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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
I'm unconvinced that libraries would be viable if the concept was developed now.
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
Doesn't look like the one they were hoping for: The bargaining committee of Flugfreyjufélag Íslands and Icelandair have signed a new wage agreement. The new agreement is expected to be valid until September 30, 2025. It is based on an
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
I agree - it's the definition of pandering: it serves no higher purpose than to gratify some group of people, without serving any deeper meaning. I would like to know in what way this will actually influence change. Don't get me w
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
People sometimes ask me about this because "I'm the tech guy", and surely it would be good to have the tech experts set the regulations. To this my response is: Would you like banking regulations set by bankers?
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
You're not wrong, but you're somewhat off. Argentina did have an air to air refuelling capability, and its availability or not was crucial in a number of instances. Likewise, the Gurkhas went out at battalion strength near the end
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by abstractbeliefs 6y ago
I feel similarly. I'm unsure where such a drive is coming from. I know it's just a philosophy, but the whole "explicit is better than implicit" thing stands to test here, and it looks like Python could deviate from it ye
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
Not just was, is! We still hold 90k concurrent users most of the time, and a couple hundred thousand unique users over reasonable spans of time, maybe 3 months?
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
A* is not guaranteed to find the optimal route - it depends on the heuristic and the environment.
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
But actually they disproved this belief: 'The researchers indeed observed this very thin layer around the gas bubble and measured it to be about 1 nanometer thick. That's what quenches the movement of the bubble as theoretical wor
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
The source is available (open), but there are restrictions in what you can use the source and software for - in this case, no commercial development is explicitly stated. Is this way while it is open and gratis (for some uses), it is not li
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
Why is it that you choose not to? I think it would be helpful to understand your use case and how you balance your personal tolerance for risk and consequences so we can better consider users like yourself.
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
well, it's an entirely client side thing to have, so the "why" very much comes down to the developers balance on adding extra code for extra convenience. The developer might like it personally, or they might find it's a
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
An example of how this could work is that a client could support receiving an image. When this happens, it could upload it to an image host of choice, get the url, and send that. It's what users already do, but without having to pop a
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
For what it's worth, that's not the intention on freenode's side - we want to sand off some of the rough edges. As an example, it would be nice to have a common flow for speaking to services. Once we have some sensible way, t
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
You're welcome to come chat to me in ###kline over there, there's some useful upstream discussion on it here as well: https://cmpwn.com/@kline/102333166678467931 Make no mistake, we don't want to change
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by abstractbeliefs 7y ago
I like what you're saying, but that they are military doesn't make them infallible. While they have procedures and discipline, so do commercial operations. For every corner that is cut to save cost in commerce to make the business
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
Points to players who notice we now have models S3XY
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
It is, but you can still running static analysis tools on written code before executing a code switch. The key thing is that you track the changes applied so you understand what's happening. The nice thing about erlang though is that t
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
The police claim to have recovered a drone well correlated to where the army thinks the drone they dealt with crashed, yes. We'll see what it amounts to.
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
Probably could between Aberdour and Burntisland, as you pass silver sands
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
I'm likewise disappointed. I don't agree with the proposal, but it is absolutely a worthwhile one to discuss, even if only to practice opposition to it and find out what others think, for and against. I can't help but feel th
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
But on the flip side, how much was considered inappropriate, wrong, or irresponsible in the past and became accepted in the end? I'd rather a situation where scientists are given freedom to publish what they produce, than fear excommun
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
The project appears to vastly predate reliable Rust on RISC V, so I'm not really sure what other production-ready options they have.
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
It's probably not, though. Evolution doesn't select for perfection, and many aspects of our evolutionary derived bodies are frankly bizarre. Take the eye as an example. There's no need for us to have a blind spot. Octopus hav
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
Absolutely, the setting can set the general tone, but I'm simply pointing out that the numerous people saying "making a pass in situation X is always wrong", because it's really not as clean cut as that. I was especially
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
I'm really glad someone has identified that it's about context and each instance should be judged on a case-by-case basis. I'm equally surprised that at the same time, it comes with a list of pre-judged decisions where you ha
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
Well, there's a little more than that, as we actually have told compiler devs we don't want that. When developers demand that compilers compete with each other on fractions of a percent of runtime performance, we set ourselves up
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
Sadly, the reason that discipline is such a vaunted virtue is because it's hard. Even the most well meaning and diligent C developers still make mistakes. Tools should be ergonomic, they should reduce the need for diligence, care, disc
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
On bans, there are frequent waves of new users who migrate away from Twitter to mastodon because they're told that mastodon has instances that are more suited to their personal (typically) political inclinations, and that the other sid
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by abstractbeliefs 8y ago
You might be at an altitude above mean sea level that _can_ be covered by different airspace rules, but terrain is scary to aircraft, and safety altitudes around it tend to be generous. If you're on a tall hill that would otherwise inf

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