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by lilyball 5y ago
I’m not sure what’s misleading about it. “If this force exists, you’ll find it in this range” seems to be a valuable detail to know when searching for this force. It feels to me like this is very similar to the trend of only caring about po
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by lilyball 5y ago
What does "natively" mean in this context? Because my impression is "the Cloudflare Workers environment" defines WASM as its "native" architecture.
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by lilyball 5y ago
Don’t forget insurance prices are also tailored to your particular risk as much as the insurance company can figure out how. Meanwhile, AppleCare is the same fee for everyone. So for you, your risk model might say that AppleCare isn’t worth
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by lilyball 5y ago
“Constantly taking” is not the same thing as “constantly polling”. The ring buffer approach works identically in the event-driven approach, you just need to calculate the number of “skipped” ticks and zero them out in the ring buffer.
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by lilyball 5y ago
This looks really neat! It supports a bunch of different query types, and can even do things like follow links to get info about the linked-to pages! It's also in nixpkgs, though for some reason the nixpkgs derivation is marked as linu
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by lilyball 5y ago
It means both that she’s biased, and also that she’s incredibly hostile to sex workers, which makes her one of the least qualified people to talk about what is safe for sex work or good for sex workers.
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by lilyball 5y ago
GitHub sure is focused on getting people to edit projects from the web, but they continue to let the actual code review part languish. It’s barely usable for any kind of serious review, and it barely even loads for large PRs.
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by lilyball 5y ago
That sort of “joke” is something that only works if you do it with friends that know you well. In this context, it feels very rude.
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by lilyball 5y ago
You’re overthinking it. And your version does 30 filters instead of 7 anyway.
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by lilyball 5y ago
The whole point of using a UUID that embeds a timestamp is when you want the timestamp of the UUID to be public. Use UUIDv4 if you don’t need time, but if you do, it makes far more sense to put the timestamp in the UUID than to have a (UUID
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by lilyball 5y ago
The 404s are to the author’s own GitHub repo and are not a reflection on Nix. It looks like they deleted and recreated the repo with the name wagdav.github.com and just didn’t update the links in this post accordingly.
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by lilyball 5y ago
It’s reproducibility that’s the benefit, not immutability. The fact that the Nix store is immutable is just an artifact of being a content-addressed store, not actually the point of anything.
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by lilyball 5y ago
What will it take before it’s declared as 1.0?
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by lilyball 5y ago
Buzzfeed cites its sources for its listicles. That’s the exact opposite of plagiarism.
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by lilyball 5y ago
This is a problem that can be solved without Codespaces too. For example, if GitHub were to embrace Nix, every project could have a shell.nix file for all of their dependencies, and the new engineer bootstrap script that installs Nix could
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by lilyball 5y ago
You're cherry-picking your data. If you pick any two points on a line, you can build a quadratic curve that meets those points, but doesn't match the rest of the line. Not to mention that in this case while the line is somewhat cl
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by lilyball 5y ago
The fundamental thing that is promised by fiat money is the ability to pay your taxes with it. The government issues money, and levies taxes, and the money is used to pay the taxes. It turns out to be really convenient for everyone else to
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by lilyball 5y ago
I ran across this many years ago and thought it looked interesting. I hadn't heard anyone mention it since. Is this actually generally usable for people who aren't primarily Haskell developers?
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by lilyball 5y ago
Even as a former contributor, I got banned from the Homebrew GitHub org and all relevant comments deleted merely for pointing out, reasonably politely, to the brew maintainer that he was ignoring another user’s valid issue. It’s the worst
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by lilyball 5y ago
They don't block JavaScript, they block the loading of resources deemed to be for advertising. These are typically ads, but they can also be images, CSS, or other resources hosted by advertisers. Such blocking will also block any other
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by lilyball 5y ago
All I want is a 16" laptop with an M1 and 32GB of RAM. And the extra RAM is just so I can comfortably allocate RAM to VMs.
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by lilyball 5y ago
Copyright and patent are different. Also, while you can’t copyright an algorithm, your specific source code that implements it is copyrighted (assuming it’s sufficiently original). In this case it’s not implementing the algorithm, it’s copy
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by lilyball 5y ago
Very few non-bot visitors refuse to execute JS.
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by lilyball 5y ago
Lack of excess capital means inflation doesn't affect them as they have no capital to depreciate, as long as wages keep pace with inflation. The fact that the minimum wage doesn't keep pace with inflation is a huge problem, but th
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by lilyball 5y ago
> Users can trade the tokens anonymously 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere, unhindered by capital controls, “know your client” rules imposed on broker-dealers, and other frictions of the traditional financial system. I f
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by lilyball 5y ago
I don't think it's possible for copilot to improve on this problem. It doesn't actually understand the code, it's just statistical models all the way down. There's no way for copilot to judge how good code is, only
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by lilyball 5y ago
iPhone 5 is 9 years old, iPhone 5C is 8.
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by lilyball 5y ago
That’s always been true of these sorts of changes. But new apps often target the latest OS, and it’s common for existing apps to target “current minus one”, so it will only take a year or two for existing maintained apps to start benefittin
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by lilyball 5y ago
The Finder doesn’t create or mount APFS snapshots. And while I haven’t tested it, I fully expect Time Machine to still enforce Unix file permissions. You really need to be using the command line to do what you’re describing.
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by lilyball 5y ago
GET is idempotent because it doesn’t modify data, not because multiple GET requests will return the same response. I could make an HTTP endpoint that returns random data on every request and issuing a GET to that endpoint is still considere

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