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by _dain_ 1y ago
"extremely bad stuff" people have literally been jailed for "hate speech" here because they clicked like on a tweet. labour is currently debating an official definition of "islamophobia" which would criminalize
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by _dain_ 1y ago
My comment was implicitly about safe Rust. Obviously if you're using `unsafe`, you have to deal with unsafety ...
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>The first time someone gave be this advice, I had to do a double take. The Rust community's whole thing is commitment to compiler-enforced correctness, and they built the borrowchecker on the premise that humans can't be trus
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by _dain_ 1y ago
It's actually not that hard to speak text fluently. You need to practice, but only a little. The trick is to speak a little slower than you read, and pre-emptively flick your eyes to the right, skimming the oncoming text, so you have a
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>2024 was the first year I actually needed a virtualenv. Before that, I'd happily use pip to install whatever I want, and never had a version conflict that caused problems. Okay I'll bite: how did you deal with situations whe
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Naming things is one of the hard problems of computer science. It's nice not to be forced into naming something.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Github link is 404
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by _dain_ 1y ago
I think a combination of: - statically typed languages got better, reducing the relative benefits of dynamic typing. people realized they didn't really hate static types, they hated the way [insert 90s-00s enterprise language here] did
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by _dain_ 1y ago
hasn't this been going on over the atlantic as well? container ships aren't putting as much sulphur in the atmosphere as they used to. put the sulphur back in the ship juice!
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Legalise AC(samdumitriu.com)
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i have never even seen dyson come up as a topic on HN before
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a lot of this would be solved by just getting rid of the bad regulations that prevent AC and cooling-capable heatpumps from being installed. it would organically increase demand. govt doesn't have to do that much active work, just stop
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by _dain_ 1y ago
As the article points out, the govt goes out of their way to make cooling heat-pumps unattractive: >The government offers subsidies worth £7,500 to people replacing a gas boiler with an electric heat pump, but only if it produces solely
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by _dain_ 1y ago
https://archive.is/E9QqR
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Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it(economist.com)
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was the black goo different than the sparkly green goo?
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They were red as well, so you couldn't see them
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It's cool that you got it working in time for the demo, but I think your reasoning is unsound. >I remembered this from my engineering days at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum. It’s called the Normal Distribution, or Gaussian
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by _dain_ 1y ago
remember in 2022 when we "hit a wall"? everyone said that back then. turned out we didn't. and in 2023 and 2024 and january 2025 and ... all those "walls" collapsed like paper. they were phantoms; ppl literally thin
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>rather than the awkward positioning for wrists elbows shoulders and fingers required to do it the "right way". Biggest improvement to my typing QOL was getting one of those split keyboards[1]. I can rotate the two pieces ind
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"It is no nation we inhabit, but a language. Make no mistake; our native Blub is our true fatherland."
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>Instead, due to culture war side taking, they hobble themselves to be ever dependent on the petro-extraction and refinement industries. it's a little more complicated than that. check out the map of which states use gas stoves vs
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>Next, the researchers examined how fitness was associated with the risk of dying in random accidents such as car accidents, drownings and homicides. They chose random accidents because they assumed that there ought to be no association
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Regarding coal futures: more likely a reference to the quixotism of "selling coal to Newcastle"[1], and by extension to that famous Irish-American Quixote, Timothy Dexter, who indeed did so, and broke a miner's strike. The si
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by _dain_ 1y ago
It's an extended riff / parody / pastiche / fanfic of a story called Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luis Borges. And it has references to other Borgesian works like The Library of Babel and Funes the Memorious
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Wonderful Borgesian pastiche; though this part in particular rhymes so strongly with the end of Tlön, Uqbar that I fear he overdid it: >Here, at the end of history, mankind has been disillusioned of ideology and symmetry, and unable t
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Yes rich people take the Tube/trains in London. It's convenient and often faster than driving, especially at rush hour. Basically everyone uses the Tube except for like, royalty or billionaires or whatever. In fact, people pay a p
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html_content = html_content.replace('Minimum viable blog', title) Did this originally say html_content = html_content.replace('{{ title }}', title) And then you ran it? Sanitize your strings!
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by _dain_ 1y ago
>and if you want inbox zero There's your problem. Turn off the "unread" indicators and just chill. You're not going to read everything and that's okay.
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by _dain_ 1y ago
Glad to see it back up and running. The internet felt colder in its absence.

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