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by wging 4y ago
That Monday deadline seems to me like they were searching for an excuse to end the relationship.
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by wging 4y ago
Unfortunately that's not quite the same thing as a standard in the sense that is meant here. A 'standard' is a written document that explains how the language should work. A standard that just says "the compiler is corre
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by wging 4y ago
FWIW, it does appear that at least for now , the project is targeting a version of Rust that is substantially behind the current stable version: > For some context, my current project plan brings us to November 2022 > where we (unexp
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by wging 4y ago
That still doesn't mean you can't use TLS 1.3 on AWS. For example, I have a Cloudfront-based site I haven't touched in years that works just fine with TLS 1.3.
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by wging 4y ago
> Unlike CF, AWS does not support TLS1.3. This is not working while HN uses the AWS IP. This seemed implausible so I looked into it, and it's wrong as stated (at best, it needs to be made more precise to capture what you intended).
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by wging 4y ago
That's an old blog post; the current release is 18.4.0, which supports `fetch` without a command-line argument. You do get this warning the first time it's invoked, though: (node:340760) ExperimentalWarning: The Fetch API is
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by wging 4y ago
While I don't want to fully defend Cloudflare's customer-hostile practices here, it's worth noting that the text you quote is only for if a domain expires: > In the event that Registrant fails to renew the domain name in
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by wging 4y ago
Any chance it also exists on web.archive.org?
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by wging 4y ago
Sorry, I edited the post concurrently with your comment - it now points to Base2048, the link I meant to post, which actually should work - rather than https://github.com/qntm/base65536 (which I think you're comme
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by wging 4y ago
See also https://github.com/qntm/base2048 . "Base2048 is a binary encoding optimised for transmitting data through Twitter."
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by wging 4y ago
It's open-source and mostly or entirely licensed under the GPLv3, so I don't think HP would've needed to license it.
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by wging 4y ago
This is one of my favorite counterintuitive math results. > Volume of an n-ball tends to a limiting value of 0 as n goes to infinity Another way to say this is that if you inscribe a circle in a square, or a sphere in a cube, or in gener
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by wging 4y ago
For reference (because we know titles are often changed): it's currently "Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k".
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by wging 4y ago
Experience (both from work on either Alexa or a similar system in previous years, and as an actual user) tells me that yes, people do often say things that don't "look correct". From personal experience I know that something
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by wging 5y ago
> Any number of small UI features can claim a small increase that are often just noise and curated data The answer to this is better measurement and statistical analysis, not abandoning the effort entirely. It does take more than &quot
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by wging 5y ago
https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ is a good take on this - the central example is for search, but it applies to many more products, as cactus2093's comment (and the article) both point out. (and for what it's w
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by wging 5y ago
The article mentions that they were taken out for photography in late 2000 and later noticed to be missing in 2001. That doesn’t make your idea impossible, but does mean we kind of know when they went missing.
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by wging 5y ago
The niche for such a language would be extremely narrow compared to existing better-than-shell-script alternatives. Wasn't that perl's selling point? Compiling to bash doesn't seem like that much of a better option than shipp
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by wging 5y ago
Ilya went to Wisconsin.
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by wging 5y ago
That's all in the article. First sentence: "Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously". Amazon's compensation has historically been very RSU-heavy (aka,
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by wging 5y ago
One current gap is that async drops aren't currently a thing - you cannot do any async work to clean up a resource. I imagine Niko will point that out in the next post. See also https://boats.gitlab.io/blog/post&#x
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by wging 5y ago
Also documented more permanently here: https://black.readthedocs.io/en/latest/the_black_code_style/...
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by wging 5y ago
Seems likely - it starts out like this: <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags&
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by wging 5y ago
Do you mean Aha! Insight? I don't see a book just labeled "Aha". There is another Gardner book, Aha! Gotcha, which has a different emphasis than what I think you're talking about, but is excellent. I loved it as a kid. G
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by wging 5y ago
Not all changes result in a change to the way your service is called, and even those changes can (with some effort and care) be made backwards-compatible. Performance-level changes are one obvious one - for example, I wouldn't expect t
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by wging 5y ago
It's not. Linus used Manjaro.
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by wging 5y ago
> I also think that the JVM object model is quite limiting for numerical computing. They still don’t support value types This is mostly true, but the primitives are value types and you can get some things done with them. (Not enough to
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by wging 5y ago
There is a more recent video from the same person (Technology Connections) that concentrates on plugs - specifically, why US plugs have holes in them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNXMAflbU8
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by wging 5y ago
I really like Advent of Code for that. https://adventofcode.com/
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by wging 5y ago
I really like Project Euler. I'm unsure why it's coming up now, but everyone is new to it at some point. Some advice: people should definitely start off in linear order to warm up, and it's worth sticking with a problem for

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