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Burn Your Title(notes.eatonphil.com)
13 points by jez 1y ago|10 comments
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A Comparative Look at Antitrust Standards in the US and EU(culawreview.org)
2 points by jez 1y ago|1 comments
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by jez 2y ago
As with many "we should explain core math things better," there is a 3Blue1Brown explainer that attempts to give intuition for e : https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/eulers-number As suggested by the OP, it
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Dropbox for Dropbox Haters(danmackinlay.name)
5 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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by jez 2y ago
Many of these features Windows has no analogue for. Consider: > By default, clicking inside a scroll bar will scroll partially towards the clicked location. Hold Option while clicking in the scroll bar to jump directly to the clicked lo
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by jez 2y ago
I’m not sure what this URL is. The canonical source for the Tufte CSS project is hosted here: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
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by jez 2y ago
The handwriting in some of these snippets, while sometimes difficult to read for one reason or another, is nonetheless beautiful: did everyone who wrote have such great handwriting back then? I'm looking at the piece in the Instagram p
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A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter(jamesbvaughan.com)
5 points by jez 2y ago|1 comments
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by jez 2y ago
It never occurred to me that ffmpeg’s license had these restrictions on use (I guess that should be obvious in retrospect, it’s LGPL licensed). The ffmpeg docs have an straightforward list of things you have to do to link against ffmpeg and
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Origins and Development(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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Type Detail: the beautiful details of typefaces(typedetail.com)
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Multi-platform, multi-format annotation woes(ryanwwest.com)
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by jez 2y ago
Calling it libTerminal might be confusing. There are other terminal emulation libraries—for example libvterm[1], notably used to power the embedded terminal in Neovim.[2] [1] https://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm&#x2
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by jez 2y ago
> What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file? Code search (ripgrep, GitHub search, Sourcegraph, git grep, or even just plain grep). You can use VS Code search but
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by jez 2y ago
In a similar line, it would be nice if there were a way to predeclare instance variables so that there was a canonical place to put type annotations for instance variables. Ruby type checkers right now all invent their own ways of declaring
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by jez 2y ago
For those curious, this article is a good introduction to the topic: https://railsatscale.com/2023-10-24-memoization-pattern-and-...
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by jez 2y ago
The Python version and this Ruby version are not equivalent. In Ruby, default parameters are allocated for each call to the function, which means that they are not shared across calls. In Python, default parameters are allocated once and sh
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The Elo Rating System [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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Checkerboard Math: Binary arithmetic with bit shifts [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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by jez 2y ago
I recently read a lot about solutions people have come up with to put a class hierarchy into a relational DB, because it all mostly applies when the domain’s data model makes heavy use of ad hoc union union types (like TypeScript’s union ty
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by jez 2y ago
The README of MarkItDown mentions "indexing and text analysis" as the two motivating features, whereas Pandoc is more interested in document preparation via conversion that maintains rich text formatting. Since my personal use lea
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by jez 2y ago
Some more notes: - If this is your first time hearing about the readline/emacs keybindings like Ctrl-E and Ctrl-W, you'll be pleased to know that most macOS input sources use these keybindings. If you're on macOS, feel free t
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GL.iNet MT-6000 Flint2 Review(blog.thestateofme.com)
2 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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by jez 2y ago
Also: the specific choice of the year 1971 (as opposed to say "the 70s" or "the late 60s") is usually meant to call attention to the fact that in 1971 the US abandoned the gold standard for the US dollar. https:/&#
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by jez 2y ago
My reading from the License section[1] of the Keepasium README and this Stack Exchange post[2] is that the author of KeePassium wishes to license KeePassium under GPLv3. Accepting applications licensed under GPLv3 would require that Apple p
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by jez 2y ago
Yes, via the KeePassium client: https://github.com/keepassium/KeePassium As with all iOS apps, there’s no guarantee that the open source app code on GitHub corresponds to what you install from the App Store. I have bee
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Collaborating Effectively with Jupyter Notebooks(rachitsingh.com)
3 points by jez 2y ago|0 comments
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by jez 2y ago
The one electric Caltrain I rode recently played an ear shattering tone inside the trains when the doors were about to open and close. With any luck and enough complaints, it should be easy enough to dial that back or drop it entirely. I do
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by jez 2y ago
Sorry about that! edited to > What we're observing is X, but we want to see Y instead.
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by jez 2y ago
The point of the interview is not to answer "Can this candidate find and fix this bug?" but rather "what is the candidate's approach to fixing unknown problems?" A good performance looks like making a hypothesis for

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