nicwolff

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by nicwolff 5y ago
Eh? Standard American and British usage is the same with regard to quotes that span multiple paragraphs. Given that it's understood that speakers can alternate without each quote being attributed, e.g.: Bob said: "Any opinion on
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He meant Blacks and Hispanics.
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I'm also looking forward to trying podman as an alternative to Docker Desktop for Mac, but it doesn't really do all the magic, yet. https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11389
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...air and point source carbon extraction and sequestration . A friend is dating a fellow who has just accepted a job at Shell Oil in carbon storage https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/carbon-capture-a... h
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Is anyone successfully using podman with docker-compose in the "locally remote" style that Docker Desktop makes simple? E.g. running `podman machine start` on a Mac, then `docker-compose up` to start all the containers in the curr
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Essentially no-one implements REST APIs as defined by Fielding and Fowler because what software developers and architects actually find valuable is an HTTP CRUD API. The widespread adoption of microsystems architectures required the selecti
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I'm a 55-year-old Systems Architect at a big media company where I am a highly-valued senior engineer. But a few years ago I too had a personal referral into Facebook for a developer position, and I was invited in for the tech assessme
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Seconding simonw: If you implement a REST API with a "page" parameter that renders as OFFSET in its DB queries, I promise you someone will come along and page through your entire "not big" table. For reporting, or to upd
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PS. floathub.com is brilliant!
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I would love the advice of a copyright attorney about this! It was never published, so under current US copyright law https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/303 I think it is protected until 70 years af
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I have gleet.com just so I can make businesses e-mail me there. And I registered recoveredlover.com to forward e-mail to my friends who'd already had Covid, back when they were the only people who could safely socialize.
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I remember when Quicktime Player was a pretty capable video editor...
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I have in my files a sci-fi novella written by my grandfather 100 years ago, in which by 1980 a megalomaniacal scientist has stopped up the Gulf Stream in order to plunge Europe into a new Ice Age in revenge for not respecting his genius. (
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I found Max Barry's "The 22 Murders of Madison May" to be an original and satisfying many-worlds thriller.
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English Pronunciation: "Primer" meaning, as here, "an introductory text", is pronounced "primmer".
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Other "Opinion"s offered by Rupert Murdoch's "newspaper": "Americans have already tired of Biden’s hyper-partisan agenda: Optimism in nation’s future plunges after 6 months" "Nancy Pelosi's on he
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Canyon Gate, among others, in Barker Reservoir's flood zone. Typically excellent interactive NY Times article on it here https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/22/us/houston-ha...
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You can ridicule Stoicism as "self-tyrrany" as Nietzsche did, but it's hard to quibble with its effectiveness in a situation where your control over your life really is minimal. The first books I had Amazon ship to an old fri
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Season-four Homer Simpson was 36.
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Matt Levine on Elon's magic Twitter lamp https://kill-the-newsletter.com/alternates/2h8ucjd0bueldre6....
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Actually they're limited to 29 mph, which is fast enough to ride the green wave. And they require a DOT-approved helmet, but I don't see anything saying it has to be full-face – although the ones they supply are.
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by nicwolff 6y ago
From the last paragraph of the article: > She and her colleagues also are interested in studying the bonding and interwoven movements of people and other types of pets, particularly cats. “We’ve done a little work with cats and, so far,
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by nicwolff 6y ago
SQLAlchemy ORM is built on SQLAlchemy Core, a very complete and flexible SQL query generation abstraction with extensions covering just about every non-standard feature of PostgreSQL and MySQL. Our services (backend content APIs for one of
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by nicwolff 6y ago
ACH fraud is not that simple to detect or revert. How soon would you know if $500 exited your checking account? If it's a small-business account, with most banks, you have 24 hours to report each debit that you want reversed. If it&#
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7. alt-# to comment and accept the current line, alt-1 alt-# to uncomment and execute it https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash....
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The board is 2"x4" before drying; after drying it will usually have cupped and twisted slightly, so the planing really is bringing the sides back into plane, which takes more removal than if it were just to smooth them.
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by nicwolff 6y ago
It may not be what fly.io does but there's a walkthrough of the basic idea here https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/from-docker-container-to-bootab...
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Yes, but only one, and that was it.
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Trump and the GOP would never actually have repealed 230, it was just a stalking-horse. The social media companies started shutting Trump down literally hours after it became apparent that the Senate committees that can regulate them will s
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A propaganda weapon whose founder was just back from a trip to Russia with his Russian wife and whose parent company was incorporated by Giuliani's firm while he was traveling in Russia... https://threadreaderapp.com/t

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