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by geophile 6y ago
In case this article is at risk of convincing someone to use an ORM: Just don't, please. Do not use an ORM. Write your own SQL. I was once a huge advocate of ORMs, and built one many years ago, for Java, (it solved the N+1 problem). It
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by geophile 6y ago
> and delete social media Interesting advice you snuck in there. Might not be a bad idea, but necessary for fitness? Not so sure.
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by geophile 6y ago
I agree that the if-less solution is more elegant, but I was surprised at the way it was achieved. I was expecting to see head implemented as an IntListItem. I.e., an empty list would be just the head IntListItem, with next = NULL, and valu
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by geophile 6y ago
No, I was unclear. Just after I had the problem with the Galago, the Darter came out It way my choice to get a repair, or to return the machine and buy something else. Since I ALSO didn't like the 4k screen on the Galago, I opted for t
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by geophile 6y ago
What System76 lacks in build quality, they make up for with absolutely stellar support. I started with a Galago, that had a slight screen defect, (slightly yellow on one side). And I didn't like the 4k resolution. They offered me a cho
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by geophile 6y ago
This gets into the technical details more than I am able to, but I agree completely. I also have older eyes, and 4k was just unusable (on a Galago with a 13" screen). I could have scaled down by a factor of two, but that was too coarse
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by geophile 6y ago
A poll's choices are normally arranged along a spectrum. I'd expect most likely at one end, and least likely at the other, with null values ("don't know") at the end.
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by geophile 6y ago
Apple has lost me as a computer customer -- crappy keyboards, touchbar, increasingly locked down software, price. I'm on a System 76 laptop, running Pop OS, and I'm very happy with it.
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by geophile 6y ago
He is probably asking for the sync to be interruptible, and automatically restarted later. Which is completely reasonable.
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by geophile 6y ago
Doesn't count, season 5 was terrible. Gilfoyle strikes me as more of a vi guy.
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by geophile 6y ago
I can relate to this, in a number of ways, including the complete inability to self-promote. Many years ago, I had an idea for some software, so I left my job and worked on it. (My wife was understanding and supportive.) I did not have a bu
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by geophile 6y ago
tl;dr: Apple no longer builds computers. After 11 years of MBPs as my main computer, I left because of crappy hardware (keyboards, missing Esc and Fn keys). I'm now very happy on a System76 laptop running PopOS. With each new release o
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by geophile 6y ago
Another tool for shell scripting form Python: https://marceltheshell.org . (Source: https://github.com/geophile/marcel .) E.g. from marcel.api import * for file, size in (ls('marcel',
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by geophile 6y ago
I swore off HP products for a run of crap in the 2005-2010 era. What finally did it was a wireless printer. We got a new router, and I spent a couple of hours trying to get the printer to work again. I finally contacted HP support and the a
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by geophile 6y ago
How is plugging a keyboard into an iPad all that different from plugging a monitor into a Pi 400? I left Apple for the hardware (butterfly keyboard, touchbar), and stayed away because of the software.
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by geophile 6y ago
I may be fuzzy on this, it's been a long time. But isn't by-name a special case of passing a function? (And then referencing the parameter in the called procedure invokes the function.)
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by geophile 6y ago
Is the child programming the robot, or the robot programming the child?
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by geophile 6y ago
It's not that I don't understand the article, it's that I disagree with it. Helping nazis and white supremacists "off the mat"? No. They need to get over the civil war and decide if they want to be in this country o
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by geophile 6y ago
I like this idea better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map Seriously, I want to stop paying for them to hate me and diminish my life.
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by geophile 6y ago
No, the current one, which has a smaller aspect ratio, and is flat. It has a little touch surface that is extremely sensitive.
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by geophile 6y ago
That's too bad. The real remote has numerous problems: - Too small -- easy to lose and hard to find. - Too symmetrical. In the dark it's hard to figure out which way to orient the remote. - Too sensitive. If I (or my cat) accident
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by geophile 6y ago
I agree, I think football is going to go away. The now apparent risk of brain injury is one reason. But another major factor is political, starting with the kneeling protests. This caused football, like so many other things to split along p
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by geophile 6y ago
I prefer that they don't have it either, but that's not a choice. But if every garage in the state has access to this data, it seems like a much bigger risk.
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by geophile 6y ago
The only thing holding me back from a yes vote is the availability of detailed location data to 3rd parties. Can a mechanic sell this data? Can it be subpoenaed by police?
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by geophile 6y ago
No. Quad and octtrees divide the space. K-d trees divide the data.
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by geophile 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I read an interview with you, and there was some discussion of the difficulties in parsing things like "ls -lR", and whether to interpret that as an ls command with flags, or a subtraction. (If I&#x27
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by geophile 6y ago
OpenOffice was so promising and so disappointing. I ran into so many bugs. LibreOffice has been awesome -- rapid improvements, and my concerns about exporting to an MS format and sending have melted away, (I only use documents and spreadshe
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by geophile 6y ago
Marcel (referenced elsewhere in this discussion) addresses this point exactly. I didn't want to invent another scripting language. Python is great for that purpose, except that, as you point out, shelling out is painful. So marcel incl
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by geophile 6y ago
Yes, that’s it. The link is included on the website.

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