Avshalom

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by Avshalom 4y ago
I'm guessing people think this is snark. but I do generally mean it. If something is worth condemning some one to prison for it's worth lawyering it for free. That no one can imagine some one prosecuting a thief pro bono should
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by Avshalom 4y ago
"nickel and dime-ed" is the expression but of course it undersells things by several orders of magnitude.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Well Vitalant gives me enough loyalty points for a t-shirt once a year, but I give blood because I think it's a civic duty.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
and on that note https://www.cpachungary.com/en/speakers
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by Avshalom 4y ago
eehh... so (out of the box) in org mode if you type [[./file/path/to.png]] it will turn into a link, if you hit Ctrl-c-x-v it will toggle between showing images as a link (which will open in a new emacs buffer) and just showi
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by Avshalom 4y ago
In most english translations the tower of babel was struck down by god because it represented the ability of humans to challenge the power of god. If we are indeed building a tower of babel that's cool, it means that "nothing that
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by Avshalom 4y ago
For example, the specification framework for the C language by Andronick et al8 does not support "references to local variables, goto statements, expressions with uncontrolled side-effects, switch statements using fall-through, unions
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by Avshalom 4y ago
so at minimum two people apply and get past HR's filters per a week. hard to replace is when there are no interviews a week.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
what makes you think devs and artists are difficult to replace at Bethesda's scale. or indeed at any scale in the video game industry. more expensive maybe, but that's not the same as difficult.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Oh shit! I had forgotten the name entirely, but yeah I owe so much of my doodling to Imagination Station
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I have the Little Book Of Drawing Trains on my bookshelf right next to all my other textbooks.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Oh nice, looks like Tau just put out a new point release last week https://github.com/tau-prolog/tau-prolog/blob/master/RELEASE... this looks handy https://github.com/tau-prolog/tau-
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Off the top of my head: Javascript: http://tau-prolog.org/ Java: https://apice.unibo.it/xwiki/bin/view/Tuprolog/ (also SWI, Ciao and Sicstus have Java bridges) Go: https://git
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by Avshalom 4y ago
It really got started with prince of Persia sands of time. Ubisoft spent a lot of time going on about their context sensitive controls (which they actually credited to sports games at the time) then it spread from there.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Are those three circles in the menu for dark/light mode? Did they devote that much prime real estate to switching between color scheme?
856.
by Avshalom 4y ago
Kind of a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" step there at the end.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
right like any software deployed by Zebra is probably going to get used by every retail company and warehouse in the USA. Now I don't know how much of the software on my TC26 actually comes from Zebra but, pretty sure, it's not ze
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by Avshalom 4y ago
The committees are generally permanent, not instantiated per bill, and the senators on the committee doesn't change often (the majority party does get to have a majority membership in all the committees) but yeah, committee membership
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Before a bill goes before the full Senate it gets debated/edited in a relevant committee, if the committee votes against the bill it never goes up for the full vote.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
I mean anyone can catch up. It's not like Tesla sells 1 million this year, and then 2M in 2023...256M in 2030. Volkswagen, the whole group, not just the specific marque, sells ~10million cars a year. Manufacturing isn't trivial or
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Certainly wasn't Apple but as a kid, until Dell started it's advertising blitz, Gateway definitely felt... authoritative?, functionally first party? in a way that none of the other DOS/Windows boxen did.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
absolutely love his level documentation for such a niche project. Also love FGHC on a theoretical level but I've never had anything to use it for that Prolog wasn't a better choice from a library perspective.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
If we're just gonna post our favs: Ham of Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ka2nkIi2I Skoora, the Remorseful Shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdYSNcpN68 Plungers: https://www.y
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by Avshalom 4y ago
number of pages
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by Avshalom 4y ago
There was thread about spades a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28358391
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by Avshalom 4y ago
with out knowing anything my guess would be it was using some ibm mainframe. AIUI the z/architecture's assembly is fairly high level (by assembly standards)
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Usually not like right on the corner, parking aside if there is more than one lane a truck in to your left can easily block sight lines when trying to take a right turn or trying to pull out of a parking space.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
An outgroup which laws which bind but do not protect and an in group which the law protects but does not bind.
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by Avshalom 4y ago
Well if we say a word is ~4 letters and a space, plus a bit of overhead for the file system, that's a 64 mb a pack, so probably something like a 4 or 8 mb disk, which feels about right for the time
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by Avshalom 4y ago
closed shops have been illegal since Taft-Hartley in 1947.

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