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The "macroeconomic environment" is the evaporation of available VC funding because higher interest rates provide more lucrative investments elsewhere.
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I'm not sure who you're preaching to. I've owned five of these devices over the past 14 years. I accept DRM for the things I read on it. If the publishers offered a DRM-laden edition that I could read offline on my laptop, I
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by mdavidn 4y ago
What would an "open source alternative" to The Economist look like exactly?
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I don't see how this helps? If I could get The Economist in the Kindle app, then I could still get it on my Kindle.
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I am really disappointed by this. These days, I mostly use my (fifth) Kindle when flying on aircraft, and there I mostly read The Economist or The Atlantic. They don't publish offline media for laptops. I don't own a tablet. My ph
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> We already have all the required cryptographic primitives (which you've already alluded to in d ) to completely address a), b) and d) if desired. Do we? My mother can barely keep the Russian DNS servers out of her home router. You
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Cargo and NPM and PyPi and RubyGems and likely others all definitely support this too.
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Treating a session or IO object as mutable seems perfectly reasonable. Problems arise only when multiple parts of a program mutate these without coordination. Even everyday decisions like whether to copy an array passed to a constructor can
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> Rust has got to be the ugliest, most unfriendly programming language I've ever laid my eyes on. No, that would be C++ or PHP. I've written Ruby for 10 years. I can't wait for a future in which my team never needs to worr
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> I don’t understand why people are obsessed with extinction as some great evil It's because we care about our children and their children. Each extinction eliminates a species that our ancestors lived among or depended upon. Eventu
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Here's the source cited by the Times. Skip to slide 24. https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-ang...
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by mdavidn 4y ago
Another comment already mentioned Svelte. Alternatively, Hotwire Turbo or htmx might be more along the lines of what you want. Choose your own server-side language. I sprinkle in fancier frameworks when individual components need it, but th
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One issue with "gradually increasing over time" is that, without a master password change, the old hashes are still "out there" and potentially available for inspection.
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> I did say merge, did I not? Yes. You said "git merge feature", which _does_ perform a fast-forward when possible. In my experience, developers on a large enough project will inevitably break Git in a creative way, and this is
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The technology to detect and recover from disk failures does exist. RAID and ZFS, for example. I would not expect a disk failure to replicate to the backup.
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I wear AirPod Pros on flights and when walking over a busy freeway for lunch. The noise cancellation feature works really well. I can continue listening to music or podcasts at an indoor volume. The AirPod Pro does form a seal. My only comp
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That page describes Southwest's obligations after "controllable cancellations." When a cancellation is outside their control, Southwest only offers to "seek to arrange a discount" on accommodations. They list "
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I live on the west cost. When I compare United and Southwest, United is cheaper on face value but more expensive with bags. They hide some of total cost in fees.
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And so is yours? I do often find myself wondering whether Docker saved developers or system administrators any time. Is Docker really better than building an AMI and provisioning EC2 instances on-demand?
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That approach works only when the first node is included in the cycle. Other cycles are possible.
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It's not difficult. Keep a pointer to a recently-visited node. After visiting N nodes, update the pointer to the current node, but also double N. If the pointer ever matches the next node, the list has a cycle. The doubling of N ensure
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It’s worth mentioning that Underscore started before browsers widely implemented the same features in standard JavaScript. Underscore is much less necessary now that Internet Explorer EoL’d.
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In a post-Spectre and post-rowhammer world, I have my doubts that any sub-process security boundary will prove durable in the long run.
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If you are referring to Prop 19, that only applies in limited situations. The homeowner must be over 55, disabled, or a victim of natural disaster.
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Proposition 13 makes that option untenable for many homeowners. They cannot sell and buy a house elsewhere in the state without significantly increasing their property tax burden.
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A lot of California's NIMBYism is rooted in Proposition 13, passed in 1978. Many homeowners cannot sell their current home and buy one elsewhere in the state without significantly increasing their annual property tax burden. (Prop 19 i
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The examples you provide all sound like examples of "muscle memory." The brain develops a specialized, unconscious "pathway" for activities you often repeat, such that you can perform those actions without careful though
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I always assumed the pedestrian light was white to avoid confusion with the green traffic light for parallel drivers.
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Large materialized views in general are really slow in PostgreSQL. If you go down the path of indexing joined data, consider database triggers or application-level hooks to update individual rows as-needed in a standalone search table. Thes
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The 14th Amendment was passed in the wake of the Civil War. It clarified the citizenship of former slaves and their rights in southern states. The amendment goes on to overturn the three-fifths compromise, to disqualify insurrectionists fro

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