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by geophile 7y ago
Their About Us page makes no mention whatsoever of technology. There is no CTO, no VP Engineering, etc. Quite odd. If they were relabeling something else, that could explain it.
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by geophile 7y ago
Marcel: A modern shell. https://github.com/geophile/marcel
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by geophile 7y ago
Tufts also, after an extended spring break.
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Show HN: Multiline input wrapper for Python's input()
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by geophile 7y ago
About 1/3 of my estate is in the stock market. I sold 1/2 of that 1/3. I'm prepared to sell the rest. I may sell the remaining 1/2 in the coming days. Cash is more prudent in an emergency, and I'm prepared for
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by geophile 7y ago
You mean, why that much, or why not all of it? I was tempted to sell all of it, but decided to wait a while. I sold because I think the risk of further, large declines is greater than the likelihood of a continuing increase. (In 2008, as th
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by geophile 7y ago
I'm moving money into checking from investments.
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by geophile 7y ago
> but we still have the ability to get things done when we want to. Please provide examples. - We used to be able to build Hoover Dam. Now it takes literally years to pass a bill to maintain our highways. - Do I need to remind you what a
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by geophile 7y ago
I don't know what country you are from, but mine (USA) has lost its ability to set its mind to anything . It can't even be said to have a rational mind any longer.
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by geophile 7y ago
I think infrastructure, in general, is at some risk. The people who maintain infrastructure are going to be as motivated to stay home as everyone else.
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by geophile 7y ago
I am assuming that in the next few weeks I will need to be isolated for 3-4 weeks. I am assuming that electricity is mostly on, and water to my home is mostly available, (although possibly tainted -- preparing for that). After that, who kno
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by geophile 7y ago
Things are simpler for me than for many, since I am retired. - Planning purchases for hunkering down for a few weeks: Food, water, batteries, water purifier, battery-powered radio, hand-crank power generator for radio, etc. - Sold 50% of my
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by geophile 7y ago
The problem, of course, is that the chief software engineer doesn't appear to be have any understanding of what is causing the leaks, and whether the safety margin is adequate. Maybe there is some obscure and untested code path in whic
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by geophile 7y ago
The New Yorker had a really interesting article about arson forensics, a few years ago. It interleaved the case of someone being executed for arson, with a thorough debunking of the science behind his conviction. And then fiber analysis has
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by geophile 7y ago
This country is done for. Move to Canada if you can. Seriously. Montreal and Toronto are world-class cities. Ottawa is fantastic and underappreciated. Vancouver is beautiful. Victoria is a tiny gem. I am encouraging my kids to start thinkin
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by geophile 7y ago
Yes, I see that, but the title is unclear.
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by geophile 7y ago
"Ordered dict" is ambiguous, and from the title I thought that key order was meant. Reading the article, I see that it's actually insertion order. Which makes much more sense. Key order would have been a much more significant
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by geophile 7y ago
How about no free stuff on the web? Charge for services and make it illegal to sell private information without the subject’s consent and remuneration.
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by geophile 7y ago
> It fixes everything wrong with the 15-inch MacBook Pros that preceded it — especially the keyboard. No it doesn't. The Fn keys are still missing. The MBP16 has 80% of a keyboard.
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by geophile 7y ago
Guys. Using a cliched phrase like "top dollar" indicates irony. Repeating it, and especially repeating it in all caps does more than indicate irony, it is screaming irony right next to your ear.
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by geophile 7y ago
Man, I've been trying to find a Vertu phone for ages. I'd pay top dollar. TOP DOLLAR.
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by geophile 7y ago
I haven't tried it, but I know myself, and how I work. - Interacting with people is exhausting for me. I can't imagine having to be in constant communication with someone sitting right next to me, 7-8 hours a day, every workday. -
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by geophile 7y ago
If forced to choose between pair programming and not programming at all, I think I would choose the latter.
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by geophile 7y ago
I actually don't mind that feature too much. I do appreciate that it clarifies code with even a few arguments of the same type. Although there are other ways to clarify such situations in other languages. The Swift approach does lead t
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by geophile 7y ago
I don't agree that get/set/didSet solve actual problems. Languages without property accessors do just fine, but then they don't overload the getting and setting of variables. I would much rather right thing.setField(123)
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by geophile 7y ago
I like a lot about Swift: strong typing, good support for closures, reasonable abstractions. But there's a lot that I dislike too. A lot. In general, I find the language to be far too trendy and fussy. I get the impression the design w
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by geophile 7y ago
Could something like pi hole fix this problem, without disabling services such as Netflix?
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by geophile 7y ago
Cycling is terrifying to me. I'm sure this is a function of age, as I used to bike everywhere. But I keep finding out about people who are maimed or killed cycling. Someone I worked with had a really bad broken arm. People in my town h
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by geophile 7y ago
CrossFit, which is a mix of cardio and weight-lifting. It works for me because: it minimizes the time getting to and from; I can turn off my brain and just do what they tell me (no self-motivation required); I prefer boring and predictable
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by geophile 7y ago
That's basically what I said -- group classes. I agree, the point is to do what the guy tells me and not think about it. Before I did CrossFit, I did HIIT classes.

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