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by jt2190 3y ago
There was an absolutely excellent essay by James Duncan Davidson, creator of the Apache Ant build tool for Java, about why XML was its configuration language, and why it was perfect at first but grew to be a huge problem. To summarize from
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I assume that the message means that Homebrew is incorrectly identifying the installation of MacOS Sonoma as “out of date”, and that means updating Hombbrew is a side-effect of updating the OS.
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> We had to demand formula I don’t understand. You can’t just go to the store and buy infant formula?
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> they’re technically required to track those purchases and pay the sales tax themselves at the end of the year. Enforcement is approximately zero, though. That’s called “use tax”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use
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I just item 1 (“Enable run-time control. Control flags dynamically, not using config files”) and it’s almost exclusively focused on what to do but not on why to do it. It seems to be skipping past the use-cases and assumptions, in particul
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by jt2190 3y ago
This article seems to be rehashing another one at DL News: Mark Cuban loses $870k to a crypto scam: ‘They must have been watching’ https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/mark-cuban-lo...
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The issue is that the printer manufacturer needs to provide a printer driver for MacOS that gives MacOS access to that printer capability. (One could argue that Apple should write the driver, and they might for very popular devices.)
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> MacOS plays a sluggish animation when switching between screens... Perhaps: System Settings... Accessibility > Display: Reduce Motion
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Immigration will help (and Canadians begrudgingly like this solution because it also shores up the income-tax “hole” caused by low a birthrate/large retired population and generous social benefits to pay for) but it can’t fix the probl
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We can explain this without "brainwashing": Risk-taking Canadians move to the United States, leaving behind the risk-averse. ;) In reality, Canada and the U.S. have a "common market" of sorts that allows talent to move b
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https://github.com/progfolio/blimpy/
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The title I see: > Social media is dead: Group chats and messaging apps killed it Which I’d edit down to: > Group chats and messaging apps killed social media
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Not the OP, but I think the mistake many people make is that they assume that the goal is to get the machine pumping out ice cream, without considering that the ice cream might make people sick because the machine wasn’t properly sanitized
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The theory of a meeting is that the team will gather, go through a list of problems, solve those problems, which will keep the work moving forward. Standup/scrum meetings should be about identifying the work that has stopped moving f
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> [Pilots] have training on some specific dangerous/technical passages/ports and are taken to a ship, pilot the ship through the passage or into a berth, then leave and go on their way? My understanding is that Pilots never ste
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The question that Dallasites and Houstonians need to ask is whether they want to evolve their cities over the coming decades [1] toward a form that supports High Speed Rail. Primarily this would look like denser development around the rail
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by jt2190 3y ago
Here's a link to the book on the publisher's web site: "Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide" by Daniel H Steinberg, Stuart Cheshire (2005) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ze
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> There will be a 12-year gap until the next investments pools increase from the new workers entering the working market. Why 12 years?
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One of the sources quoted in the article is Stanford Economist Nick Bloom. He did an interview a few years ago. The transcript ish here: “What workers want” (2021) https://greylock.com/greymatter/nicholas-bloom-stanford
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Yes what would be interesting is to compare the phrase in English to the same phrase in a few widely-spoken languages in India, to see if the English phrasing is mimicking, say, Hindi or Telegu or Tamil or… [long list of languages omitted f
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I suspect because (some?) computer terminals had the escape key there, e.g. VT-100 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/vt100.html Contrast this with, say, a typewriter that would have no use for ESC.
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This is pure fantasy. The English monarch was weak the past, and has been weakened further such that today they only remain as a figurehead, and everything they do is dictated to them by the democracies that they are supposedly “ruling”. Th
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> Yes, I had failed to see the proper solution… It actually existed back then, I simply didn't know about it, no one told me about it, and I wasn't smart enough to question myself once I started going down a certain path. And t
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> [I]t's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. As someone who also loves to "surf" the web and who misses the good old days, I do wonder if it's
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My layman’s understanding is that your immune system has an “strong opinion” about what bacteria it will tolerate, so simply introducing new bacteria generally does not make a permanent change to your gut biome. Even fecal transplant doesn’
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> But three years later I’ve come to feel that a system that promised to increase my mastery over my work has, instead, increased my work’s mastery over me. I’m not the only one. A 2016 study found that physicians spent about two hours d
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Multiple accounts don’t help when you’re moving money, because you need to trust that you’re moving money to the right person, and verifying even a single account is difficult. Making everything free doesn’t solve this since we still have t
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> 4chan blocks the ip addresses of bad users, many services require a phone number to sign up, some sites have tried requiring a credit card, Facebook I believe uses the social graph to figure out how likely an account is to be real. App
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It’s called the “Hawthorne Effect”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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Let me assist > The GIC remains convicted that a rapid and strong rebound is unlikely and the profits recession is apt to worsen before a genuine rebound is possible. Underpinning our thesis are: > - decelerating real economic activit

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