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Oct 18, 2018 at 08:33
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How reliable should we consider Google search results to be? From
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Google Maps Is Racist Because the Internet Is Racist
Google Maps Is Racist Because the Internet Is Racist
A slur recently showed up on Google Maps, and it was the work of trolls. It was the work of algorithms.
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I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline. (I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.) Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.
Dec 11, 2018 at 00:26
Usually, npmtrends is a great way of choosing a library that's widely used and probably more reliable and better documented. When choosing a JS parser, the options are remarkably close!
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acorn vs esprima | npm trends
acorn vs esprima | npm trends
Comparing trends for acorn 8.15.0 which has 123,183,083 weekly downloads and 11,244 GitHub stars vs. esprima 4.0.1 which has 65,191,351 weekly downloads and 7,120 GitHub stars.
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Feb 11, 2017 at 00:09
Found a reliable way of segfaulting Emacs, without using threads/FFI! https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25684 (last time my Emacs segfaulted was bad memory)
#25684 - 25.1; (downcase -1) segfaults Emacs on GNU/Linux - GNU bug report logs