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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
The article does not clarify how one pronounces Turkeiyueiuriwurouuuuuu
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Matt Parker attempted to run dozens of random Python scripts on his LED Christmas tree. Python is notoriously bad for repeatable builds. Evidently most people don't even bother to write down their dependencies in a pip requirements.txt
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Instead of transitioning college from a luxury to a municipal resource, we continue to treat it as a business.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
god runs on a freemium service
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
someone's boss: no, don't worry about error rates. just deliver something by end of day. URGENT!
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
I don't like that Ruby offers aliases of its own stdlib members. Don't make me memorize TWO names for the same thing.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
How does enquire compare to autotools?
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Marketing is easy. Tech is difficult. Politics often feels impossible.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Many technologies do not democratize or result in leisure time or cure any of the legion of ills that humanity suffers. Tech usually just amplifies the existing power of a political entity, be it statesman or soldier or businessman. The sin
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
It was the pax...
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
It's time to stop logging at scale. Logs are just not worth it. Setup telemetry instead, such as statsd. Select actionable metrics, such as the count of successful and erroneous operations. Save disk, save I/O performance, never s
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
The fact that Musk doesn't promote or even allow non-Tesla owners to charge electric vehicles at Supercharging stations demonstrates his tendency for monopolization, at the expense of mass electric vehicle adoption rates. Musk would so
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
You can't be queen of a defragmented polity.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
barf
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
How does Cicada compare to Coq, Agda?
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Accidentally installed Fedora onto my dad's desktop instead of an attached USB drive.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Both conventional probability and quantum mechanics are worrisome: On a long enough timeline, the universe will (repeatedly) reset itself to precisely the original state at the time of the big bang. It is difficult to avoid a universe where
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
with_resource(mutex file handle etc etc *o, func callback) is a safer pattern, for this reason. Thank you, Python (with_resource is a generic example. Search for such capabilities in your library.) Computers exist to automate. Let the compu
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
The sugar epidemic has reached epic levels.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
I feel most productive in Go. Less clutter to manage. Modern concurrency support. As for least productive, the Fallout 3 tool bench scripting language. Some proprietary nonsense with examples so bad they clearly didn't understand basic
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Does TAILS apply DoH at the operating system level yet? Or is DNS resolved via TOR?
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
This is why all computer time displays should feature explicit timezones. Ambiguity serves no one, especially in the context of international travel. Not a fan of how airline tickets implicitly apply local times to the different start and e
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
And port the dang 2FA apps to desktop. A tower or laptop is something you have . Don't depend so much onna damn phone for everything.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
but then sells it to marketers
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
One hurdle to edge computing is convincing companies (especially lip service microservice companies) that yes, we can safely compute on not a centralized node. Some companies are still scratching wounds from the old, raw SQL queries generat
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Fun read! I'm having trouble understanding how a max byte read, a la ``dd`, would somehow be insufficient to yield a working digital master of an analog cassette tape.
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
I detest touch screens. The feedback, durability, reliability, discoverability, and general focus of an application can often be maximized by selecting more traditional hardware user interface components. The ROC curve for gesture based vol
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
One indication of logic gate level programming's enduring success is that algorithmic complexity can be expressed in terms of the minimum number of gates involved. There are proofs relating to NP completeness et. al. that cite gate cou
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
pigeon gamer entered the chat
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by mc4ndr3 4y ago
Too bad financial reports are quarterly rather than decadial.

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