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by zeveb 6y ago
I no longer work in Python, otherwise I might volunteer to pitch in. But that's not why I'm replying. I am replying to say that if your projects are burning you out this badly, then you really ought to step away fora bit. It&#x2
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by zeveb 6y ago
From the cons: > You have to drive to the post office to check the mail One would think that the post would deliver to your normal mailbox. Maybe that costs extra, though.
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by zeveb 6y ago
The (very attractive) charts do not display without JavaScript enabled. Surely this is a textbook example of where graceful degradation would come in handy, as a simple image without interactivity is still useful. Also the annotations, whi
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by zeveb 6y ago
I kinda thought the original article was BS. After all, who is more likely to be an authority about whether a job is useless or not: the person willing to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for it to be done, or some writer? OT
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Creating a Common Lisp implementation, part 1 [video](youtube.com)
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The problem with that approach is that anyone can create a certificate for any domain; so if I go to "example.com" then it's kinda hard for me to detect if my connection is being MITM'd, especially if this is the fi
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Certificates are BS. Pretty much. The whole business model never really made sense: the relying parties have no relationship with the certificate authorities, while the HTTPS servers are the customers of the CAs. I think it would make
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I couldn’t have imagined the pro-slavery position was so outspoken and blatant, it’s a bit of a culture shock. Yeah, it is stomach-churning to us folks with a modern colour-blind sensitivity. It is hard to believe that folks believed
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The confederate flag was created for the sole purpose of committing treason Secession is not treason. The Tenth Amendment reads in whole: 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to
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by zeveb 6y ago
> For the Southern colonies, participation in the American Revolution was part of their effort to maintain slavery. Slavery was legal to some extent in every colony, northern or southern, throughout the Revolution. Some states had (
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by zeveb 6y ago
The southern states seceded to preserve slavery; slavery was and is evil and they were wrong to secede in order to preserve it. But secession was and is constitutional, given the Tenth Amendment and no constitutional provisions against s
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Nope, manual memory management can be done properly and this is not rocket science. Outside of NASA (often, literally rocket science!), where has manual memory management ever been done properly? I don't think that it ever has.
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by zeveb 6y ago
a) Really awesomely cool! b) Kinda sad to read all those names and think that someone once thought, 'hey, this could be my baby.' Sure, I imagine a bunch of them were just hoovered up by domain squatters, but at least a few of th
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by zeveb 6y ago
Excellent example of where JavaScript really is useful!
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I think while Magic Hat holds a place in the craft beer renaissance story, much of the regional beer from that era was unremarkable. The idea that it was better than the macro beers stemmed largely from the experimentation and derivati
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by zeveb 6y ago
Tcl leaps to mind. It is very easy to embed, too.
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mkws(1): Generate a static website with minimum lines of code(mkws.sh)
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by zeveb 6y ago
> It was only after the Civil Rights Act was passed (which was six days into the race riots mentioned, so real actionable change that came from them) The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law on the second of July 1964, had been in t
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The other processors still used Tcl on HPUX/Solaris/AIX so Perl on Linux was like nice warm sheets by comparison. I would agree, but I don't think you meant it the same way I would: I prefer nice cold sheets when I sle
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by zeveb 6y ago
With JavaScript turned off, this just displays a floating red ball. It is readable in Firefox's reader mode, though.
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by zeveb 6y ago
So, if people don't vote the way the Reddit admins want, the Reddit admins will replace the voters. That is definitely a way to get only the things the Reddit admins want upvoted, upvoted. But it seems to me to be the opposite of f
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by zeveb 6y ago
I had a similar issue when syncing a bunch of Gmail emails onto my desktop. Somehow I screwed up the dates on the messages (even though the headers are the same), and now my messages are in a weird random order, and finding stuff based on d
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by zeveb 6y ago
Lovely fonts in this article, BTW. Very pleasant to read. And the content is pretty good too!
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by zeveb 6y ago
George W. Bush wanted to do that, but it died a nasty death due to politics and his complete and total lack of political capital. It's a real pity, IMHO, because transitioning from the tax-by-another-name Social Security system to som
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by zeveb 6y ago
Atlassian is better than the enterprise solutions which preceded it, but that is a very, very low bar. Their tools are remarkably slow, with each page both being remarkably JavaScript-heavy and constantly reloading (the two should be mu
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The USSR ethnically cleansed Germany in response? What? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_German... In particular, postwar Poland basically moved west: the Soviet Union kept the 77.6 thousand s
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City of Solitude: four residents of Wuhan share their stories(story.californiasunday.com)
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by zeveb 6y ago
Very cool video, but it sounds like that space-that-isn't-a-space would also apply to a runic interpunct as well as to the Latin interpunct he mentions.
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Driving the Mac off a cliff would alienate developer How many, though, and would they really switch to Windows or Linux, or retire from the industry? Apple has always — or at least since 1984 — had an incredibly loyal fanbase. I think
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by zeveb 6y ago
No, I do not see that anywhere on the page. I do see '"YOU HAVE HIJACKED THIS" Black community activists clash with Seattle anarchists over BLM message, seized district' and other stuff like 'Washington restaurant

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