DemocracyFTW

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by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
My hunch is that she'd be alright with this. Somehwat relatedly, there's a Dr. Axel Rauschmeyer (also from Germany) who talks about JavaScript and is almost always referred to as "Dr. Axel". Then there's Dr. Tedros
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
I am from the future, and this claim has been refuted: Bitcoin is not a battery, it's a waste of everybody's resources. Some people who have been exposed to curves like the one at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
> Zero Knowledge proofs there's lots of that stuff on the internet to be sure
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
To be fair I've used lots and lots of Unicode (here: "characters not contained in US-ASCII") in XeLaTeX but have also had the need for some symbolic / numeric codepoints. I can tell you the syntax to do so is horrible. A
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
These things are vastly overrated, badly named (at least for the German words), and poorly understood. It's become sort of a cult I feel. The truth is that when you go through traditional books (specifically those printed before the ad
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
Quote: "When I asked Weinstein for certain mathematical details about how he had arrived at the Seiberg-Witten equations, his vague responses led me to doubt his claims."—and this is the crux I guess. There have been people who we
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
I'd say benefit generally instead of gain that must be precisely in monetary terms. Grifting is lying plus purpose, and that purpose may be any kind of advantage obtained by smoke-and-mirror tactics. It may be reputation, or satisfacti
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
The other day I complained on reddit about users deleting their own posts. It's really annoying. There was only one response, "You're overthinking it, man". Now it was me who was annoyed. Time to pass this one on, I gues
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
Came here to say that, am satisfied. It was twice as cold on Monday than it was on Sunday. /duck
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
It's really a shame the database is not at the base of what we're doing. We're inventing and re-inventing tons of file formats and ways to persist data without using the database, we have to eternally worry about race conditi
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
Oh the Eric Hanson I guess? I remeber watching an interview with you where you said something to the effect "back then I had time and money on my hands so I went and tried to build this thing. Four years later, and none of that is tr
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
I managed to get it to load by disabling the Brave browser's shields (lion icon in address bar).
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
It's their seminal language XD As a non-native but long-term speaker of English, I understand "seminal" as in "their seminal work" as "groundbreaking" (and better to be avoided when referring to one's
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
> Even JSON is going to be "bloated". This cries out for a well-done, well-thought out binary format Well unless it doesn't. I've recently read more than one blog post that claimed JSON was actually borderline faster—
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
Jumping from the observation that a given term is of a philosophical nature (whatever that might mean) to the conclusion that it is "not real", hence "irrelevant" is a fallacy. Likewise, observing that not only exhibit A
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
You'll be amazed, you'll be nonplussed / It tastes like bread without the crust / Grooms your hair when it gets must / Rids your home of dismal dust / It's a natural, it's a must / Eliminates car
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
> I don't see the sort of environmental responsibility curren<strike>tly</strike>cy fixed that for ya. The good thing about heating your home in the winter with excess thermal energy caused by cryptomining is that i
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
I think it does make a difference whether you spend fuel on the necessary or the expendable, the luxury, the frivolous, even if there's no hard and fast framework to judge this. As for the assumption that SpaceX is getting a free ride
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by DemocracyFTW 6y ago
I have come here to state that the very name of this piece of software to me is offensive to the degree that I have never from my first perceiving it years ago to this day even remotely considered using it or even read its docs. The insensi