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by nanis 5y ago
Writing thin allows me to have three 72-column panes open in a single GVim Window all of which can help me peek at related content much more effectively than switching tabs etc.
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by nanis 5y ago
Attempts to change by fiat what has been arrived at through organic, evolutionary adaptation will likely fail as pontificators such as the author fail to understand how the current state of affairs materialized in the first place. > The
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by nanis 5y ago
> the solution is a restructure of society that encourages and reinforces work that people find meaningful. Upvoted, but, I've seen non-shitty standups where the effort people put into to make stuff work was valued both by team mate
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by nanis 5y ago
Shitty standups happen because 1) team members do not believe in their core that their work is valued; 2) in such an environment, meaningless, destructive competition on dimensions other than the teams ability to deliver and maintain code t
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by nanis 5y ago
Today's 50+ developers are the most important resource in tech. If you are in that age group and still have active, up-to-date skills, then the chances are you are someone who: * still remember how computers work at a fundamental level
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by nanis 5y ago
If it were easier to do the thing I want, I'd do it all the time. What I want is to be able to point to either a database with empty tables or an SQL file and fill in the tables correctly with bogus data while respecting all the constr
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by nanis 5y ago
> Microsoft has an error lookup tool My little one liner has the advantage of having worked for me since Windows 98 days (OK, Perl did not have `say` then), but this tool provides more clues: C:\> Err_6.4.5.exe 343 # for dec
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by nanis 5y ago
> referring to search suggestions as "key-logging" is disingenuous at best. Most regular users think you search for something on Google, it is between them and Google. This "feature" started sending one's incompl
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by nanis 5y ago
Version 92[1] got one step closer. Extrapolating current trends, I shudder to think what will be in version 99. > Firefox will send Mozilla search queries (what you are typing into the address bar), and city-level location (what's n
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by nanis 5y ago
Is there no one with a clue at Mozilla? How much worse can they make this browser? If I wanted an auto-updating key-logging tool on my systems, I'd have sold my soul to Chrome already. I had upgraded before seeing this ... In preferenc
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by nanis 5y ago
I am having a hard time seeing how having the option of distinct codepoints would break anything. Consider, İ/i where it is _possible_ to do lossless case conversion: > lc( 'İ' ) becomes i followed by COMBINING DOT ABOVE w
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by nanis 5y ago
I prefer C:\> perl -MWin32 -E "say Win32::FormatMessage(1303)" No encryption key is available. A well-known encryption key was returned. You can put that in a batch file: C:\> type %USERPROFILE%\bin\wm.ba
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by nanis 5y ago
This is a coherent, reasonable, set of codes that can be adapted for a variety of situations. However, there are multiple situations where one might want to have more meaningful specialization of error codes. In such cases, for the love of
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by nanis 5y ago
> The failed attempt at Han Unification[1] is the worst decision the Unicode people have ever made. At first I nodded my head in agreement, but then I decided I still think the failure to include separate code points for "lower case
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by nanis 5y ago
> Frances Haugen's own motives Motives aside, whether she is acting as a mole for intelligence agencies to gather support for enabling more 'round the clock surveillance of wrong-think under the guise of "blowing the whist
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by nanis 5y ago
> the guy protected by a ton of steel is afraid This is either an example of a perfect propagandist misdirection or the best illustration of the blind spot people on bicycles and powered-bicycles have when it comes to pedestrians. I was
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by nanis 5y ago
> The failure here is on the part of city planners Yeah, no, when there is a perfectly fine one way road with enough space plus a speed limit of 25 mph, having to constantly be aware of people on bicycles come at you from behind or aroun
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by nanis 5y ago
> I hope the situation will become better for the pedestrians. It will not. In the NYC metro area (including Northern NJ), pedestrians are constantly in danger of being hit by both cyclists and people on powered bicycles (which are motor
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by nanis 5y ago
Hospitalizations from COVID19 up to 11.9/100K and deaths from COVID19 up to 4.5/100K among those who are fully vaccinated against COVID19 for a combined known severe case rate of 16.4/100K among the fully vaccinated.
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Updated: Time Series of CDC's Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Reporting(covid2020.icu)
6 points by nanis 5y ago|2 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
Temperature station locations in the GHCN ... Notice how most of Africa is blank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h95uvT67bNg
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by nanis 5y ago
Ah, that pesky reverse causation thing ... In fact, one might get even better results if one trains the model on the daily market charts newspapers publish such as this: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/stock-market-news
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by nanis 5y ago
> "... a user who can create or update ingress objects, can use the custom snippets feature to obtain all secrets in the cluster." To this point, handling of secrets in the Kubernetes ecosystem always seemed like a mess to me.
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Bleach Your Files Faster(nu42.com)
1 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 5y ago
I know of a company whose favicon was a hires true color PNG that weighed in at more than 2 MB. The web site was the dominion of marketing. Suggestions to improve the situation were detrimental to one's career path. sigh
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by nanis 5y ago
When I first saw this, I thought it ought to be possible to express the encoding/decoding in simple computations, but I only just got a chance to try things out[1]. There are many things I'd fiddle with in the original source. I n
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by nanis 5y ago
One thing that is missing from your problem statement is the objective function. What are you trying to maximize?
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by nanis 5y ago
> natural numbers are infinite but do not contain negative integers While Z is not a subset of N, N maps 1-1, onto to Z (i.e., they have the same cardinality). That means every element of one set has a corresponding element in the other
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by nanis 5y ago
One thing led to another an I found this IBM Aptiva Sleeper: https://imgur.com/a/NVPZI which is just amazing. Actually, this is even better https://imgur.com/a/fvh1M
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Congress’ Access to Private Communications: 1/6 Committee’s Troubling Precedent(justsecurity.org)
3 points by nanis 5y ago|0 comments

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