andsoitis

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   by andsoitis 1y ago

   > Dynastic inheritors have achieved lifetime financial independence the moment they emerged from the womb, while others have arrived, facing a hell-hole during their early life or, worse, disabling physical or mental infirmities that rob
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   Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble(economist.com)

   10 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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   Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision(nytimes.com)

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   Del Toro's Frankenstein feels like a Classic(foreignpolicy.com)

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   by andsoitis 1y ago

   Software to track wealth (net assets). All GUI. Using Delphi and compiling for macOS. Also learning Zig. Would be cool (but a huge effort) to port Delphi’s VCL or Lazarus’s LCL to Zig and create a RAD environment.
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   Want to cut through small talk? Try asking a 'magical question'(npr.org)

   2 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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   by andsoitis 1y ago

   "generative AI cannot exist without continually updated human-created knowledge—without it, AI systems will fall into model collapse."
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   Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly(economist.com)

   3 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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   by andsoitis 1y ago

   great lesson. if you believe in an important cause, don't try to make everyone conform to a single POV in other arenas. that's true diversity.
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    Practical Data-Oriented Design [video](vimeo.com)

    2 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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    Carmack on inlined code and functional programming(cbarrete.com)

    1 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    https://archive.is/j59oK
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    The Coming Ecological Cold War(foreignpolicy.com)

    4 points by andsoitis 1y ago|1 comments
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > Can I change my name to Sundar Pichai? If so, then why haven’t a bunch of techbro founders done that already? Yes, you can. But it’d be stupid.
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    BMI over 25 is overweight. Obese is 30 or higher.
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    do kids truly learn from Blockly? how long before they move on to a real programming language?
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > it seems like the history of finance is to go as hard as possible to make as much money as possible, then when the eventual crash comes, make the public pay for the losses. what are a couple of great examples that substantiate your vie
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > "how can we get C programmers to understand that they would be more productive in FORTH" It could also be that they wouldn’t be more productive (given the kinds of software the typical C programmer writes). It could also be t
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    What a leaked transcript reveals about China's muscular statecraft(economist.com)

    11 points by andsoitis 1y ago|3 comments
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    Can peptides give you superpowers?(economist.com)

    4 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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    Close Pattern in Zig(zig.news)

    2 points by andsoitis 1y ago|0 comments
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    The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world(economist.com)

    9 points by andsoitis 1y ago|1 comments
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > this is utterly routine. It even has the name used here: Cross-compiling. Zig makes cross-compilation trivial and part of the language philosophy. Other languages either rely on external toolchains (C/C++, Rust with C deps) or are
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    Building Language Towers with Ziggurat(cambridge.org)

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    Objective-C(developer.apple.com)

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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > The support of Israel relies on two things: the Holocaust and the old Testament. Come on. Geopolitically, Israel is an important pillar. The V-Dem Democracy indices ranked in 2024 Iraq, Israel, Mauritania and Tunisia as the Middle East
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    We're both baffled. Maybe we just move on? Happy weekend!
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    > “Building advanced chip manufacturing is extremely hard,” Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, said at a TSMC event on Thursday. Perhaps. But if TSMC, Samsung, Intel, GlobalFoundries, SK Hynix, SMIC, and UMC can all do it, it isn&#
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    If you trespass (as kid under 15 or guardian of said kid), do you get fined?
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    by andsoitis 1y ago

    Does that include YouTube? I couldn’t tell from the article.