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by derriz 2y ago
Now that's a great pulpy bestseller. It doesn't commit Dan Brown levels of atrocities on the English language but doesn't at all use a literary style - it's designed for low-effort reading. The biggest redeeming featur
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> Dogs literally evolved a muscle to make them more appealing to (and help them communicate with) humans [1]. This scene from an 1953 Tom and Jerry of Spike teaching Tyke what it means to be a dog seems prescient: https://yout
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The US isn't the only possible model for states to cooperate as part of a larger entity. There are many examples of federations with little fiscal transfers - which are also highly successful - Switzerland is an extreme example.
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There isn't a simple functional causal relationship between interest rates, inflation and currency rates. And in fact, I think you have it exactly backwards in this case. Many countries have dollarized their economies - replacing a loc
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by derriz 2y ago
Yes it's a thing - a worse than useless thing. A wafer thin wrapper around an array of bytes using null termination - a model of "strings" which is effectively a computer technology fossil - nearly 60 years old at this stage.
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by derriz 2y ago
I was C++ dev for 5 or 6 years, up to the late 2000s. I got another C++ job about 3 years ago but bailed after about a year. I could write a tome about what I dislike but to start with, any language that lacks a working standard built-in st
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by derriz 2y ago
I'm pretty sure all gambling winnings are tax free in the UK? Thank the power of the horse racing/gaming/gambling lobby. Many years ago when I lived there, I had an IG Index account - who market themselves as a "financia
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Yep! It’s far more logical. This chord blends major and minor so the obvious way to indicate this is by adding a flattened 3rd.
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by derriz 2y ago
I disagree - I do not want to involve execution to interpret the contents of a config file. I at least want to be able to trivially determine if two config components are equal by simple visual inspection.
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I wish they had provided an actual explanation of what exactly was happening and skipped all the “color” in the story. By filename do they mean path? Or is it that git will just pick any file with a matching name to generate a diff? Is the
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by derriz 2y ago
Your tone is overly aggressive. And I don't know how I can be clearer than in the comment you are replying to: "My point was that it reasonable to be reluctant to spend $200 to $250 to replace a small component of a device that is
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by derriz 2y ago
Yes the conclusion sounds like the authors have bent some statistics to support their theory. I fly frequently and have occasionally felt these feelings of anger but NEVER have I started actual boarding in a good mood only for my mood to so
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by derriz 2y ago
I don't understand your point, to be honest. My point was that it reasonable to be reluctant to spend $200 to $250 to replace a small component of a device that is only worth $300. This was in response to someone who claimed the OP sho
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by derriz 2y ago
Yeah but you can pick one up for a fraction of that these days - here's one for €350[0] and given the typical difference between Europe and the US for used gear, you could probably pick one up for under $300 in the US. [0] https:&#x2F
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A first cousin of mine found a (adult) daughter he didn’t know he had through it. They are in the process of building a relationship. It was a significant/important discovery for them even without having a prior relationship.
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For a specific example of where choosing a name ("branch") which obfuscates the fact that you are actually manipulating a pointer, maybe consider what it means to delete a branch? Or create one for that matter. Same in general pr
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It's more than an implementation detail. Without changing the DAG, I can arbitrarily move "main" to point at any commit I like in git. This isn't some esoteric action - this is done constantly as part of normal git work
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I dunno - for me git doesn't really have branches. What it calls "branches" could more accurately be called version/commit pointers. A "branch" traditionally in SCM was a sequence of versions/commits. In
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> People attach value to authenticity and originals and tradition, however they define that. That (some) people might attach (some) value to those attributes does not guarantee that the monetary value will be preserved. Pre-20th century
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by derriz 2y ago
A good point. Depending on the latitude/weather/etc, the difference between winter PV production can see a reduction of between 40% and 85% compared to summer output (sampling from [0]). Panel prices have dropped so much, it'
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by derriz 2y ago
Nah. Japanese global cultural impact probably peaked in the 1980s or early 1990s. To the extent that it was "common knowledge" at the time that Japan would become the dominant global power. Particularly for young people - Japane
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by derriz 2y ago
The link provides 2022 imports and exports at the top of the page but if you scroll down includes balances going back to 1995. 2022 is not an outlier in this regard - on an aggregate basis Germany has been the biggest net exporter of electr
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Sorry, my mistake. My claim was based on averaging over the time-series - so the average wholesale prices since 2015 and not just the prices for 2024. Over the extended period, French wholesale prices have been 12% higher on average than th
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Germany has been the biggest exporter of electricity in the world for 8 of the last 10 years[0]. It consistently generates more than it consumes. It's been this way since around 2004. German wholesale electricity prices are relativel
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Why not in the other direction? If NonEmptyList inherits from List, then head (and tail) would be methods of NonEmptyList but not of List.
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Every language should just copy Joda time's API. It nailed it.
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I did some contracting for a retail bank a good while back and the COBOL source for the term deposit interest calculation routine had been lost a few decades earlier but was still in use. I suggested a rewrite but there was no enthusiasm&#
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That's why I deliberately described the pip/venv solution as a "de-facto" standard. Is Python perfect in this regard? Absolutely not but the situation is FAR less painful than it was 10 years ago. The original comment
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Sure but that's not going to work across platforms, right? So not really an apples to apples comparison.
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At least for Python dependency management, I'd hardly call it a mess these days and yes it was a horrible 10 years ago. The de-facto standard of venv and pip (using a requirements.txt file) is generally painless these days. To the ex

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