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by hwc 2y ago
if they owe debt, they may not be legally able to open source their software, since it could still theoretically be sold to someone to pay off debts. is there an expert in bankruptcy law that knows for sure?
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by hwc 2y ago
yeah, be aware that many things you buy today depend on some cloud service that may go away. for example, a computer system that routinely checks for updates will hopefully still function if the update server goes away. and you can always
33.
by hwc 2y ago
Or someone got tired of typing long paths.
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by hwc 2y ago
My work machine uses my complete email address as a user machine (this was a done by someone in the IT department). Vim gets confused when I use the `gf` command to open a path that contains an '@' character in it.
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by hwc 2y ago
Also, contracting out the menial labor makes Waymo's labor practices look much better. They can tell their engineers that all employees make a living wage and get excellent health insurance. When the actual labor is done by part-timer
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by hwc 2y ago
I did a little work on a C API for Skia a long time ago. We didn't have a good use case at the time, so the project was dropped.
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by hwc 2y ago
Now do that with all whitespace!
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by hwc 2y ago
instead of mining rocks thousands of miles away, crushing them, and then spreading the result in your fields, convince local fungi to do all that work locally!
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by hwc 2y ago
Chebyshev is black magic, and I say that even having seen the derivation in a graduate-level course.
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by hwc 2y ago
that's the idea of "limited liability". it has a lot of downsides in practice.
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by hwc 2y ago
I still can't justify spending more than about $500 on a phone when the perfectly good Pixel 8a is available. I'm still using my Pixel 6a and will probably continue until it fails or the battery life gets really bad.
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by hwc 2y ago
I'm so glad I use Go more than C++ these days. In Go, all values are always zero-initialized if you don't explicitly assign a value. If you need a constructor, you write a regular function that returns an explicitly assigned obj
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by hwc 2y ago
it _does_ mess it up, but near the gravitational source, not way out like the problems with the galactic gravity.
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by hwc 2y ago
that is very surprising.
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by hwc 2y ago
liquid sodium is worse than that. it will suck the water out of concrete and react violently.
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by hwc 2y ago
I've been using Bitwarden for a few years. It seems to do everything I need, and is cross-platform. I have a soft spot in my heart for `pass` ( http://www.passwordstore.org/ ), but it's a pain to access it from my
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by hwc 2y ago
This looks like one of the earlier prototype ships, when they were still working out the tile geometry, but still also wanted to do a dry run of stacking it.
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by hwc 2y ago
I always wondered how far technology can go without advanced metallurgy. Clearly steam engines require good metallurgy, but the spinning jenny and the flying shuttle don't, do they? How much would those advances have changed the Roma
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by hwc 2y ago
I would love a class on taking care of my fountain pens. Maybe I'll find something on YouTube.
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by hwc 3y ago
the book itself was re-bound.
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by hwc 3y ago
I would rather have a hardwood bench with good thick cushions tied on. Then instead of reupholstering, you just replace the cushions.
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by hwc 3y ago
I would like to see Mr Musk removed from decision-making positions at Tesla and SpaceX. He is making both companies, which have much to be proud of, look bad. If he wants to kill Twitter, that's fine by me. I prefer a more decentrali
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by hwc 3y ago
I agree with most of this. I end up with a lot of sh 'make all' sh 'make test' In my `Jenkinsfile`, but there's not a great way to test things locally.
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by hwc 3y ago
> "Read code ..... Your editor" For reading code, I tend to use `highlight -O xterm256 "$1"|less -R` or `source-highlight -f esc -o STDOUT -i "$1"|less -R` in a shell function.
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by hwc 3y ago
if [ a = b ] || grep -q ^hello$ /usr/share/dict/words; then echo "test failed and grep succeeded" fi > “You pick whether to be amused or horrified. I don’t know how exactly my coworker re
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by hwc 3y ago
I agree. I also really like writing software that builds HTML to be served as a static page. E.g. https://gist.github.com/HalCanary/61276afbab042e204e54268f6a... Then that complexity is hidden from the client.
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by hwc 3y ago
if the nocopy flag is set on a font, Chrome will not embed that font into a PDF when you do "print to PDF". instead, the shapes are used to create a type3 font. This is a way the author can get the vector shape of the glyphs wit
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by hwc 3y ago
Could one have a kind of CLA where a contributor licenses their work under ANY license that meets the open source definition?
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by hwc 3y ago
or capture a small comet!
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by hwc 3y ago
And no known material has enough tensile strength to make it work!

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