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by m000 6y ago
> If I'd had the opportunity to read-up on it, I would have been fine. This highlights the paradox of Hackerrank-style tests. They would make sense in an age where the overhead to refresh your knowledge about something took time and
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by m000 6y ago
For anyone interested, there's a 2014 documentary [1] about the Massacre and Louis Tikas [2], the main labor union organizer of the coal miners. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22U0Hwb-7ao [2] https://en
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by m000 6y ago
Actually we may already be paying them, only the holes aren't literal. The phenomenon also has a name: Bullshit Jobs [1]. How about paying people for 4 years to get a college degree on whatever subject they like, instead of having them
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by m000 6y ago
"Too big to fail" apparently doesn't apply for science projects. To put this in perspective, at the cost of a single F-35A, Arecibo could be running for ~7y with funding at 2011 levels.
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by m000 6y ago
That's actually a viable solution for Apple laptops. You're already carrying half a dozen adapters and dongles. One more wouldn't break your back.
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by m000 6y ago
How do you deliver a truckload of ammo to a shady buyer? Simple. Take the money. Setup an ammo transfer from warehouse A to warehouse B. Tip they buyer where the driver would be making a stop.
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by m000 6y ago
Why would you need anything more than a sed oneliner in your shell rc? utf8-debom() {local SED=gsed; $SED -i '1s/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' $@}
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by m000 6y ago
215loc? This makes me want to (finally) sit and learn Rust. Even with Python + PyPi packages, I doubt you can do much better and still have a portable result.
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by m000 6y ago
Why not "tax people with a lot of money, to help pay those who do not"?
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by m000 6y ago
Can't we just go back to plain, old cars and just add a simple, straightforward integration with your smartphone? The whole infotainment crap is a sure way to make your (otherwise perfectly functioning car) feel obsolete in 3 years. No
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by m000 6y ago
If you need to be told that grep supports different flavours of regular expressions, you are a grep newbie. And although even experienced users may be bit by errors related to the flavour of regular expressions in use, they surely don'
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by m000 6y ago
Better title: grep newbie mistakes
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by m000 6y ago
Dangerous for whom?
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by m000 6y ago
I'm pretty sure make does that too. The problem is that most people don't know how to write a proper Makefile, even for a simple project, so make ends up doing more work than it should. For small projects, I've tried ninja a
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by m000 6y ago
> being "honest" by slapping a "contains scary sounding chemicals" sticker You don't even have to go to "scary chemicals" and conspiracy theories. Have you ever checked how many "0% fat" foods
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by m000 6y ago
The BLS statistics are pretty much like the food labels: They'll slap a huge "0% fat" sticker on the front of the package to appease the public conscience. But you need to carefully read the fine-print on the back to find out
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by m000 6y ago
CM4 looks like the perfect cheap upgrade for old home NAS boxes. I wonder if there are/will be any IO boards with an integrated SATA controller.
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by m000 6y ago
What is irking people is not the achievement, but the meticulous documentation and flagrant promotion of the achievement. Guinness Book of Records didn't invite themselves you know. They also don't come for free. Typically you nee
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by m000 6y ago
Pelican is more popular than Nikola, judging from their Github repos. As for Jekyll and Hugo, I'd surmise that Python is too mainstream for the hip crowd. Plus, Jekyll is the "default" generator for Github pages.
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by m000 6y ago
Plastic is not bio degradable, which is what is desired from an environmental perspective. But it is photo degradable [1], which results in eventual breakdown to microplastics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photod
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by m000 6y ago
This is like claiming that you're glad when a TSA agent gropes you, because that keeps the savage terrorists out. In both cases, it is a security theatre which is abused for reasons not related to security.
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by m000 6y ago
I was really hoping this would be the case. Sync + Send + Lockwise would be a bundle of services worth paying a subscription for. Provided that they also made them available on Chrome rather than using them as lock-in features. But there se
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by m000 6y ago
Ditto on the import/export functionality. The .tar.gz file format is an odd choice. A plain json dump would be the obvious choice here, as it would be easier to manipulate.
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by m000 6y ago
Syncing at db-file level would create false sync conflicts when making edits while offline. You may even lose data, depending on how Dropbox/Syncthing resolve file-level conflicts. For fully automatic sync, you need to operate at the l
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by m000 6y ago
Agreed. The main problem here appears to be the location not being very well-suited for underground housing. So, if this is a v1 underground house for the area, a lot of unintended oversights are to be expected, especially if the constructi
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by m000 6y ago
It is. 5400rpm drives have specific uses. It also hurts sales of competitors selling real 5400rpm drives. It may even hurt the whole 5400rpm drive market, if WD competitors can't match the price of the fake 5400rpm drives and decide to
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by m000 6y ago
So, you're bitter because you didn't get educational discounts just because you live in Taiwan. Because of this, you decided to not give .edu discounts. I.e. you turn against the "privileged" .edu students rather than th
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by m000 6y ago
TL;DR: Although a lot of people with a .edu address are broke, we can't make sure that everyone with a .edu address is broke. And there are surely people somewhere in the world poorer than anyone with a .edu address. So nobody gets a d
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by m000 6y ago
This. Now, you've made me wonder if in the near future you could have both Windows and Linux installed on the same -gasp- partition.
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by m000 6y ago
Uhhhmmm... Speed? Stability? NTFS-3G has been a lifesaver for occasional use, but with anything remotely I/O intensive, it starts to crack.

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