thraxil

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by thraxil 4y ago
No, you can comfortably rest your palms on the wood with your fingers on the home row and you either don't tough or just barely rest the joint of your thumb on the fun keys. To actually press them, you have to consciously press down wi
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As an American living in the UK, I will point out that you're not wrong , but the NHS is still vastly better than what was available in the US. And that most of the problems with long waits, etc. are largely the result of deliberate d
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by thraxil 4y ago
Likely not what's being discussed in the article here, but I used to be active on a developer mailing list where discussion of pricing/hourly rates/etc. was forbidden because there were a lot of contractors/freelancers w
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> So once the friend status stuff became so blasé, and users were spending less attention on FB, FB amped up the suggested content. Now, as has been illustrated on some HN posts, the vast majority of what one sees on FB is just suggested
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by thraxil 4y ago
I think the more interesting aspect of this is the framework being used: https://github.com/micro/micro I haven't dug into it at all yet, but at a glance it looks like it's aiming to do something similar to w
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Big fan of Dr. Michael Greger's "The How Not To Die Cookbook" and "The How Not To Diet Cookbook". His focus is much more on the health aspects and emphasize a balanced whole food plant-based diet. My partner got the
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by thraxil 4y ago
https://remote.com/ also handles international payroll/HR/employer of record stuff.
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React and Docker are both almost a decade old (both released in 2013). TypeScript is from 2012. Functional programming is very, very far from being a modern concept even if it's (maybe, finally?) getting a bit more attention.
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It's not intended to be rigorous. The context here is that Richard I. Cook, one of the main figures in safety and resilience engineering, who's published many, many papers on these topics died recently. The "How Complex Syste
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Back in the 90's I used to use MLDBM as the database for simple CGI apps that didn't call for a full-blown RDBMS. There are some obvious limitations, but at the time it was a pretty powerful setup for simple applications.
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by thraxil 4y ago
> Signal, whole disk encryption, the password to a user's iphone backup -- these are _all_ more beneficial to criminals than to the layperson. That's an extraordinary claim. Do you have any data or arguments to back that up? Mi
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> upd after reading responses > Sorry guys I forgot that average person needs to be an idiot. My bad, usually I consider an opposite. Right. Wanting simplicity and low risk around basic daily purchases and transactions means that some
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Remember that the comment started with "My best guess at why the average person is hesitant to use bitcoin". The "average person" needs something roughly equivalent to a current bank or credit card in terms of simplicity
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by thraxil 4y ago
I haven't resorted to the "restart in a cronjob", but on Python/Django apps, we pretty much always use the gunicorn/uwsgi setting that automatically restarts worker processes after serving some number of requests (t
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by thraxil 4y ago
Yeah, it's really not even a tradeoff in the same area in this case. The OFAC sanctions on TC are because they believe that it was being used by and enabling North Korea and various foreign terrorist organizations. DOJ asking Tether no
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by thraxil 4y ago
The recommendation I read back in the 90's in Code Complete that has served me well ever since was that variable name length should be roughly proportional to the variable span. "Variable span" being the distance between wher
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by thraxil 4y ago
The problem is that "the average home-made Python script" frequently ends up turning into a critical production system.
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Also that "the consensus bit" isn't a small thing that you just tack on to an existing system for very little cost. That bit turns something really efficient and widely applicable like git, merkle trees, etc. into a vastly mo
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> It seems to me that block chains will win at the things they are good for a bit the way git won at version control: decentralised systems just require lower overheads and less barrier to entry in general, so people just automatically u
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You got fired just for mentioning category theory? Where were you working? There has to be more to that story.
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> If you don't need those benefits and you don't want the drawbacks, renounce citizenship. You can only renounce US citizenship if you have citizenship somewhere else. There are millions of Americans that live outside the US th
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by thraxil 4y ago
My favorite little band naming micro-trend was bands naming themselves after Python projects, but doubled. Eg, there are bands named "Django Django" and "PyPy".
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"You don't need X because I don't need X and everyone else must have exactly the same requirements and constraints as me" is one of my least favorite takes. > You don't need Docker, just a version control system
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by thraxil 4y ago
Yep. Only British, EU, and Commonwealth citizens living legally in the UK can vote. Those of us from anywhere else in the world can't vote until we fully naturalize.
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Monzo in the UK sends a notification in the app on every transaction. You then even have the option of freezing your card immediately if you think something's up.
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My partner, a former graphic designer, does this. It's mostly her art and design books so it's not too nonsensical and she swears that it's easier for her to find books because she remembers the color of the cover/spine
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by thraxil 4y ago
The advantage of interviews at least is that it's two-way. That's time out of their day as well as mine. When I'm interviewing at a company, I'm also interviewing them to see if I want to work for them. Doing a take-ho
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Had the same experience. Went to an ATM one night and the PIN for my card that I'd used several times a week for probably a decade was just... gone. Never before, never since.
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If you find this interesting, I'd also recommend checking out Andrei Molotiu's "Abstract Comics: The Anthology" from Fantagraphics. A few of the featured artists use asemic writing in their comics. disclosure: I'm o
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Yes, although there are (at least) two different meanings of "I don't trust your setup script". If I don't trust them to not do nefarious/malicious things, then I also shouldn't trust their Docker container eit

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