nicwolff

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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   I bought an LG OLED commercial signage display. It's just a 55" panel, 1/4" thick, with a ribbon cable to a power-and-control box with one HDMI port. No internet or wifi connection; the software just lets you use the rem
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   NY State repealed high-rent deregulation in the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection act of 2019. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s6458
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   I think this lunch may have been eaten – Via now has a contract to do routing and location reporting for the NYC school bus system.
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   He maintains bash too!
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   Same here, on Safari 11.1.2
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   A previous similar incident became a legendary in-joke over at MetaFilter 18 years ago: Astounding. I can't take a moral argument seriously from any of you who jumped at the opportunity to take advantage of an honest mistake. I don&#x
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   Whoops – they stopped selling that model today! Glad I got mine...
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   Apple actually still sells the last of the MacBook Air models with the good old keyboards: the 2017 13-inch 2.2 GHz i7.
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   by nicwolff 7y ago

   Evernote's real value was in expanding note-taking to digitize and OCR every document in your life, saving them all permanently and making them easily retrievable. They bundled and co-marketed with ScanSnap to provide an integrated sol
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    by nicwolff 7y ago

    The demo notebook at https://observablehq.com/demo works on Safari 11.1.2 but at this link I just see a JSON object starting `{"@context": "http:\/\/schema.org", "@type": "Articl
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    by nicwolff 7y ago

    Fun, I don't know Typescript (and barely remember JavaScript!) but maybe I'll try to add automatic persisted queries compatible with the apollo-link syntax https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link-persiste
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    by nicwolff 7y ago

    SQLAlchemy Core is powerful but hardly complete; every real-world application I've written with it has ended up needing substantial hand-written SQL to cover the gaps. So I see a clear use case on top of SQLAlchemy to organize those qu
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    by nicwolff 7y ago

    In that situation I've gotten a lot of mileage (and quiet amusement) from pointing out that Scrum dropped the term "commitment" for "forecast" in 2011 . Scrum Jesus has no defense against Scrum itself! "Develo
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    by nicwolff 7y ago

    You can use SQLAlchemy Core for SQL generation and execution, without using its ORM. This lets you build queries from reusable Python objects rather than strings, and use Alembic for DB migrations, while still retaining control over the gen
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Instead – and more usefully given how slow some of our backend APIs are – we cache each value twice, under e.g. `key` with a short TTL and `key_backup` with a long TTL. The first process to miss on `key` renames `key_backup` to `key` (which
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    "I almost get hit" – so, you don't get hit? Once or twice a year you get... startled? In NYC in 2017, cars injured 10561 pedestrians and 4397 cyclists, and killed 106 pedestrians and 24 cyclists. Cyclists injured 315 pedestri
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Olivia Jaimes' current run on Nancy is really quite trenchant – not just for "gum chewers"! https://www.gocomics.com/nancy
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Especially when there's a town called Port Fairy not ten miles west. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Port+Fairy+VIC+3284
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    The "Mail" menu item in "Settings" is immediately below "Passwords & Accounts".
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Or look for another pediatrician!
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    in .gitconfig: recent = for-each-ref --count=25 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format="%(refname:short)" so `git recent` lists the last 25 branches, and then in .bashrc: alias co='select br in $(git
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    First, I don't know, but most quotably: Kanye West https://genius.com/945345
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    If you think "wallet ∶ car ∷ woman's body ∶ dress" is a valid analogy we can't help you pal.
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Interesting – the animation doesn't show red/green lights on the Sola's bow, only way back on the wings – I'm a sailor and I find it very hard to guess where the Sola's prow is as she gets closer in the "Helge
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    I live in New York; we remit something like $50B/year more to the Federal government than we receive. I paid about $650K to the Feds last year, and while I don't begrudge the shared responsibility, it's hard not to feel like
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Er, every restaurant I've been to in years has greeted my newly seated table with "Still, sparkling, or tap water?" (This is in the northeastern USA.)
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    And the point of the article is that almost no-one is getting prosecuted for it. So it is true, that people are getting away with expensing them.
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    I did this with procmail 20 years ago: http://angel.net/~nic/spam-x/procmailrc.txt – and then stopped because lots of spam comes with random people's real e-mail addresses as the From, and my challenge autore
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Nice rendering there of a lap pool that they propose to place directly in front of the building in which I grew up, and in which my parents still live. They're missing a few things: - delivery and moving trucks, which double-park on th
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    by nicwolff 8y ago

    Cape Wind was proposed for Nantucket Sound, north of the islands and just 5 miles south of Cape Cod. Vineyard Wind will be 15 miles south of the islands.