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by pdpi 1y ago
One of the nice features of 8 bit bytes is being able to break them into two hex nibbles. 9 bits breaks that, though you could do three octal digits instead I suppose. 10 bit bytes would give us 5-bit nibbles. That would be 0-9a-v digits, w
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by pdpi 1y ago
I've used Firefox Focus as an ad blocker for Safari on iOS for several years now. I don't actually use it as my browser, I just use Safari as normal, but it integrates with Safari, and seems to work well enough.
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by pdpi 1y ago
I don't aim for any specific value, but I find that my code is decidedly bimodal — any give file is either close to zero comments or in that 30-50% by lines range. More specifically: I try to structure my code such that the "30-50
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by pdpi 1y ago
More like "hyper-processed plant-based faux-meat may not succeed". Beyond Meat's problem is that they're catering to a tiny, highly-specific niche: people not willing to eat meat but are willing to pay through the nose f
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by pdpi 1y ago
You can simultaneously despise somebody for what they do while respecting them for how they did it. In fact, that respect is essential if you want to learn the right lessons and stop the next guy from doing the same thing.
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by pdpi 1y ago
GP said that macOS is a pleasure to code on , you’re arguing that it is not a pleasure to code for . Both can be true at the same time!
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by pdpi 1y ago
I assume that, by Chromium, you mean WebKit. At any rate, how or why would they have blocked Firefox on a machine where you can compile your own code?
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by pdpi 1y ago
Apple has an advertising business. That’s materially different from having advertising as your core revenue stream. Likewise, Google has a consumer electronics business, but they’re not a consumer electronics company.
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by pdpi 1y ago
> It really seemed like Pratchett knew something of this niche cultures, way more than I expected. He was definitely an early adopter of the internet, (and e.g. very active on alt.fan.pratchett), so that's no big surprise.
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by pdpi 1y ago
Yup. Vimes going full-on berserker mode while screaming "Where is my cow?" should, by all rights, be extremely silly. Instead, it sent shivers down my spine.
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by pdpi 1y ago
The thing that struck me about "GNU John Dearheart" was how it feels like it _really_ deeply captures hacker culture, like Pterry wasn't just referencing the culture, but that he really got it. Which is remarkable, because he
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by pdpi 1y ago
Cargo's the package manager and build tool, and doesn't really replace mise. Rustup, as the toolchain version manager, is the mise-equivalent for the Rust ecosystem.
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by pdpi 1y ago
That market exists, but the window of time here is like twenty minutes. Pumps have inertia and take time to spin up, you can't HFT load and generation.
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by pdpi 1y ago
What I'm reading from that quote is that the issue wasn't renewables as such, but an issue of power generation reacting too quickly and too intensely to price fluctuations. "Renewables" only matter insofar as they'r
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by pdpi 1y ago
> If you write equations in Word Equation Editor, your work just doesn't look very serious. Haven't tried it in a while, but, last I checked, Word Equation Editor output didn't look serious because it looked janky and look
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by pdpi 1y ago
Don't get me wrong — the real draw is repairability, not upgradability. Upgrades are just a fringe benefit for a nerd who likes tinkering, and proof that the repairability is real.
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by pdpi 1y ago
I bought the DIY FW13 a while back, and it took me 40 minutes from receiving the box to having it fully assembled, Fedora installed and a Youtube video playing. I bought the hi-res display a month or two ago, and the whole replacement took
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by pdpi 1y ago
I wonder whether Discord will at some point start selling a "Discord for Business" product. Just adding SSO would get them 90% of the way there.
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by pdpi 1y ago
> would just zoom it all in a minute, The Earth is about 8 light-minutes away from the Sun :)
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by pdpi 1y ago
MacOS users' awareness of a mostly linux centric piece of tech is pretty damn irrelevant here. The point is that FUSE is a pretty mature piece of technology, and we know that it can be used productively without being that nightmare sce
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by pdpi 1y ago
> The idea of private fields and getter/setter methods was popularized by Java, but it is an anti-pattern. I agree with this part with no reservations. The idea that getters/setters provide any sort of abstraction or encapsulat
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by pdpi 1y ago
The issue is that I don't want to be part of their revenue streams, or DAUs, or anything else that helps build their business.
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by pdpi 1y ago
As much as we need an alternative to YouTube, Rumble’s whole gimmick is basically “we don’t block nazis”. Insofar as supporting problematic businesses goes, that’s out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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by pdpi 1y ago
That's the point, though: Jobs was a very successful asshole, and people get their "becauses" and "despites" mixed up. The Jobs wannabes overshoot on the "despites" and keep falling short on the "beca
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by pdpi 1y ago
> The result becomes less weird when you realize that that almost all functions from string -> boolean are not expressible as a program. I think this is one of those cases where a maths background makes computer science much easier. I
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by pdpi 1y ago
Something the article mentions in passing is Java’s “package private” being the default. For the longest time, I believed that this was dumb, and that the default should’ve been private. Over time, my style has changed a fair bit, and these
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Lisp of Theseus does have a certain ring to it.
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If the class instantiates its own dependencies then, by definition, you're not injecting those dependencies, so you're not doing dependency injection at all!
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by pdpi 1y ago
And, inversely, the five degree drop from, say, 3C to -2C represents means water can and will freeze, which is another massive change in livability.
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Really started adding. This is the key quote: Second, we document that, following the enactment of the federal law, some food manufacturers engaged in risk mitigation by adding small amounts of sesame to products that previous

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