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by owl57 6y ago
> I broke the shopping cart Google is careful in preserving fragile cart experience for those of us who avoid offline stores this year.
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by owl57 6y ago
The remove-if-not example is pretty funny. No, it doesn't have any obvious translation into function composition, and in particular isn't equivalent to the Haskell example. Instead, :count specifies how many elements to remove a
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by owl57 6y ago
> I've personally never felt the need for two buffers at the same time I find two buffers convenient when grabbing both url and title for a hyperlink.
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by owl57 6y ago
I turned my N810 on recently and played a bit, so I can compare it directly to modern devices. "Pretty good" is a big understatement.
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by owl57 6y ago
In my experience, it's almost as reliable as a powered off computer, both at filtering spam and at delivering legitimate mail.
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by owl57 6y ago
> Money laundering You mean the trade-off between global surveillance and easier life for some sorts of businesses. Is it immediately obvious which of these is more worth supporting? > and child pornography Oh yeah, think of the child
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by owl57 6y ago
Note that space in the sense of bytes is not mentioned in the article. Only user-visible things such as space on paper.
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by owl57 6y ago
I have definitely used Magit in situations where it was the only use of Emacs, working on the version-controlled content itself in content-specific tools such as Xcode or even MS Word.
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by owl57 6y ago
There's about a dozen Russian posts now, only one of which looks like spam.
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by owl57 6y ago
Or until someone packages your madness as a popular library and browsers are forced to optimize it.
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by owl57 6y ago
I do. For readers who don't: it's newspeak invented after Soviet administrative borders became international, to make us slightly less uncomfortable with the idea that we are suddenly "abroad" from each other.
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by owl57 6y ago
Why is it important to distinguish things required by most schools and workplaces from literally mandatory ones?
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by owl57 6y ago
Why the strawman? I believe all these separatist movements involve preexisting national identity, both ones I listed and ones you listed.
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by owl57 6y ago
Hmm. Probably both. On the second thought, it seems like that's a very good question, for these two processes are maybe in a positive feedback loop. This year we pay more attention to news, and this makes us both more susceptible and m
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by owl57 6y ago
Or, for slightly less recent but perhaps just as relevant examples: Moldova, Georgia, and, most of all, Ukraine.
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by owl57 6y ago
Yes, but with varying pace. Let's hope it doesn't get even faster.
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"Near abroad". Do you recognize the origins of this strange term?
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by owl57 6y ago
Meet-in-person perceptional experience implies at least an order of magnitude less latency than Zoom. And such low-latency communication will probably be good enough with traditional video calls, novel brain interfaces will add less value.
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by owl57 6y ago
These look like brackets, not binary operators. So, that's one style, but a rather unobvious one, and also contradicts PEP8, which says (as the very first thing in the section on inline spaces!) to avoid whitespace immediately inside b
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by owl57 6y ago
In Pelevin's Generation «П», published in 1999, all the politicians and other celebrities are not real people, but rendered for TV on SGI computers, complete with some comments on events that require more computing power to render and
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by owl57 6y ago
The course is hard though NP-hard, at a rate of one problem per week.
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by owl57 6y ago
> Viruses are also a possibility but could also be largely mitigated with multiple pockets of humanity spread by enough distance. If I understand correctly, SARS-CoV-2 hit some "sweet spot" being rather sneaky and rather danger
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by owl57 6y ago
If you zoom in, "December" here mostly means 12/31, the exact day the virus appeared in public news: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-12-09%202...
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by owl57 6y ago
Of course, that was the theory from the start: they made VSCode to get developer attention and nudge them towards Microsoft cloud. Fine. How does it explain why «those extensions are closed source and explicitly check that they're runn
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by owl57 6y ago
Same thing is done by JetBrains Technically, somewhat similar. Socially, hell no! If you visit the Idea home page, it's a normal product page. It offers to buy the full product or download the free edition. Their business is pretty o
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by owl57 6y ago
A single book, yes, can last hundreds of years or burn up in minutes. A book printed in a thousand copies and distributed all over the world, including places likely to survive nuclear war, will last hundreds of years.
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by owl57 6y ago
See? That's the problem with arithmetic on containers. Python has that already: v += 4, 5, 6 Comma doesn't do weird shit: that's just a tuple of numbers. But "+=" then does weird shit: it means concatenatio
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by owl57 6y ago
In an ideal world, a page that stopped existing for a reason would be replaced by some text about that reason, not a generic "there's nothing here".
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What's the problem with ternaries?
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by owl57 6y ago
Unusual richness of bad Russian words is, I believe, mostly a myth from our stand-up comedians based on the loose facts that (1) there's not one central f-word, but several equally important roots, and (2) technically a lot of Russian

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