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by qw 16d ago
From what I can tell it is a library for standardising return values that is independent on the transport medium. A HTTP service may return a particular http code or body, and gRPC would have its own representation. I think this library map
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The Black Death and How It Birthed Today's Prosperity(opensourceceo.com)
4 points by qw 3mo ago|0 comments
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by qw 10mo ago
Swipe to go back can be implemented in frontend. It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature. https://ionicframework.com/
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by qw 11mo ago
And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter "å" is the
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by qw 1y ago
> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader? Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity. I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a significant upgrade to their reader. It was similar to what
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by qw 1y ago
Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of compressed HTML for each page. I don't
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by qw 1y ago
What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defend ourselves. In sci-fi we see warp drives, worm hole travel
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by qw 1y ago
Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle. Some names today still use the double a, like the
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by qw 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus > The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the same object after having all o
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by qw 1y ago
Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries: https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey
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by qw 1y ago
> The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not. The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it would only be necessary to do a deeper search if the pre
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by qw 1y ago
It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from what I can remember most applications were more con
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by qw 1y ago
It doesn't work for me either (Android+Chrome)
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by qw 1y ago
I often prefer enums over booleans for this. It seems more readable for most cases, and can be extended with new values. This: isRegistered: true could be replaced with accountStatus: "UNREGISTRED"
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by qw 1y ago
My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site
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by qw 1y ago
I would prefer to use a neutral <h> tag, that was proposed in the xhtml2 specs. It always made more sense to let the browser infer the place in the hierarchy.
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by qw 1y ago
It's related to how older versions of Windows/Office handled Unicode in general. From what I have heard, it's still an issue with Excel, although I assume that Windows may handle plain text better these days (I haven't u
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by qw 1y ago
The same location (Andøya, Norway) has also launched over 1,200 sounding and sub-orbital rockets of various configurations since 1962. As others have explained, the news here is a rocket reaching orbit
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by qw 2y ago
My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break. It is probably easier to just close it down to avoid handling all the angry phone calls if it would happen
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by qw 2y ago
I liked Settlers, but I was much more invested in the Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh series of games. Maybe it was due to the historical context.
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by qw 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20250215014709/https://simonschr...
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Making Duotrigordle, Part 1: Feature Train(thesilican.com)
1 points by qw 2y ago|0 comments
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by qw 2y ago
I subscribed to "CU Amiga" and "Amiga Format". I kept them for a long time, but had to throw them away when I moved a few years ago.
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by qw 2y ago
It's also the official name in several non-English countries, including variants like the French "soleil" https://idiot.vitebsk.net/i43/sun_english.htm
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by qw 2y ago
Another link with more information about Arpanet (1973) https://www.norsar.no/about-us/history/arpanet
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by qw 2y ago
I think knowledge was more localised to certain universities or researchers. Norway was the first country outside of USA to be connected to Arpanet in 1973 to share seismic data, but the universities did not gain general access until 1983.
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When Norway Got Internet(nb.no)
1 points by qw 2y ago|1 comments
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by qw 2y ago
> Things that you know and have internalised don't occupy your brainspace Some "10x" developers are extremely productive because they know the software stack inside and out. There are also "10x" teams where they
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by qw 2y ago
> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself The readers often cache the result for all users of the same feed. The only exception are readers that are running 100% locally. In that case usin
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by qw 2y ago
Interesting I was not aware of that. I was told the reason was that in addition to a different format, the drive was more flexible so that it could adjust more dynamically. But it seems that you could store it more efficiently and get simil

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