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by unpythonic 2y ago
The other article fails to mention the building vs land+building valuation. I posted it over there, but thought this was a better article on its own.
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97% Off? Values of Old Office Towers Go to Near-Zero, but the Land Has Value(wolfstreet.com)
3 points by unpythonic 2y ago|3 comments
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by unpythonic 2y ago
Here's a better article covering this situation: https://wolfstreet.com/2024/08/01/values-of-old-office-tower... Unsurprising that a building's value goes down over time while the land on which it r
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White House Urges Developers to Avoid C and C++(tomshardware.com)
4 points by unpythonic 3y ago|0 comments
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by unpythonic 3y ago
Sadly, it's not always that simple. If one of your well-pinned packages has a build dependency which is not correctly pinned, then you're subject to the problem.
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by unpythonic 3y ago
Oh yeah! Perl sure did have a bunch of ugly programs, but I believe that was because it was so easy for non-experts to program in it. There have been many companies successfully built atop of a Perl code base, and I've seen fantastic s
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by unpythonic 3y ago
Horror is apt. You hit it on the head with the slowness of loops when the body comprises a series of program invocations. The horror really seeps in when you realize the original author wasn't stopped by the lack of data structures: th
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by unpythonic 3y ago
The effortless composition of complex commands out of simple standalone programs is one of the best features of Unix. And yes, I admire and love it as well. That said, imagine a metrics system for a huge networking company that used these m
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by unpythonic 3y ago
When perl came out we were living in horrific times. You had the choice of either Bourne, C or Korn shell. Automation was glued together in one of these with a series of grep, awk, sed, ls, test, commands glued together. Anything more compl
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by unpythonic 3y ago
I was an innkeeper, in this crazy, little town in Vermont... https://youtu.be/OwYw2i2icNg?t=430
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by unpythonic 4y ago
The claim: reduces CO₂e emissions by up to 80%* The asterisk: water boiling phase excluded When I boil pasta, I use full heat to get the water boiling, drop in the pasta, then let it come back up to a boil, then drop the temperature as low
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by unpythonic 4y ago
If you google your question, you literally get a set of videos showing you how to do it. "oneplus 10 pro qr": https://www.google.com/search?q=OnePlus+10+Pro+qr In 30 seconds, I found that you can do it by using th
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by unpythonic 4y ago
After all, they're pigs on the wing. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79160/time-pink-floyds-g...
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by unpythonic 4y ago
If you read through to the bottom, you'll see the article itself is just a call to action for yet another service which the author is starting. It's an ad. Seeing it buried so deep doesn't make me feel that the author has any
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by unpythonic 4y ago
The article is just an ad. > This was my motivation for starting GlacierMD: I wanted to give consumers the information they needed to make evidence-based health decisions. And although I lost that battle (spectacularly) I'm still fi
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by unpythonic 5y ago
Fascinating article which explains the seeming contradiction between China's crackdown on some of the most visible tech companies (Alibaba, Tencent) and it's new emphasis on tech growth.
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What tech does China want? Communist Party’s masterplan for its tech industry(economist.com)
4 points by unpythonic 5y ago|1 comments
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by unpythonic 5y ago
And here are the headers: # curl -i https://www.facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Transport-Securi
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by unpythonic 6y ago
Because ctrl-z will stop the current command, and when you run "fg" it resumes that one process. However, the loop you were in has been abandoned, and it will not continue to execute. For example, try it with this: for N in
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by unpythonic 7y ago
Let's begin at the beginning, Chapter da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709. Of course, that's tongue-in-cheek. It all began with e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290.
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by unpythonic 7y ago
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are
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by unpythonic 7y ago
I find it funny when satire from the past becomes the truth of the present. It's not hard to find examples such as the dystopian satire of "Network" (1976) becoming depressingly accurate. In this case, Mitchell & Webb pe
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Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia(nytimes.com)
95 points by unpythonic 7y ago|4 comments
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by unpythonic 7y ago
Saying that Perl was one of the first languages is silly of course. It's nowhere near as old as LISP, FORTRAN, and C. However, Perl is the first of its kind. Prior to Perl, one would have to hack together in either Bourne or C-shell
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by unpythonic 7y ago
Not sure why we don't refer to the original reporting from which this was based: "When rides go wrong: How Uber’s investigations unit works to limit the company’s liability" https://www.washingtonpost.com/tech
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by unpythonic 7y ago
The New York Times ran an article yesterday covering the same topic. I don't have a WSJ subscription, so I don't know if they reference the New York Times article. "How Apple’s Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls
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by unpythonic 7y ago
I get the feeling he was looking at a world map with a Mercator projection.
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by unpythonic 7y ago
As referenced from "Facebook Under Oath: You Have No Expectation of Privacy", https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/facebook-court-pr... A very interesting dialog between a US District cou
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Facebook, Inc Consumer Privacy Litigation(documentcloud.org)
2 points by unpythonic 7y ago|1 comments
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by unpythonic 8y ago
As much as the Common Core standards are criticized here in California, I have to say that the emphasis on the "why" behind every operation is really fantastic. It's usually in the last section of each homework, but it provi

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