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Please do yourself a favor and volunteer at a voting location. These are essentially solved issues, and you seem completely unaware of that fact.

I live in a vote by mail state (like most of the west), I know exactly how it’s done.

No, the amount of water conserved through these measures was absolutely meaningless even at scale. You are talking about a fraction of a fraction of a percent of use.

Yeah. Farmers measure water use in acre-feet and assess flows at thousands of gallons per minute range.

The food in your plate consumes far more water than a glass of water. If anything, more water and less food eaten would be a good water conservation measure.


> So, more likely, 2 or 3 glasses of water :-)

You and I have vastly different definitions of the word “easily”.

Yes, if PayPal had an API to allow people to convert a username to an address, it would be much easier.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/mkfifo.1.html

Pretty simple. This creates a named pipe. One end of a shell command redirects to it, one end redirects from it. rm when finished.


You can just use process substitution

cat <(secret-print my-secret)


In a shell script situation, you'd typically trap EXIT and ERR and remove the fifo in the handler.

Because nobody cares about the dev process. The number of times I’ve looked back in the history and seen a branch with a series of twenty commits labeled “fix thing”, “oops”, “typo”, “remove thing I tried that didn’t work”, or just a chain of WIP WIP WIP WIP is useless, irritating, and pointless.

One commit per logical change. One merge per larger conceptual change. I will rewrite my actual dev process so that individual commits can be reviewed as small, independent PRs when possible, and so that bigger PRs can be reviewed commit-by-commit to understand the whole. Because I care about my reviewers, and because I want to review code like this.

Care about your goddamn craft, even just a little bit.


The comments sections in git posts vs. jj posts are always hysterical to me.

If there’s a jj post on HN, people come out of the woodworks to say that git is easy and it’s crazy to suggest that anyone finds it difficult or confusing. Also people saying they’ve figured out git is super usable if you only ever use commit, merge, pull.

Then you have git posts where everyone talks about how hard some basic things are, how easy it is to mess up your repo, how frustrating rebase is, etc.

It’s fun to watch.


Ruby took the best parts of Perl and got rid of the worst. Give it a shot :)


I actually switched to Ruby for this very reason and used it for a few years. I still have a soft spot for Ruby as well.

Unfortunately I had a different experience with the Ruby community, so I eventually switched to Python along with apparently everybody else.


Markdown has been extremely popular since far before GitHub existed.


I'm sure Markdown was already popular, but I agree with the OP that GitHub made it orders of magnitude more popular.

Previously its popularity was somewhat similar to RST.


Sure, but it became kind of the default with GitHub taking a lead position in code repository services.


I feel like iron in the blood gets a lot of airtime, but literally all the carbon in our bodies is star stuff too. As is the oxygen making up the water. And almost everything else.


The CNO cycle dominates fusion in stars much larger than our own.

The carbon transitions to nitrogen and oxygen repeatedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle


From your link:

> This result therefore paves the way towards a direct measurement of the solar metallicity using CNO neutrinos. Our findings quantify the relative contribution of CNO fusion in the Sun to be of the order of 1 per cent;

I find it amazing that we can analize the composition of the core of the Sun measuring the energy of the neutrinos.

(Photons are not useful, because they bounce a lot of times before escaping from the Sun, so they provide only information about the outher layers.)


Because their entire continued existence depends on maintaining a reputation of preserving privacy?


I usually like to accuse people of the wildest privacy conspiracies, but here in the case of Orion, one day the founder approached me together to work with him, and I tried to see how far is he willing to do in practice (“ok maybe we could do X and Y or Z”).

He stopped me and explained to me that is his business model, and… it was to sell apps / subscriptions. He has no interest into anything else and strongly explained that the user pays and that’s it.

Eventually I didn’t work with him but I have a very positive opinion of him, so at least, based on my experience as a potential employee strongly trusts


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