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by goblin89 6y ago
What would be the equivalent to “sending tasks” to a Future instead of awaiting result (re mistake 1) but in JS with Promises? Is it about operating on unresolved promises and awaiting final values as late as possible? Or does that part not
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by goblin89 6y ago
Maybe oxygen then? Worse circulation or carbon monoxide could be involved, then. I don’t think there’s anywhere for CO to come from, however air quality varies (CO2 levels easily reach 1000 ppbv at times).
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by goblin89 6y ago
Interesting. From my experience, coldness of feet is correlated with blood circulation. There are periods when my feet are cold (going together with the restless legs syndrome at night), and I think it goes away when circulation improves. M
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by goblin89 6y ago
Does it mean that all of the missing cases apart from that hundred were resolved and confirmed as not abductions by strangers? Otherwise, how many of the remaining cases were? I suspect this number might make a world of difference.
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by goblin89 6y ago
I want to develop a habit for looking at my code through the lens of time complexity. What are some resources (articles, public knowledge bases, books, courses, etc.) that could make one more fluent in this matter? Something that could help
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by goblin89 6y ago
To clarify, the blame does not lie entirely with the photojournalist. They may choose to get a shot using a telephoto lens to capture, say, which face expressions dominate the crowd (which may be unfeasible with a wide lens). Now, if this i
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by goblin89 6y ago
This might seem like it’s purely about optics, but I do think being familiar with some terms to communicate the need to understand out the system you are working on as a consultant or employee while being professional about it can help a lo
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by goblin89 6y ago
Using telephoto lenses and angles that preclude the audience from understanding distances between people in a crowd without knowing the specifications of photography equipment is absolutely fine for artistic effect, but in documentary shots
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by goblin89 6y ago
The difference between the connotations of the word “legacy” in general and inside the tech industry is worth a ponder. Fundamentally, legacy is something left to us by someone else. On its own it’s neutral: if it is a result of someone’s e
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by goblin89 6y ago
The original poster provided an eBay link, and my personal experience confirms that gift cards for US-only services relevant to non-US residents are sold for above face value on online marketplaces accessible to non-US residents. I only dis
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by goblin89 6y ago
You still don’t get it. The original poster uses gift cards going for higher than face value on eBay as evidence of money laundering. I am pointing out that on eBay there is a demand for gift cards from buyers whose payment method is accept
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by goblin89 6y ago
I peeked. (A) Cards I use are not there, (B) an Apple Store US$100 card is sold for $100, and (C) US payment method is required, which kind of defeats the entire point. Good try though. In this thread, a fundamental misunderstanding of how
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by goblin89 6y ago
If I wanted to use a US content store and in fact lived in the US (which sounds like a prerequisite for being able to enjoy those Costco discounts), presumably I would not need to purchase gift cards in the first place. Where gift cards are
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by goblin89 6y ago
I use gift cards regularly to unlock country-specific content stores (such as Steam and others) other than where my bank or physical location is. Not once have I seen a gift card supplier that sells them cheaper than face value. Where does
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by goblin89 6y ago
After annexation, a number of sanctions were put in place against Crimea as a whole. Visa and MasterCard stopped processing payments, eBay and Amazon stopped shipping, Upwork blocked freelancers with Crimean addresses. Some of the sanctions
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by goblin89 6y ago
Bandcamp is a way to enable your existing fans to support you. They don’t really have the popularity contest or “discovery mechanisms” over there. Soundcloud is a radio and Bandcamp is a CD shop, if you like a retro metaphor. One is Instagr
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by goblin89 6y ago
Automated software-controlled shutter is useful. Attacker can’t record without engaging the shutter. Engaging the shutter outs the attacker. (Contrast with software-controlled LED indicators: attacker can record undetected if they manage to
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by goblin89 6y ago
A recent problem for me: I have only one room to myself, and prefer to keep work out of it. I am used to working outside from cafes, esp. coffeeshops, rotating my surroundings little by little. As of late, though, all relevant establishment
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by goblin89 6y ago
You say “most nations”, but I find it hard to believe that any democratic country would teach its citizens, say, simplified Chinese, and order them to infiltrate Chinese forums and advocate against CCP. Only a regime that doesn’t have to wo
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by goblin89 6y ago
> I found the third act really deviated from the rest of the story compared to how tight the other mentioned films were. Did you think it seemed out of place? It was indeed different, if we’re speaking about the same part. I contemplated
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by goblin89 6y ago
This article is a review of Kaufman’s novel. While the article was published before I’m Thinking of Ending Things , somehow it managed not to lose a single bit of relevance since the film came out—so much so, I could almost say it’s somewh
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by goblin89 6y ago
Exactly, high seas and maritime law means you’re under the jurisdiction of the flag country (if you have one), and US law is very lax in what cruise lines have to report when it happens outside US jurisdiction. According to WaPo’s report la
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by goblin89 6y ago
This has to do with the fact that “high seas” are not legally under any jurisdiction, right? Cruise ship business was being slowly dragged¹ into the public eye as of last year… and then COVID hit. I imagine things must have gotten only wors
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by goblin89 6y ago
Google Maps is great at public transport directions: it seems to aggregate a lot of data and getting ridiculously good at estimations. For road trips or hiking in sparsely populated areas, though, it’s treacherous to rely on automated route
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by goblin89 6y ago
Humorous article.
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Have you read the article?
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Software can be viewed as a function. A function is designed to be called in a certain way for certain output. If the required use of the function changes, function’s signature would need to support more arguments, and its behavior will inc
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by goblin89 6y ago
True! A point could be made for restricting ifs to 1 or 2 clauses and delegating more complex conditions to switch/case, but that is arguably even more far out there (and in case of Python it actually doesn’t have the switch operator).
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by goblin89 6y ago
Having taught programming to novices a little, I believe “if not” is clearer than “else”. Imagining “not” being prepended to the original conditional expression would be natural, especially in languages with “not X” construct (like Python),
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COVID origin: if we walk away from this, it will pave the way for future covids(twitter.com)
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