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by neallindsay 2y ago
My comment was less a nit and more I didn't understand how it really worked! Thanks for correcting me.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
That was referenced in the post as the impetus for making these. Unfortunately it just links to a Google search.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Even though our transmission is three-phase, most homes in the US only get single-phase power.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I feel like any article that talks about "Celts" or uses the word "Celtic" should clarify that it starts with a hard "c". Americans familiar with the basketball team will probably pronounce it wrong otherwise.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
People call Gruber an Apple apologist, but he's really not. He's just a person whose taste aligns very well with Apple's. If your taste runs a different way then he can look like an Apple cheerleader, but he criticizes them r
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Things that you would expect every software developer to know today will one day become niche, low-level knowledge.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I would say that the name didn't break the system, it just revealed that the system was always broken.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
It's extremely small, just very massive.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I like this Computerphile video: https://youtu.be/VkIJbpdTujE?si=RY-r2z-Ir7mg9X9S
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Fair point—that's older than I thought, but newspaper writing still uses the word in its non-euphemistic sense.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
> Why an "incident"? the situation described by the article doesn't seem at all to be an incident, but rather normal and ok In colloquial use, "incident" has recently taken on a negative connotation because peopl
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Games that aren't turn-based at least have the excuse that they can't afford the latency. They have explicitly decided not to be secure so they can pretend to "know" client-side that you ran around the corner and can be
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I think that "addresses" would be a better word there? I guess they were going for a pun, but it didn't land for me either.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I was talking about the lens achieving the difference in image distribution across the sensor, not a sensor with non-uniform pixels.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Like many here, my first thought was "telephoto is just a crop of a wide-angle, so what are they bragging about?" Here's my speculation: Most lenses are "distortion corrected" because they assume they will be displa
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by neallindsay 2y ago
It's definitely no good for JSON that you don't write yourself. But that's not the JSON that you want to write comments into.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
no
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by neallindsay 2y ago
For what it's worth, yaml is JSON that allows comments (and a bunch of other syntax).
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I would expect spending on executive security to increase a lot.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Yes, I was talking about the unofficial "historical" repos, not the official git repo that everyone works off of. I should have been more clear.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Apparently these were illegal in the US until 2022, so I don't know how many cars here even have them yet. https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1135084_us-finally-allow...
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Some git repos were ported over from SVN repos that were migrated from CVS. I never migrated anything into CVS, so I don't know if that was common at the time. But there are a lot of git repos out there with commits older than git itse
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Making lots of bets is a core part of the venture capital model.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
The JavaScript language is extremely standardized—the differences between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox are almost 100% down to browser APIs like Bluetooth and MIDI support and such. Those things don't come up in the JavaScript engine.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Another nice feature would be if it could simulate an accretion disk.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
If you like this, you will definitely like the Data Over Dogma podcast.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
Variety
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I'd never thought of telomere decay inhibiting cancer growth, but it makes a lot of sense. So many of the ways our biology can fail are also "load bearing bugs" that can't be fixed without negative repercussions.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
GET requests usually don't have a body, but they can.
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by neallindsay 2y ago
I can't tell if this is good for Squarespace customers or not. Publicly traded companies have some pressures that are unhealthy, so moving back into private ownership might be good. From my casual browsing of their Wikipedia article, P

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