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by majewsky 5y ago
What about 1991-09-17? The first public release of Linux would make a good DoB as well, and does not look as deliberately-chosen as 1970-01-01.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I bet that Altavista had its highest-ever user numbers right before Google appeared on the scene. I bet that non-digital cameras had their highest-ever sales numbers right before digital cameras hit the market. That's the problem with
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by majewsky 5y ago
This is not about misunderstanding. The author argues that heavy map/filter/reduce does not fit with the general style of Go programs. As a heavy Go user, I absolutely agree. There is nothing preventing people from writing their o
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's the other way around. The thing that's at stake is economic cooperation, so both sides are more willing to find an amicable solution than otherwise.
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you haven't seen it yet, check out "Portal Reloaded" on Steam. It's a fan-made game like "Portal Stories Mel" from a few years ago, but Reloaded goes as far as adding entirely new mechanics. It's about
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by majewsky 6y ago
Both of your proposals would make Twitter significantly worse. - Removing the character limit would just make the feed unwieldy and unpleasant, especially when reading it in chronological order (bottom-up) like it was meant to be read. Typi
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by majewsky 6y ago
I have a flatrate pass for most of the German public transit [1]. The sticker price is 4000 € a year, but my employer pays for it (in lieu of a company car), so I only have to pay income taxes on it, which comes out to about 170 € a month f
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by majewsky 6y ago
I want to go back. Maybe not for 5 days a week, but probably 3-4 days. A week ago, I was in the office for the first time in a year. The entire floor with 100+ desks was completely devoid of people, save for one person that I passed by in t
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by majewsky 6y ago
When you're a billionaire, you can employ dozens, if not hundreds of people, to do tedious optimizations for you all day. And if that's the difference between 5% and 10% RoI, those people even pay for themselves (and then some).
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by majewsky 6y ago
KDE 4.0 was a necessary stepping stone to get where KDE/Plasma is today. It would for sure have been nice to have a more feature-complete 4.0 release, but I don't see what the dev team could realistically have done better. There w
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by majewsky 6y ago
Isn't there a limit on how often you can run ads? I remember some Youtuber talking about how people are deliberately making their videos just over 10 minutes long because then they can also put an ad in the middle, not just at the begi
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by majewsky 6y ago
> It's fairly new in general I used `position:sticky` in a productive website back in 2015, when it was already well-supported in Firefox. What's true is that Chrome only got support for it recently, and since Chrome == the int
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by majewsky 6y ago
> I always expected that the price of these coins would naturally level out because you'd have to remain competitive with the likes of Backblaze or S3. Backblaze and S3 cannot conjure storage space out of thin air. If proof-of-stora
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by majewsky 6y ago
Nice whataboutism.
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by majewsky 6y ago
"Their next vaccine" does not need to be a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
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by majewsky 6y ago
Actually, it's German for "children".
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by majewsky 6y ago
> If everyone wears N95 masks, the virus basically doesn't seem to spread. I don't know about elsewhere, but at least here in Germany, it would be literally illegal for an employer to require their staff to wear N95 masks at al
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by majewsky 6y ago
I haven't seen car UIs in a hot second, so honest question: What's in there that cannot be done with, say, chips from 2008?
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by majewsky 6y ago
> how would append even know that somebody else appended to the backing array? As far is it can see that might as well be leftover garbage. Well, the backing array knows its length and capacity, and the slice knows its length, so it&#x27
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by majewsky 6y ago
Um, what? My impression was always that the last line would copy the underlying slice since someone has already appended to the original backing array. That's the whole point of why append is not in-place. You get a new slice value bac
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by majewsky 6y ago
> despite being an outspoken atheist, he deeply loved his wife to the extent that he wrote a letter to her after she had passed away. I honestly don't see how the first part of the sentence factors into the second part.
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by majewsky 6y ago
> There’s a nice side-effect, too: The CI definition documents how to compile the project. Okay, sure, but that's not an argument for CI. That's an argument for a Makefile. In fact, I find myself going back to Makefiles all the
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by majewsky 6y ago
New hypothesis: People like to move on to the next thing once they have mastered the current thing, so in a weird co-evolution, those tools-of-the-year evolved to not be masterable and thus people haven't been able to move on yet. Also
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by majewsky 6y ago
I was going to make the same suggestion. This book is one of those that seem like the insights presented are mostly trivial and obvious, but then you notice that it has completely reshaped your perception of a class of problems. Plus, it&#x
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by majewsky 6y ago
> JSON parsing, config file handling I assume you're not referring to things like json.Marshal(), where the function argument is legitimately of type interface{} since it really accepts any value. Hence I'm going to assume that
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by majewsky 6y ago
If you're concerned that a script's root password prompt may be a forgery, you can run "sudo -v" before executing the script. For background, there is a convenience feature in sudo: It only requires your password prompt
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by majewsky 6y ago
Not at all. Stepping through a function with a debugger usually takes on the order of seconds and minutes. Printing some stuff in the function usually takes on the order of microseconds or milliseconds. That's a difference of at least
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by majewsky 6y ago
You're basically describing the scientific method. Particularly the practical application of Occam's Razor: Starting from simple theories, and working your way up towards more complex ones until the theory is just complex enough t
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by majewsky 6y ago
Interesting hypothesis. I think a big part of the issue is that printf debugging has always been "good enough" for me. I have used gdb in the past, but I've never felt the incentive to become good at it, so my knowledge of it
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by majewsky 6y ago
But this case can be ruled out by the authorities since there won't be a record of them crossing any borders.

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