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I use etckeeper. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Etckeeper I find it nice to be able to simply make changes as I need directly on the system without going through any config m…

Looks really interesting. Have you done any write ups on the type inference bits? Flow sensitive type inference looks like exactly what I need.

If either of those two cases is true, then the AI is not ready to be driving on public roads.

> So now that we now to look for them, it may be possible that we'll be able to find others, at least before the probe reports back from Proxima Centauri. To me this is the most ex…

Link to draft paper on Nature https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/e...

This is really exciting news. Not only did we find an interstellar comet but we found it using the Pan-STARRS telescope. With the LSST coming online soon which is the next generati…

The bill text: https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/sjres34/BILLS-115sjres34e... All it says is that the previous FCC rule no longer has any effect. It does not layout anything about…

From the post: > I asked Akamai to redirect my site to 127.0.0.1 — effectively relegating all traffic destined for KrebsOnSecurity.com into a giant black hole. Since Akamai was goi…

Kapacitor, it has a focus on time series data, and simplicity. https://www.influxdata.com/time-series-platform/kapacitor/ Disclaimer: I am the author.

Several years ago and I don't remember much of the specifics but we had an issue with static content being served from our site being randomly truncated (polluting the cache etc). …

Bike are balanced and symmetric side-to-side. Top to bottom they are not, obviously. The center of mass is above the ground , so a bike that is not moving will fall over to lower i…

Thanks for the wonderful explanation. My question is How? How does the bill allow a Consumer ISP to be paid by a Website owner? Can someone provide some text from the bill or at le…

Yes, but scale is important too https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitmoji%2C%20bitstri...

And in the case of go that standard is language wide, not just project, team, or company wide.

Yes, and that the nuances of how things are formatted are really not that important, but rather having a standard which provides a consistent reading experience is the important as…

Typically one would assume that it was not coincidental and then adjust the bounds for how often we expect the event occurs based on observations, or lack thereof.

I created my account so they would stop sending me so many invite emails. At least with an account I have some control over what they send me :(

Yep, that's the origin of the quote. Thanks.

My favorite way to describe orbits is 'constantly throwing yourself at the ground but moving so fast that you just keep missing', hence the constant free-fall/zero-g.