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by nicwolff 4y ago
In this thread: numerous people who have "almost" been hit – that is, not hit. A cyclist thought they had room to pass you, and you thought they didn't, and they were right. We must not-do something about this terrible not-pr
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by nicwolff 4y ago
The denial – "Please know that Bruce has no partnership or agreement with this Deepcake company" – is carefully worded to be true even if he had an agreement at some previous time. Deepcake itself denies ever claiming that they&#x
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by nicwolff 4y ago
- Robert Michels [0][1] [0] https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/a/24106 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Michels
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Crisis == opportunity ツ TFA missed the point of splitting complex expressions into separate lines: naming the single-use vars clearly makes the whole calculation easy to follow. In the example given, nothing about the one-line `map split ov
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Ouch, yeah. My team is losing a truly excellent engineer because he moved home to the UK during the pandemic, and corporate eventually noticed and said he could either 1. switch to our UK unit and work on their projects at their pay scale,
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by nicwolff 4y ago
If you keep it after you know it's not legally yours, you're stealing.
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Like https://www.thennt.com which friends of mine started and tried to monetize – but there's no obvious revenue source for unbiased evidence-based diagnosis and treatment recommendations. Or none that's obvious to inv
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Actually the best popular software for routing that gives you course-to-steer based on wind and current is called PredictWind – the subscription that adds that feature starts at $250/year.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
At least the online version of the article would be brought to life with links to show the Gulf Stream https://www.windy.com/-Currents-currents?currents,25.760,-78... and the current wind direction and speed https:/&#
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by nicwolff 4y ago
They have OTs in last place, maybe CRDTs would have been next...
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by nicwolff 4y ago
To show how long this has been known and ignored I offer this somewhat manic sci-fi short story [0] written by my grandfather 101 years ago , in which a megalomaniacal ecologist has shut down the Gulf Stream by choking it off between Miami
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Prioritize functional testing over unit testing, which penalizes refactoring.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I call this "copy-paste-copy-paste-refactor": don't factor or abstract out a routine before the third time it's implemented. Until then you don't know what the actual commonalities among the uses will be, or if the
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by nicwolff 4y ago
"LocalStack’s core emulation platform provides emulated cloud APIs, currently primarily focused on AWS cloud." is in the second paragraph of the body.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
The Aho-Corasick automaton [0]. You have a bunch of strings, and you want to know if and where they appear in a longer string. You build a search trie from the strings, but add links back from each node to the node representing the longest
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by nicwolff 4y ago
> These days, the service runs about 37,000 trips a week, Lentz said, or more than two and a half times the 26,000 rides the old bus system ran in a typical, pre-pandemic week. Are "trips" different from "rides" in so
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Pg has to read the xmin and xmax anyway to determine if the row is visible to your transaction (for rows without hint bits set, in pages without hint bits set).
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Compared to construction? Almost literally impossible.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I wonder which elements of your "lifestyle" would get you shunned, or disinherited, or imprisoned, or killed for your family's honor. I enjoy almost perfect intersectional privilege, and one of those privileges has been to us
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Adding it to /etc/pam.d/sudo does work.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I did this and set perms on /etc/sudoers.d/customtouchid to 0444, now `sudo` opens the dialog, but touching the Touch ID gets sudo: account validation failure, is your account locked? sudo: a password is required
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by nicwolff 4y ago
Do only us old farts remember the canonical example of having to buy your .com after you've made it very valuable? [0] [0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/compaq-buys-...
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by nicwolff 4y ago
mdworker is what keeps your simple Spotlight file search working ツ
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by nicwolff 4y ago
> You remember how the one at Level3 cut a notch through the highway when it spun out of the building? Uh, no I don't. Link?
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by nicwolff 4y ago
From the photos I think you still have to set the antenna somewhere stable to use it, so it won't work at sea or maybe even at anchor. Don't get me wrong, it'd be cool just to be able to sail around and have low-latency high-
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by nicwolff 4y ago
These $10 selfie sticks with handles that open into a stand are actually great and much more compact and portable when closed than even a small tripod https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B6QHZK5
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by nicwolff 4y ago
The "1st gen" SE is the same size as the 5, still available from e.g. Amazon for $100–$200, and runs the current iOS very well if a little slowly.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
The laws in the US are a patchwork of state and local regulations – but the rules are "fuck you, I'm drivin' here", and "yeah I'm parked in the bike lane, whaddaya gonna do about it?"
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by nicwolff 4y ago
That mug-tapping demonstration in the "Doublets or warble in bells" page [0] is neat! I'll be looking for an opportunity to show that to someone, ask why they think it happens, explain pedantically, and yell "Science!&qu
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by nicwolff 4y ago
That's not the same at all, you can still only drag the move bar – and it focuses the window, bringing it to the front. Moving and resizing background windows can very handy.

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