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by vlz 3y ago
Thank you for explaining! I guess that is plausible (and much less maddening than the matter-of-fact FAQ page).
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by vlz 3y ago
So Chrome on MacOS is more secure than Edge or Firefox on the same OS and gets 1080p while the other two don't. But it is not as secure as Chrome on Linux? I don't get it. What is Chrome on MacOS doing differently from Chrome on L
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by vlz 3y ago
Yeah, HD, but not "Full HD". The page has "HD (720p)" as max for all linux browsers. For each of the other OSes you have at least one browser with 1080p (Chrome at least). Why this restriction?
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by vlz 3y ago
An interesting deep dive with code into how sidekiq job processing in ruby works. Articles like these are a great way of reading (or skimming?) code and absorbing patterns without having to puzzle everything together yourself. Would also b
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by vlz 3y ago
I'm not sure if I quite get it. Is the part with the butter inserted upside down into the part with the water? Would it then not slide down over time?
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by vlz 3y ago
Yes, thank you! And Quine spoke about „the value of a bound variable“ if I am not mistaken which seems like a minor point, but there has to be some universe of discourse and some quantification has to go on for a variable to be bound. This
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by vlz 3y ago
Interesting, I heard a story once that you can catch bats with keys: Put a bunch of keys in a sock and throw that in the air. If there is a bat near enough it might dive for and grab the object, then it gets drawn to the ground because the
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by vlz 3y ago
Sure, but as I said, probably not without establishing some culture around it. Just for fun, let's look at shopify's Ruby Style Guide under "General"[0]: Avoid mutating arguments. Avoid monkeypatching. ...
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by vlz 3y ago
Cool, have been searching for something like this. Small suggestion: would put on the page what the name abbreviates. Or is "When are you free" so universal? (I didn't get it before seeing your post, but am not a native speak
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by vlz 3y ago
Fun, but hard to play on mobile with small screen. Seems you have to put your thumb somewhere where it blocks your sight.
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String Prism(bkis.github.io)
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by vlz 3y ago
Yes, I want to highlight what you say about large companies. ruby really shines, I think, if you are a solo dev or a small team, where everybody is on the same page and the codebase is completely understood. It is also good for libraries wi
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by vlz 3y ago
Personally I am fine doing python/Django fullstack without it and never felt the need to use async/await. I was interested in the situation with the Django ORM however. The page you linked to seems somewhat contradictory. In the s
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by vlz 3y ago
Englands or later the UKs way towards democracy was quite gradual. But I think they were the first to kill their king „in the name of the people“ (1649) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I And then not
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by vlz 3y ago
Possibly, but just because there is a lot of scattered evidence for salt being used in religious/ritualistic ways over the ages, doesn't mean it was important everywhere for that reason and at every time. I like the article for st
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by vlz 3y ago
Shipping sure, but also simply the fact that a good part of the worlds population were part of the British empire. Wikipedia has 23% of the world population at 1913. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire
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by vlz 3y ago
Yes, if you take distributed to just mean "the same code on multiple machines". The GP above probably means "different code on different machines interacting" which brings its very own set of problems.
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by vlz 3y ago
> Finally, like other development tool vendors, Replit is doubling down on AI coding features which affect the cost of paid plans. But I'm not interested in this as the whole point of my hobby programming is to write all the code my
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by vlz 3y ago
They did this with the "Song of Ice and Fire" (i.e. Game of Thrones) books for example. If you look at the translations here: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?4543 You will see two titles for German, Fren
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by vlz 3y ago
I have to disagree somewhat. People write books for a lot of reasons, but one alluring thought in many an author's head certainly is: "Sure, it might not be commercially viable directly now, but over time…" Writing books can
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by vlz 3y ago
Here is a quote from a different article with numbers (apparently self reported by Deutsche Bahn) for January 2023 for one station: > Less construction work in cold weather normally means fewer delays. But only 71,8 percent of Deutsche B
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by vlz 3y ago
Yes, is this just a baseless headline? From the articles descriptions and from the abstract of the linked paper here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41637-4 I would have thought this is about how tasting sou
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by vlz 3y ago
Thank you! It is really important to emphasize that heat and humidity have both to be taken into account. To quote a relevant passage from the article you linked: > Concern often centres on the “threshold” or “critical” WBT for humans, t
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by vlz 3y ago
Cool project, I wanted to contribute for my city but clicking on Sign In. "Continue with Google" seems to be the only option. That made me sad and leave. I know implementing auth is a hassle and might well take more time than addi
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by vlz 3y ago
While the point made by the authors is certainly a valid one, it's a bit sneaky and not very fitting to their overall message that they have the Y-axes on the ngram graphs not 0-indexed. This makes the google results seem more extreme
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by vlz 3y ago
> "rubber" tires Incidentally Lego has a claim to being one of the largest tire manufactures. Apparently they are making more tires than anybody else but of course the tires are tiny. https://jalopnik.com/lego-i
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by vlz 3y ago
> the material didn’t reduce carbon emissions Good on them for checking that, but aren't there additional concerns with plastics, e.g. reducing the amount of microplastics in the environment?
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by vlz 3y ago
Let me applaud that! Small redundancies like these in writing lessen ambiguity and cognitive load. Although "2023" is longer than "23" it is more readily apparent as a year when e.g. looking/scanning for dates in th
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by vlz 3y ago
True, but I would like to add: 1. If you can afford it, you should still reduce. 2. The meat and dairy industries are heavily subsidized especially in developed countries. These prices are artificially low.[1] The subsidies could of course
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by vlz 3y ago
You are right, that would certainly be a very big contribution and could have been listed as well. Relocating however is a very big step. While I actually don’t own a car myself and seldom needed one, I am hesitant to prescribe that to othe

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