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by naruhodo 4y ago
What a ridiculous take. Giving someone a criminal record for a victimless "crime" and thus making them potentially unemployable is an actual terrible idea. Rivers of ink have been spent dissecting the War on Drugs and now all that
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by naruhodo 4y ago
Great! Java is getting destructuring. static void printUpperLeftColoredPoint(Rectangle r) { if (r instanceof Rectangle(ColoredPoint ul, ColoredPoint lr)) { System.out.println(ul.c()); } } But lr is
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by naruhodo 4y ago
> > point to the weekend as a lovely innovation powered by unions. > No, this is powered by the law. Those laws were a consequence of industrial action by unions. Here's a backgrounder on the progress made by unions in Austral
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by naruhodo 4y ago
Here, have some PCP![1] The first one's free! > An easy to use, drop-in Clojure replacement for php scripts > Allow multiple websites to be hosted on a single $5 VPS > The utility is a simple binary, built with GraalVM, that a
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by naruhodo 5y ago
According to this documentary [1], he is very much alive. [1] < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzCQcHglFA >
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by naruhodo 5y ago
I'm still running Minecraft on my Fedora laptop, and I know my way around Ubuntu fairly well. I recently migrated Minecraft from a Mojang login to a Microsoft one (as we are all apparently forced to do that now). The only hassle was th
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Yep. I had this exact experience a couple of weeks ago. Infuriating.
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by naruhodo 5y ago
The article glosses over a couple of points I recall from living through the same period: - JBuilder was performant (and as I recall, for GUI development, awesome). Not sure if it was Swing-based, but it was a counterpoint to the idea that
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by naruhodo 5y ago
> I like the Corvette, but You don't like the Corvette. Not that Corvette. However, you like Corvettes in general. Or you only like red Corvettes. > I like steak, but Turn the comma into a period: I like steak. It's uncondit
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Just to amplify your point a little for the uninitiated, the current 5.3 version of the Bluetooth Core Specification is a 3085 page PDF document. That document contains Volumes 0 to 7. Each volume has multiple Parts, labelled A, B, C, ... i
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Not just filler. Everything before the "but" is negated . I'm not racist, but <some racist shit>.
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Better living through chemistry! My doctor checked my vitamin D levels and they were very low. I started taking the recommended daily intake of 1000 IU. After reading that the analysis setting the RDI for vitamin D was faulty, I went on dou
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by naruhodo 5y ago
How does it compare to Ferret? < https://ferret-lang.org/ >
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Well, now we know! Four-armed is forewarned.
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by naruhodo 5y ago
I have noticed I tend to procrastinate on a task until the anxiety caused by potentially running late or failing exceeds the anxiety of starting the task.
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Lately, I've been reliving my youth of writing 6502 assembly language, inspired in part by one of Ben Eater's videos[1], and with the aid of Easy 6502[2]. I think that programming in assembly language is compelling because it is &
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by naruhodo 5y ago
> No Section Numbering Actually, you can just write "numbersections: true" in your front matter. You can also add "toc: true" to get a Table of Contents. For better control over styles, you can also tell Pandoc to use
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by naruhodo 5y ago
I came here to say something similar. ZGC and Shenandoah run the GC in extra threads. I don't see any mention of the number of cores in the article, or in the linked SPECjbb2015 benchmark [1]. It would be interesting to see how much of
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by naruhodo 5y ago
In a similar vein, his "Dick Smith Electronics" stores were known as "The Big Electronic Dick".
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by naruhodo 5y ago
> I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM. There are a few, with varying degrees of distance from the JVM and varying degrees of similarity to Clojure. - There's ClojureScript, which is Clojure transpile
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by naruhodo 5y ago
They are bipartisan, but that does not necessarily imply that Labor would have enacted the same laws if they were the government. They are waving through these laws so that they cannot be portrayed as "weak on security/law-and-ord
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by naruhodo 5y ago
I recall running the X11 server that came packaged with Cygwin back in the 90s. Where there is a will, there is a way, for several decades now.
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by naruhodo 5y ago
The lack of opposition is a consequence of the concentration of traditional media in Australia. News Corp owns 70% of the print media and they will never strongly criticise the (right wing) Liberal party as long as that party does what Rupe
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by naruhodo 5y ago
Speak through your nose and and lean heavily on the R sound wherever you find it. Peter Sellers called Americans "The Herns" [1]: > Various American characters with the surname Hern or Hearn, often used for narration, outrageou
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by naruhodo 5y ago
You could add some kind of security manager to sand box it and have little apps running in the browser. Maybe call them "applets".
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by naruhodo 6y ago
BRB, typosquatting everything.
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by naruhodo 6y ago
Ctrl-F Flux Capacitor. Missed opportunity.
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by naruhodo 6y ago
I wonder if we'll find their ilk on Mars.
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by naruhodo 6y ago
As context for non-Australians, dental care has only very limited funding in the Australian public healthcare system. I have read that the government of the day thought that opposition from dentists might jeopardise the battle for public he
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by naruhodo 6y ago
What about: sudo netstat -tnlp

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