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   by mrec 7y ago

   I'm feeling a sudden overpowering urge to throw clogs into things.
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   by mrec 7y ago

   https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/jhoward/2005/01/27/conto... "at the event we needed 2 companies, so someone in the product team came up with Contoso and Fabrikham, and in the BizApps events, al
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   by mrec 7y ago

   Sorry, I've been out of the loop here for the best part of 20 years. Why on earth would any TV have a camera? What's it used for?
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   by mrec 7y ago

   It may just be that my experience was a good while back and VS has improved since then. At the time the built-in static analysis really wasn't up to scratch.
5. 485.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   AIUI the Librem 5 is already shipping.
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   by mrec 7y ago

   Out of interest, have you ever used Jetbrains products like IntelliJ IDEA and friends? Even back when I was writing C#, years ago, Visual Studio was way less productive without their ReSharper plugin.
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   by mrec 7y ago

   > ran the Acid3 test, and got different results at different speeds It's worth checking the Acid Tests homepage [1] here: > Acid3, in particular, contains some controversial tests and no longer reflects the consensus of the We
8. 488.▲
   by mrec 7y ago

   Amazon UK is currently showing only one used paperback copy at £799 ($1036 USD). I have a horrible feeling I left mine behind in my last move.
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   by mrec 7y ago

   I think the difficulty is in making a lightweight Electron app, not a fast one. Games run fast too, but they can get away with hogging resources because they're typically the only app you're using at the time.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Rivers can sometimes feel like surface-level details, but it's surprising how ancient they can be. One of my favourite geographical factoids is that the Amazon and the Congo are thought to have once been part of the same river system i
11. 491.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    Even if you can easily afford it, the pay-to-publish model should be setting off warning bells. Vanity publishing has been a real thing for a very long time, and normally isn't something that people consciously want to be doing.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    The earliest appearance of this idea I can remember is the Dixie Flatline [1] construct in Neuromancer (1984), but I'm sure there are examples preceding that. [1] https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Dixie_Flatl
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I'm a big G.K. Chesterton fan in general, but his Introductory Remarks on the Art of Prophecy (chapter 1 of The Napoleon of Notting Hill ) is one of my all-time faves. The opening paragraph: > The human race, to which so many of
14. 494.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    So would it be roughly accurate to say that Bayard is to Tantivy what Elasticsearch is to Lucene?
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Their case, not mine, but yes, I gathered that change control could be skipped for "config-only" changes. Don't ask me why, it sounded crazy to me too.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    And one obvious refinement of the `Env`/`Context` God-dependency pattern is to have it implement a bunch of fine-grained interfaces for subsets of the dependencies it aggregates, so that you can both reduce plumbing (only one thing to
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I generally share your view, and have never really understood the appeal of the magic woo frameworks. I asked an interview candidate about this once (he'd spoken positively about them) and he very honestly said that yep, it's all
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    by mrec 7y ago

    For anyone interested in this, I'd highly recommend /u/Iphikrates' three-part summary of the Spartan reputational mirage on /r/AskHistorians a couple of years ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Stratospheric Aerosol Injection [1] for emergency cooling sounds relatively cheap too, and has the advantage of a) mimicking a well-studied natural process and b) being inherently self-limiting. Your "if things start getting chilly&quo
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    by mrec 7y ago

    > we won't be used to driving, so a self-driving car might be safer for us Very much this. I've lived in London for nearly 20 years. I haven't driven in nearly 20 years. I've barely set foot in a car in nearly 20 ye
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Thirded, I assumed it was a close relative of the Norwegian Blue.
22. 502.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    "SOS"?
23. 503.▲
    by mrec 7y ago

    I'm sure that's true, but there are also a lot of "soft" skills that many HN readers wouldn't necessarily recognize as such. I'm reminded of Poul Anderson's short story The Man Who Counts . Soft skills ne
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I thought catering involved things like waiters or at least servers. Seems excessive for a dinner party.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    There seems to be an obvious opportunity for upscale takeout food delivery here. Much easier to split a bill than cooking chores.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    I consider that vastly better than the Chrome approach, which just robo-closes all bug reports more than X months old and tells you to open a new ticket if you still care. This happened even if there was traffic on the ticket indicating tha
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    by mrec 7y ago

    The UK spends just over 2% of GDP on defence. It's not a big part of the budget. Total government spending is around 40% of GDP.
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Unlike some people I could mention... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspy_Engineer
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    by mrec 7y ago

    Smartphones are full of this. Even if you've been using computers for decades, when you pick one up for the first time there's nothing to suggest, for example, that "swipe" is a verb, or what it does, or whether the di
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    by mrec 7y ago

    My guess would be "BitTorrent", given that it's next to "url" and apparently in the context of some sort of media player.