nicwolff

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by nicwolff 3y ago
I gotta use "thither" more, such a great word.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
> it doesnt work. It reduce the problem That's the goal.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Someone has to post it: that'd be worth $736,592,000 today if you'd kept it all.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Oddly, the writer used "he" in "they determined he had Stage 2 bladder cancer" because they had already used the plural "they" in the same clause – showing that they know how confusing the singular "they&q
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Be nice to know how many questions are in the quiz – unless realizing that it's unending and quitting is a Turing test and we're the real subjects ツ
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by nicwolff 3y ago
If cars were invented today, they'd never let us have them. "It's like a horse and buggy, but much faster and heavier." "But it'll know somehow how to avoid other vehicles and pedestrians and trees and houses a
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Dude your "random thoughts" are better than a lot of folks' work output ツ
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Confirmation bias – we don't catch the smart ones.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
From the poster that gene-h linked: > Why Aerogel? > - Individual fuel particles must be micron sized to permit fission fragment escape > - Accumulation of critical mass of micron dust particles presents a challenge (levitation not
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Compare the rents of neighboring n- and n+1-bedroom apartments?
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by nicwolff 3y ago
https://0x1de.com redirects to https://oxide.computer so they did think of it.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
So you can reply to text messages, obvs!
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by nicwolff 3y ago
In general it was C*, but there was CM Fortran as well, which C* could call and which could call C* subroutines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2A http://people.csail.mit.edu/bradley/cm5docs/
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I tie it that way too, but as that page points out, it's the same knot: > The whole twisted mess of the previous drawing will rearrange itself into exactly the same finished knot as my Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I bet you'd like Bean: > Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor that is designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is lean, fast and uncluttered. It starts up quickly, has a live word count, and is eas
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Well, at least now they'll let repair shops fix the screens cheap, right?
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I'm hoping so – gunicorn has a long-open pull request that would fix `--reuse-port`, which currently does nothing https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/pull/2938
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Save and star a "Recently viewed" filter like order by lastViewed DESC and you'll at least always be able to find that ticket you were looking at earlier...
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by nicwolff 3y ago
https://www.bls.gov/charts/productivity-and-costs/nonfarm-bu... Non-farm labor productivity – the red line, representing output per hour worked – _shot_ up when we all worked remotely. Total productivity dipped be
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I wish English had a separate word for those too!
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by nicwolff 3y ago
A couple: https://github.com/neondatabase/pg_embedding
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I love that first banner/last photo "46th Street, New York City, 1976" - in fact I have a print in my dining room that Joel traded me for hosting his first Web site back in the 1990s. The others I agree are underwhelming – ma
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Well, that's not one conversation, except for “perfect 2400 SAT All 5 on AP one B in 11th” “Brown?!” “Heck no. Asian.” “Of course. Still impressive.” those are selected comments from different chats.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Could have been even easier: `argparse.Namespace` already has `__contains__()` ツ That said, https://pypi.org/project/addict/ has been around a long time...
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Are you evicting or deleting large sets (or lists or sorted sets)? We use a Django ORM caching library that adds each resultset's cache key to a set of keys to invalidate when that table is updated – at which point it issues `DEL <s
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Whenever you see this pattern, think of using a generator instead: def read_portfolio(filename): with open(filename) as f: rows = csv.reader(f) headers = next(rows) for row in rows:
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by nicwolff 3y ago
11 ways of thinking! if not something: # Unhappy case return # Happy case
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by nicwolff 3y ago
How much has your uncle lost gambling, in his life? How much has your cousin spent on lottery tickets, in her life?
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by nicwolff 3y ago
"science would be taught through four contexts - the Earth system, biodiversity, food, energy and water, and infectious diseases." Where's the semicolon?
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I see how it could look that way, but these are glowing real Hacker News reviews ツ Turns out the secret to customer loyalty is working hard to deliver a great product... Fastmail has been very reliable and fast for me for many years, and th

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