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by vizzier 6y ago
And just in brief as to what the pipe generally does without the syntax available. If you have functions x and y which take 1 argument. Where |> is the piping syntax y(1) |> x would be equivalent to x(y(1)) in python.
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by vizzier 6y ago
Heres what we've lost since the 2013-2015 MBPs that I'm currently running: Magsafe 2, Higher travel keyboards, Removable/Replacable SSds, HDMI port (still the most common for displays right now), an escape key, an SD card rea
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by vizzier 6y ago
This sort of thing has been theorized under the name of the Job Guarantee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee
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by vizzier 6y ago
Social media from wikipedia [1]: - Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. - User-generated content such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions, is t
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by vizzier 6y ago
On my home network I used this [1] guide to set up a pihole with dns over https. Should stop snooping of some of those types by anyone but your chosen DNS target at least (middlemen, ISPs etc). Though I can't comment on other types of
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by vizzier 6y ago
Scalpers are a symptom of an item having higher value than the retailer is choosing to price it at. That higher value right now is provided by a lack of supply. Or, possibly the unusually high demand during covid. The fix is that we just ne
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by vizzier 6y ago
Why do some have horizontal bars, and some vertical? And if it is meaningless, why is it part of the icon?
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by vizzier 6y ago
Not a US ruling but in the EU courts in 2012 upheld that copyright exhaustion happens even if a piece of software is "licensed not sold". Though many questions still remain and the ruling is pretty old now. [1] Seems there was als
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by vizzier 6y ago
This always depends on context if parallelizing anything actually helps with performance but my most common usage of F# (essentially Ocaml on .net) parallel features are using the .net parallel library[1]. Easy way to introduce parallelized
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by vizzier 6y ago
Maybe look at F# for something .net compatible. Personally its use in some contexts, particularly those using the F# type providers has served me well. I also prefer to use FSX scripts over CSX in contexts where that is useful. I find my de
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by vizzier 6y ago
Plenty of these: speeded vs sped / spilled vs spilt / learned vs learnt https://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.ht... Not sure if its a purely US vs common wealth thing, there seems to be pl
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by vizzier 7y ago
Generally I've chalked these feelings up to a certain type of existential dread. Described in this article[1] fairly well. Kind of reminds you of the total perspective vortex from the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy. Truly, on a unive
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by vizzier 7y ago
You don't need a proxy for the same reason that your ISP can't read your https data. The data transmitted is encrypted at either end so people passing that data can't read it. Current DNS requests are passed in plain text so
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by vizzier 7y ago
The excellent video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ
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by vizzier 7y ago
Practical upshot presumably being the end user will pay more for shipping instead of it being subsidized at the tax level by everyone. For better or worse.
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by vizzier 7y ago
Also, the ever humorous millennials to snake people[1] and its ensuing news story[2] [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna... [2] https://gizmodo.com/new-york-times-issues
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by vizzier 7y ago
I've not seen this as the basis for the default usage of const over var (or let) in javascript. The primary reason that I'm aware of is that if you use const by default, the compiler will tell you if you accidentally re-define the
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by vizzier 7y ago
Is that this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34_L7t7fD_U
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by vizzier 7y ago
not OP. Not this specifically but this generally these types of changes. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/client where we can run abitrary desktop languages in the browser is going to be huge
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by vizzier 8y ago
Beyond even that a lot of what we do in computing is about making it easier for humans to safely forget implementation detail. We have to assume that when you call the object.toString() function that you'll get a string back representi
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by vizzier 8y ago
Tom Scott did a video on this very subject with a decent amount of depth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI
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by vizzier 8y ago
.net core F# support has been pretty great from the initial stages of .net core from my basic usage. Biggest challenge seemed to be around type providers (F# system of generating strongly typed classes from dynamic data such as XML, CSVs, H
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by vizzier 8y ago
Microsoft's Docs for getting started are pretty great: https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/get-started/macos On mac they appear to be recommending visual studio code with the c# extension. I'd agree
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by vizzier 9y ago
They switched from 0.14 to 15.0 to reflect react being production ready. See here: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2016/02/19/new-version...
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by vizzier 10y ago
Not a user of the edge version myself but the above version is endorsed on the uBlock origin repo: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#microsoft-edge