mikeen

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by mikeen 1y ago
A terrorist state does not need to be "baited" to attack. It is absolutely correct to hold the state to higher standards, regardless of what you pay for. But it is not correct to refuse state's right to defend itself, when it
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by mikeen 1y ago
Google actually started pipe syntax, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877 Now it is supported by DuckDB, BigQuery, Spark SQL, Firebolt, and probably others. I use it more and more (with BigQuery).
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by mikeen 1y ago
TXT files are good. Scribing notes with a pen in plain paper notebook beats .txt files.
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by mikeen 1y ago
I still remember one bug I filed to Firefox, about issues with roaming profiles on Windows. I then forgot about it, as nothing was going on with it, except few times a year someone new commented that they run a few thousand seats org, and t
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by mikeen 1y ago
A bunch of countries joined the non-proliferation agreement, including ... Iran. Which makes those nukes illegal in the eye of Iranian own laws. Israel is not a singer of the treaty.
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by mikeen 1y ago
A more realistic example: something like printf or scanf. It can take an object of multiple types as argument. It takes computer's locale from environment and does locale dependent number and date formatting, also supports various time
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by mikeen 2y ago
Hawaii Big Island does care about light pollution - for the sake of astronomical observatories. They use yellow low pressure sodium light. Yellow is dispersed less by air. The energy efficiency of low pressure sodium bulbs is also high, com