Rusted garbage will be recycled to make entire new stuff with rust!
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yeah why not just store those here :)
1. Stock market. I just don't get it, beyond a superficial understanding.
2. Oil futures market. My brain just melts trying to make sense of it.
You don't have to. If the program knows that the bus is 20 minutes away, it could wait 10 minutes or so before doing a refresh (assuming the bus doesn't magically gain a lot of speed in the meantime).
I thought I had never read Crichton (just not into dinosaurs) until I realised that I have infact read his State of Fear many years ago. However, I have no recollection whatsoever of its story.
Another author who uses formula seems to be Dan Brown: everything happens within 24 hours, there's a hero with lots of travel (atleast an Atlantic crossing and back — which if you think about it screws up the 24 hour timeline IRL) a pursuing villain who's low-key psychopath, a parallel storyline...
It's quite enjoyable if you're reading him for the first time, but by the time you're into 3rd book you'll start to see the formula and then whatever you're reading instantly loses its appeal.
I have decided that, life's too short to be reading low-quality work, and now I try to read classics and other renowned works.
Of course, with this strategy you might end up missing good works by independent authors. So, keep an open mind.
Like I said, I haven't touched Windows in over a decade.
But back when I did use it, it had a nifty feature where if you create a new empty text file in notepad and save it as .LOG, then each time you open that file it'll append the timestamp. Something like that (my memory about it is a little hazy).
$250 for a domain is prohibitively expensive.
When turning it back on in the morning, it takes a minute for the whole thing to get online. I've often wondered why it takes that long; can't it happen in a few seconds?
That's terrific!
Facepalm.
My country got plundered, conquered, and colonized; they took away everything they could possibly take away. Some of those objects are in some European museums and palaces ;)
(Don't take this the wrong way. I'm not blaming anybody. What has happened has happened.)
The recent funeral of Queen Elizabeth II was an opportunity to read up on the many trivias of British royalty. (PS: the British royalty is definitely not the head of my country).
One thing that struck me was that thay still have plenty of things (actual physical objects) from the middle ages that has survived to the modern day.
I think it's awesome that something from the middle ages has been immaculately maintained to the modern day.
So perhaps, by the time it's the year 7298 Linux kernel would still be in use, immaculately maintained over thousands of years. Wouldn't that just be great?
(I wonder how intergalactic pull requests are gonna work out...)
In India there are some relatively cheap EVs on sale, and they're all picking up stream.
By cheap, this is what I mean: the price of Tata Nexon EV is slightly over the price of Hyundai Accent (called "Verna" over here) and maybe equivalent to the price of a Kia Seltos. The Nexon EV is now a fairly common sight in Indian cities.
Then there's the slightly more expensive MG ZS EV, which at this point I'm seeing on the roads fairly frequently.
Haven't seen too many Hyundai Kona on the road. Tesla is unfortunately not in India yet. There are some super-expensive EV models from Mercedes and the likes, but those are very expensive.
(Disclaimer: I'm NOT affiliated in any way with any of the brands I mentioned).
Typo; you meant to say 2012.
Somebody born in the 1870s and who went on to live for a 100 years would have seen:
- people going around on horses and donkeys with carriages and everything getting replaced by motor cars
- invention of aircraft, jetplanes, and even supersonic aircrafts that obsoleted ocean-liners
- moon landing
- two world wars
- decline of the British Empire
- telephones
- computers
- germ theory
It's too much.
I wonder what the world would be like if I survive till the later parts of this century.
It's a phase.
"Written in Rust"
"I use Arch btw"
"Googler. Opinions are my own."
And I'm pretty sure Haskell had a situation like this a while ago.
This too shall pass.
And I know a somebody else who used to contribute to the Linux kernel before they eventually ended up at RedHat.
I don't know if it's because of the contribution that they got hired, but it could have been a factor.
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Also there's that tangentially related story about Homebrew creator not getting a job at Google, so there's that. [1]
If it's just a normal vertical wall it's naturally "balanced", but slanting walls would have a tendency to, I don't know, fall down? How does it support the next floor on top?!
Likewise with Frank Gehry's designs. Look at MIT buildings. People might probably consider it works of art, but I — a nobody — consider it cringeworthy.
What does HA stand for?
Thank you.
SQLite is what I consider a well-engineered product.
And Richard Hipp is an excellent engineer. Listen to his podcast episodes on the changelog. It's fun. His mentality is interesting.
For instance, I just found out that Norway, for instance, also has a monarch. So does Sweden (?), and several other countries. But they — the Nordic monarchs — are unheard of in my country, and don't seem to have the same level of influence internationally.
Is that your experience as well?
(FWIW, my country was a former British colony but the British royalty is NOT my country's head at all).
Also, they have some big names who have paid them a lot of money to keep the project alive for the next few decades. Airbus the plane manufacturer is one example.
There are these two podcast episodes [1] featuring sqlite founder Richard Hipp which I encourage you to listen. He is a thoroughbred.
So when they mark the gsm number onto a ream of A4 sheets, is 80 the gsm of A0 or A4?
Excellent article by the way. Thank you.
First read when I was an undergrad. Then multiple times during grad school. Hit a raw nerve somewhere.
(There's another book with the same title, so note the author).
That's a prejudiced view.
As somebody from one of those countries, I'm curious to know why you felt that way.
Rest assured that average citizens in India don't give a damn about whether or not America launches a rocket.
Nobody here has any doubt that the US is fully capable of handling this mission.
It's a good thing that they caught the flaw early and aborted the mission before anything catastrophic happened. They can now look into things, make corrections, and try again.
(And besides, thoughts about "what will others think" should be the least concern of anybody actually involved with this project. It's an indication of small minds.)
The random people who are up for hire from India — there's a good chance they're up for hire because they couldn't get anything else.
You get what you pay for. And the best are probably not even in the market.
How is India's system any less secure?
I think the thing is, because the system in the US was developed much earlier, it might have become more difficult to switch over to newer technology. Leapfrogging [1].