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> why on earth would I want firmware updates for a lens? One reason is to update the lens to work with new camera or new camera firmware.

If the concert attendees value the concert experience more than they paid for the tickets, then the concert generated value.

min and max are predeclared identifiers in the universe block, not reserved words. https://go.dev/ref/spec#Predeclared_identifiers You can continue to declare your own entities wit…

It's either habbit or you are doing something out of the ordinary with your Go installation. The standard installation of Go has not required GOROOT for a very long time.

Yes, this happens. My son could not take calculus in high school because he was mislabeled in 8th grade. The 8th-grade decision has had an impact on his college career. The school …

See the Fair Tax proposal for one way to address this problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairTax

You do not need to go down the Github rabbit hole. The symbol prometheus is from the package github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus. Use go doc github.com/prometheus/client…

Russ Cox https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsc

The type definition `type X Y` declares new type X with the underlying type of Y. X and Y share underlying types and nothing else. This is a useful feature and there's nothing weir…

A type alias binds a new name to a type. All of the type’s methods are available through the new name.

pkg.go.dev is the module aware replacement for godoc.org.

McConnell’s office did not state that. Search the web for “mcconnell fake quote” for info.

The compiler optimizes conversion from []byte to string on map lookup. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f5f5a8b6209f84961687d993...

Permethrin is an insecticide that's applied to clothing, tents, packs, etc. It's effective for a month or so depending on exposure to UV and number of washes. Picaridin is a repell…

It's called "orange and teal". Search for "orange and teal" to find explanations on why the style is popular and tutorials on how to create the style in image and video editing app…

The go vet command checks format strings. I expect that the command will be updated to check for correct use of %w.

Previous post on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852400

There's limited choice, but Fuji provides one of those choices ( http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/gfx/index.h... ).

XMPP support did very little to grow whatever power Google has in the chat market. Traffic to federated services and use of third party clients was low.

I had the Fisher Paykel double dishdrawer and found that it works great. We loaded dirty in one drawer and took clean from the other. We always had to put a few clean items away wh…

IE4 was a rewrite, not a refactor job.

A high school graduation at the Expo center in Redmond is enough to cause 97 to backup. The eclipse backup will indeed be epic.

The site http://caltopo.com/ is another good resource for maps. The site includes a number of maps including USGS, USFS and marine charts. There are several useful overlays for hik…