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by brmgb 4y ago
Blame librarians, the Authors Guild and the American justice system. What they did to Google Books ensured that knowledge would stay locked out of the Internet and killed a ton of interesting thing that could have been done. It was one of t
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by brmgb 4y ago
I don't know, curation is hard. I think that 90% of what I read is average at best. Newspapers quality has been going downhill really fast with the shift to digital first, the pressure to generate clicks and the ongoing move to video c
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by brmgb 4y ago
> I care a lot about this stuff Honest question, why? I am generally favourable to limiting the tracking we allow companies to perform at the legislative level because I'm pretty sure they are going to end up doing something nefario
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by brmgb 4y ago
Then everyone in Pakistan gets deprived of a valuable source of knowledge on virtue of their government being obscurantist.
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by brmgb 4y ago
Nobody uses versioning to work on document. It is too annoying and merge barely works if at all anyway. Trying to convince people to put work in progress document in a DMS is a lost battle. Sharepoint via Teams might happen but that's
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by brmgb 4y ago
I find this article amusing. I think it puts forward something interesting but frame it completely incorrectly. The author doesn't actually want to lose debates even if it doesn't seem to realise it. He doesn't want to have d
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by brmgb 4y ago
CrabML is a ML-like syntax which is very close to the Miranda-based syntax Haskell uses.
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by brmgb 4y ago
Of course, they did. The initial compiler was written in Ocaml. Early Rust looked much more like a ML language. They intentionally moved to a C-like syntax because it is more familiar to their target audience.
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by brmgb 4y ago
No, I fundamentally disagree with the idea that the clock is starting anew when you sell the asset. The buyer can start depreciating but the seller just paid taxes on the benefits it received from the sale which is an equivalent cash flow.
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by brmgb 4y ago
This is an extremely US-centric view while Nature is an international journal. My country in Europe forced everyone to stay at home all the time for three months with a one hour allowance per day to go shopping in 5km radius and while that
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by brmgb 4y ago
> This is a rather personal take on any versioning on the web. Web 2.0 was "cool" because it was a change to something beautifully different. Having been though the whole v2.0 shebang, it was widely uncool and most derided it a
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by brmgb 4y ago
Now I'm stuck wondering if you missed the joke or are one upping me. Well done if it's the case.
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by brmgb 4y ago
Someone should bolt object-oriented features on top a functional programming language to see what it would look like. That would be an interesting research project. They could call it O- something and do a pun with an animal name.
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by brmgb 4y ago
That's an Haskell issue not a functional programming issue. Haskell is pretty much the only functional programming language which is lazy by default. It's the sole one for the reason you give. Every other ones are eager by default
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by brmgb 4y ago
Considering Rust pretty much started as a way to have a ML for system programming and was written in Ocaml, yes, I think it's fair to say it was heavily influenced by FP. It became less and less ML-like as time went on but it still as
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by brmgb 4y ago
> Second the people selected for a company are selected based on their conformance to that companies culture. I would agree for most companies and it's probably true for Microsoft but that doesn't really apply to Google. Google
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by brmgb 4y ago
> I am convinced that 99.999% of the people that claim to be "anti-Capitalist" are in reality anti-Corporativist. Aren't they in fine the same thing? If you believe that the logical consequence of a system is the emergenc
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by brmgb 5y ago
I understand you are probably American and therefore not used to Celsius but just so you know the body of a human is around 37.7 °C. 40 °C is already life-threatening.
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by brmgb 5y ago
> Rust proves it’s possible to do efficiently. One day we’ll get there. Rust is only memory-safe and only as long as you stay away from unsafe code. It is not magic pixie dust.
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by brmgb 5y ago
Google makes a lot of its own network equipments and doesn't communicate about what is running on it. Most of it is security critical. Fuchsia might be used more widely that we know inside Google.
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by brmgb 6y ago
> I think this is what happens when you get politicians trying to beat capitalism at its own game. I'm rolling on the floor laughing right now. In the past five years, there is a country which erected multiple new trade barriers, pu
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by brmgb 6y ago
> what's the point of a contract that's not enforceable? That's why the USA didn't bother ordering rapidely. They knew they could use the defense act and executive orders to block exports and they did as soon as they
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by brmgb 6y ago
The USA negociated more slowly than the EU. The UK signed a research deal before the EU but didn't order until a week later. The only difference is that the EU remained truthful to the free market while both the USA and the UK put coun
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by brmgb 6y ago
> These are typically junior bankers working on M&A/IPO deals. M&A has always been notorious for the insane hours it pushes on interns and junior employees and most of them use it signalling to land much more balanced job in
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Should we artificially add more examples of non-stealing French in the dataset just because it's socially more acceptable ? You are completely missing the point. This issue is simple. Take two groups A and B. Ceteris paribus if yo
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by brmgb 6y ago
> Baby sitting should not be part of any serious work. If you do that, better go into nursery and let the real engineers do the job. Sorry but so much machismo, so little engineering culture here. > Failure (in your words a "poin
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by brmgb 6y ago
> - billions per week of half assed lockdown vs a few billion more for high quality timeley vaccine delivieries of the good stuff --- of course they chose the lockdown This is not the issue. A few billion would not have magically solved
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by brmgb 6y ago
> industrial consumers in Europe have the same stipulation in their power contracts: in case of emergency, the power company (network operator) may choose to suspend power delivery to protect the grid. You can't really compare. Ind
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by brmgb 6y ago
> will run on OS's written in C. C++ is slowly but surely displacing C on the OS side too. The field is obviously full of, hmm, time-proven code but new project tends to use C++.
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by brmgb 6y ago
Having confidence in your ability to do things and trying them is good. Doing pointless work because you were too proud to ask isn't. Juniors more often than not tend to err on the second side. There is a lot of value in being humble a

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