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by nsm 6y ago
As someone not at all involved in web development, if I wanted to learn CSS properly, with all the new flexbox/grid support instead of fighting with margins etc, what are some good recommendations? Like say I don't care about brow
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by nsm 6y ago
Say you want to tell your mom once you safely reach school (via public transport). But you don't actually want to spend the money on a call or text (India did not have "unlimited text", at least when I was growing up there).
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by nsm 6y ago
If that is the intent behind such decisions, a more reasonable (and not punitive) response is to give a couple of years notice to universities (let them wind down operations) and allow students already enrolled to finish their education. N
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by nsm 6y ago
If you were actually someone who has been through the US immigration process, your lack of empathy is appalling.
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by nsm 6y ago
One can do some good (even for selfish reasons) and it can be commendable. One isn’t obliged to solve the entire problem. https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
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by nsm 6y ago
Jonathan Haidt's org has a nicely illustrated, highly abridged version called "All Minus One" - https://heterodoxacademy.org/library/all-minus-one/
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by nsm 6y ago
The reality is that the US government has done NO meaningful progress on immigration reform to guarantee a path to citizenship for skilled people. This leaves H1B as the only option and now that is gone too, but only due to executive order.
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by nsm 6y ago
I write about various systems programming things (build systems, profiles, code generation) https://nikhilism.com
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by nsm 6y ago
I have been re-implementing the ninja build system [1] using the ideas from the "Build Systems a la Carte" paper [2]. The software isn't ready for the public yet, but I've written 2 blog posts so far about some of the id
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The Deprecated *Nix API(bitquabit.com)
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by nsm 6y ago
> My "solution" to this problem is to carefully but fully occupy the bike lane before making such a turn. Yeah, it's illegal, and draws lots of swearing (and worse) from bicyclists. But there's just no other good way
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by nsm 7y ago
Yes! I think many people don't realize that COVID by itself is not the problem so much as the additional burden it places on the healthcare system, which could be used to help people with other problems. We are already seeing cases of
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by nsm 7y ago
https://nikhilism.com I write about various technical topics. Some recent ones * Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems * Using 1Password with ssh-agent on Linux and some that I'm proud of: * Sampling
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by nsm 7y ago
This is a good recent summary for non-lawyers https://thedispatch.com/p/the-police-power-of-the-states-to
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by nsm 7y ago
This article from October 2019 also does a great job explaining the enormity of vision. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/the-spacex-sta...
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by nsm 7y ago
Back then there was no "fast fashion" because very few could afford to go through lots of clothes. Fast fashion and quality probably don't go together, but the quality of more expensive clothing has become ridiculously good.
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by nsm 7y ago
The first story in Cory Doctorow's book "Radicalized" is about toasters that stop working because the company that sold them goes bankrupt, and how that ends up in refugees being evicted from their homes. We aren't there
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Why Sorbet (the Ruby type checker) is fast(blog.nelhage.com)
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Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems(nikhilism.com)
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The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr(ferdychristant.com)
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by nsm 7y ago
Simon Peyton-Jones (of Haskell fame) also has a similar talk+slides that I find valuable to periodically re-visit. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/wr...
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by nsm 7y ago
Cory Doctorow had a book about this over a decade ago (2008). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel... Prescient.
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by nsm 7y ago
I’m always reminded of Warren Ellis’ talk “How to see the Future” when I read stuff like this. We have to strive to reduce the banality with which we view the world, and things like this go a long way. http://www.warrenellis.com&
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I think we can predict the future – Bill Gates (2019)(gatesnotes.com)
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by nsm 8y ago
It’s Chubby, and it is a lock server :)
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by nsm 8y ago
I spent a lot of time learning about stack unwinding, debug information, and profiling on common operating systems. I’m writing down some of it: http://nikhilism.com/post/2018/sampling-profiler-internals-i...
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by nsm 8y ago
I'd be curious to know what about the new webextensions based Tree Style Tab doesn't work for you? I use it all the time. For Google Reader, I am using BazQux and really like it. No ads, no smart "suggestions", just a ve
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by nsm 8y ago
Types help eliminate an entire class of unit tests one would need to write before refactoring. Things like newtype also allow enforcing certain constraints while refactoring. So yes, while the end goal is the same, the process is simplified
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by nsm 8y ago
Not sure about the slate, but I have a Pixelbook, which is my personal laptop, and the crostini Linux integration is great for development. Specifically, I use it for Rust programming, and have compiled a couple of C++ projects too. The T
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by nsm 8y ago
I just saw the Spruce Goose in the Evergreen Aviation Museum near Portland. That has a wing span of 320’ and is already impressive in its own right. This must be better! Bit of trivia: the Goose is made largely of wood, one of the older “co

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