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Zooom/2 even though it's abandonware.
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Typically-inconsistent Christian apologetics; the Biblical God "made us in his image" – but then cursed us with hunger and toil and the pain of childbirth specifically because we ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. (A
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Link to article on original site https://wyofile.com/judge-rules-in-favor-of-corner-crossing-... Link to judge's decision https://www.wyd.uscourts.gov/sites/wyd/files/opinions/22-cv-
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by nicwolff 3y ago
And SQLAlchemy Core, among many other SQL generators, gives the lie to "The state of things is bimodal: you either write raw SQL, or you use an ORM."
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Oh jeez I just realized you and I made the same two comments the last time someone asked this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30400572#30401018
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by nicwolff 3y ago
"Mockingbird", by Walter Tevis. 40 years old but startlingly timely: centuries after humanity ceded all authority and responsibility to AI, the last superintelligent robot is ready to die of boredom – and one human has learned to
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Don Knuth Serves UTF-8 Page Without a `charset`
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by nicwolff 3y ago
You can see in the video on that page that the SoC% drops from 80 to 71 during that one run to 412km/h...
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by nicwolff 3y ago
People seem to forget that the moral of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is that the wolf does finally come. It's not "don't panic prematurely because people will stop listening to you"; it's "don't disb
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I read the print version of the NY Times (in digital replica form, on an iPod Touch three inches from my +8 myopic eye) before I'm even out of bed. Daily political news each AM: Heather Cox Richardson (via Facebook) for historical cont
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I've been using a 55" LG Wallpaper digital signage display as my TV for 5 years – it's amazingly thin on the wall, and has a beautiful bright picture, but: - it cost $5000 in 2017 and was not easy to order - it's 1080p,
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I think I can picture him, writing "...give their sons a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary,... hmm, Tapestry... and Porcelaine? Let's make it 'children'!" ツ
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by nicwolff 4y ago
And it seems he changed "My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give theirs a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Archi
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Well, he said it was appropriate to study only politics and war "in a young Country, as yet simple and not far advanced in Luxury", which hardly describes Ukraine!
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by nicwolff 4y ago
And that CNN page semi-randomly embeds a video about an unrelated study that claimed to show an elevated risk of stroke in obese women who drank more than two diet sodas a day...
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by nicwolff 4y ago
You could suspend your subscription. (Shhh – suspending print delivery doesn't interrupt your access to the site or the Replica Edition ツ)
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Same idea for NYC https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Or cast the front and back halves of the propeller and weld the hub and tips.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
For Python, it's SQLAlchemy Core, the SQL-generation part of the SQLAlchemy ORM. https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/core/
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by nicwolff 4y ago
By "the next major version of the AWS SDK for Python" they must mean boto3 2.0.0, but I don't see any timeline or roadmap – the current version is 1.26.53 and it's been 1.x.x since July 2015. When will this actually be r
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by nicwolff 4y ago
3.11 runs a bunch faster.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I have a very simple Python library in PyPI [0] that generates XML from a data structure representing the AST. [0] https://pypi.org/project/xml-from-seq/
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by nicwolff 4y ago
As that page makes clear, SES can hand off incoming mail to a Lambda, or to S3 – or to SNS which can deliver it to any HTTP endpoint, or e-mail address, or text it to your phone for that matter.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I really get fatigued seeing people bash dried animal feces, wood, and whales as if they have zero value...
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I once needed to download PDFs from emails, and then post just one page from each to a Web form – and all I had was an iPhone and 3G at a Caribbean beach bar. Shortcuts are less limited than I thought!
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by nicwolff 4y ago
It's mentioned in the linked page, but not really explored: instead of `^C` (aka `C-c`, `Control-c`, &c) use `M-#` (aka `Alt-#` or `option-shift-3`) which adds a `#` before whatever you've typed on the current line and hits `r
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Wow this thread is the only Google result for "YGGFSS" that isn't a catalog site.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
At this point it works really well as an Evernote replacement , including automatic OCR and search of scanned files – and it titles the note from the top of the OCR text, which Evernote never got working.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
The author wants a single key combo that cycles among all the open windows from all apps, because that's what he's used to. There's a terrific free macOS app called AltTab https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app that do
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by nicwolff 4y ago
It's the buried `yield` in a loop somewhere, magically changing your function into a generator, that can be confusing – it's on the original coder to have the docstring say `"""Generator yielding records from DB.&qu

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