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by spindle 3y ago
https://www.gov.uk/copyright
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by spindle 3y ago
I keep imagining an elevated 5xx response is a 599 when it should be a 503 or a 504.
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/69clL
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by spindle 3y ago
My favourite advice for how to quit vim is to run a vim command that someone wrote that calls emacs and asks it to tell the operating system to kill vim's process. I'm sorry that I've lost my link to the details.
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by spindle 3y ago
> hindley milner type system for the language Hindley Type Milner Language #ifixeditforyou
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by spindle 3y ago
I believe that practically the whole barrier to getting rid of legacy COBOL systems is testing the replacement system. Of course it's possible but it's very very expensive ... I don't have numbers for how expensive, but I&#x
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by spindle 3y ago
You're my hero
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by spindle 3y ago
KEYBOARD? Tha were lucky
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by spindle 3y ago
No, but it's FUN!
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by spindle 3y ago
I found out last week that Stone Temple Pilots released two albums of totally unrelated music with the same name.
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by spindle 3y ago
I've worked for a few medium-sized non-profits that fund research. Getting lots of money once you're already established has no downsides. You probably already have a contingency plan for how to spend it, and if not you and your
42.
by spindle 3y ago
I spent several years doing tech support for computer science academics (among others) in one of the world's best universities and literally never came across the sort of attitude described in that article.
43.
by spindle 3y ago
And also comparing brains to clockwork.
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by spindle 3y ago
FWIW, I'm the same, and one (admittedly minor) motivation was not having to decide what kind of car to get next.
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/Zt7Td
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/rTf9I
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by spindle 3y ago
I was about to say look at Lineweaver's work, but then I saw that this IS Lineweaver's work :-)
48.
by spindle 3y ago
Per year not per month, which of course is just grist to your mill.
49.
by spindle 3y ago
https://purelymail.com/about Very straightforward service and helpful support.
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by spindle 3y ago
Yes! Happily, it's become okay for them to talk about astrobiology. It was mostly taboo until a few years ago. (Just speculating here, but I think it was the discovery of lots of exoplanets that caused astrobiology to become permissi
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by spindle 3y ago
Good question. In astrobiology (and I think also in biology and most of chemistry) it means any molecules that contain carbon, with a few exceptions (exceptions include carbon dioxide and diamond - they don't count as organic). Strang
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by spindle 3y ago
And many car manufacturers, right?
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by spindle 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205053
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by spindle 3y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Those are omissions that could lead to important information being lost in a way that you probably wouldn't notice when checking your backups.
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by spindle 3y ago
> It's that that Made me laugh, given the topic!
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by spindle 3y ago
One of the reasons it's not so famous is that it's had various historical struggles, including being stuck at 32-bit for a long time IIRC (I'm hazy on the details and corrections welcome). I love it though.
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/xPQhc
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/Y7v2F
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/ETlFE
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by spindle 3y ago
https://archive.md/7X8Xc

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