jlg23

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by jlg23 6y ago
That's how I know chess broadcasts. For me the signal to noise ratio is simply not favorable, I rarely learn from the comments because they cater all levels of players, not just mine. I found it more worthwhile to replay the moves at m
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by jlg23 6y ago
I've been watching high class matches on TV all my life, but usually with sound turned off. Comments are usually just computer analysis read out loud and background trivia like "he played similarly 2 years ago against XY" don
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by jlg23 6y ago
Or simply start by re-legalizing re-usable containers with some tax breaks to provide an incentive for stores to invest into the technology to fill containers brought by customers while respecting food safety.
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by jlg23 6y ago
At the very minimum you can reuse the code for input validation on the server side in the client. Given that those, if maintained separately, tend to diverge, in my experience, this is a net win.
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by jlg23 6y ago
I am not sure home kitchens are the market for a sensor that requires to dissolve the chilies in ethanol...
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by jlg23 6y ago
> I for one would be deeply ashamed if I suddenly found that bytes had a ninth bit we never suspected was there in the first place. http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_by_b...
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by jlg23 6y ago
If one has to be worried about drones, one should expect them to be there at any time.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Residing in the country with the "longest, continuous minefield in the world"[1], I very much appreciate the harsh reality of "your first click could be your last". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by jlg23 6y ago
Yes, for any "couple of" smaller two. And more than once it was not clear whether the Vatican was still relevant at all.
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by jlg23 6y ago
More on Plankalkül: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
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by jlg23 6y ago
> There's no reason that those bar sales, can't be from the restaurant over postmates or uber eats. Except for the prices, maybe? While it is true that most restaurants make most (or even all) of their profits with drinks, cust
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by jlg23 6y ago
Do you have some data to back up your claim about childcare workers being less concerned? And also, that "less concerned" translates to worse education? When childcare closed across Europe due to the pandemic, I've seen a lot
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by jlg23 6y ago
This google tech talk is a pretty gentle introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVL80Gg3lA
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by jlg23 6y ago
WRT this specific post: Graceful error propagation with zero boilerplate code for passing through errors. If all you need to know is "nope" at the end of some computation, you won't have to handle all different "nopes&qu
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by jlg23 6y ago
> never use “infinity” as a default timeout. Never say never. What can be tuned in the system (obviously relevant only for server software) is better tuned there unless you really like (re-)negotiating tuning options with ops.
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by jlg23 6y ago
a) Not all programs can read multiple configuration files. It's either in the one configuration file or a hardcoded default. b) Not all settings done in defaults can be simply undone later on (e.g.: apache's httpd.conf, IIRC the s
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by jlg23 6y ago
> On a fresh install of BSD/Linux I'd love to see an empty /etc directory sans any necessary overrides to make it boot. And I rather have a full set of configuration files that specifies the defaults at the time of the ins
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by jlg23 6y ago
I moved to the desert in a developing country. But fibre optics to the house took 4 days and is $55/month. There is no escape.
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by jlg23 6y ago
In a lot of urban environments access to the obvious outdoor alternatives is pretty limited.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Such a simpler web spec would be relatively fast moving, not focused on backwards compatibility, but instead on simplicity of implementation. HTML would have to be written correctly (eg. balanced tags), old styling mechanisms would be
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by jlg23 6y ago
TRAMP works well over slow connections and, if told to save temporary files locally, deals with connection loss pretty well.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Finally, there's also voice controls: "Wipers increase" and you're done. If the driver had used voice control he would not have been fined. > It's not magic, the horrible thing we still have is courts with c
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by jlg23 6y ago
Thanks a lot, this is a link to hand to aspiring FP programmers for the content is well presented. This one made me laugh out loud: "This is sometimes called parametric polymorphism. It’s also called having your cake and eating it too.
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by jlg23 6y ago
> Just because Ember is "some JS framework" doesn't mean it has no good ideas. No, but time-scales matter. A good idea in a notoriously short lived ecosystem is not necessarily transferable to an environment in which one h
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by jlg23 6y ago
I am not sure one can compare some JS framework with a language that was already 8 years old when JS as a language appeared. By the time JS was invented, there was already legacy perl code in production that needed to be maintained.
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by jlg23 6y ago
* birth control women can apply comes with sometimes severe side effects (edit: and even for that my wife needs my consent here in the Maghreb) * Having an abortion just got a lot harder in parts of the US, is even more limited in most part
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by jlg23 6y ago
When a pilot declares an emergency s/he can rely on the airport and airspace around it being cleared by flight control. If a hypothetical red button was pushed, there would be a standard procedure the aircraft computers execute which i
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by jlg23 6y ago
> The media team do not know and should not be expected to know the exact minute details of how URLs Someone paid to communicate via digital media should understand the limitations of these media. The rule is pretty simple, old and does
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by jlg23 6y ago
No, but for having the results stored at some company.
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by jlg23 6y ago
Patches. This is stable enough for any software stable enough to be used daily.

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