ljnelson

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by ljnelson 3mo ago
Many comments so far seem to imply (perhaps not intentionally) that this syntax was intended only on the "right side" of the URI, but you can think of it more as adding qualifier-like information to (potentially) each path segment
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by ljnelson 10mo ago
This was the absolute golden age of Car and Driver. David E. Davis Jr. was the editor; he later departed to found Automobile magazine.
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by ljnelson 2y ago
Interesting note: the JDK deliberately randomizes iteration order of certain immutable sets and maps ( https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/jdk-23%2B37/src/java.bas... ).
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by ljnelson 2y ago
One thing many don't talk about is the social aspect of getting a concussion. An acquaintance has decided to try to do something about that: https://concussionbox.org/ (Disclaimer: no involvement/attachment with t
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by ljnelson 2y ago
The actual report: https://zenodo.org/records/10701706/files/PlastChem_State_of...
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by ljnelson 3y ago
Does this make Gates and Bezos the Lords of KoBold (hear our prayer)?
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by ljnelson 3y ago
Put everything I possibly could into a Roth IRA starting at 21.
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by ljnelson 3y ago
You want to make sure you're using PYREX, not pyrex. They're different![1] [1]: https://www.allrecipes.com/article/what-is-the-difference-be...
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by ljnelson 3y ago
Tivo.
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by ljnelson 3y ago
AnyList ( https://www.anylist.com/ ). Streamlines grocery shopping and the paid version is absolutely worth the money. ~$15/year for a family.
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by ljnelson 4y ago
Interestingly, this is often by design: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/945136599/how-spanish-flu-pan... .
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by ljnelson 4y ago
See also the Financial Times, which originally reported the story: https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589...
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by ljnelson 4y ago
I also like https://technicshistory.com/2021/02/18/the-age-of-steam-intr... , which points in part to metal purity and engineering tolerances.
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by ljnelson 4y ago
Playing jump blues at the North Bend Blues Walk ( https://www.northbendblueswalk.com/ ).
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by ljnelson 5y ago
What a masterful headline.
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by ljnelson 5y ago
Indeed. “of” infected Java with the awful naming conventions imposed by java.time (and to a lesser degree java.nio) because “new” is a keyword and doing “newThing” instead was not in vogue. Now it smacks of the worst kind of hipster disease
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by ljnelson 5y ago
How do I put this? We are all going to be forgotten, utterly, along with every last thing we do, within no more than three generations (one for most of us). That makes everything we do both utterly insignificant and unfathomably important a
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by ljnelson 6y ago
Part of what I love about this is that periodically it doesn't work and a dude comes in from off camera and manually makes sure your email is torched. Very 2020.
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by ljnelson 6y ago
This seems like it isn't physically related, but it is: as the years accumulate, it becomes more and more clear that the person staring back at you in the mirror is the one you have to live with most intimately. Do the best you can wit
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by ljnelson 6y ago
Looks like the original story is here: https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/28643-bacteria-in-the-gut-h...
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by ljnelson 7y ago
Oops: https://monday.com/
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by ljnelson 8y ago
Oh; thought we were talking about Simone Biles. Never mind.
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by ljnelson 8y ago
Rampant sexism.
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by ljnelson 8y ago
Is this a Go-flavored version of something like https://jclouds.apache.org/ ?
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by ljnelson 8y ago
One of the lovely bits I ran into recently is whether a given YAML parser interprets a value as a string or not (for example) is entirely up to the parser, and there's nothing you can really do about it in the syntax. Quoting is a use
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by ljnelson 8y ago
Love UMLet ( http://www.umlet.com/ ), particularly for the ability to copy and paste diagrams instantly. In contrast to some others here, I find quick, simple diagrams immensely useful in resolving long, unproductive discus
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by ljnelson 9y ago
All that matters is the Narrative.
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by ljnelson 10y ago
I grab a cup of coffee on my way to my basement.
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by ljnelson 10y ago
Paul Simon song.
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by ljnelson 10y ago
Note that "reopen" is not used in the original source materials.

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