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by qwery 4y ago
Github is primarily a website for developers, right? Who is the blog for? This article is garbage. It reads like SEO trash and I'm not sure why Github feels the need to publish it. It's just a list of common Python talking points.
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by qwery 4y ago
Well that was far less controversial than the comments here suggested. I read a call for innovation, the general thrust of which is based on the (obvious?) argument that if you build every new system to be compatible with the old one you li
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by qwery 4y ago
I'm not sure that the person who submitted this could have considered the fact that the service has now been restored, regardless of how imminent the restoration was. It's an interesting event (albeit it relatively low impact one)
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by qwery 4y ago
> They are deliberately keeping prices high and creating artificial shortages of GPUs, I'm not sure if you're referring to AMD "undershipping", but if you read how they use that word it's pretty clearly a bad thi
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by qwery 4y ago
Thanks for explaining!
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by qwery 4y ago
The story is about US civilians' balloons, launched domestically, being shot down while over the US (I think).
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by qwery 4y ago
I recently noticed my habit of starting a message or note with a lower case letter. What I found amusing (and what led to me thinking about it) was that I always capitalise the start of the second and subsequent sentences. Also of note: I a
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by qwery 4y ago
The title is "Why I use C..." so the article being an account of the guy's journey using C seems highly appropriate.
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by qwery 4y ago
On the other hand, the interaction is mostly with total strangers and is almost always in text form. Most of the time you don't even have to see their faces! (also I don't understand why there wouldn't be subtext)
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by qwery 4y ago
Whether it's the scripting language or the physics engine, Godot's in-house solutions (and general differences to other game engines) always draw a bit of criticism. The article mentions the 'considerable amount of issues&#x2
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by qwery 4y ago
Writing for people and arguing well are separate skills to programming or most other occupations. Competence in one does not imply competence in the other. I find writing a well-formed comment/argument/response to be no easier tha
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by qwery 4y ago
> if I'm searching "bakery" on my mobile phone I probably want the ones around me Only when you're using a phone? Only if you're not at home? What if you want to find out what a bakery is? (Apologies for rapid fi
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by qwery 4y ago
I actually like having software and hardware that can be idle. I find it quite peculiar that some app/window/page I'm explicitly not interacting with should be doing work because I'm not interacting with it.
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Friendlyjordies' dangerous work met with firebombing attacks(independentaustralia.net)
7 points by qwery 4y ago|2 comments
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by qwery 4y ago
I'm not sure which other "articles like this" you are referring to, but I don't think you need to be too worried. Was this article was paid for by the Japanese government? I doubt it. The website appears to be that of a
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by qwery 4y ago
(A computer that boots to) BASIC is small and cute compared to DOS. Windows 2K is small and cute compared to Windows XP compared to Vista to 7. What was scary about having a desktop PC in the pre-internet days? I often use my desktop PC wit
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by qwery 4y ago
The five-nines was a commonly used marketing claim used by companies about the product/service/system they were selling, it wasn't and isn't being applied to a general context. I think the point being made there is not
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by qwery 4y ago
I think car makers often do "surprising" marketing campaigns -- more often than companies selling other products. I would guess it's because buying a car is a very big purchasing decision for most people. You can't reall
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by qwery 4y ago
> Only 2.4 of the 112.4 million spent was actually on maintaining the servers themselves. ... why? You seem to be arguing that anything other than strictly server maintenance is wrong, immoral or unnecessary. I'm not sure why that w
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by qwery 4y ago
Yes, and seeing the total cost of running a website being significantly greater than the cost of the web hosting seems perfectly reasonable.
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by qwery 4y ago
The most recent Annual Reports [0][1] list 43% and 42% "Direct support to websites" and has a brief explanation of how "Keeping the Wikimedia websites online is about more than just servers." But I do note that plural &#
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by qwery 4y ago
How do you arrive at the claim that "probably most" donations go to "pushing woke politics"? What does "pushing woke politics" mean? Why is the cost of web hosting so important? Do any comparable organisations
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Optus customer site was on cybersecurity blacklist(independentaustralia.net)
1 points by qwery 4y ago|0 comments
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Minister criticises UN as inspectors denied access to NSW jails(abc.net.au)
34 points by qwery 4y ago|4 comments
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by qwery 4y ago
There is definitely a problem with music being used throughout a bulletin / during actual reporting. I guess there's a sliver of potentially acceptable use cases in long-form investigative reporting. News programs having an introd
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by qwery 4y ago
I'm sure a lot of Australians are quite fond of the bulletin introduction theme used on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio and TV since the 1950s. The original recording and history is available on the National Film and So
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by qwery 4y ago
Because that's how you know the news is on/starting.
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by qwery 4y ago
Very tall people are taller than tall people. (Of course) you can (always) (just) remove words from a sentence. The (very) idea that doing so will (always) result in a "better" sentence is nonsensical. The Empire State Building is
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by qwery 4y ago
When you write something, what it is that you are doing, to put it very (clearly excessively) plainly, is selecting words that convey some meaning in some way that pleases you, the writer. Choose your words. You can try to choose words to p
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Streaming Services Lost the Plot(jeffgeerling.com)
4 points by qwery 4y ago|0 comments

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