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by heads 2y ago
What I realized after 25 years is that configuration comes in three parts: 1/ the defaults, either built in or read from /etc; 2/ my defaults, included in each file (or with ssh, at the bottom) with that particular config’s n
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by heads 2y ago
North America has lots of land and oil. Timber (Canada), plastics, and corn fertilised by nitrates that were made using fossil fuel energy. Corn probably doesn’t ship in containers but corn-fed beef and poultry do?
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by heads 2y ago
In the sense that violence is coercion they have a lot of purely electronic means of persuasion: update account set balance = 0 where user = ‘steve1977’;
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by heads 2y ago
We used to have an ecosystem like this. In our case it reflected an entrenched set of divisions between warring teams. In some ways it may have then enhanced those positions and we still bear a few of the scars today. A lot of the old gua
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by heads 3y ago
Put wings on it and go up sideways. It solves the thrust/weight issue the same way a hill climber does: instead of going directly up they zig zag. You need the lateral velocity anyway, for orbit.
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by heads 3y ago
And at the command line: headers to stderr, body to stdout. Without it you get this behavior: > heights | sort -k2 -nr George 186 Wally 173 NAME HEIGHT But if the headers bypass stdout then you get this instead: &g
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by heads 3y ago
I’m sure this is real but just for fun I’m entertaining the idea that someone is trolling — either with a fun dialog title or the app name. I worked at a company in the late 2000s that moved to an office with automatic urinals. These were
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by heads 3y ago
I feel like my memory (and that article) aren’t very clear on this, but Backbone in spirit felt quite different to the series of high bandwidth towers of which Telecom Tower was one part. Regular lets-call-grandma telecommunications would b
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by heads 3y ago
Parliament is all the players from all 12 teams including all those on the bench who never even played. Government is the members of the winning team who were on the field when the whistle blew. They get to lift the trophy. In real competi
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by heads 3y ago
What a fun read! Your “how to get shot in the airport” caption nearly made me spit out my coffee.
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by heads 3y ago
I feel like there are metric lurking in here somewhere. Something to do with the following concepts: (1) the number of documented atomic changes to the codebase, be these merges or pull-requests or changesets or patches — the thing with a
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by heads 3y ago
Speechmatics.com in London and Cambridge, UK. We build audio and language models that perform the most accurate speech recognition available. https://www.speechmatics.com/company/careers/roles
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by heads 3y ago
So negative! Where I work this tool is called “new-hires”. It uses a restricted read-only API key to our third-party people tool. It was given to me by our People Director . Sometimes there are lines beginning with - but the tool is na
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by heads 3y ago
Are there any examples of this kind of assertion turning out to be incorrect? I’m happy to be told this kind of libation analysis is (ahem) rock solid but it’s not easy to tell from the article. My understanding of the article and the plot
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by heads 3y ago
I’m British with, funnily enough, a Duke’s County cricket ball on my desk. My nephew is Californian and I gave him one for his sixth birthday. Mine felt a bit lighter so we did an experiment over Zoom together to measure the density. He’s
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by heads 3y ago
Wasn’t one of the great puzzles of the 20th century exactly this — will the universe collapse back into a singularity or not?
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by heads 3y ago
The numbers are big but they don’t seem “big big” like Sagittarius A* is big or the distance to Andromeda is big.
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by heads 3y ago
If you’re doing 2e8 m/s, your ship is long and thin with a 1m3 nose cone, and space has 100 baseballs per m3 then you’re being hit by 2e10 baseballs a second. How do I get an idea for what 20 billion baseballs (2TJ) feels like? Appare
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by heads 3y ago
Configuration languages are an interface to the API presented by the software you are using. There can be a hard boundary between the two — a C codebase for a web server and the XML-like file that configured it — or there can be an imperc
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by heads 3y ago
To tack one additional problem onto your excellent list: the commit message is usually only the start of a conversation about why a change should be made. The rest of that discussion is whether it meets the bar and what needs to be adjus
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by heads 3y ago
Thanks, that’s an important detail. I guess it boils down to how much private wealth is too much, and what if anything should we do about it? An argument on Harvard’s side is that, in the grander scheme of things, they are part of a proces
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by heads 3y ago
On the one hand money in an endowment has presumably already been taxed at least once. Taxing it again is double taxation and that’s bad because once you allow money to be taxed twice, you have to be ok with it being taxed many times over
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by heads 3y ago
This is a product update we’ve been working on. Our multi-headed model is accurate in 49 languages and the full pipeline has really good normalisation (“ten dollars” -> “$10”), abbreviations, and punctuation too. It makes a big differe
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Accurate real-time speech recognition(speechmatics.com)
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by heads 3y ago
That is brilliant, thank you so much for sharing. The galaxies’ enormous size is truly jaw dropping. I had absolutely no idea they were this large, in the night sky. Have you ever seen them live, though an image intensifier / night v
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by heads 3y ago
The gaming paragraph seems a little too underwhelming. Steam Deck is a perfect implementation of a Linux computer. I adore using it just to glow in the polish and expertise with which it has been assembled. Kudos, Valve. I don’t even
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by heads 3y ago
Tilt it? That is to say, to some extent, could you repurpose gravity to give a sense of acceleration?
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by heads 3y ago
Well if you were working in “endless cubicle farms” and “wasting your lives in traffic” then, yes, removing those two things from your life is a smart thing to do. Being socially isolated from the other members of your team and only having
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by heads 3y ago
Cool idea! Something about this makes me think about chaining moves, like function calls. Is there a version of chess where you get to keep moving if you take a piece?
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by heads 3y ago
It’s always baffled me how the regard that the average Englishman holds for itinerant folk is wrapped in a big if statement: if (boat) … # All good else: raise TravellerAlert()

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