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by User23 2y ago
You just declare the other dishwasher dirty and that’s that. If you want you can unload it to your cabinets like you would with only a single dishwasher. In that case you’re still at worst the same amount of work you would if you didn’t hav
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by User23 2y ago
The best explanation I’ve read is Feynman’s delightful QED .
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by User23 2y ago
There are also no blue pigments in any plant. The various blueish flowers use other tricks to reflect blue light.
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by User23 2y ago
I do find it amusing that most if not all of the famous classical philosophers would stand up just fine to the "post physique" meme.
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Xpilot did some damage to productivity at more than one computer lab.
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by User23 2y ago
There should be personal criminal liability and jail time for officers.
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by User23 2y ago
This reminds me of Feynman’s famous essay about the rat mazes and how the rats used all kinds of unexpected cues to navigate like the sound of their feet in the floor and the position of the room lights.
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by User23 2y ago
Humanity observably is in a category of its own. The human authors of the Bible are just some of the many persons who have made this observation. One obvious example is morality. Take climate change. No reasonable person says that the life
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by User23 2y ago
Based on what you’ve said, you should be looking for an internal transfer yesterday. I’ve seen this before and virtually always one or more ICs get to be fall guy before a bad manager faces consequences. More generally, building relationshi
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by User23 2y ago
That’s not a problem for cases like a dispatcher that forks off a child per request and the memory intensive work is done in child space. In fact it can result in admirably simple and stable software. Things have probably changed but that u
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by User23 2y ago
Rust is safer than Python though, at least until the inevitable Rust rewrite of cpython. A hosted language is going to inherit the safety or lack thereof of the host language, barring a level of rigor (think theorem proving) that so far as
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by User23 2y ago
How does this relate to imposter syndrome?
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by User23 2y ago
Dired will warn in that case. ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
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by User23 2y ago
I’m interested in the biopic about the engineer that fixed this. Anyone know anything?
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Here[1] is a note by Dijkstra that goes into formally constructing correct programs in a language with built in nondeterminism. Nondeterminism is a powerful tool, not just a foot gun. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users&#x2F
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by User23 2y ago
Those “huge” tax cuts only cost 100 billion per year according to the NYT[1]. That’s nowhere near the trillion dollars added per year to the debt every year by reallocating the 2009 stimulus by continuing resolution for 15 years in a row an
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by User23 2y ago
You’re providing a good example of how partisan bias makes you both snarky and stupid. For your own sake you may want to check that impulse. Otherwise, you are, despite your sarcasm, stating the truth. Nevertheless it might behoove you to l
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by User23 2y ago
No, this has nothing to do with Trump. The USA has been in “unrestrained borrowing” because it’s been funding itself with continuing resolutions rather than a budget since 2009. That means that the extra trillion dollars in 2009 “temporary”
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by User23 2y ago
In the US the term recession has no specific definition. So whether or not we’re in one doesn’t mean much.
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And, perhaps most of all, a willingness to run massive deficits to accommodate foreigners' desire to hold those debts as an asset.
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by User23 2y ago
Now why would children be safer in high trust homogeneous societies that share descent, religion, language, and culture than in low trust divided societies that share little more than a common currency? Must be light trucks! What a fine exa
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The Gallic Wars.
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How then do you explain the Silicon Valley wage price fixing scandal? There were more than four players there.
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I was speculating along these lines just a month ago[1]. Sadly I lack the training to take it anywhere formally, but it’s still pleasing to see my notion wasn’t entirely crazy. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=403314
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by User23 2y ago
Also never buy a Samsung refrigerator. All the repair shops say getting parts is next to impossible and they’re a pain to work on even if you do. It’s so bad most repair shops will just pass on the job.
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by User23 2y ago
If you are you should already have a generator. Rolling blackouts are normal service there[1]. Their grid is something like 8x oversubscribed. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Nigeri...
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by User23 2y ago
> We’re pretty sure this isn’t how copyrights, software licensing, and trademarks work (like, at all), but we also didn’t feel like arguing about it, or getting the lawyers involved. Software licenses aren’t even required under the Copy
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by User23 2y ago
Good stuff. On a Lisp compiler optimization tangent: It’s still relevant to SBCL and also generally interesting so the CMUCL advanced compiler manual section[1] is good reading. [1] https://cmucl.org/docs/cmu-user/
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Out of curiosity is there any point to a loop that doesn’t produce some effect in its body? Obviously I mean traditional imperative looping constructs and not map functions that return a value.
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One of the things I’ve found most interesting about reading pulp era fiction like Doc Smith’s Lensmen series or de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall is how a surprising number of those works assume that the reader is at least passingly familiar wit

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