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Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming(github.com)
192 points by wooster 5mo ago|97 comments
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by wooster 3y ago
Interesting… https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pull/10156
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by wooster 6y ago
The format plists used before XML was very JSON-like. It had its own set of issues, however.
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by wooster 8y ago
The photo looks like it's of a cask firing at Ariake Sangyo [0], which manufactures barrels for a variety of uses. About 10 percent of their barrels go to domestic whiskey producers, and the rest to shochu. Yamazaki has their own coope
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Direct Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens(arxiv.org)
78 points by wooster 9y ago|19 comments
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by wooster 10y ago
There is a George T. Haymaker Jr. who "served as an Executive Vice President of Alumax Inc. from 1984 to 1986 and Vice President of International Operations at Alcoa Inc. from 1982 to 1984" [0]. His profile at Genstar Capital incl
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by wooster 10y ago
Have you been to southern Italy? The homeless/squatter situation I saw there was very similar.
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by wooster 10y ago
What's your experience of art like (especially paintings and other visual art)? Does it ever evoke strong feelings? Is there some art you like more than others for reasons you can't articulate with words? Ditto for UI design. Than
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Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind(facebook.com)
6 points by wooster 10y ago|0 comments
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by wooster 10y ago
CHM is great and the docents there are fantastic. The Cantor Center at Stanford has a great little collection of art. There's also a TeamLab exhibition at PACE in Menlo Park that I hear is wonderful.
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by wooster 10y ago
The trekking part of my Nepal trip I found a lot easier (and interesting) than my Kilimanjaro hike. The trek to EBC lends itself to a lot of flex days being built into itineraries (delays of flights between Kathmandu and Lobuche are normal)
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by wooster 10y ago
The study shows no lesions on the Kilimanjaro trek, which is more akin to an EBC trek than to climbing Everest, even if you climb Kala Patthar on the EBC trek. Even then, Kilimanjaro is much more intense than hiking to EBC, and a lot more p
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About the security content of iOS 9.3(support.apple.com)
52 points by wooster 10y ago|18 comments
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by wooster 11y ago
I've seen US-grown wasabi at some specialty stores in San Francisco. It looks like there's actually a farm in Half Moon Bay producing it: http://www.foodgal.com/2014/04/californias-only-grower-of-re...
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Kurt Vonnegut Once Lived in the Shadow of His Brother(wired.com)
25 points by wooster 11y ago|0 comments
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by wooster 11y ago
It looks like Yahoo Messenger for iOS was released on December 3: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo-messenger-chat-share/i... And apparently there's a native OS X client coming, as well: http:/
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Why Beijing’s Air Pollution Crisis Is Complicated (2014) [pdf](consiliencejournal.org)
9 points by wooster 11y ago|1 comments
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by wooster 11y ago
A navigation controller presenting a tab bar controller presenting a navigation controller with a child controller presenting a tab bar controller… on an iPad. Or any set of permutations of those.
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by wooster 11y ago
It's been awhile since I looked at this, but tab bar controllers (selectedViewController), navigation controllers (topViewController), and child controllers are probably going to cause your current method some difficulties.
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by wooster 11y ago
Based on what you've said above, I would believe them. I have heard, second-hand, of another person getting a very similar warning. That person is taking it extremely seriously, and the FBI wouldn't have any credible ulterior moti
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by wooster 11y ago
I can confirm this, having flown through airports in both places. I flew into Ushuaia from Buenos Aires and out of Punta Arenas, taking a bus between the two (since Chile and Argentina apparently don't get along all that well). Speakin
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CIA pulled officers from Beijing after breach of federal personnel records(washingtonpost.com)
68 points by wooster 11y ago|32 comments
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by wooster 11y ago
What crops do you grow? Growing up near the Salinas Valley, I always associated row crops with produce and not grains, so a <600 acre "row crop" farm can generate pretty massive revenue.
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by wooster 11y ago
Thanks! That's helpful for clarifying what your target market is.
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by wooster 11y ago
Also worth noting that the Ag Census likely overstates the number of farms in the US, so it's not out of line for FarmLogs to come up with their own number for their target market.
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by wooster 11y ago
This number ("one in three") is really ambiguous[0], as I haven't seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousan
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by wooster 11y ago
The stagecoach roads of the American West? (Often un-deeded right-of-ways through private lands, many now home to paved roads.)
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by wooster 11y ago
Ad blocking is not an attack on the open web. Ad blocking is the open web.
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by wooster 11y ago
Yeah, that actually looks nice. Some of the best programmers I know work from places like that. There's a lot to be said for getting away from big cities.
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by wooster 11y ago
Second the Miele. Compared to a Dyson vacuum the Miele is unquestionably superior, IME.

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