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by ninefathom 4y ago
So as a client, being able to check whether I likely have a usable result without parsing out the body has no value whatsoever? I'm not sold. I think we need to be using HTTP error codes better at the API layer, not ditching them enti
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Footnote- there's a very practical reason that personal names are not typically translated: address, i.e. speaking to people or calling to them. If you're attempting to call to somebody using a translated name, such a person might
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by ninefathom 4y ago
So we can agree that the development of this watch likely has little to do with engineering and quite a bit to do with ostentation.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Between the minuscule face and the fact that winding A) is overly complex, and B) keeps time for less than two days, this seems like more of an expensive toy than a practical timepiece. As an engineering feat, it is admittedly impressive..
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by ninefathom 4y ago
While this is certainly believable, I think it's merely a symptom of a larger cultural shift towards sensationalism. Rephrased, I think that large swathes of the human population have been conditioned over the last couple of decades t
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Precisely - more than anything else, this article reminded me just how much of our planet is covered by the Pacific Ocean.
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Seconded. I've worked with PCBs of that vintage quite a bit- both recently and closer to their era. They are absurdly heavy and fragile by modern standards, and were very prone to having the traces lift off the boards, to the point o
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by ninefathom 4y ago
Anybody feel brave enough to try merging in SVR4? https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/9ecd05bdc59e4a1...
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by ninefathom 5y ago
In principle, I can't contradict anything in this article with my own experience. The coup de grâce for me came with a cell carrier switch, after which Google began constantly nagging me to complete captchas when I searched. That anno
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by ninefathom 5y ago
For your purposes, I think it's 100% okay to decline a job for (almost) anything. Think about it- they can turn you down for (almost) anything, legally protected reasons notwithstanding, right? I agree with some other respondents that
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by ninefathom 5y ago
PSA to those attempting statistical analysis of the results: people can live in multiple places, and the poll does indeed allow such selection. Assuming in analysis that one vote is equivalent to one person may lead to inaccurate conclusio
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by ninefathom 5y ago
"Constructing a new capital in the middle of nowhere" What? You mean the middle of nowhere like some sparsely-populated riverbanks near the border between two states that happens to be near the geographic center of the nation at
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by ninefathom 5y ago
I'm getting a bit of a chuckle over these suggestions of "backup roads" and "alternative routes." NoVa is just as strapped for housing as it is for transportation. Mass transit in this area doesn't and won&#
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by ninefathom 5y ago
Well, I left it in early 2021 due to burnout, so... no, not really. The cybersecurity industry is not okay, in terms of mental health. The major contributing factors for me: - Reactive panic instead of proactive strategy - - Detail: The su
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by ninefathom 5y ago
Oh look, somebody else bellyaching about the tech duopoly not giving half of a flying f--- about what its customers actually want, so long as said customers continue to pay out. Look, if your employer mandates Mac OS or Windows, I get it.
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by ninefathom 5y ago
Native English speaker here, with training in linguistics, and several other languages under my belt over the years. In my native dialect, statements including "had to have been being" are rather common. My friends, family, co-wo
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by ninefathom 6y ago
That... was actually very helpful. Thanks - I'm having a look at it now.
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by ninefathom 6y ago
Just got the HPL2 engine from TDD to build on Linux/aarch64 right up until it needs to link against the FBX SDK. Only real PITA was getting Newton on ARM going. After that it was a few cmake hacks in HPL2, and a few symlinks in the l
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by ninefathom 6y ago
This absolutely thrilled me. Right up until I realized that there's a closed-source, binary-only dependency (FBX SDK). I guess my dreams of playing this game (which I do, in fact, already own a copy of - twice over, actually) on Linu
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by ninefathom 6y ago
Meh... I think the author of this article was cherry-picking a bit. VMS is no cake-walk either, and has its fair share of idiosyncrasies. So you're a system administrator, and you want to change a user's password? $ set default s