nullhole

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by nullhole 1mo ago
Fix?
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by nullhole 1mo ago
Factor of 3 sounds like a feet-metres unit error
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by nullhole 1mo ago
What are you talking about? Where on earth does taking an unplanned day off work get you jail time?
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by nullhole 1mo ago
Not a very good title, given that the subtitle for the very same article gives the important context that "Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.
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by nullhole 2mo ago
Yeah, mine are the AP ('professional') class ones. What matters is the amortized cost per year, I think - more expensive up front but cheaper in the long run.
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by nullhole 2mo ago
I mean, not all of them? Mine's a fancy-pants Stihl battery mower, but it works quite well and has been doing so without problem since I bought it ~4 years ago. The other battery stuff from the same brand (trimmer, chainsaw, kombi-tool
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by nullhole 3mo ago
> I disagree with the interpretation that it needs to be held physically. Digital ownership is still ownership. I go out of my way to find music on Bandcamp, games on GOG, and rip movies myself using MakeMKV. Files on a hard disk that yo
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by nullhole 3mo ago
My first reaction is that the step to torture was a step backwards, a disregard for what we've learned about the efficacy of torture in getting reliable information, and an embrace of sadistic revenge as an end in itself as state polic
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by nullhole 3mo ago
The OK-ing of torture was a clear step into the totalitarian camp and a clear breach with justice, liberalism, and decency.
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by nullhole 3mo ago
Why on earth? Because I love that TV series, and the passage from that TV series is what comes to mind for me.
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by nullhole 3mo ago
The passage that comes to mind for me whenever this idea comes up, from the Brett version of the Holmes story "The Dancing Men": H: So, Watson. W: Hmm. H: You do not propose to invest in South African securities? W: How
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by nullhole 4mo ago
s/perpetual/permanent perpetual has pejorative connotations and only started appearing in marketing speak when software rental became the new business model.
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by nullhole 4mo ago
Not to be that guy, but 38-53um is 1 order of magnitude smaller than 200um
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by nullhole 4mo ago
What types of problems are better solved in F# than C#? Is having a combination of F# and C# in a single codebase possible? Is it recommended?
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by nullhole 4mo ago
He's redirecting requests coming from hn to a photo of a hairy ball in an egg holder with some mildly insulting text, and setting a cookie so the redirect happens outside of hn links as well. The text even comes with a tone of the mora
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by nullhole 4mo ago
> large portion of the time, the maintainer notices what happened a few hours later. So add it at the package manager level instead of the user level then?
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by nullhole 4mo ago
There's also clearly a voiceover, they must lose points for that too. /s
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by nullhole 4mo ago
> When the applause fades, my employees, or reports, or "my team" when I'm feeling jolly was good too
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by nullhole 4mo ago
Well at least the spelled 'appendix' correctly
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by nullhole 5mo ago
> You decide when updates happen, not the other way around. What's the other way around? "Updates decide when you happen"? Sounds like part of a Yakov Smirnoff joke.
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by nullhole 5mo ago
One neat inflation calculation I stumbled on is that inflation since 1945 to today is ~20x, so, from the film-noir era to today, 5¢ = $1 25¢ = $5 $1 = $20 $5 = $100
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by nullhole 5mo ago
I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.
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by nullhole 5mo ago
"Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something" - Mitch Hedberg
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by nullhole 5mo ago
It's hard to escape the tick-tock of time slipping away, even if there's no clock in the room
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by nullhole 5mo ago
There's a Far Side cartoon in that "Oh boy, look at that all that melting ice cream.. I hope he sits on our anthill!"
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by nullhole 6mo ago
Related, mapping of OSM infrastructure data: https://openinframap.org/
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by nullhole 6mo ago
That's right. You can also introduce or correct information with a point-of-information, at least as I was taught them. Other types of interjection are point of personal privilege (eg seat is uncomfortable) and point of inquiry (clarif
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by nullhole 6mo ago
> As a point of order: Astral did not, in fact, burn through its VC money. That's a point of information, not a point of order.
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by nullhole 6mo ago
"What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little Channel 4 news item" - Tony Benn, MP, in the UK parliament, speaking against a resolution authorizing bomb
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by nullhole 7mo ago
Wildfires have to be a big one as well, the time range and geographic range is growing on a seemingly yearly basis. Related, home insurance cost increases (and, in places, unavailability) from wildfires & worsening storms hits the pocke

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