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by js2 8y ago
I had my personal domain hosted with Google years ago. One of the reasons I moved away is that emails that I was sending to other Google Apps domains were bouncing as spam when the destination address was an alias. The bounce came from Goog
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by js2 8y ago
Fascinating. For about a decade my father owned a one-hour photo lab back in the eighties. I worked for him. When he purchased the equipment for his lab, he didn’t have a ton of money so the equipment was only semi automated. There were two
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Marcus Hutchins Stopped WannaCry – He Deserves a Pardon(nytimes.com)
79 points by js2 8y ago|33 comments
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by js2 8y ago
Parent wrote “Roughly a third of people with T2D have a normal BMI.” Those people can’t “afford” to lose weight not in the dollar sense, but because they have no weight to lose.
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by js2 8y ago
I just went through this with Chase. Their criteria is six prior recurring payments for a given merchant to allow payments to continue on the old number from that merchant.
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by js2 8y ago
I think you mean horse stall mats, which you can find at Tractor Supply, etc. 4’ x 6’ x 3/4” vulcanized rubber: https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/4-ft-x-6-ft-x-3-4-... The ones I have (I used a few in
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by js2 8y ago
At the other extreme are bonobos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Peacefulness
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by js2 8y ago
How did he build the shoring blocks? How does he get the pebble underneath a large block initially? How will get the horizontal stones across the top lifted and pivoted into place?
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by js2 8y ago
> Antenna intuition is really hard to attain For some reason this reminded me of musician Carolina Eyck playing a theramin on this Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683943414/carolina-e
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Letter of Recommendation: Digging a Trench(nytimes.com)
67 points by js2 8y ago|17 comments
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by js2 8y ago
Yeah, wasn't sure if Gmail is trademarked and if it is, whether you need a notice.
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by js2 8y ago
I once had to edit a file while logged in on console and where I literally had nothing but the Bourne shell to work with. I eventually figured out a while loop which read a line at the time from the file, echoed it, then read a line from th
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by js2 8y ago
A similar article in The Atlantic was submitted a few days ago: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro... There's even less evidence for pulling wisdom teeth: https:/&#x2
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by js2 8y ago
Something like: Darwin Mail: Gmail Evolved Darwin Mail is a better interface to the gmail account you already have: - Restores Google Inbox features - .... Aside, do you need to add any trademark notices?
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by js2 8y ago
> would argue that in most cases most function arguments should be of the pos_or_kwd type. Oh, that’s definitely the case. My point was: why would you have a function that had three different kinds of params: pos only, keyword only, and
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by js2 8y ago
Or look to git's repo itself for examples: https://github.com/git/git/commits/master
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by js2 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jasonkester runs https://www.s3stat.com/
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by js2 8y ago
Obstacles in both Democratic and Republican states alike. Pretty sad. Also damn hypocritical of the states which regularly complain of Federal overreach to go restricting their own local governments.
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by js2 8y ago
Well if you want my path it was something like: BASIC, 6502 assembly, Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, Scheme, Perl, shell (sh, tcsh, sed, awk, etc), Java, Python. A bit of PHP in there somewhere. Some TCL and lua and ruby too. I may have the order
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by js2 8y ago
Function names and class names are also part of your API and there's no facility to allow those to be arbitrarily renamed. Being able to rename positional parameter names is a very weak argument in favor of this feature. The only argum
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by js2 8y ago
If I ever saw this in real life: foo([po1, po2], pk1, pk2, *args, {kw1, kw2, kwd1=default, kwd2=default, **kw}) I'd think... that function is trying to do too much with its parameters and should be multiple functions. Now yes,
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by js2 8y ago
I read the PEP and understand the argument (no pun intended). I'm just not convinced. I don't find the justifications given in the PEP at all persuasive. Rarely have I ever needed to enforce positional over keyword arguments and t
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by js2 8y ago
Funny enough, I first used Java in 1995 or so. What a nice little language I thought then. I then managed to avoid it through its enterprise madness of the 2000s and finally started using it again around 5 years ago. It's still bureauc
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by js2 8y ago
> Over time, we’ve had a trend of adding unnecessary, low-payoff complexity to the language. Cumulatively, it has greatly increased the mental load for newcomers and for occasional users. I couldn't agree more with this sentiment fr
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by js2 8y ago
The top comment on the Zoom S-1 discussion said the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19465860
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by js2 8y ago
What about the forest fires in the West and even places like NC? Overflowing rivers throughout the US? Tornadoes from the mid-West to the mid-Atlantic? Hurricanes? Where in the US is safe as climate change induces more frequent and more ext
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by js2 8y ago
> There's something about planning, planting, and then caring for a garden that appeals to my engineer brain. Boy you sound like someone who would really enjoy square foot gardening. I doubt I'm telling you anything you don&#x2
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> One other modest mitigating factor should be mentioned. For many everyday crimes, like robbery, the presence of surveillance cameras in stores and buildings has made the police somewhat less dependent on eyewitness identification. The
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by js2 8y ago
Have you ever lost track of your kid? Many years ago I was changing my son’s diaper in the SJC airport. My wife had gone to the restroom and left our 3 y/o daughter with me too. In the blink of an eye my daughter disappeared. Now we we
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The Prophylactic Extraction of Third Molars: A Public Health Hazard(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
4 points by js2 8y ago|3 comments

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