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by majewsky 4y ago
But if you agree on a certain formatting tool anyway, then you don't need significant whitespace to get that. That's one of the things I like most about Go. It shipped with gofmt from day one, so literally no one ever argues about
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Not at a stage where I can talk about it in detail, but I'm building a custom filesystem in FUSE. I just got the first basic getattr() working today. :)
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The newer UIs also seem to be lacking a clear visual hierarchy. The Task Manager screenshot feels quite cluttered to me, not because of the amount of information presented (which is actually well-balanced IMO), but because different parts o
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> The incident has also caught the attention of Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who offered condolences and support in a Jan. 1 post. > > “Sorry to see you lose so much. Informed our security team to monitor. If it comes our way,
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"Being able to solve every programming problem" is not a necessary prerequisite for consistency. If that were true, SQL would be inconsistent because it cannot interface with libgl in order to render 3D graphics. That is clearly n
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> PvVLC What does the "Pv" in this even mean? "Playback video"? That does not line up with your other examples. Is the first letter a verb or a noun? What about the second letter? You see how this proposal falls apart
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> Why can't you just have a browser wide setting to accept or deny GDPR in force. Because that's what was tried before GDPR, and it has proven to be a conclusive failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_No
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by majewsky 4y ago
FYI, the first link is broken because the exclamation mark is not considered part of it by the HN software. The broken link points to a different piece of media. The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Eno
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by majewsky 4y ago
I'm not a native speaker, so I had to look up the definition of "huckster". They all have a quite negative connotation, but "somebody who sells things in an aggressive or showy manner" does seem to fit Elon quite we
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It depends on what your definition of "being yourself" is.
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I've seen it used by both millenials and zoomers, mostly directed at boomers. It captures a general sentiment that is widespread among those generations that the boomer generation uses (or used existing) systems of power to benefit the
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I don't see that distinction mattering all that much. What matters is that people with a specific mindset come out of these MBA schools that also have formed strong networks there which help them win the power and status games later on
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I have only streamed for slightly over a year, so I cannot say anything definite about "years-old footage". But I can absolutely see myself going back to that footage when I get nostalgic about any of the games that I've play
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Twitch VODs are only retained for 14 days (or 60 days if you're subscribed to Twitch Turbo).
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My OBS recordings (of mostly game footage) come out to between 1 and 1.5 GiB/hour for 1080p resolution. Given that simple external HDDs start at about 20€ for 500 GiB, that comes out to 6 cents of storage per hour recorded. Your power
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We used something similar in 2008 at CeBIT (which was the biggest IT trade show in Germany at the time). A publishing house for IT magazines set up a side area for minibooths and gave them out to a dozen open-source projects. I was there wi
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> Long-term unemployment means you're not giving according to your ability (and thus shouldn't receive according to your needs). Or there are literally not enough jobs because of failed economic policy. We have this situation i
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> because we dont have enough flat, contiguous land in most of the world But even in the plentiful places where we do, cities grow in two dimensions. > Ancient Egypt itself, was a gigantic line around the Nile river where the Nile pla
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If full employment is a pipe dream, why are we routinely treating unemployment as a personal failure?
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> where these jobs pay more by virtue of location - such as expensive city cores The way this works is that the workers are commuting in from poorer neighborhoods on the outskirts, since they cannot afford to live in the rich communities
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If welfare provides for a modest life, why are the Tafeln [1] overrun to the point of denying membership applications because of shortages? [1] Die Tafeln are a group of privately-run food banks in Germany: https://de.wikipedia.o
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But that's the point, no? If you double the consultant's salary, you won't have to pay double because most of it is just pure margin.
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GP made a statement about the entirety of the team that they were familiar with. It's the same way that I can tell you with decent certainty that nobody's using MongoDB at my place since `kubectl get pods -A | grep -c mongo` print
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> [image of slider going from red "min" to green "max"] > This is what you get when you search for “Maximum” on Pixabay, not really sure what’s going on here. This image succinctly summarizes the problem that the a
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The term "Latin alphabet" is correct in English, but the Japanese do indeed call it ローマ字 ("roomaji", i.e. Roman characters).
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That's not even a premise, that's just daily life if you substitute "an AI" with "humans". This is the weirdest part of the AI craze to me. People write thinkpieces wondernig what happens if we construct a mach
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The exact same thing could have been said (and probably was said) about the first wave of AI research in the 1960s. And we all know how that panned out. There's a reason that "AI winter" is an established phrase with its own
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> My brother and sister study Japanese and they use jisho, which is much worse. When I hassle them about it, they're not aware of anything better. Not sure if this is exactly what you have in mind, but have a look at https:/&#
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I think you still are anti-framework by any reasonable definition of the word. Library = your code calls it, Framework = it calls your code.
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I'm maintaining about half a dozen microservices written in Go. In my experience, the Go community is very good about providing backwards compatibility. In fact, I'm very strict about keeping on top of my dependencies because &quo

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