Koshkin

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931.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Curiously, the same goes for the stahlhelm which is widely seen as the signature item of the Nazi military. In truth, it was simply the traditional helmet of the German military which the Nazi wanted to replace with a more modern design,
932.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Why learn to read at all, when your phone can do it for you.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
fn is no fun
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by Koshkin 4y ago
The semicolon cancer is still there. Good.
935.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But for backward compatibility you should be able to undo it, then. (Problem is, I don’t think you can.)
936.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, he was even slightly above average male height for his time. The myth about him being short has its roots in the fact that the military personnel, on average, was much taller than the rest of the population.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Women are not stupid.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Not where the average height of women is 5’ or less.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
The age difference , rather. (Measured not in years but in percents. 15% max is a good rule of thumb.)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> diaresis It’s diaeresis . (Not sure if ‘ae’ can be replaced by the umlaut here.)
941.
by Koshkin 4y ago
The ones that I remember had a locking lever which barely made any sound at all. https://i.stack.imgur.com/8D9f1.jpg
942.
by Koshkin 4y ago
And the Germans had fun naming their software "Nero Burning ROM."
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by Koshkin 4y ago
For a perspective on the language, here is the (in)famous pun on the name “C++”: ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL
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by Koshkin 4y ago
A beautiful language, not more difficult than, say, Polish or Russian.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, the word ‘invented’ is often abused by being used in place of ‘discovered’ or ‘created.’ (No, Faraday did not “invent” the laws of electromagnetism; nor did Linus Torvalds “invent” Linux.)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> invented The words for numbers were indeed “invented,” but the numbers themselves, like much of math, was discovered.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> It's a tool. It’s also an art, and a science, and as such it is often seen as beautiful. Beauty, of course, is in the eyes of the beholder, but people tend to ascribe it the objective status, sometimes that of a divine nature.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> believe… belief… faith I don’t know, but it seems to me that those words have no place in science or any discussion of it.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Perhaps you are thinking of the Schottky barrier. (Curioisly though, in the Schottky diode they typically do use the n-doped silicon, although the p-type also forms the Schottky barrier with metals.)
950.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Way back when, everyone knew transistors were important since it is what they called portable radios.
951.
by Koshkin 4y ago
But neither the n-doped semiconductor nor the metal have holes, isn’t that the case?
952.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> hard to really understand Just like QM itself, I guess. So, “shut up an calculate” all over again?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> content is crap But that would be just someone’s personal opinion (or worse). Why should I care? Besides, people discuss things on forums, and a more detailed review is more useful than a simple vote. Finally, it is often not that ha
954.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Ah, it is a quote from some philosophy source that is truth now?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
But the worst thing ever is when a bad dev gets promoted to the position of a dev manager or a tech lead. Armed with “knowledge” and “experience,” and now with a degree of authority, they would put their weight on everything they touch. The
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by Koshkin 4y ago
An “old” ThinkPad that I salvaged from a pile of computer trash a few years back is a Linux machine that just works. Mainstream or not, the latest Slackware has been running perfectly on it. In contrast, a “late 2014” Mac Mini has not bee
957.
by Koshkin 4y ago
Never gonna happen. Money is power, whether we like it or not.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
There is no such thing as being “too old in general.”
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, char should be signed by default - it's an integer type, after all (in C, anyway).
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> any kind of progress Perhaps, not "any" kind of progress, just certain kind?

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