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by tech2 4y ago
The Sony Xperia Z5 Compact was my previous phone that I'd had from 2015 until mid last year. It was close to perfect. Waterproof, headphone socket, SD slot. If a new version of that were released with less of a screen border than the o
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by tech2 4y ago
I appreciate, as described, some of your needs may differ from the standard format (I'd probably still use them to make interoperability between other l languages/people/systems easier though and have my comments etc. in docu
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by tech2 4y ago
Is empty string acceptable in place of None? If so, consider partition: key, sep, value = item.partition("=") If you need to know whether there was a split/match that occurred you could test sep's truthiness.
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by tech2 4y ago
Given your example looks very much like python you could use the CSV module which is built into the standard library and handles all of this for you in a standards compliant manner. You really do want to use a library to parse CSV since the
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by tech2 4y ago
That 13W3 connector is the worst. I also had an Indy many years ago and getting an adapter together for it was a real challenge. These days I expect it to be somewhat simpler though.
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by tech2 5y ago
Sure, I guess my question is around why people would consider a line in a sea of space more legible than the same x-height font with less space below it. I guess I could have an unusual take on this, but I find a lot of mono fonts seem to h
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by tech2 5y ago
Perhaps I'm missing why this is desired for fonts in general, but my tendency when selecting one for editing code is to use one with a smaller vertical line spacing to minimise spacing between lines (and therefore fit more lines on scr
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by tech2 5y ago
An option here might be things like COM and DCOM. Individual, possibly embedded, components and a well defined communications mechanism. Historically the Amiga was quite nice here with systems using AREXX to communicate (but not embed), and
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by tech2 5y ago
Or Directory Opus. I preferred the version 3 approach with two side by side directories, but the current version is ridiculously configurable.
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by tech2 5y ago
Opti also make some pretty good zippers. There are certainly very few good manufacturers in this space though.
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by tech2 5y ago
There is a site I'd used a while back for exactly this when I was trying to ensure that my writing (and speech) in some fiction was gendered in a particular manner - https://www.hackerfactor.com/GenderGuesser.php#Analyz
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by tech2 5y ago
I suspect a lot of it would be the success of garage-based inventors, and the pure-R&D divisions in larger corporations (Xerox-PARC, HP Labs, etc.) The former is likely harder to achieve now, much like how games development is now an af
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by tech2 5y ago
Early on in my Linux-using-life I made the mistake of deleting /etc. That was a learning experience like no other :)
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by tech2 5y ago
Assuming that your commute is around an hour means you're "only" paying £4k/annum (after tax) for that benefit. I agree there is a benefit to the commute (for me it was the walk/exercise), but I find it hard to rati
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by tech2 5y ago
And this is where I really miss Sather: loop while!(condition); ... end; for while, versus loop ... while!(condition); end; for do-while, and loop ... while!(condition); ... end; in pla
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by tech2 5y ago
Capture One? Not cheap, admittedly, and you only get updates for the major version number you bought, but I guess it depends what you miss most about Lightroom? Darktable has its fans as well, but I haven't tried recent versions.
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by tech2 5y ago
This might also explain why the Kiwi emergency number is 111 as a counterpoint to the UK's 999. Interesting!
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by tech2 5y ago
The same thing happened with BeOS many years ago. Initially their programming model was a thing of beauty. Then the POSIX layer arrived so that people could do exactly as you described. Some things should remain different.
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by tech2 5y ago
The Bivacor pump does have a pulse-like output, so I suspect some of the issues with earlier rotary pumps might not be so prevalent. Because it's a rotary pump though I suspect there's still issues with cell damage as they pass pa
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by tech2 5y ago
Sometimes fiction isn't too far from fact - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/feb/02/penthou... They've taken the easy way out here by separating the two groups however.
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by tech2 5y ago
Both of the issues you cited with drugs (harm caused by action performed whilst on drug) and prostitution (coercion) are the crimes rather than the drug or prostitution itself. Driving while intoxicated should certainly be a crime, as shoul
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by tech2 5y ago
> There are no penalties for making bad choices that only affect <<you>>. But almost every choice you make, good or bad, affects someone else. Sure there are, easiest one to reach for is the consumption (or even ownership) of
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by tech2 5y ago
I loved Permutation City. Have you read anything of the Orthogonal series by Egan? The Clockwork Rocket bent my mind and feels like harder sci-fi still.
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by tech2 6y ago
Perhaps not, I suspect that the pins are probably normally tied together. That it's possible, and some of the failure modes are _weird_ is a bit frustrating.
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by tech2 6y ago
Because of how the connector is laid out, it's possible for devices to not work (or to work differently) depending which way up you plug it in: https://twitter.com/mifune/status/1373564866443759617
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by tech2 6y ago
Ah well, thanks for humouring me. Good thing those query optimisers do the right thing on occasion.
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by tech2 6y ago
Double-bonus, 32 is also the word count of poem plus title (sans author name).
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by tech2 6y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why is query 2's meal_items a left join when the where clause then forces it to act as if it were an inner join? Would changing that have any impact?
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by tech2 6y ago
Altered Carbon also heavily featured this idea. Parallelised faster-than-realtime torture, fuzz torture in many ways I guess, with presets to make the subject more compliant to start with.
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by tech2 6y ago
Cosmo, Luce, RX-2, RX-3, I think they even did a Familia at one point.

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