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by Tainnor 2y ago
Indeed it doesn't compile.
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> I believe the US didn't enter until the sinking of the Lusitania. The Lusitania was sunk in 1915, the US only entered WWI in 1917, mostly because Germany had recommenced unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed an anti-US allia
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> Gödel's incompleteness theorems have given mathematicians an identity crisis for nearly a century now. I don't think this is at all true.
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and so would a person that stays at every job for exactly two years
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Some war between Germany and France was probably inevitable, and that the Balkan situation would blow up someday was also almost a given, but that this happened simultaneously and led to a war of this magnitude was very much contingent on s
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"Look for an average of 2 years+ per role"
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I'm amused by the fact that you're not considered a "job hopper" if you change your company every two years.
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Wilhelm II, as despicable as he was, really can't be majorly blamed for WWI. His ministers had arranged for him to be on vacation during the July crisis because they knew he wouldn't be tough enough, and when Serbia responded to t
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> GHA is great because of things like Dependabot [...] so you don't have to work hard to get anything advanced or specific to work. That may have been true before GitHub decided that PRs can't access repository secrets anymore.
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> Write as much CI logic as possible in your own code. Does not really matter what you use (shell scripts, make, just, doit, mage, whatever) as long as it is proper, maintainable code. To an extent, yes. There should be one command to bu
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Just to be clear, I'm not advocating for anything specific because I understand that the problem is hard. But I feel like some people want to have their cake and eat it too. If you don't silence certain types of discourse, you ali
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> anti-White racism committed by jewish editors you can't do this on HN
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The US also isn't a dictatorship yet and certainly wasn't when we started becoming so dependent on them. You can try avoiding dealings with any autocracies, but that's really hard given our modern world and it's not
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That's ignoring all the times when closer trade ties did lower the likelihood of armed conflict - not in the least, within Europe itself. I agree that we badly miscalculated Russia, but not every actor is Russia and willing to tank i
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> It really is a remarkable achievement by the propaganda departments of the victors of the 2nd world war [...] We know about the horrors of the Third Reich and the Holocaust in large part a) because of the survivors and their accounts
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> The plainly explained point is that democratic backsliding is gradual. The road to 20 million dead isn't someone suddenly declaring "we are the baddies", then a week later they start digging the mass graves. This is so i
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You're advocating for avoiding polarised discussions because they degenerate quickly. I'm only pointing out that that's not the only option: you could allow these discussions while ruthlessly silencing bad faith actors (for w
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> While I agree with you, it is observably true that many people take different positions on the issue and then demonize those who disagree with them, converting it into a partisan issue. Sure, but you have to draw a line somewhere. Even
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There are a few more ideas behind socialism except just authoritarianism, ideas that run counter to the Nazi program. Thinking that Nazism is socialism just because it calls itself "national socialism" is like thinking that Javasc
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Although a member of the German Worker's Party, Hitler was never an ardent socialist (you may confuse him with Mussolini), and both of them had completely broken with any "socialist" roots long before they came to power. Comm
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> in greenfield applications situations which isn't most of the software industry
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> The president of Switzerland has extremely limited power due to the decentralised nature of their government. I agree with you main point (power is more decentralised), but the office of the president isn't the important part here
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I was once able to significantly reduce the effort for some feature just by reading the elasticsearch docs and finding that there was a feature (aliases) that did more or less exactly what we needed (it still needed some custom code, but mu
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Those other levels of abstraction that you mentioned are deterministic and predictable . I think that's a massive difference and it justifies why one should be more skeptical towards AI generated code (skeptical doesn't mean &q
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> Au contraire, project 2025 is very detailed and has clear paths to reach their (the heritage foundation, conservatives at large) goals. I agree, but these weren't Trump's goals that he's had for 10 years or something lik
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> But there wasn't really a clever master plan to it. He had hateful ramblings in his head and acted rashly on them. Hitler had a fairly consistent worldview and sets of goals going all the way back to Mein Kampf, even though he did
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You said "the EU". Are you aware of the difference between the EU and national governments? > Germany tried to ban AfD I wish we did, but we didn't.
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> that the EU has to illegally ban opposition parties and candidates from elections in member states did you just make this up?
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Anything can always change. I'm talking about the status quo.
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What nonsense is this? The friendship between Germany and France since the end of WWII is a resounding success story. There is no fundamental distrust between the two countries. > in Europe nothing is ever forgotten. "Not forgetting

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