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by FBT 7mo ago
The Magic: The Gathering card "Blood Moon" was first printed in 1994. It seems quite unlikely that the term was invented some twenty years later.
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by FBT 1y ago
> ... Does distributivity of inversion ~ over operation ⋆ follow from the other Abelian group axioms / properties? If so, how? It does. For all x and y: (1) ~x ⋆ x = 0 (definition of the inverse) (2) ~y ⋆ y = 0 (definition of
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by FBT 2y ago
In a negotiation, the goal is to reach an accommodation suitable for both parties. If the web developer doesn't want to set up his server on port 80 to serve HTTP, that's his business. Your user agent is still working for you, w
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by FBT 2y ago
Asterisk magazine ( https://asteriskmag.com/ ) is the only site I know of that does the thing that the author couldn't find an example of with a progress bar that includes section headings (on hover) and thus shows your
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by FBT 2y ago
> There aren't nearly enough capacity in the judicial branch to handle all that work. Then appoint more Article 3 judges . It could even be the same people who are now "administrative judges"—but take them out of the exec
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by FBT 3y ago
The problem is that while it's an impressively close approximation for an off-the-cuff guess (at least if we charitably translate his "dozens"/"dozen" to 12), to the extent it was pre-planned it's a terrib
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by FBT 3y ago
There are about half a million minutes in a year, so 50 million seconds is a year and two thirds. At the rate of saving 50 million seconds a day, in a year you'll have saved around 608 years—which is only a dozen lifetimes if a lifetim
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On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)(arxiv.org)
85 points by FBT 5y ago|95 comments
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by FBT 5y ago
> own build system Nothing in Rust requires you to use Cargo. It's really convenient to have a good build system like Cargo—but if you like C style of manually invoking the compiler, rustc can do that too. Rust is no worse by bund
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by FBT 5y ago
When it comes to the systemd logs, this is kind of what the -x flag to journalctl does (or tries to do.) Having detailed human-level descriptions of what's going on and how to fix it is great. But you also don't want to drown out
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by FBT 6y ago
That's very likely true. The context I was talking about probably rounds to "companies with <100 employees", or perhaps at order of magnitude larger at most. I'd imagine that it's quite different in organizations
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by FBT 6y ago
> The question suggests that you can somehow give yourself a new title which usually isn't true for people who work for someone else. > In some places to get a senior developer title, you just need to ask. Your manager then tells
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by FBT 6y ago
Absolutely yes. My SaaS startup uses it, and it's really great. I strongly disagree with the "innovation tokens" argument, at least as applied here. For one thing, while Elixir and Phoenix can certainly be considered "in
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by FBT 6y ago
Proving Too Much: https://archive.md/M1XHf
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by FBT 7y ago
If this were in a Commerce Clause context, Congress' decision not to act on a given matter still wouldn't allow the states to restrict or legislate on interstate commerce, by the principle of the "Dormant Commerce Clause&quot
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How to rewrite it in Rust(adventures.michaelfbryan.com)
238 points by FBT 7y ago|39 comments
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by FBT 7y ago
The original post does talk about it, but it skips the basics, presumably on the assumption that they're already known. > will the Linux kernel automatically start using RAM as disk cache if there's enough free space? Yes, exac
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Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle(blog.nelhage.com)
2 points by FBT 7y ago|0 comments
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by FBT 8y ago
You can license your project however you would like to. You absolutely can have a license with text that is similar to the MIT license, except with a clause saying that company X can't use it. However, as other commentators here poin
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by FBT 8y ago
It is true: right at this very moment, billions of people have enough food do eat. It is a worthy task to try to extend that to the hundreds of millions who are not there yet, but it's hardly something that has never been done before,
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by FBT 8y ago
A simpler variation of the same concept is to use the fact that for every expression `expr`, `do expr` is a valid expression, allowing you to start a sequence with any number of `do`s. But the challenge as I see it is to stack as many dist
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by FBT 8y ago
You can add `infixl` or `infixr` to that: let x = x in do case if let infixr 7 `x`; x = x in True then False else False of _ -> return False And with the RecursiveDo extension, you can throw `mdo` in there: let x = x in md
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by FBT 8y ago
If you are asked that question this is the sort of answer you give: "I was given an opportunity to lead a product I was very excited about, and I took it. It was a great experience, and I learned a lot, but ultimately now I'm glad
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by FBT 9y ago
The answer is very much "practicality issue". Haskell's more advanced type level features (including GADTs and type families) are very much suited for this, but they're also the sort of thing that gives Haskell a reputat
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by FBT 9y ago
Neomake can do that too: https://github.com/neomake/neomake#setup
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by FBT 9y ago
With profiles, each profile has it's own history, bookmarks, browser settings, and so forth. In effect, it's a separate instance of Firefox. Sometimes that's what you want, and profiles certainly aren't going anywhere. B
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Everything Old Is New Again, and a Compiler Bug(randomascii.wordpress.com)
3 points by FBT 9y ago|1 comments
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by FBT 10y ago
Do note that the robots described in this article only drive autonomously, and when armed, need a human to (remotely) fire the weapons. If the robot shot autonomously, you'd have a point about mercy. But the way it is described here, i
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by FBT 10y ago
That's better than both sides being humans. Seriously. Incremental improvements are worthwhile. In general, militaries never want to comprise their effectiveness. So if given the chance to implement a life-saving intervention that harm
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by FBT 10y ago
Isn't it better to have robots fighting and dying than humans? War sucks, and I do wish that we could have world peace. But if war is going to happen, I'd rather it be robots that are the ones in harm's way.

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