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by bregma 1y ago
Back in the 1980s I was taking a foundational computer science course in which we derived Goedel's result using Cantor diagonalization. Excellent course. We were watching the TV version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at the t
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by bregma 1y ago
Worker bees will reproduce when the hive queen's suppression pheremone disappears. Of course, they're not fertilized so they only produce haploid offspring, who in the bee world are all male and hence useless for anything but mati
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by bregma 1y ago
These two to four family member who immigrate would not also be required to serve in the military? If not, what are the criteria used to select the one-out-of-five?
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by bregma 2y ago
Heck, it hasn't been true since the 1950s. Consider it as "has never been true". Oh, sure, there have been plenty of native-host-only compilers. It was never a property of all compilers, though. Most system brings-ups, from t
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by bregma 2y ago
> How can the average MAGA voter which waves a little flag at a rally feel ok with this? Apparently most of them are just temporarily embarrassed billionaires.
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by bregma 2y ago
Wait until you find out how unsafe software written in the machine language that Rust usually transpiles to is.
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by bregma 2y ago
You can call it Betty.
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by bregma 2y ago
Where I live that attitude is often summed up as "speak white". Needless to say I moved here from a region where that would be shocking and offensive, and I don't really fit in culturally. But the land was cheap.
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by bregma 2y ago
The US still does not have an official language. It has an executive order from the Chief Executive directing all federal government services be conducted in English only. Congress has enacted no law declaring English as the official langua
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by bregma 2y ago
> One thing is certain, that there will be no way out of this but elections. Those inconveniences will be next for the chop. Mark my words.
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It just took a while for Russia to get their stooge in place.
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Tariffs are also revenue. It just moves the revenue from income taxes, which can affect the rich if they have incompetent accountants, to consumption taxes, which affect predominantly the poors and middle class. Tariffs are a tax levied on
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by bregma 2y ago
> It is like the administration adopted a policy of jailing all Capricorns and only Capricorns and people started writing think pieces about how the criminal justice system would be more efficient if they focused on programs to reduce re
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by bregma 2y ago
Yes. Markdown is semantics-free. The man macro set in roff is semantic in nature. There is no bijection. If you're writing semantic-free man pages you're already doing it wrong.
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by bregma 2y ago
The tech industry? No. The "tech" is misleading: it's always been about excess wealth allocations. The railway boom of the 1800s. The oil boom of the early 1900s. People get rich, the greedy take over, they try to subvert ins
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by bregma 2y ago
I have never had any reason to believe my government is stealing my money, or even has any interest in stealing my money. It's not some centralized criminal organization like it is becoming in the United States or maybe in other third-
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by bregma 2y ago
Not one single job was moved offshore by a foreign country. Every single one was moved offshore by an American business looking to reduce costs and increase the quarterly bottom line. Now they're run out of jobs to move offshore and th
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by bregma 2y ago
It's not "dumping the dollar" that would be a concern. It's bumping US federal treasury bills (the US debt) which are mostly held by China, the UK, Luxembourg, and Canada. If the latter three just dump their T-bills in r
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by bregma 2y ago
The problem is backwards compatibility. Someone comes along and builds their software on the latest bleeding-edge Linux distro. It won't run on older (or even many current) Linux desktops. People curse Linux ABI instability because new
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by bregma 2y ago
They should rewrite biology in Rust.
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by bregma 2y ago
C is the Roman numeral representing 100. You can't go faster than 100% of the speed of light. QED.
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by bregma 2y ago
He's not writing the C++ standard library from scratch. He's writing his own library, in a different namespace, with some similar functionality. It's easy to write a non-standard library that only satisfies your limited subse
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by bregma 2y ago
Honestly I felt more unsafe in certain touristy parts of Paris than anywhere I went in Lima. But not because of violence but because of pickpockets and scammers. I would chalk that up to the fact that most foreigners visiting the Plaza des
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by bregma 2y ago
I went there with my younger kids a few years ago. It was like visiting the USA only fewer guns and authoritarian people in uniforms everywhere, and don't drink the water out of the tap. Also maybe pay in cash everywhere since no one t
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by bregma 2y ago
I recently replaced all my kitchen appliances with matching mid-scale Samsung-branded ones. The first thing I did after powering them on for the first time was disable the WiFi. For this reason. Also, it's entirely unclear to me why I
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by bregma 2y ago
The wapiti is the animal on the reverse of the Canadian 25 cent definitive coin. Perhaps the folks who write the article are just educated and worldly.
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by bregma 2y ago
It was all just fun and games until the invention of the MBA.
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Offering a human sacrifice to an angry god to redeem us of our sins is not that uncommon and certainly not unique to Christianity. Perhaps what makes Christianity unique is the ritualistic cannibalism in many major sects, but there is much
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The tariffs on Chinese goods is still lower than those recently applied to goods from favoured trading partners and allies.
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Mike Pence was loyal to his boss -- the US Constitution -- to the end. He would never have thrived under the new Constitution-free order any way.

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