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by obelisk_ 11y ago
9/10. I could tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a lot of computer generated imagery in my time.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Ah, yes, I see that now. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Well, what are the alternatives? Hosted: Bitbucket, GitLab Self-hosted: GitLab, Gogs None of these come close to GitHub in my experience.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
>This is pretty disgusting because engineer man is a good guy and main guy has an underage girlfriend living in a plywood loft built inside a storage unit. One day engineer man says "fuck this I'm going to be a fucking farmer n
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
This. Please rename the project.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
I've been wanting tape backup for home use for a couple of years now but haven't been able to afford any yet. I recently bought a new battery and some new casette tapes for my old digital camcorder. Just now I came to think, perha
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Using camcorder tapes to back up files (2007)(archive09.linux.com)
2 points by obelisk_ 11y ago|1 comments
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Server Sent Events (EventSource) with Gevent, Flask, Nginx, and FreeBSD(hypatia.software)
2 points by obelisk_ 11y ago|0 comments
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
The www serves as a clue that it's a URL. Most people would recognize example.com as a domain even if given no other context. Contrast that with example.design. I think to most, www.example.design would be more recognizable.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
I tried to use node on a $5 DigitalOcean dropplet a couple of times but whenever I tried to run npm to install something, it would run out of memory and be killed. Frustrated with this experience, I have stayed away from Node.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
IMO, 50 000 subscribers is about the tipping point for subreddit quality. Beyond that number things start to go down hill real fast. You also don't want too few subscribers, however, or there will be too little new content posted. At a
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Even worse yet is when people do if some_function(arg, arg2): result = True else: result = False return result Obviously a waste of time and lines of code. Instead, do return some_function(arg, arg2)
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
In the specific case of crypto, maybe they are concerned about leaking information through timing if they return early? Though even if you have only one exit point, that alone does not in any way guarantee that timing differences won't
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
I am generally not a fan of analogies but I think yours is a good one.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Identity theft would be my guess.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
I have never really considered repeating conditions instead of nesting. I might try doing so next time since I'm generally not happy with the depth of nesting I sometimes land myself in. The problem I foresee with repeat conditions is
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Huh, TIL. I always assumed that they meant that the errors themselves are unicorns because they rarely happen and even when they do, you usually don't see them.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
Excellent.
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
We'll settle on the second, then. They look the best as you said and they are also the ones that ∗didn't∗ mess with apparent line spacing. Regarding messing with people, use the browser dev tools to replace them with the italics o
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by obelisk_ 11y ago
We could use ﹡these﹡ instead. U+FE61, small asterisk. We could use ∗these∗ instead. U+2217, asterisk operator. Interestingly, U+2731, heavy asterisk, is stripped by HN it seems. But to be honest, none of them feel the same as the one true *