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by lixtra 8y ago
So how are they better of by banning cars in 10 or 20 years? Communities can also take loans to build out infrastructure now and pay with the transition tax levied a bit later. As too political suicide, there are three types of voters: a) t
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by lixtra 8y ago
Why not raise tax instead of banning? You can tax cars and fuel. You can make a predictable scheme for the next 20 years (i.e. fuel will raise about 4% per year,...) This gives the economy time to adopt. But please no exceptions.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Let’s not forget that MacOS X is considered a BSD by many.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Algorithm selection in computer science. Current champion in sorting seems to be Timsort[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort
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by lixtra 8y ago
Dave, you should post this as a Show HN, including a link to the website [1] not only the video. [1] https://alda.io/
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Announcing RStudio Package Manager(blog.rstudio.com)
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by lixtra 8y ago
> Incidentally, using shelve in hg is the only way I've ever lost work in a VCS (I've made the same error in git as well, but a dropped stash can be found again). At least today there is .hg/shelve-backup/
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by lixtra 8y ago
And git handles the edge case the same way. That was my point. rm master git checkout -- master git checkout a1b1 git checkout master -- master all works as expected
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WEF: The Global Competitiveness Report 2018(weforum.org)
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by lixtra 8y ago
When you want to know were some commit came from. For example you can make a seemingly unrelated change in a feature branch. And then later wonder why this change has been done. Of course you could hope to find the merge into master where t
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by lixtra 8y ago
git has 3+1 areas where a change can live: - working directory - staged - commited - (upstream) * hg has only 2+1 - working directory - commited - (upstream) * (*) both support something like stash but in hg i
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by lixtra 8y ago
Time wasted is equivalent to damage. Every digital damage can be undone by wasting enough time.
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by lixtra 8y ago
But this very common for many tools: touch -- -l ls *
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by lixtra 8y ago
Maybe reflog would help. Unfortunately most cheat sheets I saw don't mention it.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Oh, I see. I created this great patch and commited it. Then I wanted to push it, but it reported some strange error. I checked out master but now my commit is no longer there. HELP! Can I somehow push my changes to you so you can fix it? A
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by lixtra 8y ago
Explain detached head like i’m 5 years old.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I started version control with CVS. Just a bit better than copying. I started distributed version control with monotone. That felt better but the central db felt a bit unnatural. A bit later came mercurial and I was really happy with it. It
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by lixtra 8y ago
I wonder how alfresco ends up with such a huge recommended default pool size of 275 [1]. Is this bad architecture on their part or are different principles at play? [1] https://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/postgresq
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by lixtra 8y ago
If you are running java instead of a c program the proc stacktrace shows you just the virtual machine state. You can still get a stacktrace of your java threads[1]. How about other languages? Python, ruby? [1] https://stackoverfl
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RAWGraphs, the missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization(rawgraphs.io)
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by lixtra 8y ago
In the past research gate behaved as quite a bad player: * copying PDFs from web onto their own servers without permission * adding dummy profiles to appear as people being part of research gate that are not * sending invites on behalves of
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by lixtra 8y ago
Not the same UX but the same functionality is provided by smart keywords [1]. [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address... In our company we use it conveniently to quickly access intranet se
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by lixtra 8y ago
Long term growth processes should still be charted in log scale even if you start from zero.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain. Your argument is reasonable. The software I touch is allowed to crash if stdout fails. Maybe zig is indeed not for me.
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by lixtra 8y ago
And warn cannot fail?
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by lixtra 8y ago
Why don't you make it: const print = @import("std").print; pub fn main() void { print("Hello, world!\n"); } Why does it have to be more complex than warn? You admit the added complexity yourself by
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by lixtra 8y ago
warn() is just as complex to write as print(). One is included, the other isn't. If you classify all C-programs by what output they use (multiple counts allowed), printf/puts shows up with the highest percentage long before ncurse
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by lixtra 8y ago
The article states > Zig has no macros and no metaprogramming but then in another place about zig[1]: > Compile-time reflection and compile-time code execution This does sound arbitrary more complex than macros (and is what actually g
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by lixtra 8y ago
I still don't get why they provide a warn() to stderr but no print() to stdout. [1] [1] https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Hello-World
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by lixtra 8y ago
https://www.ft.com/content/022de0a4-54f4-11e7-9fed-c19e27000... > Up to three quarters of Germany’s refugees will still be unemployed in five years’ time Conditional probabilities matter.

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