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by wmil 5y ago
You should share this knowledge with her. That way if you're killed by a random criminal she can embrace her fear and become Crow-Woman.
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by wmil 5y ago
Automating anything opens up new doors. Continuing to develop this tech could make it useful for setting up buildings in hostile environments. Initially deserts and the arctic/antarctic. But eventually using unattended robots to constr
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by wmil 6y ago
They could star including a refurb macbook with each purchase. The cost would basically be a rounding error.
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by wmil 6y ago
Yes, Peru used to export pottery with a distinct brown colour. Prior to cheap air travel travelling to Peru was rare but the pottery was common. So "Peru pottery brown" was just called "Peru" when talking about colours.
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by wmil 6y ago
No one else has an active user count close to the same order of magnitude. Not to mention apps for every platform.
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by wmil 6y ago
I was never a fan of the Rubyisms in Coffeescript. But it's sad nothing else ever implemented the YAMLisms. Typing up constants in Babel JS is so much uglier than it needs to be. But Coffeescript also introduced things like arrow funct
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by wmil 6y ago
One problem I have with TypeScript -- the syntax for functions that take and/or return functions seems messier than it should be. I wonder if I'm missing a better way to do it.
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by wmil 6y ago
> Maybe for small scripts, static typing doesn't provide that much value (although even then I don't really buy it - why wouldn't you want to know what you're working with at any given time), but for sizable (web) app
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by wmil 6y ago
In the simplest case, in C you can read file data into memory, cast it as a struct, then just use that struct without ever doing any parsing. As things get more complex you're probably going to need to manually set some pointers after
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by wmil 6y ago
TOML is good. CSON is neat, but it never caught on ( https://github.com/bevry/cson ). There's a very specific, very common, use case that the people who write most markup parsers refuse to support... A good config f
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by wmil 6y ago
Twitter's threading can be a bit weird. Sometimes it will only capture part of a thread. People are in the habit of not relying on it.
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by wmil 6y ago
> I don’t think hybrid or non-textual methods have really been given their due or worked on so much, The problem is that they really have. Visual thinkers in academia have been aggressively pursuing this in CS PhDs and research since the
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by wmil 6y ago
I'm kind of sad that they didn't allow you to use inuktitut characters as a joke about this classic comment. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/5penft/parallelizing_...
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by wmil 6y ago
Could be a legal issue. If they have a legal requirement to not serve ads in the UK it's good to have a clean separation where they can see if the redirect is broken.
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by wmil 6y ago
Has Gimp done any work to parallelize plugin / font loading? I recall that was the bottleneck at startup. If they haven't then more cores won't ever help.
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by wmil 6y ago
Google's known to have too much faith in their automated take down systems. In the past there were known ways to abuse the system to take down any account. There's probably something similar here. Of course Google is loath to admi
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by wmil 6y ago
They successfully filtered out one of the applicants who won't put up with their bullshit. It's a pure win on their side.
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by wmil 6y ago
While some people get upset about it, "Democrat" is useful to differentiate the two verbally. Obviously capitalization isn't possible. Obama's team launched https://democrats.org/ in 2009 or so. I really
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by wmil 6y ago
The tech-priests will have lost the ability to fix it.
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by wmil 6y ago
> My question is this: are the people who originally exploited this, created the image, and the users who downloaded it to collect the data going to be subject to federal charges? Realistically the FBI won't be eager to file charges
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by wmil 6y ago
She's a little over the top. I seem to recall that Twitter was running on Rails & Postgres for years after it had a ton of VC money.
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by wmil 6y ago
The Coke execs from the time have done interviews. When presented with the sugar -> HFCS theory they responded with "we weren't that smart". I tend to believe them. They switched because of the "Pepsi challenge".
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by wmil 6y ago
That's probably part of it, but there's also some history. The southern US used to produce a lot of sugar. Before refrigeration it was heavily used as a preservative. So there's a big market that expects things to have a lot
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by wmil 6y ago
> And the sister of the brother who died there is asking for people to delete the post and to please not go there. That's an unreasonable request without an explanation.
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by wmil 6y ago
The article mentions BMI. Which makes sense, muscle and fat mass will cushion impacts.
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by wmil 6y ago
It's true if you read it as "breaking backwards compatibility is easier". Intel x86 chips would have had things like out of order execution many years earlier if they didn't need to be compatible with old software. Some
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by wmil 6y ago
I can see a couple of problems... Male ticks still bite, so they'd still cause problems. Although presumably lab ticks would be disease free. A bigger issue is spread. Mosquitoes fly so you can do a release and they'll spread over
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by wmil 6y ago
> Alpha, SPARC, and POWER all lost the high-end market (their only market) to Intel at a time when Intel was inferior What's interesting is that the industry was so sure that Itanium / Windows NT was going to crush everything t
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by wmil 6y ago
There's an integer overflow flag that gets set after operations. My x86 books are all boxed up somewhere so I can't look up the details.
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by wmil 6y ago
A more accurate version would be something like this: Apple's EULA asserts it has the right to revoke your right to use Apple's software for any reason. Which would include the right to brick your phone. Those assertions would nee

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