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Openclipart Offline Due to DDoS(twitter.com)
1 points by wlkr 7y ago|0 comments
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Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
1 points by wlkr 7y ago|0 comments
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by wlkr 7y ago
I have to concede that I do prefer the longer abbreviations, especially nowadays when most editors have auto-completion, although of course there are limits. A healthy balance between (0) and (1). This also reminds me of those ridiculously
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by wlkr 7y ago
There are exceptions for police officers though, who are expected to tolerate some swearing. Relevant cases are listed on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_5_Public_Order_Act_198...
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by wlkr 7y ago
A slightly older and much more active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19928231
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by wlkr 7y ago
> Telling an officer to "fuck off" or "piss off" is not a crime. This is largely true but > It's not an offense to be rude is rightly or wrongly a very broad grey area. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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Can 'sudo apt-get remove [write]' destroy my Ubuntu?(askubuntu.com)
2 points by wlkr 7y ago|0 comments
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Overpopulation Is a Myth(overpopulationisamyth.com)
4 points by wlkr 7y ago|5 comments
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by wlkr 7y ago
Just to add another data point, in the UK it is perfectly legal to ride a horse (or horse drawn vehicle) on all roads except motorways. I expect similar laws exist in the rest of Europe. Due to the density of other roads it is possible to g
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by wlkr 7y ago
The linked DOJ report has far more detail [0]. On the penalties themselves: According to court documents, SPI has agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud, and SEI has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) in connect
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Science Feature: Dust Theory (2011)(sciencefiction.com)
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What would Hack do? (2016)(medium.com)
1 points by wlkr 8y ago|0 comments
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VirusTotal Goes Retro with New ASCII Site for Older Browsers(bleepingcomputer.com)
4 points by wlkr 8y ago|1 comments
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Why We Don't Like Our Underground House(dengarden.com)
29 points by wlkr 8y ago|11 comments
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by wlkr 8y ago
Additionally, it is mentioned in the video on the page.
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by wlkr 8y ago
I think it could be done with iframes but it wouldn't be pretty.
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Enriched Text – RFC1896(en.wikipedia.org)
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by wlkr 8y ago
Prions are truly scary, this article [0] from earlier this year is a bit more in-depth and links to many other interesting sources of information. One thing that particularly concerns me for the future is a potential plague or weaponisation
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by wlkr 8y ago
Hy has a nice Emacs plug-in (hy-mode) which I use. Other than that I'm aware of Vim and Atom support. I'm not really sure how intelligent they are though.
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by wlkr 8y ago
Hy is awesome, it's a pleasure to use and you can always convert is straight to readable Python to debug. Access to regular Python libraries is seamless. [0] https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/hy/ [1] http:&#
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by wlkr 8y ago
I don't think that's their fault but issues with the map services they rely on (which is OSM from what I gather [0]). I remember this being discussed recently on HN but can't find an article/thread right now. [0]: https
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Why don’t we fill bike tyres with helium?(cyclist.co.uk)
2 points by wlkr 8y ago|1 comments
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by wlkr 8y ago
> I thought that if I left Twitter, I could find a new social network that would give it some competition I mean, the self-hosted website - where this blog is posted - is exactly that. I don't quite follow his desire to find a third
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by wlkr 8y ago
Hardly, from what I understand. There's no initial financial outlay beyond phone, internet, and time - which they already have - and as far as I can tell there are no commitments or personality contracts. Will it last like this, though
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by wlkr 8y ago
Seconding the performance issues (at least on web). For comparison, https://kripken.github.io/misc-js-benchmarks/banana/ these demos run fairly smooth for me on their highest settings.
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by wlkr 8y ago
A set of slides from a presentation given by Luisa Innocenti, head of the Clean Space program at ESA, seems to indicate ongoing testing and a 2024 launch date. I couldn't find anything more concrete, unfortunately. http://ww
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Bistro in Vitro – A Fictional Cultured Meat Restaurant(bistro-invitro.com)
1 points by wlkr 8y ago|0 comments
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by wlkr 8y ago
I wonder whether the advertising reach of 'influencers' is due to the lack (or absence) of enforcement of advertising regulations. I don't know about the rest of the world but in the UK many 'influencers' certainly
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by wlkr 8y ago
I wonder if pavement lights would be beneficial in other ways, e.g. for training guide dogs you could have the red light to indicate stop and the absence of a light for go ahead. I think it would be useful for self-driving wheelchairs to de
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by wlkr 8y ago
Looking for more on Zig I found a talk [0] (~1 hour) on the language by Andrew Kelley from just a few months ago. Edit: I see there already questions about Rust in this thread. There's an audience question on Rust in the talk [1] and t

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