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by gerikson 3y ago
I believe it was a "fix-up", i.e. a book length novel strung together from multiple short stories.
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by gerikson 3y ago
> If you don’t know what a PWA is, please go research that yourself. Classic crypto.
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by gerikson 3y ago
That AI-generated header image is horrible... Also, "lead poisoning caused the fall of Rome" is something I first encountered decades ago. It doesn't seem to be that well regarded if Wikipedia can be trusted https:/&#x2
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by gerikson 3y ago
Still waiting for the conclusion of the Antarctica trip...
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by gerikson 3y ago
That's sad and interesting to hear. Hopefully there's enough material to be published.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I'd love to know if the author still lives in IRC after the Freenode meltdown.
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by gerikson 3y ago
They're welcome to film me pointing and laughing at them for appearing in public.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I can recommend “Vanished Kingdoms” on the subject of pre-modern Europe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanished_Kingdoms
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by gerikson 3y ago
Stastically, author has probably written C longer than you have been alive.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Granngården is another.
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by gerikson 3y ago
The trainspotter in their anorak, notebook or camera in hand, is a staple UK trope. Or it was when I was growing up.
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by gerikson 3y ago
That kind of reporting has clear privacy implications. I'd avoid any client that reported those metrics.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Updated post from 2020: https://ankarstrom.se/~john/articles/html2/ Also, I don't want to dump on this dude but I've authored literally hundreds of entries on my 2 blogs since 2019 using Markdown. I
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by gerikson 3y ago
Usenet did have moderation, as per this Reddit post (ironically): https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/m2dtcg/us... Usenet preceded modern social media so the current discussions about who
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by gerikson 3y ago
Reddit recreated the social structure of Usenet. Shared infrastructure, but the subreddits managed themselves. Topics, threads... all similar to Usenet. Better multimedia support, of course. Even the phenomenon of anonymous posters (because
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by gerikson 3y ago
I just run a script that echoes an excerpt of my posts to my fedi account, it works ok.
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by gerikson 3y ago
The role of Usenet now is filled by the fediverse.
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by gerikson 3y ago
/r/perl would beg to differ: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/18ygpsi/1_billion_row...
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by gerikson 3y ago
Using cat to redirect the file to /dev/null takes 18s on my machine (a low-end NUC). Just running a noop on the file in Perl (ie. feeding it into a `while (<>)` loop but not acting on the contents) takes ~2 minutes. 1B lines
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by gerikson 3y ago
I profiled my attempt, actually reading each line is the bottleneck.
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by gerikson 3y ago
I ran it, it was slower than the reference implementation and didn't format the output exactly as defined.
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by gerikson 3y ago
A naive perl solution is really really slow compared to even the reference Java implementation. (I know, I've tried)
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by gerikson 3y ago
It's also not Tjänstemännens Centralorganisation, the largest white collar union in Sweden, and also the org behind the TCO labelling of computer monitors.
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by gerikson 3y ago
As a new owner of a pre-owned PHEV, the "pre-warm" functionality is gold. Love it.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Tesla is a good opponent. Musk is generally despised. Electric vehicles are seen as fancy-pants toys for eco-freaks. So the usual people who come to the defense of big companies don't really feel the need to break a lance for Tesla. Th
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by gerikson 3y ago
I have extended an invite based on the email address in your HN profile.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Sweden has a long history where proponents of abstinence to alcohol have been influential in health care decisions and politics. This naturally extends to the view on drugs. Combine this with a historical Lutheran view of probity and person
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by gerikson 3y ago
AoC has always been easy to cheat at. After the first 100 correct answers have been submitted, the solutions thread on the subreddit is opened and anyone can copy and paste a solution.
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by gerikson 3y ago
Pantheon is great. I had almost given up on good SF in visual media when this was recommended to me.
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by gerikson 3y ago
That's some impressive artillery that archipelago has.

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