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by brmgb 6y ago
> vim is a similar rabbit hole, maybe less deep. Vim was for a long time and still pretty much is mostly a text editor. It is light, work well with large files and is installed on most Unix machines. I don't think trying to turn it
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by brmgb 6y ago
The WHO is an international organization trying to do its best in a complex international political field. They can't straight away say Taiwan is independent or they will be banned from China and what good would it actually do. The be
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Red Hat wanted it done Red Hat had zero interest into a new init system when Lennart started systemd. They had just moved to upstart and Red Hat customers don't really care about init systems. Red Hat customers pay for their syste
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by brmgb 6y ago
Both Puppet and Ansible are declarative. Why do you think people use them rather than shell scripts ?
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by brmgb 7y ago
> Shouldn't the ethics be on the government side in such cases? Everyone should aim to act ethically especially during a crisis. I think we are generally far too lenient with corporations regarding their behaviours. Both stockholder
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by brmgb 7y ago
> Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov. That's because you are looking at a FIDE list which starts in 1971. Mikhail Botvinnik was the world champion from a nearly uninterrupted period f
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by brmgb 7y ago
Anectotal evidence but the only time I fought regularly about chores in a long term relationship, it only started in the fourth year of our common life and clearly was a proxy for more deep seated and complicated issues with the relationshi
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by brmgb 7y ago
The good parts of Agile are pretty much taken verbatim from the approach taken by project Mercury in the 60s. The space industry pretty much gave birth to iterative and incremental development
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by brmgb 7y ago
You do realize Microsoft owns GitHub, don't you ?
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by brmgb 7y ago
> The goal of a virus is to spread genetic material, killing its host is an inadvertent second order effect of replication. As an aside, I find it very amusing that you used this sentence after your paragraphes on emergent behavior and r
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by brmgb 7y ago
Yes, that's a very peculiar feature of Haskell. I'm slightly surprised this managed to reach the front page. In most language, you should generally prefer foldleft to foldright as foldright is not tail-recursive.
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by brmgb 7y ago
Bruno Le Maire is the current minister of economy of a G8 country, a post he holds after a career in which he has been minister of agriculture, secretary of state for European Affairs and chief of staff of the prime minister. I will surmise
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by brmgb 7y ago
Nethacks like most traditional roguelike is amongst these games I like to call checklist tickers, which is to say with a moderate amount of luck, if you plod through the required amount of trivia and perfectly follow the winning moves check
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by brmgb 7y ago
I can't disagree more. What set Haskell apart is how it successfully limited side effect to the IO type and the introduction of type classes. Laziness by default is definitely a bad design choice as far as I'm concerned. The drawb
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by brmgb 7y ago
While I don't agree with the general snarkiness towards Haskell of the commenter you are replying to, being lazy by default could be seen as Haskell original mistake. It was interesting from a research point of view though.
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by brmgb 7y ago
> And likely as long as it is profitable to do this, we will, at massive non-financial costs. Note that there is a simple solution to this. You just need to price in the generated externality. That's what a carbon tax does. The fact
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by brmgb 7y ago
> Hmm, do you have any source, I've tried but didn't find anything. http://www.brahmand.com/news/DCNS-Navantia-Scorpene-collabor... Note that the settlement is basically what DCNS was asking from the start
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by brmgb 7y ago
> French and Spanish clients diverged There are no French or Spanish clients. The Scorpene submarines were built strictly to be exported by the joint venture. Spain was expected to buy some, France wasn't. As far as I know, France o
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by brmgb 7y ago
The real joke is that Navantia which is building this submarine actually stole the intellectual property from their French counterpart during a previous joint venture [0] and then managed to fail building a submarine with it. Having worked
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by brmgb 7y ago
> I also see your devaluing of effective use of marketing and some peoples background on the internet. I fear you are bringing your own prejudice to my post. I merely pointed that the most vocal supporters of Rust are not people doing sa
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by brmgb 7y ago
Ada get plenty of love where it matters : actual industrial usage in critical systems. It is not clear to me how the internet hype surrounding Rust which seems mostly driven by people coming from dynamic languages and former web developers
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by brmgb 7y ago
That's because both situation have absolutely nothing in common. People tell cashiers when they make a mistake not out of a desire to avoid "stealing" (stealing is taking something without permission or right by the way so ne
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by brmgb 7y ago
That's not how it works. What the lawmakers mean is pretty clear as soon as you go read the documents affixed to the motion. There is no need for more boilerplate. The 2018 Comission report has this to say on the subject for example :
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by brmgb 7y ago
Plenty of places still have homes on NFS shared amongst all their machines. It is very handy. It means you can use any computers and still have all your files. The fact that you are unfamiliar with a use case doesn't mean it doesn&#x27
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by brmgb 7y ago
> The only way for a company to not care about churn is if they literally don’t care about the quality of their product or services. Quality of product does not appear on quaterly result and is not taken into account when deciding bonuse
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by brmgb 7y ago
No offense but it's hard to take you seriously when you call OCaml type system primitive. Also OCaml obviously has generics independently of functors. Polymorphic functions and types are literally everywhere.
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by brmgb 7y ago
Black box model is a perfectly well understood term of art. It means a model which has a somewhat opaque internal working. A lot of modern ML approaches treat the model as a black box in that it is not particularly clear how the features ac
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by brmgb 7y ago
> In the Ardennes region of France, large-scale citizen evacuations were necessary during MEC removal operations in 2001. In the forests of Verdun French government "démineurs" working for the Département du Déminage still hunt
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by brmgb 7y ago
I read a French translation of it a decade ago and remember it as a fairly interesting book. It has an intriguing premise which it uses cleverly to explore a large range of subjects, is fairly well written and is an interesting commentary
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by brmgb 7y ago
> Had a nice ~85 km afternoon loop today. That's nice as a sport but we are mostly talking about commuting here. The assist an e-bike gives you is nice if you don't want to sweat and have to go uphill.

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