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by thirtyseven 2y ago
Bazel splits the build into multiple phases. Starlark only comes into play in the first two, load and analysis. During these phases, Starlark code doesn't have access to the filesystem, except in a few very limited cases like using the
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by thirtyseven 2y ago
Being a first mover didn't prevent them from adopting standard gauge which already had existed for 100 years.
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
I've seen a Model 3 with very similar sounds coming from the passenger side mirror. There was a loose piece sticking out of the bottom, pushing it back in fixed it.
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
I assume that both parties have market research showing that enough people (maybe even 36%) don't care enough to figure out how to change the search engine or buy a different phone.
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
Assuming they don't intentionally make economy worse to increase the perceived value of first class.
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
It's price discrimination. Some airline users are not price sensitive (the wealthy, corporate travelers with expense accounts) and they don't care about getting maximum value for their dollar. Economy fliers do.
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Kevin Mitnick has died(dignitymemorial.com)
3699 points by thirtyseven 3y ago|613 comments
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
> Rent control: A random windfall for whatever tenant snags these coveted apartments when someone dies in a 3 bedroom apartment they haven't needed in 30 years but "can't afford" to downsize from since they have been
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by thirtyseven 3y ago
That's... not a cartel though? A cartel is a group of firms conspiring to artificially control the supply of some good in order to increase its price, what you described is just several independent firms that have a high demand for w
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
Such a shame, it's hard to believe that Paul Allen didn't put his wishes for how LCM should be run after his death in writing.
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
The people that this broke weren't directly depending on the output of git archive being stable, but were assuming that the response data for a particular URL would stay constant. Maybe not a great idea either but not entirely unreason
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
The setup instructions for almost [1] every [2] major [3] rule set [4] only provide one (GitHub) url in the Starlark blob you're supposed to copy and paste, so hard to blame users here. [1] https://github.com/bazelbuild
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
At the limit, the exchange would only redeem it at par if Tether the company can also do so, right? That's the big open question since Tether has never publicly completed an audit.
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
So I guess the only future-proof solution to check for this is to render user input off screen and count the number of solid pixels, at least until "falsehoods programmers believe about names" gets updated to include "Names m
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
There are a wide range of other options here, including negligence and magical thinking.
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1562622023968256001 > A core piece of Internet archive networking equipment has failed and a replacement is being sourced right now.
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by thirtyseven 4y ago
What’s hard to believe about several thousand sellers all copying each other’s homework?
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
By not having test cases for those specific domains, and by passing your input through some general purpose internal URL handling library that does more than you thought it did [1]. Neither is (very) surprising. [1] https://rache
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
I think the organizations that spend tons of money to run the central repositories we all use are a good candidate for that.
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Because this is in Canada, where they aren't bound by US Supreme Court decisions? Also I don't think straight white cis-male is a protected class in any case.
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Shouldn't this have content in Catalan to qualify for a .cat domain?
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Because they don't have it
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Global Deal to End Tax Havens Moves Ahead as Nations Back 15% Rate(nytimes.com)
3 points by thirtyseven 5y ago|0 comments
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
With an outage this big, even a post for a technical audience will get read by non-technical people (including journalists), so I'm sure it helps to include details like this.
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
The Jones act restricts ship traffic between US ports solely to US-flagged vessels dramatically reducing competition and increasing costs, and you move freight by ship across a continent with rivers and canals
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Not a game dev but I don't think that's really feasible in a world where network latency is a thing, and it's necessary to send game state to a client that may not currently be visible on screen, unless you'd like us to
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Hospitals in the US are required by law to provide stabilizing care to anyone that comes into the ER regardless of ability to pay. Prices are inflated for everyone else to subsidize this. It's like universal healthcare, but more expen
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
In other news, the government has declared by decree that you can't move objects outside of an arbitrarily defined border that a piece of paper says is someone's "house", and then exchange those objects for different pie
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
My understanding is that it's only economical to bury utility lines when there is frequent enough inclement weather to bring them down, which definitely isn't the case in San Jose.
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by thirtyseven 5y ago
Rain can make it worse by adding more growth that then dries out and becomes fuel.

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