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Re:Phoenix LiveDashboard on Friday April 17, 2020 @05:15AM (#22897442)
I think it's up and running as far away as Flagstaff.
Re:People are planting more vegetable gardens on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:26AM (#22748259)
This is the one written in Elixir with Nerves, yeah?
Re:Rotary Cellphone on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @07:52PM (#22314388)
I've seen some grandstreams that'll run a ringer.
Really just came here to see if anyone else had already used this as an opportunity to plug Emacs Org-Mode
Re:A small notebook for a system administrator on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:52AM (#19055059)
My mind also immediately went to the Homer.
Re:Future JavaScript: what is still missing? on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:18PM (#19014091)
As someome who has spent the last year primarily with Elixir, it is impossible to overstate how nice pipeline |> is.

It is one of the most convenient and readable pieces of syntax, and one of the primary reasons I pause before using javascript instead of Elixir in a given moment.

Re:What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944) [pdf] on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:13PM (#18908360)
I remember finding a first edition of this in my university library during undergrad after reading the likes of Watson/Crick describe it as fundamental in their path. What bowled me over was that each paragraph in that edition - and so very likely the ones they read as well - was marked with a section symbol (§), itself closely resembling a double helix. At the time it felt profound that their conclusion was likely implied by the circumstances of their beginning.
I had exact same realization.
Is there anything at all like this open source?
Re:China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:43PM (#17861609)
Does the timing even make sense for attributing the delay to trade tensions? If theyve delayed for more than a year, those tensions were not at their present level a year ago.
This presumes that law enforcement always represent the enforcement of ethically correct directives. This is demonstrably not the case, and categorically deferring to them is likely ethically irresponsible.