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by zoky 2y ago
I don't know much about Merced, but the reasons that Bakersfield gets shit on have nothing to do with high speed rail and more to do with its reputation for meth, crime, and generally being a shithole to live in or even pass through. I
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by zoky 2y ago
Bakersfield was already on the map. Not any sort of map you’d want to be on, but still…
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by zoky 2y ago
That’s how they used to do it before about 1900, yeah. Victorian orgies were on a whole different plane of sophistication.
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by zoky 2y ago
As a teenager I once stumbled upon a grunion run, before I had any what they were or that it was even a thing. It was… pretty incredible. I still consider myself lucky that I got to see it.
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by zoky 2y ago
I think the author is just trying to say that the reason TempleOS didn’t receive widespread—or virtually any—regular use has more to do with its lack of inherent utility to most people, rather than a conspiracy to suppress its adoption as T
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by zoky 3y ago
It’s what you oughtn’t to do, but you do anyway!
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by zoky 3y ago
Not when it comes to motorcycles. BMW and Honda are both extremely common police bikes. LAPD’s motorcycle fleet used to be almost entirely Kawasakis.
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by zoky 3y ago
The first time I went into an Amazon Go store, I was fairly impressed with how accurate it was, to the point that they knew that I had filled my cup with an Icee rather than a fountain beverage. This was notwithstanding the creepiness facto
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by zoky 3y ago
Everything else being equal, given the choice between a restaurant that makes me calculate a tip and one that just puts a single price on the menu with no tip required or expected, I’m going for the simpler option. One less thing I have to
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by zoky 3y ago
No thanks, I’m just gonna go to the grocery store down the street where they don’t make me do linear algebra just to buy a box of Froot Loops.
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by zoky 3y ago
The “Open” in OpenAI refers to, uh, a certain part of your anatomy…
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by zoky 3y ago
> The service now has an estimated 1.2 billion users — about 1/7 of the global population Based on how many Gmail addresses I know I have, and how many I’d apparently forgotten about until I got a notice at my recovery address tha
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by zoky 3y ago
There was a brief window when it was possible to do some really cool stuff with MacRuby, such as inspecting and even monkey patching core OS X classes. Probably one major reason why Apple killed the project in the first place. Being able to
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by zoky 3y ago
That’s what MacRuby was. There was a time when you could develop native, compiled Mac applications using Ruby as a first-class language. For a while, MacRuby was looking to be the lightweight alternative to Objective-C. Unfortunately, the p
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by zoky 3y ago
In what way isn’t it? Any potential shortfalls could have been made up with a little bit of engineering elbow grease. What are the advantages APFS has over ZFS, for lightweight systems or otherwise?
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by zoky 3y ago
Ehh, when you control the hardware and software, an in-place filesystem upgrade isn’t that big of a deal. Especially when you can store everything in the cloud and pull it back down again if need be. Meanwhile, I’m expanding my ZFS single d
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by zoky 3y ago
> As a plus, the native app IS great. You may be the only person in the world who thinks that, who doesn't also work for Reddit.
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by zoky 3y ago
Oh? Do tell.
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by zoky 3y ago
I think a punch card program that output to the console (or whatever punch card systems used for output, a teletype?) instructions for creating a new set of punch cards containing itself would meet the definition of a quine. The source code
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by zoky 3y ago
> The author points out that for binary machine code, the only notion of a quine that makes sense is for the executed code to output its own binary. That’s not really true, though. A quine is a program that outputs its own source code, n
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by zoky 3y ago
Have you, uh… had a lot of opportunity to misspell “affidavit”? If so, please let me know the name of your SaaS so I can steer well clear of it…
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by zoky 3y ago
It's literally just the word “ANTISPAM”.
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by zoky 3y ago
100% this. The older you get, the shorter a minute or an hour seems to be. When I was 12, an hour was an interminably long amount of time to spend in a classroom. Now that I’m 42, it’s barely long enough to take a decent nap. Life is cruel
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by zoky 3y ago
Pretty cool, except for one major UI flaw. When there are only two options, clicking on either one should toggle between them. I feel like this was previously the default, so I’m left wondering why this no longer works?
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by zoky 3y ago
You fool! You should have defined `method_missing’ on NilClass for extra-spicy good times!
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by zoky 3y ago
It is definitely wrong, there’s no way a hard drive that can write a TB in, say, 4 hours would consume anything close to 250 watts.
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by zoky 3y ago
It’s probably something like Apple’s Face ID sensor, which is a “camera” in the strict sense of the word but it captures a depth map rather than an image. I’m willing to believe that they aren’t transmitting images or even raw depth maps ov
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by zoky 3y ago
It probably has to do with publishing rights. Authors may not want to allow digital publication without an actual print run, and once the initial print run ends they lose the digital rights unless they do another print run. Or the digital p
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by zoky 3y ago
It’s always trippy to see mitxela linked here, as I primarily know him from the Halfbakery, and he is apparently one of the users who actually is capable of baking his ideas…
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by zoky 3y ago
We’re not talking about 32-bit applications though. We’re talking about a 32-bit kernel. The 64-bit FreeBSD kernel is perfectly capable of running 32-bit applications, and will be so for the foreseeable future. The only reason I can see t

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