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8y ago
This doesn't measure CO2 levels. It measures volatile organic compounds and calculates the amount of CO2 that would cause the same greenhouse effect. >The SGP30 does have built in calibration capabilities, note that eCO2 is calculat
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8y ago
Java/.NET/C++/etc. people don’t have the urge to publish every other line of code they deem “useful”. They also don’t have the urge to import said one-liners when writing a helper method in 15 seconds is perfectly adequate.
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8y ago
Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
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8y ago
If only there was some standard format to interchange structured data over pipes, other than plain text delimited with various (incompatible) combinations of whitespaces, using various (incompatible) escaping schemes.
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8y ago
False. Writing a waterfall-style “spec” on paper has nothing to do with formal methods.
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8y ago
Autonomous cars need internet access to display relevant ads to the passengers.
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8y ago
http://www.pbr-book.org
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8y ago
>closer to the metal Lol. Sure! Just like how I get closer to the Earth’s core if I’m sitting on the floor instead of my chair.
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8y ago
I remember stumbling upon the Flat Earth Society back around 2003. I was convinced it was one of those elaborate ironic jokes/hoaxes that we used to have back then (bonsai kitten, World Jump Day, etc.)
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8y ago
What made you change your mind?
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8y ago
Would you notice if that URL was “raw.githubusercontent.someotherdomain.com” instead of “raw.githubusercontent.com”? I’m pretty sure at least 50% would merrily copy & paste it in their shell.
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8y ago
Ah, an Electron app... :) Something tells me it doesn't support gapless playback. (I might be wrong tho)
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8y ago
Ok, I’ll draw the logo!
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8y ago
So that’s why all network gear needs to be power-cycled at least weekly to function correctly!
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8y ago
>You can't lie Demonstrably false.
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8y ago
>What are those services doing, exactly? Probably generating logs about themselves.
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8y ago
It’s easy to fix. Just rewrite scp in Rust.
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8y ago
>I don’t think you could implement a tracking socket masquerading as a background download The Facebook app used to play a silent audio track to stay active in the background, until they got called out: https://www.reddit.com&
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8y ago
*Geoff Hinton
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8y ago
Terrence Tao also stutters.
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8y ago
They’ve added some Apple-specific extensions to SMB, which can result in suboptimal performance when browsing non-Apple hosts. https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-Septemb...
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8y ago
>Apple implementing a spec designed by Microsoft!?!?! Mind you, the current recommended file sharing protocol on macOS is SMB. (since Apple have deprecated AFP)
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8y ago
As the bald guy said: "Developers, developers, developers"
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8y ago
It’s part of uconv’s transform rule syntax: >Each transform rule consists of two colons followed by a transform name. http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general#TOC-Comp...
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8y ago
How would that help when e.g. copying files from a Linux server to macOS via Samba? Mind you, the filenames can contain both NFC, NFD or the mixture of the two.
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8y ago
I use this transform chain for asciifying filenames (ridiculous as it is, in 2019 we still can't sync unicode filenames between different OSs): uconv -x ':: Any-Latin; :: Latin-ASCII; [:^ASCII:] > \_' Explanation:
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Laptops with preinstalled Windows also have a tremendous amount of crapware from various vendors. Trial versions of antivirus software, system "optimizing" apps, sometimes outright spyware too. Thankfully Mac users don't have
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8y ago
I’d say this is because the concept of a “stare down” is instictive to us primates (or even mammals in general). That is, asserting dominance via staring at others is something we’re born with, and for good reason: our ancestors’ survival h
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8y ago
Hmmm. 1000 * 0 = 0
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>Cmd+F >"Rust" >3 results T-h-r-e-e? How is this even possible?
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