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Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by frou_dh 4mo ago|6 comments
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by frou_dh 4mo ago
IIRC it seemed like that pilot was having some kind of nervous breakdown because he surreptitiously held back on the stick all the way from 38,000ft until the crash.
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by frou_dh 5mo ago
There's something disgusting about the use of characters for graphs/charts on a bitmapped monitor. Trust nerds to find a way to make stuff ugly!
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
He's so charming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-ZmuJixIg
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
AFAIK that setting is opt-in, at least in Bash.
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
We have to settle for the smiley face changing slightly.
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
It's got to be somewhat depressing working on a household name product in its trashy downturn. Surely you can't have the pride in your work that an equivalent employee once would have.
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
I wonder about the timing in relation to the OpenAI acquisition of Astral this week. Was it a two-horse race to be acquired and then Deno got word that they were not the chosen one, and so said oh well, mass layoff it is? BTW the Deno archi
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
Yeah, that's pretty much tailor-made to be the official resource for an experienced programmer to get an overview of C++ as it stands. Fairly slim book so it's approachable. https://www.stroustrup.com/tour3.html
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
It's abject hackery because such "comment" directives don't even necessarily have to be a comment to be active: const x = `This whole thing is a //go:generate worse-is-better multiline str
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
You really gotta wonder how much value the "Digg" brand actually has, because the number of people that remember/care about the site from its original glory days is ever dwindling.
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by frou_dh 6mo ago
See also all the programmer blogs that feel the need to use a monospaced font for prose, to signal that they're a programmer.
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
Safari's devtools has a visual <canvas> debugger. I remember using it, seeing all the CanvasRenderingContext2D calls that affected the canvas listed, and scrubbing left and right through time to see how a frame was built up.
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
Obj-C++ was used for some hall-of-fame OS X apps, e.g. TextMate
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Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)(adamj.eu)
202 points by frou_dh 7mo ago|94 comments
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
> sometimes, I allow myself to lean back in my chair and just scroll WHAT??! This cannot be allowed!! /s It's clear from reading programmer geek thoughts on peripherals over the years that autistic types love the "Use keyb
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
On the off-chance I ever do reply to some of the months/years old things that I've never replied to, then I will surely include an apology, because it's definitely rude what I've done. I don't think many people in t
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
One of Reddit's cutesy error pages (presumably for Internal Server Error is similar) is an illustration that says "You broke reddit" . I know it's a joke, but have wondered what effect that might have on a particularly
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
In 3D games, something that's key for roads to look/feel realistic is to have small amounts of banking here and there all over the place - as opposed to just having a crude categorisation where there are flat roads on one hand and
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
Is that so? Sounds like this commandment has a lot of authority, I'd better start following it.
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by frou_dh 7mo ago
Used in space but NOT cleared for attaching the Space Shuttle to the fuel tank.
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Deno Deploy Is Generally Available(deno.com)
3 points by frou_dh 8mo ago|0 comments
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
The whole GitHub paradigm has muddied the meaning of the term "forking". It used to imply a serious intention to diverge. Now to a lot of people it just means doing any development on a copy of a repo. The "Fork" button
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
That's the holy Unix justification for self-flagellation via deficient tooling and you're sticking to it.
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
When drawing outlines, tables, etc, I hope the new approach (vui) uses real Unicode box-drawing characters and not - | + etc. It's high time TUI people raise their standards a bit and consider unbroken line drawing (no gaps between rep
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
The strange thing is that they never did manage to get it done for Ruby.
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
AFAIK macOS does not ship any version of Python in the normal installation, and it's Xcode / Xcode-CommandLineTools that bundles a Python.
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
I feel this topic is approaching circlejerk status. Basically any mention of StackOverflow on HN/Reddit is just teeing up everyone to go on about how the SO moderators are the worst people ever.
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by frou_dh 8mo ago
OCaml is a scripting language in this sense. No need to compile an executable ahead of time, just have a `#!/usr/bin/env ocaml` shebang (or more realistically: `#!/usr/bin/env -S ocaml -I +unix unix.cma`) at th
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by frou_dh 9mo ago
What I got from this is that the author doesn't like the term Extensible being used for situations that don't follow good software engineering practices. Maybe the term Hackable is less offensive and implies dirtiness being okay.

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