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by neallindsay 2y ago
People often bring up this objection, but I don't want a complete history—I want an easy-to-understand history. If I make a variable in commit A and think of a better name for it in commit C, why wouldn't I use rebase to squash C
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by neallindsay 3y ago
The article seems mostly focused on Windows (which is probably appropriate), but the Mac also has built-in anti-virus called Xprotect. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...
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by neallindsay 3y ago
"Some mother**ers are always trying to solve the halting problem."—Wesley Snipes, Blade
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by neallindsay 3y ago
No, of course you can be distracted operating the infotainment systems in your car, but directly manipulating your phone is much worse.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
It seems like CarPlay an Android Auto should work against this trend. Maybe cars with those features aren't entering the pool fast enough to overcome how much our attention on our phones is growing?
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American drivers even more distracted by phones. Pedestrian deaths are soaring(vox.com)
43 points by neallindsay 3y ago|97 comments
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by neallindsay 3y ago
You know that they won't though, so why even make this argument?
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Excel is the software development environment for the programming lay person. I don't mean that pejoratively; it does an incredibly good job. But introducing more rigor seems like it will mostly just reduce its effectiveness in that ro
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by neallindsay 3y ago
By far the best summary I've seen. Most of this is just summarizing Apple's plan (there's a lot to summarize) but Gruber is incise as ever for the bits of commentary sprinkled about. My favorite example is the last paragraph:
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by neallindsay 3y ago
I am aware that Haml and Pug call themselves template languages, but they are not. In a template language, the source is a "template" that has some special syntax to fill in some bits. I don't think that's a very idiosyn
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by neallindsay 3y ago
My personal philosophy is that string interpolation should not be used to generate machine-readable code, and template languages are just fancy string interpolation. We've all seen the consequences of SQL injection and cross-site scrip
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by neallindsay 3y ago
I agree that this shouldn't be anywhere near the top of people's privacy concern list. A $1 traditional digital camera can already be hidden very easily and this probably costs thousands of dollars at least if you could even get i
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Among your examples I actually think that "liberal"/"authoritarian" are mostly opposite each other. But "conservative" in its simplest form is resistance to change, so it ends up being one end of almost an
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by neallindsay 3y ago
It's probably best to name political ideologies for the ideal they believe in rather than whatever criticism their opponents hold for those ideas. Conservatives want to conserve the status quo. Progressives want to see society progress
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Solar farms have made it much cheaper to expand electricity production, but the point of this article is still true: efficiency gains in data centers have a compounding effect.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Gzip or Brotli will help, but the result will still be bigger when base64 is in the middle.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
According to my casual Googling, metal lathes start out a lot more expensive than 3d printers. Wood lathes and CNC machines are surprisingly affordable though. So this seems like a good question.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
I think you missed that they are talking about brake dust.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
RIP iPhone mini
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Hah—I didn't read "Threads" as a brand name at first, I just thought that the title was bad grammar. Also, the first paragraph of the story describes Threads as "Instagram’s text-based social platform". Is that how
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by neallindsay 3y ago
I have the 13 mini and I love it. Last year was the first year in a long time that I didn't upgrade because I didn't want a huge phone. I haven't decided what I am going to do this year yet.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Youtube Premium or whatever they call it now. In general, paying to not have ads is great. If you spend even a moderate amount of time on YouTube, this will quickly pay for itself.
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Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy(daringfireball.net)
4 points by neallindsay 3y ago|0 comments
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by neallindsay 3y ago
As far as I can tell all seven posted the same press release. (I checked a few of them and the BMW one was the one I had open.) - BMW - GM - Honda - Hyundai - Kia - Mercedes-Benz - Stellantis (Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chrysler, many other European
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Seven Automakers Unite to Create an EV Charging Network Across North America(press.bmwgroup.com)
3 points by neallindsay 3y ago|1 comments
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by neallindsay 3y ago
"crypto" in the title is talking about cryptocurrency, not cryptography generally.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
Until reading this I had never heard of UTF-32. It doesn't seem like a good way to encode strings.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
JSON at least I pretty much never see being generated from templates. In the few cases where someone I worked with suggested it I've easily argued them away from it. The difference between JSON and HTML in this regard is illustrative.
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by neallindsay 3y ago
It increments the sequence associated with with a "serial" or "bigserial" field—usually used for primary keys. People are often surprised by this because they expect their primary keys to be sequential and sequences are
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by neallindsay 3y ago
The author mentions having to get over the lack of upsert when moving from Oracle. But readers might like to know this isn’t a problem anymore since Postgres got “INSERT … ON CONFLICT UPDATE …”.

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