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by nicwolff 6y ago
No, he didn't. He said "If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
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She isn't the chair of the Intelligence Committee who was about to release a fourth report affirming the findings of the Mueller report but can now be replaced by Mitch McConnell with a Trump loyalist.
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> Their tools are just easier to use and more expressive. And that's the problem – they're giving governments tools that let them more easily and effectively infringe on the privacy rights of their citizens. Privacy isn't
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by nicwolff 6y ago
Not really from my earliest days on the net, but the early 2000s feels like early days now: Television Without Pity and Fametracker, in particular the "2 Stars 1 Slot" and "Hey, It's That Guy!" columns.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
This is handy, but if you just want the ability to see when you ran a previous command you can add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " to your .bashrc and then history will show the date and time befor
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Meanwhile: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/business/coronavirus-dest... > In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Just a reminder that the terrific old 4" iPhone SE is still available refurbished on Amazon for about $100. Runs the current OS and all apps. Camera sucks by modern standards.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Look, I have an iPhone 11 Pro, I just don't want to carry the fucking thing around. So I have an iPhone SE which is what's in my pocket unless I know I'll want a really good camera. And I tried to find a digital camera as
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by nicwolff 7y ago
OODA is certainly overused but "Orient" is hardly a mystery or metaphor – Boyd described it as the continuous re-evaluation of your "Cultural Traditions", "Genetic Heritage", "Previous Experience", &q
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by nicwolff 7y ago
It's under "Apps We Love Right Now" in the iPhone's App Store, but doesn't appear in search results for "github" at all...
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Jeez, I probably invented using Javascript to generate site passwords by hashing the domain with a master password (see e.g. https://books.google.com/books?id=4jYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34 ) – and I certainly don't use it an
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Well, no – if Gandalf had a beard and was mistaken for an elf, then clearly people making that mistake thought that elves can have beards!
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I migrated a production (Django 1.10 + Django REST Framework + lots of custom code) API backend at a major publisher that handles over 500 requests per second from Python 2.7 to 3.7 this year. It wasn't that hard, even without 2to3 or
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by nicwolff 7y ago
You didn't "offer" them 30%, you started the company with them and when it came time to execute a partnership agreement – which has to be done early to avoid accidental general partnership – that's what was agreed on, ba
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by nicwolff 7y ago
I use the Water Bowline (in which the "loop" is a clove hitch) in situations where the knot won't be continuously loaded and might flog.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
The double overhand knot is better than a figure-eight when used as a stop-knot at the end of a rope that you want to prevent running out through a block or clutch, because it's easier to untie after being jammed.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
And 3D Touch on the virtual keyboard, which used to turn it into a trackpad with which you could move the text cursor freely and 3D Touch again to select text has been replaced with "Haptic Touch" which lets you long-touch the s
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by nicwolff 7y ago
There is, but since they're not able to sell your data they cost a lot. I bought a 55" LG OLED 1080p commercial signage display for $5000. The power and control hardware is in a separate box so the display panel is just 6 mm thick
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Jira still has two different WYSIWYG implementations on different pages. On the "classic" issue form, you still enter `{code}this is code{code}`, but if you open that issue in the sidebar of the backlog page, it's Markdown.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Well, they're alive. The USCG made paper charts optional for US-flagged vessels in 2017. Most cruisers use chartplotters at the helm, and chart apps on phones or tablets for route planning. At this point, I tend to use my iPhone at the
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by nicwolff 7y ago
That's pretty much what Raku is – a substantially new language, with a new name but the same mission as Perl.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Uh, international coordination was definitely a thing! There was a whole Delian League formed specifically to coordinate the city-states' response to the Persian invasion – Sparta's exit from the League precipitated the war with A
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by nicwolff 7y ago
> New York has sought to shift more truck deliveries to nights and weekends, when streets are emptier. About 500 companies, including pharmacies and grocery stores, deliver goods from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., under a voluntary city program. Tha
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by nicwolff 7y ago
I would love that SEX (heh) or XS form factor – but look how much of the iPhone X is battery [0]. If you shrink it by half there's no battery left – unless the phone is much thicker than the 8 or X. So, how much less battery life wou
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by nicwolff 7y ago
More depth and detail in this post a couple of year ago on Lukas Eder's excellent SQL blog https://blog.jooq.org/2016/12/09/a-beginners-guide-to-the-tr...
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by nicwolff 7y ago
> This is why we have the second amendment. It's not. The same "militia" that justifies the second amendment can be federalized by Congress per Article I to "suppress insurrections" (or since 1792 by the Presiden
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by nicwolff 7y ago
We use PostgreSQL date RANGE partitions in our datamart DB for exactly this – functionally instant deletion of old data, without leaving dead tuples in the main table.
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Wait a minute. That article says "outdoor cats killed somewhere in the ballpark of 2.4 billion birds in the U.S. per year". The NY Times article linked here says that the bird population decreased by "nearly 3 billion birds&q
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by nicwolff 7y ago
It wasn't easy! I found the model I was interested in listed online by Newegg, Walmart, and CDW – but it took about 5 months to get! Newegg and Walmart had the lowest prices but turned out to fronting for the same seller, who was runni
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by nicwolff 7y ago
Note that it's only 1080p – not 4K – and doesn't have HDR. The picture's spectacular, so I decided that 1080p at 55" is plenty.

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