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by simula67 7mo ago
RFC 4180 [1] Section 2.6 says: "Fields containing line breaks (CRLF), double quotes, and commas should be enclosed in double-quotes." If the DMS output isn’t quoting fields that contain commas, that’s technically invalid CSV. A sm
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by simula67 9mo ago
I am glad to hear that there was someone who argued for the right course of action in the Amazon Prime organization. I don't know why this is not being fought by other regulators. I also paid for Amazon Prime, expecting to get ad-free
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by simula67 2y ago
> The bank is not printing money new money, no matter how many times this idea gets repeated by people who are, ironically, pumping crypto coins that were printed out of thin air. It is now widely accepted that bank lending produces new
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by simula67 2y ago
I hope they at least split Office and Windows into seperate companies. Hopefully, then we may get Microsoft Office on Linux.
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by simula67 2y ago
The worst part of it is that the "true Internet" is probably still out there, but we can't find it anymore. The search engines have gotten way worse over the years and we no longer have good enough filters to ignore all the n
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by simula67 2y ago
Even today, Perl is the only scripting language with more than 200K modules and no Global Interpreter Lock.
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Remote workers using 'mouse-mover' technology are getting caught(theverge.com)
14 points by simula67 2y ago|14 comments
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by simula67 2y ago
While you may be able to create amazing experiences in JavaScript, JavaScript still has multiple problems: 1. It is inconsistent [1] 2. It does not have many features that programmers love and other languages have. 3. It has a community tha
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Return-to-Office Mandates(papers.ssrn.com)
3 points by simula67 2y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 2y ago
Is there a Mac app to copy Windows' windowing behavior? I want different virtual desktops to behave like they are different computers with a shared clipboard, i.e., I don't want to see apps from other virtual desktops showing up o
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by simula67 3y ago
It is unfortunate that the company that became incredibly successful, at least partly, because of the hackability of Linux and open source software is now actively working to suppress hackability. I recently had to unroot my phone since it
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Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds(bloomberg.com)
848 points by simula67 3y ago|579 comments
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Fed Posts Largest-Ever Annual Operating Loss(wsj.com)
4 points by simula67 3y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 3y ago
Berkshire Hathway is also a conglomerate, but it does perform fairly well.
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by simula67 3y ago
Another option is duff: https://github.com/elmindreda/duff
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by simula67 3y ago
Recommend Kings and Generals series on Mongols: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzatw32j-i4
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by simula67 3y ago
It is also possible to do most of that with Python in Pycharm (except maybe jump behind?). This is why going from Python to Go can feel like going backward. IMO, even compiled languages should have an "interpreted mode" for develo
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by simula67 3y ago
I thought this was well known in the Anglosphere. Anyway, I have heard that this is why the words for cooked version of the meat and the name of the animal is different in English. For example, cow meat when cooked becomes beef. Sheep meat
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by simula67 3y ago
> While manual backup and restore tests were run once a month to ensure our backups were functioning, they were run manually. After digging into why our restores were not coming up with data, I found that our recurring backups were missi
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by simula67 3y ago
> Businesses gave mixed results on remote work productivity, with 30% saying it boosted output, and 40% saying it reduced it. I think this is a continuation of the theme of technology making time-space co-ordination more independent. Rec
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by simula67 3y ago
PyAutoGui is very good. I have been using it for a long time and rewrote some simple ahk automations with it recently. It's strictly not a one-to-one replacement (so I still use autohotkey) but the UI automation features are well-done.
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by simula67 3y ago
> Meanwhile for the newer and more demanding JetStream 2.0 benchmark, Google Chrome continues to win easily over Firefox It is a good outcome that we have for the web: good standards and a reference implementation in the form of WebKit&#
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by simula67 3y ago
I have been using it with Oracle SQLPlus to regain some sanity. I wish Oracle would develop a good CLI and make it available by default. For bonus points, release it to be relocatable and backward compatible with older versions.
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by simula67 3y ago
> to explain why they should stop using #Chromium / #GoogleChrome and use #Firefox or #Epiphany as their main #web #browser Or use Brave.
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by simula67 3y ago
> The difference between Firefox and IE was orders of magnitude larger than the difference between Chrome and Firefox I don't think so. When Chrome came out it was much better than competition too[1]. I don't know if Firefox wa
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by simula67 3y ago
Pretty soon, the French visiting Tokyo will report Tokyo Syndrome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
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by simula67 3y ago
The fact that these mandates are required is a piece of evidence that points to the idea that WFH is popular. If WFH was not popular, we would see workers showing up to offices on their own, since offices are open and have been open for a w
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by simula67 3y ago
I am really surprised at how the remote work situation is evolving. Despite not mandating in-person work for most of last 3 years, tech and non-tech companies have shipped great products, delivered many high quality projects; on time and wi
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US ‘Won’t Tolerate’ China’s Micron Chips Ban(bloomberg.com)
2 points by simula67 3y ago|2 comments
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by simula67 3y ago
I think it is probably because of the UNIX philosophy of the virtue of silence: 'The program should say nothing if it has nothing interesting to say'. It is an open question whether progress is 'interesting' or not. My o

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