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by gmac 2y ago
And yet the Norwegians, unusually, have managed to do it in a way where ordinary people benefit.
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by gmac 2y ago
Reminds me of some simple tools I used years ago when CoffeeScript was big: https://github.com/jawj/affogato/blob/master/functions.coffe... Nowadays I tend to use Mithril instead, because immediate-mode
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by gmac 2y ago
Well, very much yes and no to that claim. Sure, for someone who’s comfortable in the shell, the first step is lighter with curl or wget. But the next step – parsing — is a lot less obvious. And it’s all much more likely to fail on websites
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by gmac 2y ago
Yes: I find it surprising that this isn't a more widespread approach. It's how I've taught web scraping to my PhD students for some years. https://github.com/jawj/web-scraping-for-researchers
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by gmac 2y ago
I really liked the Ioniq 5 on a test drive, and my neighbours who lease one really like it too. The Renault Scenic e-tech (maybe not sold in US?) also has a longer range than a Model Y and for less money. It seems generally pretty nice. ht
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by gmac 2y ago
Any reason why that car in particular? It looks to me like there are lots of compelling alternatives right now (Korean, European, Chinese, …).
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Use extended (commented) RegExps in JavaScript(github.com)
3 points by gmac 2y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
That's probably true, but it's a quite separate problem (it's about power rather than attitudes). Also, Victoria is only about 100 years ago. I suspect power and wealth are pretty strongly hereditary over that time span in ma
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by gmac 2y ago
> Prestige based on family lineage is considered a big deal Are you in the UK? The monarchy and House of Lords are an obvious anachronism and they need abolishing [1], but I would say it's a very small minority who care who you pare
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by gmac 2y ago
It’s funny, I quite viscerally hate Cohen’s original Hallelujah, but I first encountered it as sung by Jeff Buckley, and that version I absolutely love. Otherwise I like his first album (Songs of Leonard Cohen) when I’m in the mood for some
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by gmac 2y ago
I didn't like any of the existing JS/TS ones, so I wrote my own! https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/ But this one looks nice too.
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by gmac 2y ago
I've never been to Center Parcs and have no plans to go, despite it looking pretty nice, because it is just eye-wateringly expensive. We can debate what 'price-gouging' means, but their prices are insanely high compared to ot
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by gmac 2y ago
I just filed this bug. Is it just me, or is anyone else bothered by Bluesky's oddly spaced-out typography?
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Bluesky's custom CSS letter-spacing is ugly(github.com)
1 points by gmac 2y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
I didn’t read it that way at all. If the keyboard without arrow keys had succeeded in setting the norm that developers rely on the mouse for input, then presumably it had done its job, and it was now safe to release a keyboard with arrow ke
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by gmac 2y ago
Yes, Crowdstrike is yet another opportunity to feel vindicated that (when I was a CTO) I made sure our information security policies mandated people to use only the macOS/Windows built-in AV tools.
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by gmac 2y ago
> The snarky answer is that it's easier to be a full stack developer if your stack starts and ends with JavaScript. That doesn't need to be snarky. I know JavaScript and a variety of other languages, but if I'm picking a s
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by gmac 2y ago
If you actually follow the link, you'll see it's not only about kin selection, but also about group selection, and species selection would be a form of that.
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by gmac 2y ago
Nor sure it's that clear-cut. https://blog.oup.com/2015/01/kin-group-selection-controversy...
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by gmac 2y ago
I’m somewhat sceptical about this result, and the way it’s presented. Plotting income on a log scale obscures the fundamental point here, which is that each additional dollar matters less and less as you have more and more. And even if the
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by gmac 2y ago
In this context, surely the whole point is that we could have taxed Musk’s wealth instead, so we have collectively paid whatever amount we didn’t tax him.
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How and when to use btree_gist in Postgres(neon.tech)
2 points by gmac 2y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
I made this to work with Zapatos, which uses Postgres JSON extensively. Note that there is a proposal to make this possible with native JSON.parse and JSON.stringify, which would be awesome: https://github.com/tc39/prop
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Performant, conformant JSON parser avoids loss of precision in JavaScript(github.com)
2 points by gmac 2y ago|1 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
Interesting. Any Brits ever seen it enforced?
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by gmac 2y ago
As a Brit it amazes me that this is even a concept. I've certainly never heard of it. We park whichever way is convenient.
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by gmac 2y ago
That’s incredibly helpful. I’ll link that from the README and think about implementing something better.
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by gmac 2y ago
Best answer I can find is ‘nobody ever got fired for implementing the Mersenne Twister’. I made this JS library a few years ago when I needed some reproducible random numbers, and I think I picked the Mersenne Twister over others just on th
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Mersenne Twister PRNG for JavaScript(github.com)
10 points by gmac 2y ago|28 comments
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by gmac 2y ago
Seems like it depends on which translation of the Bible you're using. I personally prefer 'the root of all evil', which looks like it's the King James version (and perhaps others)[1]. [1] https://www.biblegate

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