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by philsnow 4y ago
This is also the only way I can make sense of twitter, skip the 'feed' or whatever it's called[0] and go right to my curated lists. [0] as an aside, I only just made the connection that 'feed' is likely an abbreviat
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by philsnow 4y ago
I haven't seen anybody mention xpra ( https://xpra.org/ ) yet, but I used to use it daily a while back when I still used linux on my laptop. "Screen for X" really jives with how I wanted to use it (beefy ser
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by philsnow 4y ago
I would guess they diverted out of: - respect for the dead: a person has just passed on. Many people want at least the illusion of deceased people being at rest, and would think it's undignified to bring the body all the way to the de
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by philsnow 4y ago
> You can poll your friends, colleagues, and relatives It only makes sense to do this on the level of a governing body, because the term 'monopoly' is defined by governing bodies and the remedies against it are enforced by the
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by philsnow 4y ago
> the eastern part of [Oregon] has sunnier weather Pendleton has an annual round-up that's been running for 100-odd years. Not a reason to live there necessarily, but just in case anybody's in the area and hadn't heard of
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by philsnow 4y ago
I ran into a bug in production unpickling some builtins (dicts or sets or something) that were pickled in 2.2 and unpickled in 2.4 (or 2.4 -> 2.6, it's fuzzy). Between those two versions, the exposed 'dunder' methods of wh
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by philsnow 4y ago
TIL about latexmk (which I gather is a perl script that handles a lot of the latex build deps, like running bibtex at the right time(s), for you automatically), thanks! I never really understood most of the TeX world. I cargo-culted the bi
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by philsnow 4y ago
IIRC entirely because I didn't use emacs to edit the figures, I was using xfig and later some other figure drawing program I can't remember the name of. If I were just using a save hook (or flymake-mode, which I later used for si
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by philsnow 4y ago
> File-watcher or live-reloading. You can create a build/deploy loop fairly easily When I worked with latex more, I kept a ~/.Makefile-latex and a shell function that would pretty much just do inotifywait -e modify -e move
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by philsnow 4y ago
> untangle their environments because they messed up with asdf and everything broke down I remember the bad old days when all that version management was typically done just right on your machine, often with different versions of python&
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by philsnow 4y ago
> virtual machine is itself overloaded (do you mean OS vm or language runtime vm) there's further different types of virtual "machines". they used to be called "type 1" and "type 2", * type 1: runs on
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by philsnow 4y ago
oh man, that reminds me of typing .com programs from magazine listings into DEBUG.EXE
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I run coloproperty.com and the MLS How did you find yourself running those? What's your story if you don't mind me asking? I've known many people who got into real estate (just getting a realtor's license) on the s
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by philsnow 4y ago
> installing up to date things from a language package manager is harder on Debian than elsewhere For better or for worse, I think this is partly where my preference to use rbenv, pyenv, asdf, etc comes from. The other part was from hosi
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by philsnow 4y ago
> None of them are making profitable EVs at scale. Is the f150 lightning not profitable for Ford? I looked just now and can't find any information (maybe have to wait until next fiscal year?). Their costs for that line are lower t
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by philsnow 4y ago
> About 15 minutes before the shimmering happens, I can already feel that something is off with my vision. I've had only a couple of these in my life, both brought on by stress. For me they've both been preceded by about 15 mi
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I remember buying some castle toy set for some friends young boys (4-6) for Christmas. It was a step up of from "Fisher Price" detail. Had horses and soldiers, and big castle. Was it Schleich, by any chance?
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by philsnow 4y ago
That's precisely Wish's business model, as far as I can tell.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Vitess does something similar, "query coalescing", which was designed for loads that are very read-heavy. If 1000 requests come in that end up making the same read query from the database, and they all came in in the same 50ms th
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by philsnow 4y ago
If you care to use an established term for it, there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied-%C3%A0-terre
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by philsnow 4y ago
> The posix filesystem just doesn't have the abstractions/expressiveness one would need to build a robust security perimeter between untrusted apps. This, absolutely, but I think it's even worse than that; in my mind the v
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by philsnow 4y ago
> in most languages, you don't have to worry about the two-dimensional layout of your code I bet most people saw your comment and thought of things like befunge [0] (and scratch of course), but I smiled when I thought of fortran 77.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> using a browser from the world’s biggest advertiser is wrong on principle Spot on. As said many many times, the browser is the new OS. If Google wowed the world and introduced a free (beer or speech, doesn't matter) Windows-kille
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by philsnow 4y ago
Normal code that's compact and easy to follow is usually that way because it was written by somebody with a lot of experience. I've seen plenty of shit-piles called "code".
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mbasic.facebook.com is like old.reddit.com; crusty and still largely works
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> its degree program is pretty overtly not a traditional academic degree program (not even in theology), but a religio-political indoctrination program designed to create warriors for a particular political viewpoint on behalf of a theoc
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To my knowledge, accreditation takes a few years and requires demonstrating adherence to the accreditation standards over a similar period of years. I don't know if, for a new school, accreditation groups retroactively "credit&quo
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by philsnow 4y ago
My understanding of this new college is that it's aimed at solving the perceived problem of four-year Catholic liberal arts schools, namely that they graduate a lot of young adults with the same (or roughly the same) degrees, but witho
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by philsnow 4y ago
This answer reminds me of the blog post of the guy asked to implement a linked list iirc during an interview, and he does it all in Haskell's type system. https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I tried it a while ago (more than 1yr ago) and was taken aback by the number of AWS constructs it uses. I wasn't sure what all it was creating on the backend and what the impact of those constructs on the product's recurring

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