antonchekhov

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by antonchekhov 4mo ago
Nowadays, almost any news org can have journalists reporting from across the planet in real-time. But back before internet connectivity was ubuquitous, StarLink satellites, smartphones and streaming video everywhere, CNN had a few reporter
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by antonchekhov 7mo ago
Can you enumerate which parties have been "harmed" by her donations, and the precise nature of the harm(s)?
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by antonchekhov 7mo ago
If this becomes the prevailing inclination amongst most readers, Janan Ganesh (one of my most favorite commentators anywhere) at the Financial Times will have a dim professional future.
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by antonchekhov 10mo ago
Theoretically, in this case, the agonizing "It's pouring rain, blowing cold wind in your face, kids are screaming and hitting each other, you stubbed your toe into cart and generally just having bad day" scenario making any m
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by antonchekhov 10mo ago
> [..] I can't imagine how useless an unthinking AI would be at this when my own family and friends who, and this is important, _know me_, can't find anything to get me that doesn't land in the above categories This is pre
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by antonchekhov 11mo ago
Acceleration by using the x86 AVX-512 extensions is especially compelling. Since ARM64 processors are becoming pervasive in server-side systems, is-there/will-there-be any optimization using the ARM64 NEON vector instructions in curren
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by antonchekhov 11mo ago
A former coworker who was a serious gun enthusiast experienced dangerously high levels of lead in his bloodstream - he had chronic headaches and other bodily pains. He visited shooting ranges several times per week, and also packed (assembl
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by antonchekhov 11mo ago
I use command-line tooling much more than IDEs (e.g. VS Code), so the `gh` command-line tool ( https://cli.github.com ) for doing most of the usual hub-oriented workflow (PR authoring, viewing issues, status updates, etc) really h
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
There is a difference between "giving" and "taking".
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
Back in the early '90s, I was a big fan of the C/C++ debugging library "electric fence" (written by Bruce Perens) - it was a malloc() implementation that used mmap() to set the pages of the returned buffer such that any
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
> there are many languages in popular use that can do this, in many cases better than golang I'd love to see a list of these, with any references you can provide.
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
I don't understand why, if the recipient of the initial detached "hello" is annoyed at the communication tax of having to acknowledge it before the querier gets to the real point of the convo, why in the "preferred"
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
The J Peterman catalog is still around around (at least, online) and approaches satire in its selection of goods (mostly clothing) that assiduously conveys "casual, interesting, old-money wealth". The Elaine Benes character on &q
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
Then what did your second sentence ["These are not scientific observations in any sense. What does the author do to confirm or refute her psychological theories about others?"] intend? > She's very good at telling stories,
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
Window-sharing doesn't work at all in Firefox (last several versions) on macOS 15.4; Safari works fine for Google Meet events.
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by antonchekhov 1y ago
"Frasier", Season 5 Episode 12: Niles: [walks in] Hello, Dad. I believe we switched videotapes on accident. Martin: Believe me, I noticed. Niles: Yes, there you go. [hands over video] At first I was dismayed.
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
It's very much like an echo of the old Wall Street Journal Opinion motto "Free Men and Free Markets".
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
JD Salinger took a lot of heat over his reticence to publish any more of his writings after Catcher In the Rye and the Glass family stories. In 1974, he responded to the NY Times, "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It'
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
I don't remember who originally stated it, but there is an old axiom that "There are three stages of Reading: 1. Infantile - to learn about the world, 2. Adolescent - to learn about oneself, and 3. Adult - to read simply for enjo
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
"other people's important people" is a very astute phrase - one has to see the value in that concept in order to understand the deceased's survivors that you think you already know. I've been to a few events where s
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
Coincidentally there is literally the novel "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton - published in 1905, it's an excellent late-Victorian/Gilded-Age period novel about the slow downfall of Lily Bart, a woman who was in Ne
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
New startup idea: manufacture a hard-plastic spiky attachment, shaped like a tubular hair-brush that I can simply screw onto the base of my Sonicare toothbrush, then stand upside down into the brewing carafe of my Oxo cold-brew setup. The
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by antonchekhov 2y ago
On a much more severe scale, this is clearly the message that the Kremlin lavishly displayed of the initial treatment of the suspects involved in the Moscow Crocus Hall shootings/bombing - the results of severe torture send an unmistak
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
It's been many years since I've had to use an Oracle db, but they definitely allowed SQL developers to forcibly specify a query-plan - called "query hints", wherein you could specify it to prefer using (or avoiding) cert
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
I've heard "findings" (ab)used as a synonym for this as well.
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
> No amount of formal quality process can defend against business pressure and incentives to hack the same system. "Culture eats Strategy for breakfast" -- Peter Drucker (purportedly)
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim." ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
People forget how vast and sparse the interior American West is; the New York City metro area has a larger population than the whole Mountain timezone.
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
The overall tone is bloodless, in a relentlessly smooth, confident style. The articles on the news site Axios.com have a similar style - relaxing to read at first, but feel bereft of any convictions after a while.
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by antonchekhov 3y ago
"To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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