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The idea was kind of amusing until I went to the GitHub page and was greeted with a Chudjak [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Crusius#In_popular_cul...

To access a private CodeArtifact repository, you have to first fetch a short-lived token, then supply that as the password when you access it via npm/yarn, poetry, etc. In most cas…

At my job, we use AWS CodeArtifact to host a couple dozen internal libraries we use for Python and TypeScript projects. I suspect that this is a common use case for these kinds of …

Very cool. I created a thermal printer project a few years back that prints (low quality) proxies of Magic: the Gathering cards based on the rules for "Momir Basic". It was a fun p…

As you correctly observed, step one does not normalize 'HYPHEN-MINUS' to 'HYPHEN'. Instead, that occurs in step three, using the confusables data file [1]. [1] https://www.unicode.…

Another option would be to detect and/or normalize Unicode input using the recommendations from the Unicode consortium. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/ Here's the relevant bi…

If you are asking why the study isn't covering a period of time including winter, it's because the study goes for a full year and this is only a report at the half way point. > On …

Have I lost my marbles? It doesn't work? (temp5) ~/temp5 pip install . ERROR: Directory '.' is not installable. Neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.

While at a conference last year, I got COVID. My hotel refused to extend my stay, and wanted me to take an ambulance ride to another "COVID quarantine" hotel. I had a bad fever, wa…

Migration was a complete nightmare for me. I had a couple of accounts for myself and kids. I used Gmail "plus addressing" for all the accounts. MS actively prevents creating accoun…

> he's the only recent president who didn't start a new war Not for a lack of trying. The assassination of Qasem Soleimani was authorized by Trump and led to several direct attacks…

Reminds me of the Venmo scam I encountered a month ago. Some person I don't know sent me $50, then tried to send me a request for $50, but accidentally sent me another $50. I'm con…

I was incorrect in that assertion. Abortion was not codified until Roe v. Wade.

The question was not about the most recent finding of the SCOTUS. The question was, why wasn't abortion codified into law since Roe v. Wade.

> [...] why was it never codified in law? The findings of the SCOTUS in Roe v. Wade was: The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides a fund…

> as regex is a lot faster than parsing html This person would like a word with you -- https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454 :D

Yikes, the authors summary of Knox v US sure glosses over a lot of context about the case.

The worst programmer I know is myself, six months ago. The most arrogant programmer I know is myself, in six months.

> should make the idea of evolution a lot easier for some in various communities to finally grasp Only if the members of those communities are receptive to re-evaluating their idea…

Word of warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Teen_Hunger_Force#2007_Bo...

YMMV, but I just checked my neighborhood out and the satellite image is ~5 years old.

I'm not sure if/when it changed on the site, but MySpace listed the time comments were made in the comment posters local timezone instead of the readers timezone. It was such a str…

I'm a developer in the Midwest and my team participated in the signaling contest for the MTA Genius Challenge[1]. I handled gathering the raw data from our hardware and generating …

I worked with Tony a number of years ago and have been following him on social media. He does a lot of public records research, and for the last two+ years or so, he's been fightin…

These shoes have nothing to do with the moonwalk.