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by pcl 5y ago
Indian English has a great word to help disambiguate these sorts of situations: “prepone”: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/prepone Also, no analysis of the semantic chaos of scheduling-related terms in English can be
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by pcl 5y ago
I would guess that they aren’t distinguishing on the basis of phase state, but rather atomic number. Astronomers presumably mostly think about matter in the form of a star, in which presumably all the hydrogen and helium would be in some so
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by pcl 5y ago
I think I’d be more ok with this if you couldn’t actually put the vest on when it’s been bricked. I understand the allure of the subscription model, but if I put on a piece of safety equipment, I think I should be able to expect it to work.
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by pcl 5y ago
I generally avoid bcc, since it's too easy for the blind recipient to hit "respond" and cause havoc. I wish that email clients instead had a "blind forward" feature, which would simply send a second email after send
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by pcl 5y ago
It in response to a post in which the author said they wanted to revisit joining Neuralink because hopefully now their culture is more in line with Musk’s public persona. And the post ended with praise for Musk’s projects. That doesn’t read
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by pcl 5y ago
I put my phone in a case so that when I drop it, the corner of the case takes the brunt of the force instead of the phone itself. Unless the phone had a floating edge around it (essentially, a case), I would still need one. (Yes, it’s still
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by pcl 5y ago
I also find git’s branching model to be far superior to subversion’s. I assume that this is due to its design center around distributed repositories and patch files. But it’s still there even when using a central repo and a monorepo structu
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by pcl 5y ago
When I go to a repository hosted on GitLab ( https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab , for example), Safari tells me that there are no trackers. I have different feelings about trackers on the marketing portion of a site vs
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by pcl 5y ago
Anecdotally, in the last few weeks, FaceID just started working for me with a couple of the types of masks I’ve been wearing. I wonder if they have made some tweaks to their recognition algorithms / are doing any sort of additional tra
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by pcl 5y ago
I agree with the approach you’ve outlined. I also empathize with the plight of the researchers — Linux is a bit different than normal Red Team engagements, in that a normal organization has a hunch of administrative / management layers
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by pcl 6y ago
This is one of the reasons I love to ski. Sometimes, when the conditions are just right and my legs are in good shape and my mind is in the right place, I have one of those amazing ski runs that is just perfection. And it’s great. But other
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by pcl 6y ago
I certainly think that a paint-covered Banksy could be considered art. My post above was simply my answer to why, of the two, the Banksy is worth saving. For sure, others might think that the thrown paint is more worthy of saving, and I’m s
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by pcl 6y ago
I’d love to see what his trained lower function makes of these.
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by pcl 6y ago
To my eye, pieces attributed to Banksy have a unique and appealing aesthetic, and the art generally is thought-provoking. He also has a knack for pushing all sorts of buttons. See his immigration piece in Clacton-on-Sea [1] for an example o
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We instinctively add on new features and fixes. Why don’t we subtract instead?(washingtonpost.com)
23 points by pcl 6y ago|21 comments
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by pcl 6y ago
DangerousPie probably meant "One can never know anything for sure", not "you, cheph, can never know anything for sure, but I, DangerousPie, can". This is a common, but confusing, use of "you" in American Englis
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by pcl 6y ago
Throughout Norway, pretty much all sales of alcoholic beverages over 4.7% happens through state-run liquor stores (Vinmonopolet). Their selection is pretty great, but obviously imposes limits vs. a totally open import arrangement. And if a
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by pcl 6y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant. The JVM is designed to execute the constructs of the Java language. Scala compiles to JVM bytecodes, but it does a lot of (very cool!) things that are not natively supported by the JVM, and thus tend
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by pcl 6y ago
Kotlin’s reified generics are pretty limited — they only work in inlinable situations, as there is no JVM support. I assume that Kotlin will quickly add proper reified generics support as soon as the JVM allows. (Your link above is about re
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by pcl 6y ago
You might consider Kotlin then. It’s more JVM-aligned than Scala, but waaaay terser than Java (as yet — the Java team is making great strides).
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by pcl 6y ago
Yeah but my experience with idiomatic go has been heavily value-biased, and a bunch of useful patterns for state management tend to lend themselves more towards a reference-oriented system. In my experience, this is outside the happy path,
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by pcl 6y ago
> “ Frameworkless means that you must give the right importance to the technological decision making and realize that the choice to develop a project or a single feature with no dependence on a framework is a real possibility!” The thing
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by pcl 6y ago
context.Context is used in a number of situations, including for a "don't call it a request-scoped global". And whatever, web frameworks always end up with one of those. Would love to see languages do better, but ok. My conce
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by pcl 6y ago
I struggle with context.Context as well. It really comes across as a design cop-out. The language makes a big deal about memory management and data structure ownership, and as a result it’s sorta a pain to send stuff around on the stack, bo
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by pcl 6y ago
At that point, you're not really "writing Python", though. You're really using Python to orchestrate a bunch of native transformations.
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by pcl 6y ago
iTerm has great behavior here — it allows painless pasting of things without newlines, but prompts for pasteboard contents that contain newlines.
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by pcl 6y ago
There's no reason why a web app can't work in offline mode. Think of a web browser as the ultimate App Store -- you navigate to any "app" by using your search engine of choice or by passing around links to the "apps
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by pcl 6y ago
> a game with much fewer goals, probably boring. Also, 0-0 ties and 1-0 wins don't really provide much information. These sports are typically played in the contexts of seasons, where teams are trying to win a championship. Very low
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by pcl 6y ago
Other industries use lock-out keys when people are in harm's way. It seems like it'd be easy enough to design an oxygen-replacement system that has lock-outs that people engage whenever they need to enter the protected rooms. htt
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by pcl 6y ago
FYI I just commented about our upcoming Linux client in another thread in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425669

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