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by dmoy 2y ago
That's a very good point I'm now wondering what the Rust lang equivalent of K&R is, so I can go do that in a more modern context.
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by dmoy 2y ago
I can appreciate art, and play music at a pretty damn good level myself, but still think that John Cage is totally wack. I don't dislike all strange music - Satie and Poulenc are some of my favorites. But a lot of John Cage's stu
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by dmoy 2y ago
People definitely could stand to write a lot more comments in their code. And like... yea, textbook style prose, not just re-stating the code in slightly less logical wording.
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Though I'm not sure who decided the ʻokina needed its own character rather than the traditionally used apostrophe. It's a pain to type without a Hawaiian keyboard. I dunno, the glottal stop sounds pretty different from normal
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by dmoy 2y ago
L4 and L5 are more stable. L2 isn't super stable, hence the need for fuel for station keeping. More polite to vacate on purpose rather than just erratically bounce around a nearby orbit after fuel runs out. Idk if I'd describe a
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by dmoy 2y ago
My kid did the exact same thing with the phrase "be careful!" in the same intonation I used Except in her case it meant "Witness me!!, as I do something exceedingly dangerous!", or alternatively "Look at the afterma
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by dmoy 2y ago
No it's also moy Walker on Patents
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Oh, it got released like 20 years ago, and there's new editions with new volumes every N years, and constant updates to the older material as it goes out of date or needs newer references or whatever. It'll just never be done, it&
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by dmoy 2y ago
My dad has been writing a specific non fiction book since forever (at the very least 25+ years, possibly longer?). It's not exactly the kind that can be finished. If you need to know about that specific topic, there's that one a
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by dmoy 2y ago
> In some ways yes, in some ways no? Yea I agree, and wrote as much (e.g. revolutions) > How do Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, and until recently, Hong Kong fit into your theory? I mean, kinda on a similar level as Yugoslavia, Ukraine, and
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by dmoy 2y ago
Rockets too Can't do that in Kerbal Space Program (at least not without mods), but it works fine in meatspace
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by dmoy 2y ago
I agree with the general premise that China is way more unified than Europe. In some respects, moreso than the US due to the lack of federalism and the 90%+ Han majority. (In others, not, you know, cus of the much more recent revolution-in
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by dmoy 2y ago
Dang this is crazy level of detail > And yet, there is regionality. Jilin - around the city of Changchun - hues to my personal stereotype of ‘Northeastern’ food the closest, with their hearty stews and love of fermented cabbage. Hahah yu
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by dmoy 2y ago
> What does that have to do with US gyms requiring belay tests, which is a bunch of steps that doesn't involve "extensive warning in writing". It lowers insurance bills. If you don't let anyone climb without having d
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by dmoy 2y ago
Yea the best teams I've ever been on have always had someone like Tim. The best best teams I've been on, Tim's helpfulness osmoses onto other people, and instead of Tim always being the one, the process goes like this: 1. D
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by dmoy 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398308
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by dmoy 2y ago
I'm originally from MN but have been using C almost exclusively for the last 10-15 years. Can confirm, -33 is "fuckin' cold" territory either way. Below like -25C it's all the same to me - bundle up as much as hum
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by dmoy 2y ago
It's definitely more porous going out. So yeah, UBI needs to be not so bad that people can do better elsewhere that's easy enough to immigrate into. The same is true of basically any policy though, that's not really a uniqu
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Isn’t the argument UBI will promote growth? Some types of growth, yea that's the theory. But I don't think there's any theory of UBI with freedom of movement between borders where UBI isn't present. If every singl
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by dmoy 2y ago
The fed does have the ability to control monetary policy. This is akin to why some problems in the EU - individual countries gave up monetary policy rights, which means they have to do what Germany wants w.r.t. the euro. They can't co
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by dmoy 2y ago
It's funded by the giant firehose of money from oil It's closer to the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund than anything else
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Detach 401ks from employment and make them like IRAs instead. Cheer as Vanguard drives away the parasites who charge high management fees. It would be pretty awesome if they opened TSP to everyone
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by dmoy 2y ago
If we're being pedantic:. oasdi is extremely regressive (no tax at all above like 2x median household income, vs e.g. income taxes which continue ramping up until closer to 10x median income after becoming flat). Medicare tax is not ca
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by dmoy 2y ago
That doesn't even include dividends. It's more like 166% after dividends But also yes it's too short of an interval for retirement savings
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by dmoy 2y ago
People definitely don't save enough for retirement under the current system. The median household entering retirement right now has like $150k, which translates to very little on top of social security. So now without pensions, peopl
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by dmoy 2y ago
I mean a more straightforward comparison would be that this is a continuation of privatization & deregulation a la Thatcherism/Reaganism or w/e. Thatcherism on ketamine if you will
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Ok that explains a lot about this article
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by dmoy 2y ago
Was author's big tech experience with Amazon? Because Amazon oncall is ... well it's something. But I'm not sure it's really indicative of the rest of big tech oncall.
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I'm assuming the idea would be for the US to threaten mostly unrelated tariffs on some other country if said country doesn't open up for SpaceX. It's not like the US hasn't strong armed stuff in the past (for oil compani
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by dmoy 2y ago
Robert Fisk kept writing and talking about that wrt NYT right after 9/11: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2003/fisk-i-think-...

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