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by jaza 1y ago
True. We have our gods, same as every other tribe throughout history.
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by jaza 1y ago
We've "succeeded" at space flight about as much as we've "succeeded" at AI. Yay, man on the moon! Over half a century later, and it turns out that the "next small step" - man on Mars - isn't so s
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by jaza 1y ago
I can accept that everything else is fake, but UNICORNS ARE REAL, dammit!
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by jaza 1y ago
Highly unlikely - Python 3.15 is already under active development: https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html
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by jaza 1y ago
I learnt a lot from your numerous Flask blog posts over the years. Your blog is often better than the official Flask docs. Kudos to you, Miguel!
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by jaza 1y ago
This was before my time, but older folks have told me that in the early days of credit cards here in Australia (70s and 80s), for larger purchases at department stores (which were virtually the only merchants who accepted credit cards back
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by jaza 1y ago
I reckon Satoshi understood quite well what he created. But what he quite possibly didn't understand as well, is how human behaviour would play out with his creation. He clearly believed that at least 51% of the node-grunt-power would
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by jaza 1y ago
Errr... a circle is a shape in Euclidean geometry. Pi is a property of that shape in that geometry system. The OP article steps outside of Euclidean geometry. It discusses "circles" that aren't really circles. Therefore, the
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by jaza 1y ago
WordPress is dying as ungraciously as free-to-air TV is.
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by jaza 1y ago
I wouldn't be too quick to jump to that conclusion, we could easily shove another 960k emojis into the spec!
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by jaza 1y ago
Alright alright, maybe not "various studies", but I read this article a few months ago: https://www.aureusfinancial.com.au/blog/title-are-credit-car...
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by jaza 1y ago
Various studies have shown that, for the investment needed to "maximise your rewards" (ie time needed to research the different cards on the market / read the fine print of your chosen product / put through payments on a
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by jaza 1y ago
I started university (in Australia) in 2004, not long after the dot com crash. CS enrolment rates were low, kids were getting scared off due to perceived lack of jobs. As a result, there was a shortage of grad talent (companies were already
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by jaza 1y ago
Exactly! I code in Python every day, I haven't done so without a type checker (usually mypy) for years, I don't push a single change without type-checking it first, it catches stupid mistakes and saves me from breaking production
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by jaza 1y ago
iOS market share: 56% in Australia (where I live) [1]; 58% in United States [2]; 47% in UK [3]; 64% in Japan [4]; 60% in Canada [5]; 55% in Denmark [6]; 54% in Switzerland [7]; 55% in Sweden [8]. Yes, I've cherry picked from the minori
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by jaza 1y ago
Interesting! I didn't know about the London Overground, only visited London once (nearly 20 years ago). I like our trains here in Sydney for similar reasons. The lines are almost all aboveground, you get to see plenty of neighbourhoods
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by jaza 1y ago
Works for me from Australia
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by jaza 1y ago
It's been too long! Off to The Oatmeal I go...
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by jaza 1y ago
Nice write-up! I've heard about Litestar now and then, haven't tried it, maybe I should give it a go. I've been using FastAPI quite heavily for the past several years. I think OP's arguments about FastAPI being hard to w
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by jaza 1y ago
Seriously?! I wouldn't know, my Pixel 3 and its stock earphones are still going strong. I'll have to save the earphones for my next phone. :P
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by jaza 1y ago
This is why I've never used wireless earphones (I just use the stock wired earphones that come with the phone). Sure, the wires are tangled every time I pull them out of my pocket. But they never need charging! That, plus a loathing of
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by jaza 1y ago
When everything is urgent, nothing is urgent
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by jaza 1y ago
Heck yes! I recently dusted off (had to literally dust the inside of the cartridges to get past a black screen, lol) my old Sega Genesis (and bought an HDMI adaptor for it), and have been letting my school age sons play it. They haven'
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by jaza 1y ago
We're pretty lucky here in Australia. Over the past decade or so, PayID has been successfully rolled out to virtually all banks, giving us free and (usually) instant money transfers - I'd say more than half of all personal payment
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by jaza 1y ago
I miss Yahoo Games. My favourite was dominoes, many hours spent in there as a teenager. The only Yahoo thing I've accessed for the past decade or so is Finance, the stock price info and the investing news seems to still be reasonable.
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by jaza 1y ago
See "List of assigned /8 blocks to commercial organizations" at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre... Mercedes-Benz isn't the only corporation with its own /8 bl
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by jaza 1y ago
In Landru we trust
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by jaza 1y ago
Amen!
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by jaza 1y ago
Computer scientists in the ~1970s said that procedural languages are a miserable medium for programming, compared to assembly languages. And they said in the ~1960s that assembly languages are a miserable medium for programming, compared to
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by jaza 1y ago
Sounds like Australian kids will just use private / incognito browser windows (aka porn mode) even more than they do already. I fail to see what this new "policy" will achieve, apart from my above point, plus serving as an ex

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