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by codesections 5y ago
And originally from 2009 (as noted in the previous HN links)
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by codesections 5y ago
Does this site accept suggestions for new questions? I'd like to see a question on which end to open a banana
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Atmospheric CO2 causes lower protein, higher sugar content in modern crops(politico.com)
4 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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The Stakhanovite Movement(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas(cnbc.com)
155 points by codesections 5y ago|79 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
> When debugging code or studying a program, it is quite comfortable to depend on only one hand, and have the other free to scribble or relax. I wonder if the OP is ambidextrous? If using the mouse gave me a hand free to scribble some n
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by codesections 5y ago
Thanks for the update, and you're absolutely right that Beeminder doesn't offer any way to validate the data you enter. They discuss why (in their view, of course) trusting user-entered data works in this blog post: https:/
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by codesections 5y ago
Beeminder[0] is a similar app — one that I've been a happy user of for 5+ years[1]. (Beeminder was also mentioned in a subthread reply by darrenf[2]) [0]: https://www.beeminder.com [1]: https://www.beeminder.com&
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by codesections 5y ago
> (Beeminder is primarily based on API integrations) This strikes me as a significant mischaracterization of Beeminder. I've used Beeminder for 5+ years[0] and I've never used an API integration — Beeminder supports manually
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by codesections 5y ago
This story was also entertainingly told on Episode 73 of the wonderful Half Arsed History podcast, https://halfarsedhistory.net/2019/11/17/episode-73-uss-willi...
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by codesections 5y ago
Thanks for sharing these ideas. Raku is actually in the process of migrating to a new package ecosystem, so this could be an ideal time to get something like this set up. I'm not sure how much work would be involved from a technical
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by codesections 5y ago
> Trusting any single author is a single point of failure — eventually the author of one of the packages you depend on will get compromised and an attacker will publish a malicious package. Thanks, this is exactly the sort of thing I had
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by codesections 5y ago
> I never seen people locking the dependencies to an exact version This depends heavily on the language/ecosystem. For example, golang's Minimal Version Selection[0] basically requires libraries to specify an exact version – t
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by codesections 5y ago
Thanks. I took a (somewhat quick) look and I'm pretty sure that Raku has equivalents for all of the Enumerable methods except for partition. (We could do basically the same thing with our classify[0] method by converting the Hash to an
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by codesections 5y ago
I just saw the code you added; here's a pretty literal translation into Raku in case you're curious (I'm assuming that `<blog posts objects>` is a stand in for omitted code) my @arr = [blog_post_objects];
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by codesections 5y ago
Thanks, those all seem useful. Assuming I'm following you correctly, Raku already has equivalents to each of those built in: we have code blocks[0], List.map[1] (or `for list -> $el { [codeblock]}`[2] which is a `for` loop, but not
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by codesections 5y ago
> (3) ["write programs to handle text streams"] definitely makes no sense outside of CLI commands I'm not sure I'd say that. In the web development world, you'll definitely see people arguing to "JSON all t
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by codesections 5y ago
Separating the question of "functional units" from "packaging units" is a good point – you're right that there's nothing non-Unix-y about packaging coreutils together. I might add a third category, though, mayb
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by codesections 5y ago
> Maybe published package versions should be immutable. They are in many languages. Of those I'm familiar with, Raku, Rust, and JavaScript all have immutable package repos. (npm wasn't when left-pad was pulled but has changed
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by codesections 5y ago
> Ruby has truly ruined me for stuff like this. Most basic functionality and some non-trivial functionality is covered in the standard library. Ruby is one language I haven't had the chance to explore yet. Are there any Ruby functi
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by codesections 5y ago
> I'll rather use a really small, static (as in never changing) package [instead of one] that get updates every day and breaking changes from time to time. That's an entirely fair point and, as I got into a bit in the versionin
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by codesections 5y ago
This is the followup to Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad, https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/06/unix_philosophy_without_...
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Following the Unix philosophy without getting left-pad(raku-advent.blog)
5 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
> It starts up in seconds so you can begin working immediately They and I have a very different idea of what the word "immediately" means
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by codesections 5y ago
> What’s wrong with 3? You may have missed the "[that] they leave on the bottom" part of 3. It sounds like you don't leave your terminal open/visible unless you press ^v
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by codesections 5y ago
Though note that Cunningham disavows the law attributed to him: > Cunningham himself denies ownership of the law, calling it a "misquote that disproves itself by propagating through the internet." https://en.m.wikipe
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OpenIndiana(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by codesections 5y ago|1 comments
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by codesections 5y ago
> Published online 2007 Jan 11.
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by codesections 5y ago
> This honeycomb is sent to an illegal smelter, where the precious metals are extracted, distilled, and sold to manufacturers. Does anyone know any details about this part of the operation? The article doesn't provide any, and I&#x
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VCS friendly, patchable, document line wrapping (2016)(dustycloud.org)
2 points by codesections 5y ago|0 comments

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