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by paledot 5y ago
I wondered why the Rust community seemed so averse to 1.0 releases, but Rust for Rustaceans makes the interesting point that there are a lot of cases in the Rust language where adding new features technically qualifies as a breaking change.
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by paledot 5y ago
"We may not be big, but we're small." -The Vinyl Cafe
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by paledot 5y ago
My goodness, I turned that off under a minute after I discovered that the "feature" existed. Autocorrect is for onscreen keyboards. I am a far more accurate typist than my computer gives me credit for.
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by paledot 5y ago
I use the same, it's mostly okay except when I mistype an English word that happens to be a word in French and the keyboard decides to correct the next few words to French. Also amusing is that autocorrect, even while in English mode,
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by paledot 5y ago
Bingo. We have the option of recompiling with an older version of glibc while we work out the bugs. Our users won't have the option of running our code in 2037 when the epoch arrives.
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by paledot 5y ago
Also one of the root problems with politics. 2035 emissions targets are the next government's problem. Rehabilitative policing pays off in 20 years, retributive buys voters now.
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by paledot 5y ago
Here in Montreal the buses leave the right signal on while stopped at a stop, then activate the left signal as soon as the doors close, even if they're in a bus lane that they don't intend to leave. To complicate matters further,
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by paledot 5y ago
It boggles my mind that this is being presented by the author as if it were a legitimately good idea and not another step on our collective descent into a dystopian hellscape.
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by paledot 5y ago
Why not?
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by paledot 5y ago
That is ultimately a problem of scarcity. No one is building walkable communities, so the only remaining walkable communities are the "historic" ones that, surprise, everyone wants to live in because the alternative sucks. Elastic
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by paledot 5y ago
What alternative language do you propose? Not that asking for a source is unreasonable, but you seem to doubt that PHP has majority market share. Do you suppose that Node is more popular? Rails? Go? Flask?
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by paledot 5y ago
Clearly you've never inherited anything written in Perl.
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by paledot 5y ago
This happens to me periodically, because I rarely use bookmarks or persistent tabs. Edge will open because Microsoft, I'll start browsing, and it'll be a few minutes before I notice that I've been scammed again.
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by paledot 5y ago
This. This is why I keep coming back to Hacker News.
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by paledot 5y ago
It's remarkable the effect even short TTL caching can have given enough traffic. I recall once caching a value that was being accessed on every page load with a TTL of 1s resulting in a >99% reduction in query volume, and that'
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by paledot 5y ago
This is exactly what Dropbox does: they hash a file, compare with all known hashes, and deduplicate accordingly. The file is then encrypted with the hash of its contents.
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by paledot 5y ago
"I have 192.168.1.0/24 to sell you..."
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by paledot 5y ago
I dictated the domain for our home automation system to our early-20s cleaner ("dictionaryword dot dictionaryword"), and after a few minutes she asked me "what do you usually Google to get there?".
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by paledot 5y ago
In theory I like the idea of making better use of file descriptors other than stdin and stderr. It seems like a powerful feature of *nix that never really caught on, except with that one sysadmin at work who writes insane one-liners with fi
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Agile Programming with ADHD(mikkel.ca)
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by paledot 5y ago
Also when the very last of my respect for Musk died.
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by paledot 5y ago
That also sounds like a problem.
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by paledot 5y ago
Very well put. I was diagnosed as an adult. While I was waiting for my results, at one point my wife said, "wait, do you want to have ADHD?". And yes, I wasn't really able to articulate why I was hoping for a positive resul
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by paledot 5y ago
It should not be different, but it is. Strictness of punishment does not directly correlate to deterrence. However, laypeople don't know or care; they want their pound of flesh. The GP's list is very much laid out in priority orde
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by paledot 5y ago
https://isitstillmarch.com/ comes to mind.
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by paledot 5y ago
To be fair, it's part of quite a few URLs, just usually called "fbclid" or "ref" or "utm_*" or encoded in a cookie.
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by paledot 5y ago
"What appears to be a national attack on civil liberties" Nice weasel words. Appears to whom? We can't require vaccination, but we can certainly prevent unvaccinated people from entering the country. That's been the case
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by paledot 5y ago
I believe it's more prevalent in Europe, but if your bus or train departs at 23:30, it will arrive at 24:15, not 0:15. That's deliberate. No idea if they still do it since I haven't looked at a paper schedule in years.
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by paledot 5y ago
> The IE compatibility List only adds a website when the following actions occur. > * Shows an IE user a message suggesting the user should use a different browser for compatibility reasons. Looks like you can have your site automatic
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by paledot 5y ago
Depends on the tracking, IMO. Selling data to advertisers is a hard no, but as an independent developer, having access to crash logs and usage statistics is vital. Not only is it valuable to me, it provides legitimate value to my customers

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