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by mpyne 1y ago
> It’s hard to believe if you’re a person who moderates their own expenditures. Yeah, it's hard to convey to people who've never been responsible for setting (or proposing) policy that it's not a game of optimizing the ave
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by mpyne 1y ago
F-35 functions fine, lots of its problems relate to things like its logistical tail and associated IT system pain points that you'd have to solve with a different plane than F-35 either way, but I can't argue against the fact that
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Essentially, people didn't use it. I think the reason is that it solved the "problem" of integrating XML into JavaScript, as if being good at XML was an end in itself. Once XML started being replaced by JSON in earnest, what
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> When you're trying to represent something complex like a document, JSON is crap. I agree, but let's be honest, how often does this actually come up for data interchange. Because the situations where you want a human-editabl
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The thing is, JSON is even superior in C++. It's a dumber format but that makes it a better lingua franca between all sorts of programming languages, not just Javascript, especially if you haven't locked in on a schema. Once you h
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> And many more primitives that existed around XML were eventually reimplemented. Don't miss that they were reimplemented properly . Even XML schemas, the one thing you'd think they were great at, ended up seeing several diffe
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C++ coroutines must allocate at runtime as the allocation size isn't resolvable early enough at compile time to statically fix the allocation, but it's not required to be allocated from the heap (not that custom allocators are fun
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D3 renders using the logic you provide, and while it gives you a lot of helpers to make it easy to write SVG or HTML canvas tags, it's just as easy to tie it into other JS frameworks as well.
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Presumably it would help ensure that everyone selecting us-east-1a in their base configs didn't actually all land in the same AZ.
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They never did, if anything it's the opposite in that I think there are now APIs that can make this possible. With TiddlyWiki you had to essentially File -> Save As and save the HTML back over itself. There were other ways too but t
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I love the vibe, this is the Web I grew up with. Not sure I agree that I want my human readers to be forced to read my Web sites with their own eyes though. I feel like this omakase vs. a la carte and "user agent" vs "author
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There's a reason the military kept using the ASVAB even during the worst parts of COVID pandemic. ASVAB is a very solid predictor of success in training, and in Navy experience it's predictive value generally correlates with with
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> which is wholly predicated upon unbounded exponential growth The economy does not require and is not predicated upon unbounded exponential growth. Do not confuse economic activity growing where growth is easy, as a mandate for growth t
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And from KDE as well, through Qt's Qt Declarative libraries that use QML. Judging by the Qt source, if the internal JS runtime JSON parser is used then it will not support full range of 64-bit integers, since the double floating point
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by mpyne 1y ago
Is your thought that the Federal government is only legislators? The invention of the word processor has been disastrous for the amount of regulations that are extant. Even long-tenured civil servants won't have it all memorized or hav
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> or it's a purely aesthetic complaint Those are certainly valid. There are entire Linux distros whose mere existence is as the answer to what is only an aesthetic complaint.
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This was also the operating logic from the time when military bases would have bars (and even some seedier things). You generally had an enlisted club and an officers' club on base, and yeah drunken behavior may result, but it resulte
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As another example, the post exchanges / Navy exchanges on base (which are retail shopping centers) also contribute from their profits to the local MWR funds. They even advertise it to the shoppers. "Hey, the money we make stays w
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I was literally running into something a couple of days ago on my toy C++ project where basic compile-time reflection would have been nice to have for some sanity checking. And even if it's true that some things can be done already wit
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Yes, but it's in concept always been true that they could get page views that wouldn't be viewed, whether due to bot scraping or even sometimes where a human clicks and then just... doesn't read it.
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Thanks. I was pretty snarky, in fairness, though I felt it was only matching the energy of that type of white knighting (which a decade ago I feel pretty sure would have gotten you downvoted into oblivion even on HN, but maybe I'm not
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SQLite is kind of cheating here, you won't catching me writing my own source control management system either. But I do think the wider point is still true, that there can be real benefit to implementing 2 proper layered abstractions r
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25389 mod 365, presumably. The very fancy mainframes probably would pick the appropriate modulus based on whether it was a leap year or not.
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I own one EV, at 40k miles, and have had to change the tires only once so far, and even that was more because of damage to one that required replacement than due to excessive tire wear. I can vouch for the very low brake pad usage as well.
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> Just FYI: The person you're responding to wrote a very popular tutorial on jj. That's nice. I know of him better from his Rust work, but he explained himself well enough in his own comment that he probably doesn't need y
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Was it this one? https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
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> You could push this all as six commits on one branch. No, I'd probably put them all as individual branches to be reviewed, assuming they're truly independent changes. As long as they don't actually conflict it's no
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I'm sure it's great but I don't have the problems with git that others apparently do, so as to make it worth switching to a whole new mental mode of source code management. At least uv solved real problems I was having with P
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I think `git add -p` and its friends are another thing I'd point to for this. I've never really struggled too hard to get git commits into different branches for review, but if you've put unrelated changes into the same worki
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The Navy still runs more than a few web servers using Sharepoint, albeit behind dedicated network firewall appliances. The Secretary of the Navy's page (at https://www.secnav.navy.mil/Pages/default.aspx ) for insta

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