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by ajuc 2y ago
I am Polish. I know this from experience. The parts of history we focus on are the parts where we lost. When a society loses political power - it focuses on history and culture to survive (as opposed to "integrating"). Which influ
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It's not written by victors. Look at Jewish history. Or Polish. Or basically any small European country. If anything - losing and surviving makes you more likely to write what you went through than just winning. And people who believe
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by ajuc 2y ago
There is a point after which doing nothing makes the war more likely. I'd argue we crossed it around 2014.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Requirements should be in the JIRA. JIRA number should be in the commit message. You do git blame and you see why each line is what it is. Comments are nice too, but they tend to lie the older they are. Git blame never lies.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Last is something that is embarrassingly extractable, which makes it a bad example (you shouldn't write that function anyway in 99% of cases - surely someone wrote it already in stdlib of your language). It's like taking "lis
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's been confirmed for months already. We even know which ship damaged the previous ones (and how they lowered the anchor just before the cables and rised it after damaging the cables). It's not a conspiracy theory when you have
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by ajuc 2y ago
# Can't import at the start, because of the need to bootstrap the # environment via `get_requires_for_build_*`. This comment is a great example of what information you lose when you split linear code into small interre
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by ajuc 2y ago
Code is 95% of the communication. And how overcomplicated the code is has a huge (overwhelming everything else) influence on how hard it is to communicate what it does. So in practice it's fair to call it the property of the code, even
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by ajuc 2y ago
Compile time fill a lookup table. Run time read 1 value from it. I call it O(1) in time, O(n) in memory. You call it O(1) in both, right? Now move the compile time code to runtime. I call it O(n) in time and memory. What do you call it? If
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by ajuc 2y ago
The stuff you use for work is not fun. The stuff you use for fun is fun. There, I solved the mystery for you. If you choose technology for work by what is the most fun - you enter a hedonist treadmill. Stop. JS framework insanity lies that
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by ajuc 2y ago
Let's say you have a lookup table and your algorithm looks up a value and returns it. O(n) space O(1) in time.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Proportional + threshold is simpler and better in practice than most of these. Yes it's not a direct equivalent (you have to change the problem so it has a good solution). Also the problem in some countries isn't the voting system
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by ajuc 2y ago
I'd like to see how much time kids waste learning reading/writing in countries with non-phonetic languages compared to sane languages.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Haven't seen the anime, but at the time of Copernicus Poland wasn't THAT Catholic. I mean it was Catholic, but it wasn't extermist about that compared to Western Europe. Polish Kingdom had a long-standing conflict against Teu
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by ajuc 2y ago
If you are a Boltzman brain then you are born with memories you have (that haven't really happened) and you have no future (because the next moment you'll collapse). You could even live kind of a "life" by randomly poppi
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by ajuc 2y ago
Malaria is about the north-south axis, not the east-west one.
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by ajuc 2y ago
Nuclear disasters would have to happen every month for years to get to the number of deaths per GWh produced that coal has. And till we have vastly cheaper storage - fossil fuels are the only alternative to nuclear for baseload.
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by ajuc 2y ago
My problem with this is handling malformed logs (which is exactly the logs you are the most interested in). If you process logs in a smart way you have to have assumptions about them. When the assumptions are broken the data might get missi
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by ajuc 2y ago
It's a simplification, obviously. But I do think there's a cultural factor in how society approaches the government and suffering in general that strongly influences what kind of government keeps developing in that society. When y
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"In Russia even anarchists are imperialists" Józef Piłsudski (which also wasn't a great guy, but about Russia he was right)
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by ajuc 2y ago
Gratitude is nice but the poems that do change governments and people's lives for the better can't only do gratitude. Anger is needed too. Accountability is important. Some people treat the oppressive government as weather. Someth
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by ajuc 2y ago
> I did not say any of this, ever. Read my comment. Don’t put words in my mouth. Sorry, my bad. I assumed if you blame innocent people you'd also blame people who were actually responsible. > The German army adopted Nazi symbols
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by ajuc 2y ago
> The German empire underwent revolts during the end of WWI By communists and far-right :) Where were the pro-democratic mainstream protests? It was the communists (USSR) and nazis (3rd Reich) who started WW2 after being unchecked for 2
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by ajuc 2y ago
Why are kill switches in cars bad? It's a vehicle that can easily kill other people. It often does. It's reasonable to require drivers to be in good enough shape before trusting them with lives of random innocent people.
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> You seem to be ignorant of how badly democracy worked in the Weimar Republic And whose fault is that? If you fail to fix your country political system for long enough - you get dictatorship and eventually war. There's nobody respo
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I agree we shouldn't let "regular Germans" from that time escape the responsibility for WW2. Be it through voting for Hitler, supporting nazis in other ways, or simply ignoring the threat and not uniting and voting against Hi
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by ajuc 2y ago
> In Synapse's case, their ledger said the total amount of all of their individual customer balances ended up being much more than the actual funds held in the underlying FBO accounts. Lots of folks are assuming fraud but I'm w
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by ajuc 2y ago
In Polish countryside pretty much every village has several frames for storks to build their nests on. People build them on their roofs or on utility poles, and some utility companies do that too. It's best to build it a meter or more
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by ajuc 2y ago
Worrying about feminism when 99% of all programming languages use latin script, analytic grammar and English keywords is funny.
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by ajuc 2y ago
The key to do the log is to open the new file in notepad++/whatever in the morning and keep it open. When you do stuff you copy-paste the interesting parts anyway, so just paste it there as well. It's almost zero overhead.

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