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by frutiger 2y ago
> I think everyone would do well to avoid "but I don't need it, so it seems unnecessary" kinds of arguments This is an uncharitable characterisation of what I said. > References get returned all the time because you wan
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by frutiger 2y ago
> Most of the time, I want to pass/return a reference Surprised to hear that you want to return a reference so frequently.
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by frutiger 2y ago
I’m always fascinated by languages. As a native English speaker fluent in other languages but not any Germanic languages beyond basic vocabulary, this comment piqued my interest. > I love Proto-Germanic Is there something specific (aside
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by frutiger 2y ago
The front door is already open. Let’s open the bedroom window if we want more fresh air there.
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New York Stock Exchange mulls 24-hour trading – a move Steve Cohen may welcome(businessinsider.com)
2 points by frutiger 2y ago|0 comments
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by frutiger 2y ago
This is the first time I have seen anyone popen’ing a pipeline like that, and writing to its stdin. Bravo.
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by frutiger 2y ago
That’s right. I was just replying to parents poster that it’s not about text files.
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by frutiger 2y ago
You need to translate any text content into UTF-16 before calling Win32 APIs in most cases.
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by frutiger 2y ago
This is unironically the equivalent of an “ideas guy” asking for a software developer to “just build the app” and do a split on the equity.
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by frutiger 2y ago
Travertine is a pretty “famous” stone and was used extensively by the Romans to build some of their most famous structures (including the Coliseum). Since then architects have used it in many famous buildings (e.g. the Seagram building’s lo
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by frutiger 3y ago
> I'm at a director level Since every company seems to come up with their own job titles, it would be more useful if you described how large your organisation was compared to the entirety of the engineering organisation at your comp
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Peter Higgs Has Died(theguardian.com)
5 points by frutiger 3y ago|1 comments
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by frutiger 3y ago
According to this seemingly exhaustive list ( https://privycouncil.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2... ), no royal charters were granted in 1640.
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by frutiger 3y ago
> despite the mining PSA they don’t mine paid customers (just like FastMail)
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by frutiger 3y ago
> The cyanobacteria were bad By which scales of justice?
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DL 1 (JFK –> JFK)(flightaware.com)
2 points by frutiger 3y ago|2 comments
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GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash(arstechnica.com)
6 points by frutiger 3y ago|0 comments
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by frutiger 3y ago
> For reference, the estimated number of individual atoms in the universe is thought to be between mere 10^80 and 10^83. Yes, but what are the estimated number of states of all these atoms?
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by frutiger 3y ago
It doesn’t even have to be dark matter, most of the (non-dark) galactic mass is in the galactic plane and the sun oscillates up and down passing through the plane as it orbits the centre.
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by frutiger 3y ago
Small error in your restore command (given your creation command) > bef -d -i backup.tar.zst.gpg.bef | unzstd | gpg -d | tar x Should probably be > bef -d -i backup.tar.zst.gpg.bef | gpg -d | unzstd | tar x
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by frutiger 3y ago
Do you happen to know its etymology?
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United Airlines Plane from SFO Loses a Tire(twitter.com)
8 points by frutiger 3y ago|9 comments
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by frutiger 3y ago
I have a physics degree and did not assume it, that might explain the difference :)
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by frutiger 3y ago
Sounds very cool. One thing I didn’t understand though: > The radius of the i_th disc is the absolute values How can a radius of a single disc (i.e. a single value) correspond to multiple values?
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by frutiger 3y ago
Those countries either have a low population density, immigration rate or nature there is far more remote than in England.
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by frutiger 3y ago
This entire comment is actually signalling status.
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by frutiger 3y ago
> Let's not go back to 8 grand per mo for a 2br at Nema. Interesting. That would be considered cheap for Manhattan depending on some factors: south of 90th St, 5 mins walk from a subway station and ~1250 sq ft.
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by frutiger 3y ago
> Are there any promising avenues towards microtransactions that gets around small card transactions getting a hefty fee This is anathema here in the US but the rest of the world typically does not use credit cards as the default payment
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by frutiger 3y ago
> pretty bad about reconnecting to the cell network when emerging from the NYC subway Unrelated to your overall to point, but maybe this helps a fellow reader. Most stations have cell signal now, you just need to toggle airplane mode onc
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by frutiger 3y ago
There’s a related occurrence of the same principle — we have had movies/stories about the wild west for longer than the archetype frontier period existed.

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