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by flother 5mo ago
> Bun has no REPL Bun has a really nice REPL, can recommend https://bun.com/docs/runtime/repl
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by flother 7mo ago
You’re in good company. Tom Standage makes the same argument in his book A History of the World in Six Glasses. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3872.A_History_of_the_Wo...
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by flother 9mo ago
Nathan Mayer Rothschild probably died of staphylococcal or streptococcal septicaemia, either from the abscess or secondary contamination from the surgeon’s knife. Today that infection would almost certainly be cured with standard antibiotic
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by flother 6y ago
Apple has an active team editing OpenStreetMap and their maps use OSM data in many countries. I see them making edits in my country regularly (they tag changesets with “#adt” so they’re quite visible). More info on the OSM wiki and their Gi
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by flother 6y ago
I came here to say the same thing. Opening a new issue of The New York Review of Books or the London Review of Books are two of the great pleasures in life. https://lrb.co.uk/ https://www.nybooks.com/
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by flother 6y ago
The Digital Antiquarian had a thoroughly interesting article on Chris Sawyer and his work not too long ago: https://www.filfre.net/2020/10/transport-tycoon/
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by flother 7y ago
“Coming from a country where mapmakers tend to exclude any landscape feature smaller than, say, Pike’s Peak, I am constantly impressed by the richness of detail on the OS 1:25,000 series. They include every wrinkle and divot of the landscap
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by flother 7y ago
It’s happened in politics for a long time. Two decades ago, a political advisor in the British government sent an email on 11th Sept 2001 saying the day was “a very good day to get out anything we want to bury”. It didn’t go down well, but
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by flother 7y ago
I know what you mean, but I think it’s more down to the fact that it’s broadcast live on BBC radio, and they have 45 minutes to cover as much as they can of the week’s topic. The host, Melvyn Bragg, has to run a tight ship to keep the guest
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by flother 7y ago
> Plus you’ll be able to see the Eiffel Tower A story about Guy de Maupassant always makes me smile. He hated the Eiffel Tower (“I left Paris and even France because in the end, the Eiffel Tower annoyed me too much”) and yet supposedly a
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by flother 7y ago
At the end of the original article: > It is not the case that these oaks were kept for the express purpose of replacing the Hall ceiling. It is standard woodland management to grow stands of mixed broadleaf trees e.g., oaks, interplanted
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by flother 7y ago
It’s location-dependent. Crimea is shown as within Russia’s boundaries only “when viewed from Russia”. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573069
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Price of .org domains has risen by 3% annually, far below 10% price cap(flother.is)
1 points by flother 7y ago|0 comments
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by flother 7y ago
There's also an important difference between recess and progrogation . Recess is just a quick break for the conference season, and is normal at this time of year. Progrogation brings all parliamentary business to an end, bills are n
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by flother 8y ago
It's hidden in the article but I think this originates from a fascinating episode of the BBC's More or Less: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001y9p Apologies for blowing my own trumpet, but after I listene
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Uber to block low-rating riders in Australia and New Zealand(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by flother 8y ago|0 comments
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by flother 8y ago
At the end of the article csvkit is given an honourable mention. I’m a big fan and I’ve used it a lot in the past, but these days I’d say that xsv > csvkit for working with CSV files on the command-line. https://github.com&#x2
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by flother 8y ago
> I got a trainer for winter riding, and it ate my tires. A tip I got from someone is to switch your rear road tyre for a special trainer tyre so you don’t have to worry about wear-and-tear. Something like this: http://www.wig
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by flother 8y ago
The article says it traces the “oldest intact building in each US state”. Wikipedia says that only a “portion of the structure [the Pirates’ House] was built in 1734”. It sounds like the latter doesn’t match their definition.
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by flother 8y ago
Iceland passed an opt-out organ donation law recently. It comes into force from 1 January 2019. http://icelandreview.com/news/2018/06/07/all-icelanders-are-...
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by flother 8y ago
Beware of adding that to your .RProfile though. The author makes a good argument for why that's a bad idea: your code will execute differently on someone else's machine. http://arrgh.tim-smith.us/factors.html#fn:op
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by flother 8y ago
In the UK, at least, there are rules against this. A government bill’s short title > must describe the content of the bill in a straightforwardly factual manner. An argumentative title or a slogan is not permitted. From Erskine May, what
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by flother 8y ago
Ah, that explains it. I store my websites in private S3 buckets, and give CloudFront access using an IAM policy. I must need to jump through extra hoops because of that.
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by flother 8y ago
Well that's interesting. An AWS blog post from October 2017 says: > CloudFront does allow you to specify a default root object (index.html), but it only works on the root of the website (such as http://www.example.com &g
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by flother 8y ago
The article's from December 2017 and you can see from the response headers that it's hosted on GitHub Pages again. There are plenty of gotchas when serving a static site via CloudFront. Let's say you have a page at example.co
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by flother 8y ago
Yes. From the linked article: > Mr. Collins’ profile has grown along with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. His committee questioned the company’s chief executive, Alexander Nix, weeks before news broke about its practices. The panel has
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by flother 8y ago
They're outlawed in some countries, notably in Europe. EU rules presume pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts are invalid. France and Sweden completely prohibit consumer arbitration in certain cases. Germany won't
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by flother 9y ago
Apart from the practical advantages of keeping English, it’s an official language of Ireland and Malta, and de facto official in Cyprus. All three are member states of the European Union. Interestingly enough, there is no official language
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by flother 9y ago
And Cathy O’Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction, mentioned in the episode, is also well worth reading. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141985410
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UK government sites infected with a cryptominer(twitter.com)
23 points by flother 9y ago|6 comments

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