bjarneh

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by bjarneh 4y ago
> the rest of the world uses 24hrs, however 12h _sometimes_ is used conversationally; Here in Norway we use 24 hours when writing; but we use 12 hour system when speaking - if that makes any sense? I.e. we would say: "Vi spiser midd
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Wow, that was even more eye opening. I've always tried that website at impossible speed..
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Top quality post! My list would be embarrassingly short..
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> less confusing way to do variable shadowing How is this less confusing? := vs = will either push a new variable on top of a stack of identically named variables, or change the content of the top element on that stack? Why would any
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> Variables are not unique. You can declare multiple values for the same variable name using ":=" and append in the stack. If you want to edit the last declaration, just user simple "=" operator. To remove the last va
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> and was even approached by both France and Pakistan making offers to buy his research Probably quite a few others as well...
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Similar to the feeling I got when re-watching Dark Knight Rises, and Drive on a plane (Lufthansa?). Something was missing — the violence. I guess airlines have to assume that any age can watch films on those screens and cut films accordingl
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> I’ve lost count of how many times good sounding government programs turn out to be lame once you read the fine print. This is certainly true. Not sure if the one we had in Norway a few years ago can be classified as 'lame'. B
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> there is the opposing rule of having the duty to help people in distress at sea. That's all I've ever heard as well. Perhaps the amount of pirates/refugees/drug-runners in those waters around Belize has turned that
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> Because a cafe or public library doesn't have meeting rooms, whiteboards, monitors and other facilities that you often need. Although a cafe will not have any of that, public libraries can often have some of that. But my point was
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> It's not immediately clear how Flow seeks to revolutionize the residential housing industry. I never understood how he revolutionized the "office market" with that wework stuff either. Renting out horrid shared office
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by bjarneh 4y ago
I've never been asked to hand in any home assignment for a job interview, but I have been asked to do some "live coding" while their employees sat and watched; that was somewhat unpleasant as well. But I guess it beats a hu
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> ...between 1971 and 2018, 3,280 trade unionists were murdered in Colombia. > Is there a solution? Not within this system. No amount of union organizing or progressive legislation will alter the nature of work in it. Why are they kil
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> The posts in my feed were so inauthentic. Since it's driven by people who want to get hired (or hire) I guess it cannot be more authentic than a job interview. LinkedIn feels like a social network full of teenagers who knows their
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> What if bitcoins got disallowed as a currency in most places where you can use it to buy things. Places where bitcoin is rarely accepted as currency (like Norway where I'm living), does not make it "unpopular" for ransom
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> Dismissing the idea that lighting is caused by Zeus being angry is "stupid" because there is no other theory yet? It's not true that there are no other theories; here in Norway we believe that it's caused by Thor ha
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> “I hope to see the concept of watching your parents and grandparents die, disappear from the public consciousness as a thing that happens over the course of half a century.” — Vitalik Buterin A storage problem on the horizon...
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> The word "just" when used to gloss over something with the author don't know how to explain. Never thought of that before, but it's certainly true. Always hated when we got cryptic explanations for the difficult thi
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> You don’t need to use any special desktop software; you mount the Walkman as a USB storage device and transfer files. Wait… that’s it? Yes! That's always nice, although I struggle to see the need for an additional device to play m
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Interesting article; although goto statements does seem worse than go statements; as they can make simple things hard. I wonder if we just ever come to the conclusion that doing many things at once is difficult no matter what we do - at lea
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Nice to see links to old.reddit. New reddit is worse than the theme that pushed digg.com into irrelevance...
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by bjarneh 4y ago
TypeError: lax.dynamic_update_slice requires arguments to have the same dtypes, got float32, float16.
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by bjarneh 4y ago
This looks super handy, probably worth the performance penalty in most cases to make every command undo-able (except drop database).
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> to just under 60 million lines of code in 2022 I'd be somewhat intimidated on my first day of work if I cloned a repo with that much sloc...
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Lemmings brings back some great memories, what a superb game that was/is.
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> Look for function setValues() in https://ledighedsalgoritmen.dk/p5vis.js It seems you've found the algorithm right there. Not only is this algorithm the good old mega-nested-if-test-of-hard-coded-answers for a fe
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by bjarneh 4y ago
Ok, I need one of those. Very funny and well written piece... > I’m not quite ready to reap what I sow.
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by bjarneh 4y ago
It seems pretty nuts for a person to do at least. I'm not using twitter to 'convert followers to leads' (whatever that means).
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by bjarneh 4y ago
TLDR > The problem was Darwin was a marketing ploy, and nothing more.
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by bjarneh 4y ago
> An Integer is an object while 100 is a primitiv They are both objects; they only differ in size.

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