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by derriz 7y ago
When did this ever happen?
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by derriz 7y ago
I've a certain sympathy for your position but I interpret "human readable" as meaning readable and somewhat comprehensible without using specialized tools.
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by derriz 7y ago
I agree and I would have been a shrill critic of any 1-based indexing. Most of the classic linear algebra algorithms seem to be described using 1-based indexing and the last time I needed to use one of these algorithms, I stubbornly tried t
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by derriz 7y ago
What exactly is debatable? A. That humans have added huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere? Or B. that CO2 is a greenhouse gas? To deny the former would be delusional. The latter has been known since the 19th century and can be easily test
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by derriz 7y ago
I’m being dishonest? It was an example to illustrate a simple point which has nothing to do with Sweden. Your 2nd point has absolutely nothing to do with anything I wrote and I’ve no idea how you inferred those claims unless you’re angry
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by derriz 7y ago
This is a Brexit lie based on a superficial change of name - the constitutional basis of the European Union is specified in the 1957 treaty of Rome and the later Maastricht treaty ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty
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by derriz 7y ago
You’re being over sensitive I think. The reply isn’t “correcting” you - it actually adds information. Strictly speaking you are correct but generally if a fact is qualified by a restriction like “this exists in country X”, given there are
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Commodore 900(floodgap.com)
102 points by derriz 7y ago|41 comments
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by derriz 7y ago
I don’t think the parent is talking about the heroin free-for-all experiment in the Landesmuseum park but rather the supervised injection clinics which continue to be a component of Swiss drug treatment policy. Compared to other cities of
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by derriz 7y ago
I remember really liking his book Proofs and Types which was a revelation after struggling with Martin-Löf’s writings. One outcome of that attention was a nice and blazingly fast for an FPL called Clean which offered a more modern Haskell&#
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by derriz 7y ago
Docker can't escape all the blame here - its layer caching mechanism is IMHO flawed. It's fine to say that a packaging system should offer reproducibility but Docker's layer caching design assumes that every RUN command prod
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by derriz 7y ago
Indeed but it's not just EU skepticism. Even among very pro-EU political parties and countries across Europe, there has been no appetite for a new EU treaty since the Lisbon treaty. I'm willing to bet that there will be no furthe
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by derriz 7y ago
Not exactly - "Lingua Franca" was originally a trading argot/pidgen used by mediterranean traders with more of an Italian basis. Later it came to mean a generic term for "common language". Only centuries later did
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by derriz 7y ago
What evidence? How can you identify the expansion of PIE with this Y-haplotype replacement? I'm genuinely curious. Like I said, my amature interest in more in PIE from the perspective of historical linguistics but I'd love to kn
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by derriz 7y ago
I'm not trying to patch up any theory nor am I grasping at any straws. You've taken a very absolutist stance by presenting it as a categorical fact that the PIE speakers achieved genetic dominance through extermination. But you f
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by derriz 7y ago
> it's that the PIE-speaking Yamnaya swept in from the caucuses and slaughtered mostly everyone (especially men) except the Basques. It's not pretty, but that's the way it was. That's a pretty categorical statement of
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by derriz 7y ago
That brings back memories. Of using an email gateway to get an Amiga fred fish disk - delivered as shar pieces to my uni email account (only staff had telnet, ftp, etc. access). Then assembling the pieces in /tmp on the departmental
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by derriz 7y ago
> In Jimmy’s case, though, I simply cannot fathom how Instagram made this connection... and so I’ve written Jimmy’s case off as a mystery that will remain unsolved Is it really that mysterious? The connection could have been made in the
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by derriz 7y ago
It's not really more complicated; it is strictly incorrect to claim that Switzerland has the power to restrict and filter immigrants which is what I was responding to. Of course, it hasn't always been that way. Strictly speaking
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by derriz 7y ago
This is not correct. Switzerland is no more free to restrict European immigration than any member of the the EU (or Norway for that matter) as they have signed up to EU freedom of movement 10 or 15 years ago. There is no "prioritizat
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by derriz 7y ago
There is little or no evidence to support the statement that immigrants lower the wages for "those who need it most" in any way significantly - most research suggests immigration has a zero or very small negative effect on host em
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by derriz 8y ago
Etymology is fascinating. When I read your Greek "mov" for purple, I immediately thought of the French word for light purple, "mauve". (I don't speak French but my toddler son is bilingual and has started using thi
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by derriz 8y ago
Yes - it used to be GMT. Franco changed it in 1940s to be in line with the German occupied Europe and it was never changed it back.
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by derriz 8y ago
Temperament is unrelated/orthogonal to inharmonicity. Temperament deals with picking frequencies for the notes that make up the scale within an octave. Inharmonicity affects how you tune the octaves themselves. The reason a simple do
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by derriz 8y ago
At least they acknowledged it, responded to the feedback and fixed it. Unfortunately I have a Sonos system which became effectively bricked unless I signed a new user agreement allowing the collection of data. There are no physical control
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The 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event(en.wikipedia.org)
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by derriz 8y ago
Hickels rebuttal in the letter is that GDP cannot be used to gauge poverty which he claims has only been measured directly by the UN since 1981. But if you look around the world today, GDP/head is a remarkaby strong indicator of the l
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by derriz 8y ago
There's far more romanticizing the past than there is of romanticizing the present. So naturally it presents a better focus for critical examination. If you ask the average person, the majority (in my experience) are far more likely t
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by derriz 8y ago
Indeed - I've been playing piano and guitar (badly) on and off since childhood. I'm surprised I never wondered about this. It also explains why tuning guitars purely by harmonics doesn't "work" - you end up with t
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by derriz 8y ago
The problem is that some of those features - function composition, stream/LINQ type APIs, list comprehensions, etc. - become very difficult to reason about/debug when used with side-effecting code. Yes you get the conciseness but

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