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by devrandomguy 9y ago
He also fired a low shot across the bow at us tab-indenters. Unfortunately for him, I :set sw=8, and am therefore out of range.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Right off the bat, this has much better performance on my laptop than Slack; Slack really spins the fans. Also, that extra layer of organization provided by the thread column was needed badly. I personally was hoping for tags and tag-groups
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Is there any other type of solution? If some service demands my mobile number, that is a clear signal that I should not give them my actual mobile number.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The reason I rejected PG's JSON store, was it's inability to update fields inside of a JSON doc, without replacing the whole document. In your case, does this constraint push you to use more types of smaller documents, or do you j
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
That is a pretty loose definition of accountability. If your bank screws around, are you going fix it by voting for a different candidate in the next election? I would say that my ability to purchase and run mining hardware, at a loss if ne
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
TL:DR QM programs can be represented by a Lisp DSL, like everything else in life. It's all brackets, all the way down /s
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I visited that video specifically because the view counter was jammed at UINT_MAX. There were comments confirming that everyone was now visitor number 4,294,967,295. In fact, it might have been an HN post that brought it to my attention; I
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Have you never needed to merge datasets, that grew separately, in parallel? It is a royal pain when the rows have consecutive sequential primary IDs. Something has to make way for the other. IMO, this is one thing Mongo got right: keys, by
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
(In David Attenboroughs voice): And here we have the gentle Sillysaurus in it's natural environment, grazing on a field of failweed in the tidal shallows. Notice however, that his eyes remain just above the surface of the water, ever v
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I was about to make a note to go back to AMD CPUs for future builds, but then I found this: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd . Looks like we're basically screwed for CPUs this year, and the next, until one of these op
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Integrate with Facebook. Don't force people to choose one system or another. Then people will diffuse across the barrier.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Diversity, mainly. Grow many different classes of plants, not just food products. Start a nearby beehive and include plants with large numbers of tiny flowers. Include crayfish and other filter-feeders with the fish. Keep a few trees (cactu
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I know a few hobby farmers who are big on aquaponics; one of them actually makes most of his profit by selling the live trout to stock lakes, from ~1 acre of land. Is there some reason that this is not taking off on an industrial scale? Sur
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I suspect that it is also corporate propaganda, to reduce popular support for regulation, and to encourage the privatization of government services.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The React app that parses content from JSON to HTML (whyyyy?) also injects ~60 dynamic style elements (:facepalm:). Not sure whether to blame the Wix framework their app uses, or the site itself. You would think that people who write compar
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
> ... there is a trend away from peer-to-peer towards client/server for multiplayer games ... Really? Why? It seems obvious to me that communicating directly with other players would be faster than relaying messages through a server
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yeah, this is all academic. What I am thinking of is basically a clean-room redesign of human civilization with little or no large vehicles, permanent structures or large population centers. But, our bikes will need parts, and I am not will
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Dogs and chickens, I forgot about them, but with safe slow traffic, your dog can tag along. With a special purpose compartment on the bike trailer, you could bring ~4 chickens, and have a couple fresh eggs every morning, wherever you happen
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Let's also reduce the mass of the vehicle, to a fraction of its payload. Then, let's have the user supply the energy from their own food supply. These improvements will also improve health, safety and space/cost/energy e
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A reputation system might help alleviate those concerns; it might even result in your tools being better maintained. I've never tried a car-share, but the general idea seems legit. The primary motive for you to join, would be the oppor
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Ants walk. They live near their necessities, and they move the entire colony/city, as a single unit, when the local economy goes bad. They only own what they can carry: their larvae and their next meal. Their payload ratio is legendary
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
In my experience, optimizing for perceived latency (time between user request sent and site becoming usable) inevitably leads to server side rendering, in geographically distributed availability zones. If you know this in advance, then you
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
> The great majority of Jupiter's 69 known moons travel in retrograde orbits, meaning they travel in the direction opposite the planet's spin. Sketchy! I don't suppose we have a prediction for the next anticipated lunar co
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If you bring a glass of water with you, does it boil?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
There was a problem in Edmonton ~10 years ago, where criminals would steal a car to get part way home in the winter. Then, they would convert it to a land missile, and launching it across a parking lot, into a mall, in the middle of the nig
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
"We're sorry, but you do not have access for this content" /meh
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If it's any consolation, the site is well tested in Noscript mode.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Is that really a thing? That must be such a hazard for their developers. I usually have a test for sites that I work on, that scrapes a few URLs as Googlebot, to verify that they are getting an optimized view (no JS, structural-only css).
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If you change your browser's UserAgent string to Googlebot, then your client will be treated as a first-class citizen, by many of these sites. Google always wins, so let's all be Google.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The manuals have a big watermark right through the center of each page, which isn't even translucent; it completely obscures the content behind it. See https://www.manualslib.com/manual/464698/Honda-Civic.html

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