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by agarren 2y ago
The Pray codex is listed under “fringe theories” in the Wikipedia Shroud entry. That certainly make it wrong, but it does make it a little more suspect than the c14 dating criticism. The c14 contamination arguments seem more than adequately
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by agarren 2y ago
Fastmail allows for aliasing too - username@domain.tld -> bank@username.domain.tld, retailer@username.domain.tld, etc. Pretty convenient. I use that feature pretty often and I can only recall one instance which seemed to indicate my addr
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by agarren 2y ago
Software is hard. AI can radically simplify this by writing the code for you, but that comes at a cost. If you don’t understand what was written, or you only understand it at a superficial level, maintenance is going to be a nightmare. It i
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by agarren 2y ago
The go spec today is ~130 pages [0]. Like golang’s Stalin, its spec remarkably approachable. The latest Java spec is ~800 [1], also very accessible, but clearly there’s more complexity there. You have to admit, there’s something appealing a
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by agarren 2y ago
Relying on composition rather than inheritance often feels much more natural in my experience. C, Basic, Pascal, etc. are all missing inheritance and generics, are they similarly unorthodox and difficult? Java-style OO has a place, but it’s
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by agarren 2y ago
I agree, but it doesn’t change the fact in my mind that despite golang’s nulls, I’ve found it to be a ridiculously productive language to work with in a lot of cases. I’d credit that to the simplicity of the language (if not the runtime), a
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by agarren 2y ago
Records, tuples, pattern matching, immutability, error handling with Result<‘a>, distaste for nulls, it’s got everything that Microsoft is trying to shoehorn into C# today, without all the baggage that C# brings with it. It seems like
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by agarren 2y ago
I was hoping to see this one - I was just about to post before seeing your comment. It’s not a long book, but it definitely sticks with you.
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by agarren 2y ago
I think Murakami’s books are a great suggestion. Magical realism, nowhere near sci-fi, but very easy to slip into. However, 1Q84 feels a bit like a heavy recommendation even if you’re a Murakami fan. It’s a bit more of a commitment and I th
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by agarren 2y ago
I’ve had a Breville Barista Express model for years and it’s been perfect. Daily use (4-8 doubles), easy to clean, very consistent shots. I’m definitely a fan.
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by agarren 2y ago
https://archive.is/gE4dW
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by agarren 2y ago
I enjoyed Player of Games and it was a good second book for me after Consider Phlebas. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Use of Weapons, but I haven’t been able to get into it after starting and restarting a couple times.
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by agarren 2y ago
The excellent “Fall of Civilizations” podcast covers this well, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyzrie_les&list=PLR7yrLMHm1... Takeaway: Jared Diamond’s Easter Island collapse theory seem remarkably out of touch.
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by agarren 2y ago
Same - it seems like a decent, small, example of using gtk4 bindings in rust. These kinds of projects are great particularly for anyone comfortable in C and building up fluency in rust.
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How to Think Real Good(metarationality.com)
3 points by agarren 2y ago|0 comments
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How Did American Capitalism Mutate into American Corporatism?(brownstone.org)
36 points by agarren 2y ago|28 comments
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by agarren 3y ago
We're going to disagree, but respectfully, thank you for the discussion. > This is exactly the confusion caused due to mismatched terminology. In the explanation the "client" is a browser. But obviously the browser isn&#x2
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by agarren 3y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "an English-speaking human is the client"? It seems to me that if the hypertext response in the example referenced "deposits" in Arabic, Swahili, English, or Japanese, it'd all
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by agarren 3y ago
If I understand you right, this seems like a very course-grained way to track changes. You can record that a change was made, but not the specific change. It seems like it'd help facilitate something like, say, an etag, but I don'
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by agarren 3y ago
I’m surprised that Sopranos made the transcendent finale list, and equally surprised that Six Feet Under didn’t make it (and isn’t even in the review.) Six Feet Under wrapped everything up so perfectly. The Sopranos, as much as I enjoyed it
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by agarren 3y ago
There was a similar post a week or two back, and many of the responses mentioned scratchapixel [0]. It seems like a solid recommendation, and I got lost in a couple of the links. [0] https://www.scratchapixel.com/
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by agarren 3y ago
I didn’t realize it until looking at it just a moment ago, but Auth0 is an Okta subsidiary. They don’t have a stellar record by themselves [0]. I guess that leaves Amazon? That’s not super encouraging. [0] https://www.bleepingcom
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by agarren 3y ago
I’m a big fan of LunarVim, but handling large files out-of-the-box is not a great experience. Observed in both lvim, and neovim with my own config. I’ve found myself leaning on helix in those cases - quicker than screwing with either config
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by agarren 3y ago
I’ve heard similar arguments made pretty regularly for almonds and especially alfalfa [0] grown in California or Arizona, and exported to Saudi Arabia. It seems legit to me. [0] https://azpbs.org/horizon/2022/06&#x
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by agarren 4y ago
I see the following in the English kindle version - seems like it’s the same in spirit: “We’re humanitarian and noble, we’ve no intention of subjugating other races, we only want to impart our values to them and in return, to appropriate th
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by agarren 4y ago
https://archive.is/jQspl
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by agarren 4y ago
I mostly agree. I enjoy my 40” 4k monitors, but I’ve found that sometimes constraining myself to a laptop display can improve my focus. However, laptop keyboards, even those on macs and thinkpads, are poorly suited for extended use I think.
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by agarren 4y ago
They’re obviously more expensive to hire rather than less exciting. Native cross-platform development for a medium-to-large app is a hell of an investment. On going maintenance and dealing with platform upgrades is costly. Probably super im
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by agarren 4y ago
Amen. Searching chat history is a uniquely horrible experience. I’d like to search for a word or phrase and see not just the single chat response it appears in, but some context around it. As it stands I’ve found myself searching for a phra
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by agarren 4y ago
Not the parent, but I use teams in macOS. I wouldn’t call it fast, but I also haven’t experienced the kind of horrible performance other people apparently have. Video playback and taking calls on a second, larger (40” 4k) display, have impr

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