astrophysics

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by astrophysics 5y ago
Wow, maybe this explains why I can't hear anything in large groups of people.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
Racket looks interesting. I am having trouble choosing between Racket and GNU Guile.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
A huge challenge in Norway, was that all our retired ethnic Pakistani people panicked and booked flights from Pakistan to Norway. They didn't trust that Pakistani hospitals would handle the pandemic. Sweden probably has a lot more fore
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by astrophysics 5y ago
Look up Andy Wingo, one of the Guile developers, and his woke crusade against Stallman. It's a mess and I haven't collected all the historical references, but some of it is referenced here: https://gnu.support/rich
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by astrophysics 5y ago
I think Guix is amazing, but I went for Nix because I want nothing to do with GNU Guile and the terrible activism and bullying associated with it.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
They did have a lot of contact. I read about it from some Buddhist scholar, but I can't remember where.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
I agree, it's basically Trump's fault.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
Math can be a superpower for developers.
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by astrophysics 5y ago
What if people stop having so many children?
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by astrophysics 5y ago
That's because no one can afford to drive in Oslo any more. Every road is a toll road and there are no parking spaces any more.
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by astrophysics 6y ago
No more RedHat for my organization, then.
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by astrophysics 6y ago
Ugh, another one of Andy Wingo's anti-Stallman smearing campaigns?
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by astrophysics 6y ago
In Norway, girls outperform boys in every subject - but the opposite is true when tests are anonymized. It turns out teachers give boys lower grades because can't sit still during class.
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by astrophysics 6y ago
After having individual files deleted repeatedly from Dropbox, I am not going anywhere near them again. Penetration testing is part of my job, and any PDFs related to that, keep being deleted. Why are they moderating my content? Never again
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by astrophysics 6y ago
Sigh. I'll never buy another ZyXEL product. What are decent alternatives in a similar price range?
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by astrophysics 6y ago
The white, male patriarchy!
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by astrophysics 6y ago
Makes one wonder about too good to be true services like ProtonMail, ProtonVPN and ProtonDrive. I was so excited about those, but recently I've started wondering whether they are just the continuation of Switzerland taking money to act
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by astrophysics 7y ago
Valuable? Giving a proper blowjob. You can learn it in an hour and make insane amounts of money doing just that.
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by astrophysics 7y ago
Basic games like...Quake 3?
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by astrophysics 7y ago
This reminds me of the years I wasted writing C++, always looking for the idiomatic approach, rather than learning about security, networking, architecture and so on. In exactly the same way, Rust is just too complicated.
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by astrophysics 7y ago
Interesting, I've played exactly the same MUDs. Scandinavian fellow, eh?