by ferzul 7y ago
That's weird. Google maps seems to prefer to direct me on a kilometres long detour than to take a simple u-turn into an empty driveway. They do seem to have rules about u-turns, they just don't make sense.
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by ferzul 7y ago
If trains are so much better, why is it cheaper to fly?
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by ferzul 7y ago
Will he need to work another day in his life?
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by ferzul 7y ago
that's because australia means “the part of australia i'm from”
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by ferzul 7y ago
they didn't circumvent laws, they broke them with enough advertising that they got changed. the companies just ignore regulations and profit from it.
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by ferzul 7y ago
if they offer it under gpl, it's no poison chalice. why do i care who does the right thing? what's good is good. i would be more worried when they propose that we all abandon this adequate gpl tool for this permissive licensed cod
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by ferzul 7y ago
the major linux distributions could all get acquired by microsoft, google and ibm, but they have to give out they're kernel changes for free. thing is, increasing portions of our stack are bsd/mit/etc. those licences could go
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by ferzul 7y ago
Worked well enough before every app became a security hole waiting to happen. I'd be happy with paid updates if the trade-off was you stay off the network. No cloud sync, no analytics, just standard local APIs. I mean, software compani
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by ferzul 7y ago
For single member electorates, the count is done by hand. On the night, they quickly allocate ballots to their first preference, and then they allocate them according to which of the two most likely winners is on top. (Usually, that means w
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by ferzul 7y ago
I seriously don't get the obsession with using a referendum to change the electoral system. Who came up with that idea? Better to change it, and then maybe seek endorsement after a couple of terms. The point of a referendum is to stop
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by ferzul 7y ago
Changing the voting system in America will have little effect on the party system. However, the adoption of non-partisan runoffs like in Louisiana and California will have a great effect on the people who are chosen. The current duopoly exi
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by ferzul 7y ago
The Old senate system cannot fairly be called STV in its effects not in the options available to voters. Above the line voting with no (voter controlled) preferences made in more like a list.
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by ferzul 7y ago
Ricky Muir was not elected on IRV. He was elected on an exhaustive flexible list. Voting above the line without (voter controlled) preferences in the old system, which is what got him elected, has none of the characteristics of IRV, and was
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by ferzul 7y ago
If you see people in public doing something, try joining them. I discovered Archery that way, and others have joined my esperanto group like that. The important thing is to not drive between two destinations all the time. Sometimes try trav
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by ferzul 7y ago
isn't the alternative to a dsl just constructing classes, giving them to each other, and using a bunch of stringy typed arguments?
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by ferzul 7y ago
who will write the article about the weird world we live in, where the person who is mitm'ing the network connection is me, and it's the non-mitm'ed connection that is untrusted and worrying. at this point i expect to see tal
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by ferzul 7y ago
i dunno, i liked the old one that had the frequently visited sites list in it. the new one that insists on showing me some article i read and then finished confuses me tho.
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by ferzul 7y ago
the data can be processed locally, but when my browser says, “get me the ad about debt relief”, it's leaking private info. that's why contextual ads are always better.
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by ferzul 7y ago
where's the button that gives me the paid version, and is it just a donation or a version that gives me a better, ahem, experience?

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