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The Danube Sinkhole(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago|0 comments
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Shiny for Python – building interactive web apps from Python(github.com)
1 points by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago
Previous submissions related to the same event: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35786401 (0 comments) * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35740994 (0 comments) * https://news.ycombinato
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by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago
> Update #3 > If you care about your unlisted URL privacy with Cloudflare, make sure you don't have the Crawler Hints feature enabled. - A good hunt, thanks and sorry! How about not using CloudFlare at all? Quoting from CF's
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by throwawaybutwhy 3y ago
Not entirely correct, I'm afraid. Concentration camps were inaugurated by the Spanish and popularized by the British. Co-location of killing facilities and camps was not a common occurrence even in Germany, so there were many more conc
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Was the gist generated by ChatGPT? Regardless, large language models are AI, same as Eliza the Emacs Psychoterapist was in days of yore. It's numbers in and numbers out, only much more advanced.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Are you in any way affiliated with Google?
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Microsoft mangles VS Code protected properties to prevent UI customization(github.com)
65 points by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago|28 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
No compatibility improvements? Sad. In my experience, LibreOffice lags an awful lot when opening Office docs; crashes in quite a few cases; doesn't render like MS Office for a vast number of documents (most tragically, PPT slides).
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Google Search is not to blame for SO's decline. Toxic deletionists are part of the problem, yes. But they are the literal dregs at the bottom of the bottle when all the good experts have left or burnt out or converted to deletionists.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
So many comments doubting the validity of the claim. Kinda fishy, but the touchstone is simple: - Does Facebook have an IRB? - How are experiments documented and vetted? We did not know about Plutonium Files, either (for the record, these w
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
> on the basis of mountains of backbreaking and incredibly impactful work I can spot (maybe unintentional) ambiguity from a mile away. Whose backs were broken, and who did the work.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
These devs are, quite plainly, gaming the system (I'm talking about F-Droid specifically). They have found that being on top of 'last updated' list leads to more installs, and are churning out versions.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
> if they are given a carte blanch for revival of militarism and left unchecked. Japanese militarism has been going on for quite a while on slow burner. They can assemble nukes in half no time, they have aircraft carriers called 'de
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PL/1: The COBOL replacement that never took off the ground except in the USSR(softpanorama.org)
7 points by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Yup. Also HolyC (literally a religious undertaking), but the crowd had only one person, and he is no longer with us.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Haskell, Julia, Rust, Lisp, and Forth are 'esoteric' enough to create an in-crowd, who are quite often deluded by imagined miraculous solutions to people's problems. Please repeat after Fred Brooks: there ain't no silver
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Souyz isn't intended to land in Russia.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Zaentz was a serial... entrepreneur. His passing away was lamented by musicians and artists all over the world (as in 'why dint it happen sooner?').
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Maybe xdotool [0] is what you're looking for. [0] https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool/
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Not from inertia, but from the overwhelming hubris of those who aimed to supplant it with something new. IPv6 and Wayland have a lot in common.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
License terms [0]: provided that in no event shall Customer create any Derivative Work that is competitive with or offers substantially the same functionality as the Licensed Software or any other product or software application commerciall
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
(has nothing to do with cognitive behavioral therapy, I'm afraid)
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CBT Tape: a vast archive of mainframe source code in XMIT format(cbttape.org)
2 points by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
I'd wager 10¢ that this is primarily driven by AML efforts.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
You are right, of course, and I stand corrected, performance and/or ability to fully replace less have no bearing on whether a program is a pager.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Suppose it is a technicality, but if it can't handle large (larger than available memory, that is) files [0], it's not a pager. [0] https://github.com/noborus/ov/issues/201
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
It is generally advisable to announce potential conflicts of interest while touting a particular solution in every other comment.
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by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago
Past submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31283119 (14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734687 (0 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5268301 (0 comm
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The Algol 68 Genie project(jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl)
24 points by throwawaybutwhy 4y ago|17 comments

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