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by nicwolff 9y ago
That's fixed in the linked update: "Saving a file now happens asynchronously without blocking the UI, so that you can move smoothly from one task to the next."
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by nicwolff 9y ago
He means Python 3.
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by nicwolff 9y ago
What a terrible chart. By overlaying rather than stacking the areas it looks like almost all federal expenditures are now "entitlements"! Here's a stacked area graph since 1962, which makes clear that we've basically tra
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by nicwolff 9y ago
This Bash function rebases and pushes all my feature branches on the upstream "develop" branch: rebase-all () { old=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`; stashed=`git stash`; for b in $(git branch --format &
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by nicwolff 9y ago
I have his "git recent" alias, and then in .bashrc alias co='select br in $(git recent); do git co $br; break; done' so when I type "co" at the command prompt I get a numbered menu of branches in the o
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by nicwolff 9y ago
Merrian-Webster is garbage. https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=literally
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Apple must have deals with some vendors of very detailed 3D imagery for specific areas – in the Virgin Islands e.g. you can zoom in to see that individual vehicles and boats are bump-mapped and draped.
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by nicwolff 10y ago
By the usual definition, they're not – the noun "professional" means a white-collar worker.
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Because rich people spend a much smaller percentage of their income on taxable goods, so to be revenue-neutral the "fair" sales tax would have to be at least 30% (if you believe the FairTax fans) or over 50% (if you believe other
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by nicwolff 10y ago
You may have missed that you can ↓ to any container and ␍ to see a detailed perf graph https://github.com/bcicen/ctop/blob/master/_docs/expanded.md
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Though we do use the term "swing keel" for a large heavy centerboard.
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by nicwolff 10y ago
The goal is that by reading any byte you can tell if you are at the start of a character sequence, so we have to start each byte with some prefix – otherwise continuation bytes might sometimes look like start bytes. If we did as you suggest
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Even simpler: Panasonic and Amana each sell a commercial microwave oven that has one knob – and that's it. Turn the knob to the time you want to cook, and it starts cooking – on "high", its only power setting. Open the door,
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by nicwolff 10y ago
We don't have to go that far; anyone who thinks an autonomous car could compete in normal weekday midtown Manhattan traffic hasn't had the pleasure. You have to change lanes constantly to avoid double- and triple-parked trucks and
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Maybe! archive.org's oldest capture of my page [0] is from 22 Dec 03, and doesn't have anything for Stanford's until 9 Apr 04 [1]. But I don't think they got the idea from me, since the first links to my page from blogs
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by nicwolff 10y ago
I may be the inventor of in-browser hash-based password generation – at any rate, most of the early variants like SuperGenPass [1] credit mine [2] as the original. And I still use it for low-value sites – but I let iCloud Keychain generate,
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Nice article, but ironically the black text is rendered with opacity=.8
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by nicwolff 10y ago
My points exactly – but I don't see how self-driving cars can ever work in midtown NYC without dedicated lanes. If you can't credibly pretend that you are willing to hit another vehicle, you'll just get cut off continuously;
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Almost every NYC Uber driver I've had recently has at least one of the other apps installed and picks up rides from whichever is offering the best driver incentives at the moment. And every Via and Juno driver I've asked bought th
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Uber has taken $12B of capital, broken the regulatory regimes and opened the drive-for-hire markets, marketed the benefits of drive-for-hire and ride-sharing to drivers and consumers, and helped drivers finance vehicles – but now there seem
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by nicwolff 10y ago
Doesn't this upend Uber's whole model of non-ownership of vehicles and rejection of liability? Unless the driver is just there to be liable for having "allowed" the AI to intentionally hit something or someone! Also, as
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by nicwolff 10y ago
"That's your rent control. Rent doesn't ever go up." Huh? Controlled rents go up whenever the New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal says they do; right now they're in the process of increasing by
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by nicwolff 10y ago
You mean rent-regulated. From your link: "Less than 2% of NYC apartments are rent-controlled".
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by nicwolff 11y ago
This is a familiar feeling to me as a sailor; when cruising, every place is new, and at anchor I'm never fully asleep the way I am on land. Any little sound, or the cessation of any regular sound I've gotten used to, and I'm
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Er, what animal or plant fossilizes into uranium?
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Yes, with Feedly, and Newsify on iOS.
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Well, apparently it won't fall over when it's on the HN front page!
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Article says: "Changing global trade winds have raised sea levels in the South Pacific about a foot over the past 30 years, faster than elsewhere. Scientists are studying whether those changing trade winds have anything to do with clim
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Ironically this article was blocked by a "We hope you’ve enjoyed your 5 free articles" box – until I hid that div and set the content container overflow to "scroll" with a little location-bar jQuery.
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by nicwolff 11y ago
Why not, since you're only storing a fixed-length hash of the password?

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