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by pcl 6y ago
The idiom is to return two values: the desired return value, and also an error value. Go has support for multiple return values, and easy syntax for assigning those positional return values to variables at the call site.
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by pcl 6y ago
Yes — many codecs can be optimized for decoding at the expense of encoding. This is appropriate for any sort of broadcast (YouTube, television, etc). Also, in many applications, it’s suitable to exchange time for memory / compute. You
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by pcl 6y ago
I guess I’m an optimist on that front. I’ve lost history from CVS and SCCS, but not from SVN, Perforce, Git or Mercurial, including a number of Git module extractions. I think that history-losing version control migrations are a thing of th
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by pcl 6y ago
I consider the version control history to be part of the code. I put docs into the source tree (sometimes in the form of comments; sometimes in dedicated doc files) for things that are suited to live next to the code, but often my commit me
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by pcl 6y ago
Yes, and there is a good argument that such deaths are COVID-related, even though the virus itself didn’t infect the person. This is one of the reasons that “excess deaths” is a compelling measure.
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by pcl 6y ago
This article discusses peer (“horizontal”) learning of the technique. They distinguish this from parent-child (“vertical”) learning and older-younger non-parental (“oblique”) learning. Certainly protection of pods is important in this case
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by pcl 6y ago
Yes, and the article addresses this. It says that pain sounds are closer to grunts on the word-grunt spectrum, and they argue that “huh” is more word-like ok that spectrum.
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'Did I Miss Anything?': A Man Emerges from a 75-Day Silent Retreat(nytimes.com)
7 points by pcl 6y ago|3 comments
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by pcl 6y ago
Many languages allow a class to avoid declaring a finalized, for just this reason. The JVM is notable in this regard. And thus, most classes that compile to Java bytecode offer no-finalizer semantics.
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by pcl 6y ago
[1979]. A classic paper, though.
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Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact-check for the first time(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by pcl 6y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 6y ago
I think that it'd be super-valuable to do an analysis of an RDS Postgres deployment. Amazon is doing some dark magic with RDS that sits at this really interesting "distributed, but not that distributed" inflection point, wh
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by pcl 7y ago
The disease also appears to spread much faster than the flu. So even if the death rate is comparable, the infection rate is likely to be far higher.
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by pcl 7y ago
> My guess is mostly stocking up on food, which I've planned to do for a long time - sounds like a good motivation to finally prepare a list and get shopping. If you're going to stock up on food, allow me to suggest cans of who
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by pcl 7y ago
I'm surprised that Merriam-Webster puts that definition in the first position. I definitely consider so-called to have a negative connotation, as in the second definition.
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by pcl 7y ago
I really like the ambient nature of e-ink displays. I don’t want something emitting light and dragging my attention to it, but I do want to be able to glance at the clock or the bus schedule etc. This looks like a product well-suited to tha
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by pcl 7y ago
> SMS 2FA was not good enough, you need the hardware-based 2FA OT, but Apple is doing the right thing here: SMS is not a robust 2FA solution. A recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22016212
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by pcl 7y ago
I would speculate that the partial-clone implementation pulls down all the commits that touch any files that are required. Some of these commits would presumably include changes to other parts of the source tree. Perhaps `git grep` still ma
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by pcl 7y ago
Discussion of the original story 3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13202045
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A tweet gave a journalist a seizure; case brings new meaning to 'online assault'(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by pcl 7y ago|1 comments
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by pcl 7y ago
It works for me from my VPN sites in: US, NL, IN, AU, JP It fails from my sites in: NO, HK, CN (Shanghai; redirects to the HK domain), SG, IL In many of the failing countries, it simply turns into a redirect to the country-specific Disney d
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by pcl 7y ago
I see what you mean. I guess perhaps another way of characterizing PG's advice would be to keep your identity as small as possible, but no smaller. I think it's a pretty good idea to think about how to not be a "Java programm
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by pcl 7y ago
Why do you say that?
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by pcl 7y ago
> That's a direct benefit for your own safety, though. Only given a crash. Better visibility improves your own safety by reducing the likelihood of a crash. Ideally, we would analyze the whole solution and only increase the pillar
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by pcl 7y ago
> The project wasn't ready for a deadline. I really like that way of looking at deadlines and project lifecycles. I haven’t ever heard the relationship expressed that way.
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by pcl 7y ago
The article mentioned that the costs were high, but didn’t actually have any numbers. What do you expect the prototype’s efficiency to look like? What does that mean for the price of a liter of syngas? And how do you expect that to scale fo
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by pcl 7y ago
> And that doesn't count the electricity required to refine/crack the gasoline from crude. If we can figure out how to extract atmospheric CO2 and convert it into hydrocarbons efficiently, crude oil won’t be bart of the equatio
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Caltech Gets a Windfall for Climate Research: $750M(nytimes.com)
5 points by pcl 7y ago|0 comments
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by pcl 7y ago
I’d guess just unlinked, but that’s a pretty uneducated guess. My concerns were regarding the data escaping the device to their cloud, not remaining on-device in case of physical attack.
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by pcl 7y ago
Both are possible.

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