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by wging 6y ago
Rich Hickey is supposed to have said that he created Clojure because he was tired of telling people to read that book. Best I can find as a source for now is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 -- I thought there wa
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by wging 6y ago
Discussed up-thread: OnOff has an eccentric orbit, and I think we're meant to infer that it was in the Beyond or Transcend at one point. ( I think the characters draw the wrong conclusion about which part of its eccentric orbit was th
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by wging 6y ago
Yes, that was my take too. "OnOff’s eccentric orbit had at least passed through those unseen depths." -- but the irony of the end of the book is that they're going to be going entirely the wrong way . The ellipse that descri
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by wging 6y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing... for more info.
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by wging 6y ago
My guess would be 1984, since it's a transposition away from what was printed and there's also a link back to a table of contents that says 1984.
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by wging 6y ago
It's always tough to figure out which part of a Matt Levine article the OP wanted to talk about, since the title just covers the first one. They're all interesting. If I had to guess I'd say the Luckin Coffee one, since it al
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by wging 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%27s_theorem#Example:_R(... Let the 6 nodes be users, and color edges between two users red if they are friends, blue if they are not. I think it's true as stated, as another co
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by wging 6y ago
> Once it's 100%, delete the old serverless function. I suggest keeping it around for a while. A function not being used should have cost equivalent to a database entry, not a running container or VM, so this should be cheap and th
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by wging 7y ago
Try https://users.rust-lang.org/t/sync-but-not-send/21551/3 ?
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by wging 7y ago
"3. Extension-ready This update will initially include support for one of the most popular extensions..." Having support for exactly one means you don't support the others. They also say "Additional extensions will be su
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by wging 7y ago
Am I reading this right? They're going to launch a browser update that removes support for most extensions and claim it's an upgrade?
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by wging 7y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692408
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by wging 7y ago
https://yarchive.net/comp/index.html
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by wging 7y ago
Wow, that they're not profitable is really surprising given how much money AWS makes.
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by wging 7y ago
See also the Adrian Colyer discussion (if you have deja vu, this is why, but it's not a repeat of that post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21460759
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by wging 7y ago
That's right, but parsing JSON into a JavaScript object will not give you a date object, which is what OP was referring to.
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by wging 7y ago
Did it by any chance pull parameter names out by using a magic-number index into the function text? If so, that'd be broken by the 'function /* a comment */ foo () {}' change in the article (and might be what I rem
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by wging 7y ago
Lots. I can't remember exactly what I've seen, but believe I have seen it used in interesting ways. Including (drum roll...) .toString().substring(some_magic_number, ...) to do something or other (wish I remembered what). I'l
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by wging 7y ago
Some AWS usage is part of the free tier even after 12 months. "The Lambda free tier does not automatically expire at the end of your 12 month AWS Free Tier term, but is available to both existing and new AWS customers indefinitely.&quo
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by wging 7y ago
Dead comment reply by 'FakeComments' that I am not sure deserves to be dead (what happened there?): "I’d say the better part of engineering is knowing how to design in the face of small errors creeping into the project."
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by wging 7y ago
"just" defense in depth? Why not also say, "Our network is so well-architected that no one can sniff our packets, so even if data is not encrypted, that's not a problem." The answer is that things break, tests can f
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by wging 7y ago
Create a bookmark with %S for the search query (%s if you need escaping) and a keyword that matches what you want to type as a prefix.
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by wging 7y ago
Seattle did this for a stretch of 3rd. I don't have the data to call it a success (or failure) but buses on 3rd seem pretty quick to me.
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by wging 7y ago
it's important to be precise: he is not the world champion. "world record holder" means something different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Athletics_Champions...
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by wging 7y ago
Seems likely that the link will be replaced by a link to Tavis's write-up https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=19... , but media coverage is interesting on its own, so I'll note
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by wging 7y ago
Are you describing something different from NAT?
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by wging 8y ago
It is reviewed at length by the incredible Jon Bois (you might know him as the author of 17776): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eECjjLNAOd4
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by wging 8y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12962776
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by wging 8y ago
For the iPhone monopoly, I think you should keep an eye on Apple Inc. v. Pepper .
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by wging 8y ago
GNU Emacs does a similar-sounding trick in its build process (called 'dumping' / 'unexec'), but not at runtime. https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/ Come to think of it, I think there are appl

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