WastingMyTime89

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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
That’s silly. There is a difference between buying material from a foreign country and being entirely reliant on another one for your survival. I don’t mind the fairly honest debate and disagreement we are having. I understand your view on
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
I guessed so. So it’s not at all done once, never done again as the OP suggested but rather done once, now keep redoing something slightly different every fortnight and enjoy your constantly half-broken system . In a way, it’s reassuring
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
> the point is to have it done once, and you won't have to do it ever again! NixOS is the only one that allows so. Until the tooling introduces a breaking change or new cooler way to do things appear and people stop supporting the o
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
> No one is NATO is a 'protectorate' this is absurd on the face of it. If you can’t defend yourself and have to rely on a foreign power to do so, you are de facto a protectorate like it or not. That’s the case of at least the B
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
I quite like how the average American looks at China (not always fairly by the way - some of what you accuse China of doing is actually illegal in China) while being completely unable to hold a mirror to how their own economy works. It’s ki
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
> Countries still need protecting Countries don’t need protecting. Countries should aim to protect themselves. The EU doesn’t need the US for its protection and should have invested in a proper army decades ago. It’s obvious that the mai
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
This is both Russia invading its neighbour and a proxy war between NATO and Russia. It doesn’t have to be one of the other. NATO and its allies are directly propping up Ukraine which would have collapsed without them and they do that mostly
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Less commercially motivated uninspired follow ups and more original content seems like a huge win for culture at large. Large video game and movie studios are mostly churning out copy-pasted garbage nowadays.
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Polymorphism. This trick allows Ocaml to pass unboxed integer to polymorphic functions. It’s about compiled code by the way, a lot lower down the stack. That’s the joy of working on a compiler. You deal with both very high level concepts an
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
To add to your good comment, doing inlining intelligently can get tricky in language using a lot of polymorphic functions like Ocaml. To squeeze out performance, you have to detect when polymorphic functions are actually used on int and dec
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
That wasn’t done by Jane Street. This is part of the language from the start and was introduced by Leroy team at INRIA. As to the point of studying boxing, well, it’s fairly basic compiler theory. It will be hard to avoid if you have even t
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Exactly my point. As proven time and time again through the 20th century by the like of Lenin, Castro, Mao, Sankara, Cabeçadas, Papadópoulos, Castelo Branco and others, an armed takeover restablishing order and gaining territorial control i
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
It's nothing to do with paternalism. Anyone who has ever worked as a teacher in the suburbs of Paris or has an actual understanding of what's happening gathered outside of the very right wing news channels could tell you that viol
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Special units are called for everything nowadays. I live in Paris and police vans park in my street. Even for peaceful demonstrations, hundreds of armored policemen are brought in the city. That's a significant part of the issue actual
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
My advice is to stop watching CNews and go outside.
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Sure but the country is not a war zone. At the moment, actual physical violence is mostly limited to fights between young protesters and the police in some suburbs. It's the usual misguided answer to a sadly very real issue except it&#
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Just so things are clear, France is suspending all bus services in cities at night . Buses generally run city to suburbs routes and have been subjected to attacks for the past few nights. Trains, which are the most used form of public tran
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
In which part of Southern Europe do people excuse themselves when they are becoming intoxicated? Because that's not true in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal unless you have very prudish acquaintances.
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
I'm not old but it's fairly obvious that most internet companies have refocused from an exceptionnaly long growth centered phase towards extracting value from their user base in the last few years. As a consequence things have got
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Obviously what we need is a complete loss of individual freedom at the hand of an authoritarian state putting in place fascist policies. /s The solution can’t be what actually stopped the prohibition era organised crime as, as we all k
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Innovation and burning fossil fuel are not synonymous. Obviously having plenty of available energy is what allowed us to reach this point but we are long past the time when we couldn’t do anything without burning coal or using oil. We have
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
The issue is not courage. Apple knows that the use cases for the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro significantly overlap. So they use software limitations to avoid canibalising sells of one with the other even if it means making the iPad Pro a l
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
I'm not oracle so I can't say if you are wrong but wouldn't that be a significant investment to go compete in a market where margins are not that great while risking to dilute their brand?
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
What got us there is burning fossil fuel not "innovation", even if you put scare quotes around it. I know it's hipe to pile up on the modern world but I quite enjoy hunger being a solvable issue despite the population rising
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
> Even green energy just is not profitable even though it's increasingly affordable. Green energy has been profitable for years and investment is massively outpacing even the most positive projection of a decade ago. > There&#x27
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Fewer people is already on the way. We just need to pass the bump and things will be good. Demographic lag is a real pain. Electricity is shifting massively towards renewable production so there really is no need to consume less of it (and
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
Given the latest demographic projections, kids in 2150 might actually be asking: "Were there really so much people?" while the wilds will have regained serious ground.
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
If you are not completely opposed to the idea, you could try Singin’ in the rain or Swing time or even The Umbrellas of Cherbourg . Old musicals have some kind of charm which you don’t really find in modern ones. They are such a huge p
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
La La Land is intentionally mirroring traditional musicals with very strong nods to both Hollywood golden age and Demy. Are you sure you don’t actually like musicals?
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by WastingMyTime89 3y ago
It was a masterpieces factory until they sold to Disney and the people in charge of the masterpieces moved to revitalise the animation part of Disney. Everyone knows it but you won’t read it in an American newspaper because of the fall from

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