EdwardDiego

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by EdwardDiego 5d ago
> We know Jev. I honestly don't.
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by EdwardDiego 8d ago
> Polynesian languages would distinguish between fresh water bodies and salt water ones Māori distinguished water _quality_ without reference to whether or not it was a lake or sea or river. Wai tai: Salt water Wai māori: Fresh water, wa
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by EdwardDiego 8d ago
Lake Taupō, the largest lake in New Zealand, is about the size of Singapore. The Hawaiians distinguished between coastal waters and open waters because in their archipelago of far smaller and more numerous islands, the distinction between t
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by EdwardDiego 8d ago
Yep, it's the same in Māori, a Polynesian language, where "moana" refers to oceans and large lakes alike. What's really interesting is that in Hawaiian, a close relative with some sound shifts (k/t, l/r, n&#x2F
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by EdwardDiego 11d ago
A lot of packages for interpreted languages that use a C or Rust library (either for performance, or because it offers the functionality you want, so just wrap it in a $INTERP_LANG API that calls into it) will use packaging code execution t
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by EdwardDiego 12d ago
Why are you so toxic?
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by EdwardDiego 12d ago
> AI solved Navier-Stokes and I was blown away. That's not what happened, go read about it harder, please.
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by EdwardDiego 12d ago
Hahaha, AI rigor. Wait, you're serious?
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by EdwardDiego 14d ago
Yeah, it doesn't seem to make any of the glaciers in NZ, even when they do have names. Limitation of the data set I guess.
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by EdwardDiego 17d ago
I would like to know more. (Wait, I'm mixing my memes)
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by EdwardDiego 17d ago
That subtle caveat is why you were absolutely correct to push back, and we should adopt a belt-and-braces approach.
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by EdwardDiego 18d ago
Don't worry, the AI overview links to fallout.wiki... Seriously, it does, but I'm very much sarcastic when I say "don't worry".
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by EdwardDiego 18d ago
Yeah the complete lack of paid parental leave for fathers upon the birth of a child in many otherwise progressive countries really rankles me - in NZ, if the mother qualifies for PPL, she can transfer some to the father. But if she doesn&#x
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by EdwardDiego 21d ago
I'm a father, have had sole custody of my five children for 8 nearly 9 years. Both parents have the same responsibility to their kids, to do the absolute best for them, and we should fight back against outdated cultural norms that assu
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by EdwardDiego 26d ago
NGL, I read the title initially as Why open source rocks? - a new SM750 (Silicon Motion GPU) HDMI Driver And got excited that you were open sourcing a chip.
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by EdwardDiego 27d ago
Wut. America is more of a social democracy more than the main economies of Europe? Going to need more sources than an out of context series of lines from an Economist graph.
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by EdwardDiego 27d ago
Well the thing is, you've got nukes, so you know...
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by EdwardDiego 27d ago
Because Steve Yegge presumably shared the good stuff he's been smoking of late.
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by EdwardDiego 27d ago
If you really think that's the main cause, I'd be interested in your sources.
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by EdwardDiego 27d ago
The Fuel Rats are awesome people!
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by EdwardDiego 28d ago
I expect their employers to go out of business because their business model is predicated on paying workers as little as possible and not investing in things that improve productivity per worker. If you think this will lead to large scale u
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by EdwardDiego 28d ago
And for some strange reason, the person you're replying to is _not_ one of the highly paid executive remuneration consultancies. Gee, wonder why they only accept advice from people that tell them to give executives more money?
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
So you're comparing China "proper" to Europe "whatever that is" ...? Not exactly apples and apples mate.
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
The US has the same on dairy imports into the US for the same reason.
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
I spotted the same thing, and there's never a source given. Allegedly his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (or 15th great-grandfather for short) was totally Han, the
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
Your comment sent me to Wikipedia and this caught my eye [0], a Late Shang inscribed rhinoceros rib, which then deepened the wikihole [1], it's funny how even though I know of the Indian rhino and Sumatran rhino, it never occurred to m
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
What's interesting is that if you read Wikipedia, there are multiple (without sources, mind) sentences going "btw Li Yuan was totally Han via an ancestor 17 generations previously". So clearly this is rather important to some
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
Because it was another month, when Delta turned up and killed a bunch of old people. But oh no, it was bad for cafés!
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
You don't understand "we were locked down, and therefore, we avoided a bunch of peopled dying"? Sorry, did I type too fast or something?
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by EdwardDiego 1mo ago
> Except Palestine is not a country. A super-majority of the UN says you're wrong. > As of September 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized as a sovereign state by 157 of the 193 member states of the United Nations (UN), or j

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