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by fgeiger 4y ago
I stumbled upon a very similar editor hosted on xkcd.com when searching for the list of most common words, which Randall used for Up Goer Five and Thing Explainer: https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Yes, I understand the general use of dev dependencies. However, in this case, 'pdfjs-dist' must be in the build output anyway. So, what is the benefit of including it indirectly?
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by fgeiger 4y ago
What is the benefit of importing a dependency only as devDependency and including it like this in the build? Why not just declare a normal dependency?
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Whoa, zooming and panning too fast crashed the entirety of Firefox. All windows just gone in an instant. How is that even possible nowadays?
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Maybe better enjoyed when someone reads it to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Is that the list you are looking for? ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Who's water? Planting trees usually helps to prevent droughts because they keep water in the local climate with effects like shading the ground and containing rainwater (instead of the rain just washing down the next river). I'm t
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by fgeiger 4y ago
The thing about greenhouse gases is: if we stop emitting them today they will still cause problems for decades. With nuclear waste the time scale is vastly different. For that we need to be able to plan for milennia.
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Why are they not used yet? Are they safe to operate? Are they commercially viable? There are many promises for technical solutions. Yet, none of them are actually used today for a myriad of reasons.
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Yes, you can certainly be both. Climate change is an immediate existential threat as you say yourself. Seeing nuclear as the solution to that threat is very shortsighted IMHO. Many commenters mention the threat of accidents like Chernobyl o
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by fgeiger 4y ago
I did not recently consider moving to the US but I can relate my story about having moved from the Netherlands to Germany last year. My wife and I made the move from Amsterdam to Berlin. Both of us are working full-time and we have a daught
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by fgeiger 4y ago
I don't think helmets are worn for aerodynamics. IIRC professional race cyclists only started wearing helmets after in 2003 when they became mandatory. If there had been any advantage in aerodynamics the athletes would have voluntarily
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by fgeiger 4y ago
I think you read the chart wrong. At least you write "around the same or more" when it is much more. The amount the source lists for "government/compulsory" spending is $9054. That is a quarter more than the _total_
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by fgeiger 4y ago
For new files I use `git add -N` (if memory serves right; I am on mobile) to mark them as "I want this file to be included in `git add -p`" Edit: The flag is -N or --intent-to-add
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by fgeiger 4y ago
Frankly, I would find it much easier to write the naive C version than this "moderately" optimized Python version in the article although I am much more familiar with Python than with C.
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by fgeiger 4y ago
The obvious catch is that the compiled binary is not portable. You need to compile and deploy for each platform separately. You don't need to worry about platforms at all when deploying/sharing pure Python modules.
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by fgeiger 5y ago
> Which I assume means that you test the "null implementations"/"infrastructure mocks" by making sure they are always aligned with the real interactions. This avoids the danger of "normal mocks" to dive
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by fgeiger 5y ago
> It needs a lot of backtracking planning. I has to guess which will be the last expression and try to reach the numbers that it used. I ended up creating a mental factorization table of the target number with only the available numbers
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by fgeiger 5y ago
That is yet another difference, indeed: Primary school is only until grade 4 in most states, i.e. from around 6 to 10 years old. To be honest, I don't know if and how much homework is assigned in primary school. I imagine that this als
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by fgeiger 5y ago
Don't forget that primary school starts later in Germany than in the Netherlands where children go to primary school from the day of their fourth birthday. In contrast, German primary school starts around the age of 6 (not exactly beca
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by fgeiger 5y ago
I fully agree that the browser compatibility information used to be better. That shortened compatibility table is next to useless right now. It even shows a checkmark for features that are only going to be supported by a future (!) version
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by fgeiger 5y ago
Wow, nice. I like this even better then the OP. In particular how the levels naturally progress and how the game actively teaches concepts.
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by fgeiger 5y ago
> if someone searches for "ﬁ" they should get results for "fi"; try it out in your browser's search field right now if you like In fact, I just did try it out: searching for the ligature "ﬁ" in Firefox
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by fgeiger 5y ago
The same was true for volunteer firefighters (although I vaguely remember that it was less than 10 years).
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by fgeiger 5y ago
As I read it, the point was not about the wrong pronoun but about the fact that the suite is developed by one person and not a large team and that the burden of benchmarking Linux performance should maybe not rest on one person alone.
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by fgeiger 5y ago
Linaro is also doing a lot in that space (at least for ARM): https://www.linaro.org/os-build-and-test/
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Yup, I totally agree with you. There are many issues — especially in firmware — which we are not able to address. We do backport linux security patches but that gets harder with each release. We did indeed talk to other interested parties a
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Oh yes, indeed. I still feel the pain as I was working on that ... For subsequent devices (FP2 and FP3) the situation has improved a bit but frankly, long term support from Qualcomm is also non-existent. We are still struggling to bring upd
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by fgeiger 6y ago
There are two aspects to software updates on Android devices: * Major version upgrades ("cookie upgrades") and * Security updates Fairphone 2 still receives security updates for Android 7 and Android 9 for Fairphone 2 is in beta.

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