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by rrwo 4y ago
Communication is a skill, and the vast majority of people have not been trained in it.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Sigils are used for shell scripts and awk, and Perl is descended from both. They are a useful visual indicator that something is a variable, so they don't bother me. Newer versions of Perl add post-dereference syntax which reduces the
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Ronnametres and quettagrams may soon join the ranks of SI units(newscientist.com)
2 points by rrwo 4y ago|1 comments
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by rrwo 4y ago
New prefixes in the International System of Units could be confirmed on Friday, ushering in ronto and quecto for tiny numbers and ronna and quetta for very large numbers, like the amount of data on internet servers
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by rrwo 4y ago
The problem isn't the lack of a human contact. The problem is having no choice but to participate in a closed app store with opaque rules with no oversight or appeals.
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by rrwo 4y ago
If you're gonna grift rich fólk, may as well do it to billionaires.
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by rrwo 4y ago
How is legislation going to help? of anything, countries will add their own bizarre restrictilns to protect children, morality, religion and politicians. "We're sorry, but your app will be removed until you can satiafy legal reatr
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by rrwo 4y ago
I wonder if part of the problem is that Anthony is not a fluent English speaker, and perhaps does not realize that he is not as clear as he thinks he is.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Reading this and similar stories makes me glad that I've not gotten into mobile app development.
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by rrwo 4y ago
If most of the roughly 7-billion other people on the planet have never heard of it, then yes, most people have never heard of it.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Most new non-EVs don't have spares anymore.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Interesting, since EVs supposedly have lower maintenance costs overall https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_maintenance.html > All-electric vehicles typically require less maintenance than conventional vehicles
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by rrwo 4y ago
Some cities have various regular developer meetings, often devoted to programming languages (e.g. Perl, Python, Java) or areas (web development, embedded devices, even scripting languages). It might be worth going on a city group on Reddit
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by rrwo 4y ago
The lists themselves are not mocking people. But anyone who is angered by the existence of these lists because someone might not deserve to be on them.... is worth mocking. Of all the injustices committed by governments and corporations and
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by rrwo 4y ago
A bigger team doesn't create buggy software because it contains below average coders. It creates buggy software because the team members have to coordinate with more people.
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by rrwo 4y ago
So, smaller programs do less, so there are less potential bugs. They are also easier to comprehend by developers.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It's not random, and no one is being persecuted. It's not retaliation or mocking. People have a right to share information with each other about abusive people or places who should be avoided. The lists could be campus rapists, o
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by rrwo 4y ago
The informal lists that people share are not equivalent to angry crowds with pitchforks. They are actually circulated among victims and their friends, with a lot of validation of repeat offenders. So there is a lot of informal collective i
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by rrwo 4y ago
Some poor slob couldn't get a date because he was slandered on the secret rapist wall of shame? Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by rrwo 4y ago
This is a clickbait headline. Accidents happen, and will always happen. They aren't being covered up, and most don't require a public announcement.
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by rrwo 4y ago
There are different kinds of lists for different behaviour and different victims. When I was in university, there was a women's bathroom in one of the buildings that was noted to have a list of alleged rapists (students and professors)
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by rrwo 4y ago
How is it legal to be able to get a loan to buy a company, then transfer that loan to the company you bought, then let the company burn to the ground from the crushing debt?
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by rrwo 4y ago
Surely we can come up with a semantic name for <blink>? "Bring levity in kind"
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes, we can't emphasize this enough. Companies have an incentive to make money off of their customers' data, and technology just means that they can make money at every level (your ISP, your smart TV, the apps you use on it and th
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Question: Would you handle spidering your website from AWS and Azure?
1 points by rrwo 4y ago|0 comments
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by rrwo 4y ago
For some subject areas, this is normal. Everyone who contributed something to the research gets credit. (I think in Physics the authors are listed alphabetically as well.) Contrast that with other areas where people who contributed signi
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by rrwo 4y ago
I don't think of nesting or calc as scripting like. Animation control is where things start to get weird.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Part of the problem is that people in the US are hostile to the government actually doing anything using government employees instead of external contractors or consultants.
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by rrwo 4y ago
This works for rice and other grains too. Another trick is that you don't need a giant pot of water, just enough to cover the pasta, especially for smaller pasta like penne/fusilli etc.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Typewriters and dot matrix printers were monospace. It had nothing to do with lining code up. When I attended university in the mid-1990s, and again in mid-2000s, we were required to hand in papers using monospace font, black ink, with a s

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