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by there_the_and 6y ago
I don't see any indication that pdftotext has been discontinued [1]. It looks like a Mac-specific installer available via Homebrew Cask has been discontinued [2], but pdftotext is still available through the normal poppler formula [3].
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by there_the_and 6y ago
It seems like a likely explanation is that these are primarily done by children and that this is a human universal / instinctual behavior during child development. Looking at google scholar there are at least a couple studies of hand p
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by there_the_and 6y ago
What I find interesting about this explanation is that it suggests a much more limited scope of decision-making than is often attributed to humans. A practical example of why this could matter is that instead of spreading an idea through vi
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Indeed. It seems possible that there’s something about the red ochre hand motif is hardwired into human brain and is related to language development. But on a time scale of tens of thousands of years, even if we somehow outgrew it as a spec
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Rock art is really weird because there are exactly same motifs using the same materials (usually red ochre) all over the world and separated by tens of thousands of years. People act like it’s no big deal, but it sure looks like a pretty bi
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by there_the_and 6y ago
> import a second backend into your main backend This is not typically how the term "backend" is used in this context. Most mature apps will use a variety of tools and services built in a variety of languages, but this is not
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by there_the_and 6y ago
That is obvious (it's in the name). The way your comment is phrased reads to me like you are saying that one can't use Rails and has to switch to a full JS backend for SSR. If that's not what you are saying, then it's un
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by there_the_and 6y ago
> if we're talking about building an SPA you're typically going to be building a worse solution if you can't SSR your client views, which you need a js backend to do. I have not used React with Rails and maybe I'm m
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by there_the_and 6y ago
To be like hacker news it would have to be filled with actual insurgents, including some who managed to make their own countries.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Names change all the time. Leader / follower and primary / secondary are better for a lot of things, anyway. Even ignoring the social issue, master and slave are not great terms for how they are used. Frankly, I find it disturbing
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by there_the_and 6y ago
3000-2500 BCE is such an interesting time period. Civilization and technology somewhat inexplicably pick up throughout the world within just a few centuries. For example, coinciding with the Gilgamesh time period (around 2800 BCE to 2500 BC
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by there_the_and 6y ago
> I picked the names "master" (and "origin") in the early Git tooling back in 2005. > (this probably means you shouldn't give much weight to my name preferences :) ) > I have wished many times I would
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Nope. Any third party software that assumes a “master” branch always exists and is always the main branch was already broken.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
It’s not a breaking change.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Yes. Software evolves as the environment evolves. Software that can't evolve gets replaced.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
If people are offended by "git" and want to advocate for a name change, they are free to do so.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Obviously people feel otherwise, and it's changing regardless of whether you are able to understand or not.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
It's not. This is more like a swear word. No one would expect that calling it the "fuck" branch would be OK. Just because more people are OK with "master" doesn't change the fact that it bothers other people wh
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by there_the_and 6y ago
I’m asking if you could please share links to the information you saw about about the widespread subscription cancellations that you referred to.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
They reported at the beginning of May that subscriptions are at a high: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/business/media/new-york-t... Scanning the google results for “nyt subscribers” I see them r
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by there_the_and 6y ago
Blues exist along a range of brightness values and blues work great in dark terminals and editors all day every day for many many people. I'm typing into a browser window surrounded by probably about 4 or 5 terminal and editor windows
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by there_the_and 6y ago
The way we fix most legacy software systems is by replacing them with newer, different ones.
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by there_the_and 6y ago
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by there_the_and 6y ago
This is standard practice, it's not your email address, you are just using it for work, and your employer needs access for a variety of very obvious reasons. This should not be news to any technology professional and it's mind-blo
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by there_the_and 7y ago
Unsecured Elasticsearch servers have been implicated in multiple breaches in recent months [1][2]. Since this post is an "In depth guide to running Elasticsearch in production,” it should prominently include information related to secu
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by there_the_and 7y ago
It was never “only vain aristocrats.” Life is not a cartoon. Cosmetics, tattoos, and jewelry have been in use for thousands of years.
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by there_the_and 7y ago
> This seems overly paranoid to me This is not even close to paranoid. Conflicts of interest are an important issue for nonprofits because it can cause them to lose tax exempt status, and the IRS makes a whole todo about it, and theref
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by there_the_and 7y ago
It makes me proud of the Hacker News community that there have been so many climate change articles posted at an increasing rate. This is a very important issue, more important than technology since technology won't exist when the clim
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by there_the_and 7y ago
The Blackrock letter did not state that they are divesting from fossil fuels in 2020. It stated that they are planning to remove companies that generate more than 25% of their revenue from thermal coal production (i.e., thermal coal produce
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by there_the_and 7y ago
> widespread fear of crime, immigration (aka the actual sociological results of Robert Putnam, rather than the yammerings of some Buzzfeed wanker), poisonous oligarch funded divisive politics, and the general disintegration of anything

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