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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
My company has a style guide that every public type/method/etc. must have a comment and it results in a ton of these comments for trivial methods.
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Basically this paragraph from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Singapore : "Singapore has consistently been rated as the least-corrupt country in Asia and amongst the top ten cleanest in the world by Trans
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Agreed, I guess I should have said it's not directly about making money from Maps, it's all indirect business reasons. Same thing with Apple operating iMessage for free without ads... they don't care about monetizing iMessa
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Thus far Apple Maps doesn't have ads. There are rumors they may ad them (pun intended), but I don't think their motivations for steering people towards Apple Maps are primarily monetary.
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Reading NTSB reports themselves isn't for me, but I really enjoy reading this blog that does excellent write-ups of past plane crashes. It's really well written, easy to follow, and fascinating: https://admiralcloudberg
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
Also the risk of their unproven approach of not using lidar for self driving, unlike every competing self-driving system.
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by lemoncucumber 1y ago
One thing to watch out for is that you pick your "home region" when you create your account. This cannot be changed later, and your "Always Free" instances can only be created in your home region (the non-free tier doesn
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
"Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World" is a great book by Mike Davis about similar famines in the late 19th century caused by colonial powers putting profits and the sanctity of markets abov
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Nice work! A useful one you’re missing is `set list` which shows whitespace characters. The main thing I use it for is checking whether indentation is tabs or spaces (or an unfortunate mix of both).
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
It's a shame hither/thither/whither and their buddies hence/thence/whence are all archaic at this point
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Ask HN: What companies in SF are still in-person?
3 points by lemoncucumber 2y ago|1 comments
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
If you put lasers on them do they become killer whales?
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
I think of demand for EVs as being a little stronger among liberals and demand for trucks as being a little stronger among conservatives, so perhaps the venn diagram intersection takes a (small) hit from that.
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
I agree, but it's also pretty funny how so many of them have this tiny techie audience and 99% of the people driving past will just be like "wtf is that about, what are all those acronyms?"
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Unfortunately that's the Google of a decade or two ago. Today's Google is very focused on cost-cutting and I can't imagine them investing in new future-focused projects like those which are not under pressure to turn a profit
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Google for Mac OS X Server 1.0 screenshots... the UI was a bizarre mashup of classic Mac OS and NeXTSTEP, you can see they were part way through bolting a Mac-like interface on. When Mac OS X was eventually released it looked utterly differ
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Star Trek: The Text Generation
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
They just take up so much space in your luggage though
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
That's already happening in the EU: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-b...
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
> I couldn't even write an engine that used Vulkan in six months, nor a software rasteriser; meanwhile, Alyssa wrote an entire compliant driver on a non-native operating system running on locked-down hardware in one month flat. Appl
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Like others have said, AppleTalk is the right way to solve this. But if we’re going with crazy hacks, I bet one could emulate an ADB keyboard to copy binaries onto the laptop by sending keystrokes to “type” hex into ResEdit.
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by lemoncucumber 2y ago
There are some minor advantages: checked bags are free, and canceling a flight for future credit has long been free on all tickets - once this became common among other airlines, they changed their policy to make the credit never expire to
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by lemoncucumber 3y ago
It’s made more confusing by the fact that the comment omits all the S models from the list of unsupported models (along with the iPhone 4 for some reason). So at a glance one could assume that the XS is lumped in with the X just like the 6S
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by lemoncucumber 3y ago
That’s still not as bad as having to spell referrer wrong in http headers where it’s spelled “referer”... which is incorrect for every flavo(u)r of English.
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by lemoncucumber 3y ago
Yeah, `git pull` is just shorthand for `git fetch` followed by `git merge`, so it's technically a superset of a "merge request". And it also handles the cross-repo case, which is a common case in the Github model of "mak
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by lemoncucumber 4y ago
I prefer to use gibi-dollars ($1073741824)
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by lemoncucumber 4y ago
It took me a minute to figure out the last step of the final example since the author doesn’t quite spell it out. So for anyone else who’s feeling a little slow: Once you’ve partitioned the search space into “values where the ith bit is 0”
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by lemoncucumber 4y ago
How myopic of you
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
I set up a custom "All Applications" keyboard shortcut for the Zoom command, it's really handy.
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by lemoncucumber 5y ago
Yes, I was simplifying — the important part is keeping the untrusted code off of a trusted network. If you want to do the legwork of carefully segregating things then of course network access can work. I didn’t mention containers since they

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