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781.
by wlll 9y ago
I think accusations of premature optimisation might be a little unfair here. Ignoring the style issues for a second (I'll pick that up later), if I'm looking at some code and there are two equally viable alternative ways of writ
782.
by wlll 10y ago
> Interesting theory, however, a machine cannot own property, only a person can. Aren't companies in the US people in the eyes of the law (I imagine due to some shameful lobbying on behalf of some large companies). Could a "com
783.
by wlll 10y ago
1) it's Github, so "disposable" is a fair mental leap and 2) fork and/or vendor the dependencies if you're worried.
784.
by wlll 10y ago
Maybe it's because I program Go, but I don't find the use of err and resp diminish readability. I don't feel any cognitive hurdle when reading those code examples.
785.
by wlll 10y ago
Planes I've been on regularly fly above the clouds, I wonder how much energy could be generated by covering the entire top of the aircraft with solar panels? I don't work in this field so as far as I know it could be a drop in th
786.
by wlll 10y ago
Tesla style battery swap perhaps?
787.
by wlll 10y ago
Fantastic to hear. I've never (as an employee) found it fair that I would be paid more or less for the same work just because I happened to chose somewhere else to live.
788.
by wlll 10y ago
Ah, gotcha. For some reason I always associated overtime with "unpaid". Probably because when I was a kid and had crappy jobs there would always be stuff that would need to be done at the start and end of every shift that outside
789.
by wlll 10y ago
I have never fully understood the insistence that employers should be allowed to demand unpaid work from their employees. Surely if your business is only viable with coerced labour then it isn't a viable business? Or maybe if you need
790.
by wlll 10y ago
Tipping per se doesn't suck, but it being expected to the point of being all but mandatory does.
791.
by wlll 10y ago
The link to the eff.org site is probably SFW, depending where you W. Clearly FetLife itself won't be.
792.
FetLife loses its ability to process credit card payments(eff.org)
3 points by wlll 10y ago|2 comments
793.
by wlll 10y ago
This seems like an over reaction. Poor people aren't all after your money. This isn't Dickens.
794.
by wlll 10y ago
I read about a guy who had a similar experience in (I think) RadioShack many years ago. The cashier asked for his address, and they guy questioned why it was needed, and would they be sending him junk mail? The cashier made an excuse for wh
795.
by wlll 10y ago
DNS happens before HTTP and HTTPS. If you block at the DNS level it will work for both HTTP and HTTPS URLs. That page you linked seems to confirm this, and that Pi-Hole works just fine blocking HTTPS.
796.
by wlll 10y ago
There was also a BBC series that used laser scanning to develop underground maps of some areas, including ISTR parts of Rome.
797.
by wlll 10y ago
There was a nespresso machine at the office where I used to work. The coffee it produced was tolerable and nothing more. I recommend an Aeropress if you want something quick that makes good coffee.
798.
by wlll 10y ago
The solution to some problems is reliable public transport, and I am all for improvement, but not a solution to all transport problems. For instance "I want to get from A to B when I want and in comfort" is not one of those proble
799.
New technology for fast-charging, noncombustible batteries(techxplore.com)
1 points by wlll 10y ago|0 comments
800.
by wlll 10y ago
I have a 2011 iMac in the house, and gave my parents a 2011 Macbook Air. All are on the most recent OS X. They all have more memory than 2GB, but does the new OS really take that much more memory? I've not checked.
801.
by wlll 10y ago
Climate is one possible reason (as well as coal deposits) for the rise of the wealth and importance of Manchester, UK in the 1800s. There is a damp atmosphere that makes it great for processing cotton. It's also the where a fairly larg
802.
by wlll 10y ago
I've done 24. It just takes practice. It'a hard at first, and gets easier the more you do it. Eventually it's just a thing you do. I drink water (a lot of it) and a couple of black espressos. 0 and ~2 calories each respective
803.
by wlll 10y ago
When I was fasting for 24 hour periods (I really need to get back on that) I would drink black coffee and water. I stopped drinking soda many years ago (apart from the odd coke at a party or something). Realised it was addictive. It just fe
804.
by wlll 10y ago
It was through a contact I had at a previous company.
805.
by wlll 10y ago
Get more worm for your money, business 101.
806.
by wlll 10y ago
I moved company last July from a full time job to contracting elsewhere. I'm now a contractor in the very real sense. I use my own computer, I work generally when I want to (I set the total hours at the beginning of any month and choos
807.
by wlll 10y ago
I commented on the previous thread about this, but I work somewhere between about 4-5 hours a day on average I think, have been doing so for the last 6 months. My productivity is now greater than it was when I worked 8, and I'm more re
808.
by wlll 10y ago
That's a nice idea in theory, except I predict it won't happen. Unregulated capitalism is meant to mean (or at least people seem to expect) better service, more choice, better value through competition for your business. In realit
809.
by wlll 10y ago
It would be interesting to see the number of banks pre and post Dodd-Frank, say 2010 -> now to really gauge the impact. It would have taken a remarkably foresightful bank to close in 19xx on account of law passed in 2010.
810.
by wlll 10y ago
I agree, though a lot of the time what I need to do requires just thinking about stuff, sometimes I need to plough on and just do stuff. 6 hours of coding something, writing, whatever. When that happens I just do the work. I'm lucky

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