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by Bost 5y ago
> you don't realize just how stressful interviews are to some people Getting stressed too much about a job interview may be a sign of overcommitment. And I believe you're not looking for a guy ready to go over corpses.
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by Bost 5y ago
> storage is cheap Sometimes. Sometimes not. The physical HW, i.e. RAM and HDD storage is cheap but price you pay for accidental complexity is high. E.g. when your non-tail-call recursive calculation eats away all available memory. And y
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by Bost 5y ago
Constant probability function. (Please be precise!)
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by Bost 5y ago
I propose to optimize it so that it's off all the time. And switches on and does something only when measured. (And please stop calling me lazy.)
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by Bost 5y ago
What do you mean by "real" threads? The Thread documentation says nothing about being real or unreal. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html#%28pa...
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by Bost 5y ago
I started to read the first chapter of your book, it looks nice. If I may ask you, could you also provide answers to the questions you ask? Somewhat hidden, e.g. behind a button "Show me the answer". I often I think I know the ans
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by Bost 5y ago
> It does offer you an interactive tutorial. :facepalm: Yeah, my 8 years old niece will be taught "Informatics" in the school. Starting in a few days, actually. I'm sure she will enjoy Emacs over Notepad, since Notepad doe
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by Bost 5y ago
> Emacs is great out-of-the-box. Sure. And because the out-of-the-box is so great: 1. people actually create emacs distributions(!) like spacemacs, doom-emacs, etc. 2. the emacs wiki has https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs&#x
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by Bost 5y ago
Also, you may have want a look at GNU Guix and GNU Guile.
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by Bost 5y ago
6 hours ago, 17 points, 3 comments. In short: Cars - (almost) nobody's interested.
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by Bost 5y ago
> The hypocrysis of the german government/army of that time, is staggering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_... All sides started to develop these weapons before the war, and apparen
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by Bost 5y ago
> Everybody needs culture And therefore, all the cinemas, concerts, theatres, museums etc. are closed. For more than a year. Uhm.
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by Bost 5y ago
Yeah, everyone claims culture is very important! Except when the hard times come by - enter Corona - and you simply throw culture overboard. Just like that, as we've seen it. So much about the importance of culture. And now imagine we&
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by Bost 5y ago
> It’s morbid curiosity I guess it's the caveman in all of us who really needs to know what happened to his buddy so that he can avoid it. And I guess those without this curiosity in their DNA died out rather soon... So it might n
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by Bost 5y ago
Waiting for Godot full play https://youtu.be/H5zoztwfs40
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by Bost 6y ago
Eurovision (next to the speedrun) doesn't work. Ooooh... sooo disappointed
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by Bost 6y ago
There's a difference between "The server is not responding right now. We're loosing customers.", and "Low resources during product development". Actually the latter may be a case of enforcing premature optimiza
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by Bost 6y ago
Once upon a time there was a dude with such an attitude and he became a president. Edit: And his story is not over yet. Apparently.
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by Bost 6y ago
Regarding the font thing - saying "everything will be clear" and providing no other information clarifies nothing. Except that, thank you for that YT link. A critical opinion, when well stated is worth its weight in gold.
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by Bost 6y ago
Same situation in Germany
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by Bost 6y ago
It's in the repository of a certain "torvalds". Better check twice next time what this guy's doing :)
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by Bost 6y ago
> It doesn’t help when every company you have an account with sells your information That may or may not be the case. It's enough to have a friend of yours who (unknowingly) posts a picture on FB with "Me with X. He/She ch
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by Bost 6y ago
See also https://youtu.be/s3Q3M2wZ7rI
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by Bost 6y ago
On one hand, Germans try hard to avoid ghettoization. On the other hand they LOVE order. That means meticulously inspecting every bolt and nut, finding differences and putting them, with great pleasure, to different boxes. Like: These two b
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by Bost 6y ago
> I was pretty surprised, having believed Europe was more enlightened than the US. As rule of thumb the bigger the distance from the Blue Banana the less enlightenment you encounter. Especially in the eastern and southern direction.
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by Bost 6y ago
> I'm originally from an Eastern European country and only realised the racism in Eastern Europe once I lived abroad for multiple years and drew parallels with the highly mediatised US racial tensions. I've been having exactly(
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by Bost 6y ago
I have the impression those being better off, with (somewhat) higher social status, education being better connected to the majority population find "Gypsy" to be derogatory. But once I met a poor family referring to themselves th
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by Bost 6y ago
Error translating "Context" to Korean... timeout.
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by Bost 6y ago
In "Bohemia" there's a village called "Bohemia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8Cechy
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by Bost 6y ago
I've been told, in the U.S. you don't really say or use the word "village". Even if the place has just some 300 souls living there. So "The village or town..?" may not pass the type-checking :)

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