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by stblack 4y ago
I am surprised that Astronomy Now would call this a “great conjunction”. A great conjunction, in astronomy parlance, means just one thing: a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Which, by the way, has a 20 year periodicity. We just had one i
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by stblack 4y ago
Why all the hate HN? I feel the author makes his case clearly, then presents an alternative. Underneath all this is a ton of work, for which I applaud OP. It may not scratch your particular itch, but come on! Being an ass on HN is a choice.
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by stblack 4y ago
Here’s one: height and diameter affect point-of-sale shelf packing among other products from Carnation, and those of competitors.
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by stblack 4y ago
How is Rational (IBM) Requisite Pro these days? Used that 15-20 years ago and loved it. Any present day insight on this?
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by stblack 5y ago
I've resorted to downloading and using the legacy version of Evernote. I find this version is more stable. https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052560314-Ins... (Windows/Mac) I've a
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by stblack 5y ago
Great article indeed. Inquiring mind wants to know, push rods or overhead cams? According to Wikipedia, the 914 could have either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_914#Technical_specific...
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by stblack 5y ago
Yes indeed!
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by stblack 5y ago
At university: Sleep more than you study. Study more than you party. Party as much as you can.
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by stblack 5y ago
Then there’s NDPSoftware’s Git Cheatsheet which is interactive. Click or tap the backgrounds or the arrows. https://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html#loc=local_repo ;
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by stblack 5y ago
Given the title and vibe of the article, could its closing sentence be worse? "Founding members of the Rust Foundation (kicked off in 2021) include Microsoft, Google and AWS." How hard can it be to craft a clear, clean closing sen
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by stblack 5y ago
This saddens me for the following reason. When I introduce young people to coding, it's always great to know their Mac has Python and Ruby on board, and we can quickly drop into a Python shell, or create a trivial .py file, and have so
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by stblack 5y ago
Succinct article, with a most excellent TL;DR.
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by stblack 5y ago
Hmmm. Maybe you haven't done that from scratch recently? The deprecation of passwords for tokens is a fairly recent thing. Try it with a fresh laptop: nothing pre-configured. Show someone new how you set up, from scratch. You're
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by stblack 5y ago
Sorry I may have been unclear? I'm referring to what's required to make a local git repo interoperate with Github. Either via the command line, or with an editor plugin, or an app. Including the Github desktop app. That's a
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by stblack 5y ago
Incidentally I'm onboarding someone new to git and Github. I must say, Github is now exceedingly difficult to set up. Vocalizing every step of the process, hopefully not in a hand-wavy way, it strikes me how hard this must be for ung
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by stblack 5y ago
Wolfram Cloud keeps getting better. It's streets ahead of where it was a year or two ago. Best feature is the ability to share files with notebooks created in the desktop version. My workflow is: create and refine using the desktop ver
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by stblack 5y ago
Victorinox Spartan Swiss knife. https://www.swissarmy.com/ca/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/M...
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by stblack 5y ago
Dropbox has lost its way. This has been true for awhile. I remember when Dropbox was great; it did one thing extremely well. Now it does a bunch of things, none of them well. This may not end well.
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by stblack 5y ago
Just for information, this site and this repo have been around since 2010. Click a box and you get all that's coming, and all that's going, to that box. Hover over a command and the display area at the bottom of the screen explain
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by stblack 5y ago
I love this cheat sheet and yes, it's not obvious that you need to click the boxes to see all commands emanating, or arriving, into that box. The GitHub repo: https://github.com/ndp/git-cheatsheet
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by stblack 5y ago
Support for this landed in Microsoft Edge v12, according to the table in the article. So it's supported across all major browsers, green across the board. But all that may be humorous lisense.
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by stblack 5y ago
This is the best advice! "Deleting" an account has to be a systematic user-side process. We don't talk enough about that.
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by stblack 5y ago
Or viewed another way, the least expensive number in engineering. Because in many applications, the full cost of failure can be unimaginable. Also fudge factors have a tangible benefit: time. It permits declaring a design "good enough
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by stblack 5y ago
I love iPad but for many things. But as a software developer, creating on iPad scores pretty close to zero. Thank you, Panic Software, for hanging in for as long as you did.
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by stblack 5y ago
In the article, the author covers this, saying the technical facets of doing this were worth more than the money saved. In other words, the author tallies the work and learning that went into this as a positive benefit, not a negative, as y
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by stblack 5y ago
I'd be very interested to know how patterns changed between 2012 and, say, February 2020. I bet watching such data as the pandemic eases will be vastly interesting too.
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by stblack 5y ago
Because the stock market and fiat currency aren’t Ponzi schemes at all.
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by stblack 6y ago
The total value of Bitcoin produced and changed as fees is presently in the order of US$50M per day. Miners are competing very profitably, on aggregate, for this amount of money daily. Therefore the full-factor cost of the global Bitcoin ne
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by stblack 6y ago
Among my favorites: > Short words: use them.
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by stblack 6y ago
That’s a reasonable question. I bought The Economist Style Guide shortly after university and I’ve used its recommendations regularly over many years. It’s had a massively positive payback for me. It’s surprisingly versatile advice, whethe

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