giraffe333

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by giraffe333 8mo ago
I was reminded of the US Constitution's 10th amendment and reading some of the history around it. > The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States re
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by giraffe333 9mo ago
I thought this was "the Dragon Book" Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Aho, Lam, and Sethi https://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools...
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by giraffe333 2y ago
Also don’t forget to blink while you are at it. https://uihc.org/health-topics/computer-vision-syndrome
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by giraffe333 2y ago
TIL: Spanish has a sort of written contractions. I speak conversational Spanish so I’ve heard people talk this way, like Puerto Rico or Dominican Republic speakers shortening things, just hadn’t seen it written before. tó = todo ná = nada
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by giraffe333 3y ago
Worked at AOL tech support back in the day and I also still have the occasional flashback to the pain these so called modems caused us all.
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by giraffe333 3y ago
I have this exact problem and (mostly) fixed it by swapping the sensor and transmitter. I just cut the wires and spliced with electrical tape. Now the problem still happens but only sometimes in the fall and spring when the sun's ang
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by giraffe333 4y ago
why aren't these fines percent of revenue, or a multiple of the number of people affected?
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by giraffe333 4y ago
You can't "catch up" on sleep. The only way to get enough sleep is to have a schedule that you stick to. It's ok to think about work off hours. Write down your thoughts, do some meditation practice to learn to let the
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by giraffe333 4y ago
One place I worked, the rule was "always have two pairs of eyes on code". Each team got to decide whether that rule was met with some mix of mob or pair programming, or just code reviews/pull requests. We could change depend
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Homie lays off one-third of its staff(techcrunch.com)
4 points by giraffe333 5y ago|0 comments
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by giraffe333 5y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793615
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by giraffe333 5y ago
At least where I work, the DNS rule is "Batten's Law" because that guy's said it so many times, and been right so many times. https://www.battenworks.com/ It's DNS And, when you're sure i
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by giraffe333 5y ago
Why don't excel and all the things that can read excel kill the old xls (2^16 limit) format? I mean still let excel read the file, but don't allow changing the file. Only allow saving the old file to the new format.
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by giraffe333 5y ago
Adding on to the thoughts about everyone writing terrible code sometimes, there is also “terrible code makes lots of money”. Source: over 20 years doing software dev at various companies with terrible code that makes millions. Happily my c
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by giraffe333 5y ago
Is it this issue for Firefox? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520157 See also https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/250
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by giraffe333 6y ago
I think VR could be really cool solution to some of the problems with video calls, but the headsets are just too heavy at this point. I have an oculus quest 1 and can't stand wearing it more than maybe 30 or 40 minutes, it just hurts
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by giraffe333 6y ago
I agree with your general thought about this, but in this specific article one of the scientists was quoted saying he was "baffled", but only "kind of". Maybe the title should be "Herd of Fuzzy Green 'Glacier
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by giraffe333 7y ago
I backed the Light Phone 2 with the thought that it's kind of like being an early Tesla buyer. People buy the Tesla to look cool, sure, but some also buy it because they want to see a world where cars become something they weren't
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by giraffe333 7y ago
About a day and a half, making a few calls and texting a bit. So effectively I have to charge it every night.