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by dxdm 10mo ago
> A righteous, passionate anger can be indistinguishable from love. ... love can be anger, anger can be love. These are just word games. Blurring and mixing what we mean with different words. To say what? Passion takes different forms an
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by dxdm 10mo ago
You are making the same mistake of conflating competence and (lack of) dedication. Most likely, dedication says little about competence, and vice versa. If you do not want to use the tools available to get something done and rather not do t
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> or to a point in time in a particular physical location But how does this not take the local time zone into account? For "time at location", the local time zone is by necessity always involved in conversions, isn't it? T
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean? I think it's already impossible to accurately turn a future timestamp into a local time, leap seconds or not, because of timezone shenanigans. So I'm probably misunderstanding what you're
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by dxdm 11mo ago
https://news.ysimulator.run/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036908
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> People don't get sarcarm :/ Famously so. If you want to remain unmisunderstood, make sure to use sarcasm. Draw a clear line into the shifting sand while cocking a single eyebrow. It's widely appreciated, it's an art
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Mom, didn't we talk about not posting to hacker news when you're like this?
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by dxdm 11mo ago
3DS is a big deal in Europe, and card payments can be disputed. So I'd argue that credit cards are async, too, at least on some edges that can be expensive to ignore.
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> I’m not sure payments [..] is best modeled as an events-driven domains. But payments are event-driven in reality. Credit card charges can be disputed, some transactions only succeed after a delay, or transactions or refunds you thought
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by dxdm 11mo ago
The article doesn't do a good job of highlighting that there is help beyond medication, and that the personal "size" of the problem should be taken inro account. I mean, "answering 6 questions -> yay, stimulants&quot
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by dxdm 11mo ago
"I didn't want to hurt you, baby, but what can I do? You divorced me, you looked at other men. Your friends poisoned your mind against me. What can a man do in this situation? You see how my hands are tied, and now your hands are
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Maybe I am just in a happy little Python niche, then. I'm saying this in all earnesty. Maybe Python could have been bigger, I don't know. It still seems very present, it did not die, but came out better than before. Given the perf
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by dxdm 11mo ago
(The person I asked originally replied while I was typing the above. Their reply is in a sibling comment to my original question.)
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by dxdm 11mo ago
I'm flattered, but you're only speculating, and at least for me this is not helpful. It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> Problem is. As a European, who created this situation? Russia? Or the US? I'm not going to argue with you about how Russia was forced to invade Ukraine and commit atrocities there or whatever you're hinting at, my dear fellow
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by dxdm 11mo ago
GP is talking about the invasion of Ukraine, taking place just beyond the EU eastern border, and very much shaking up the European security situation, and the EU and its member states are visibly having to "deal with it", diplomat
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by dxdm 11mo ago
I picked up Python around 2.5 and went through the migration to 3. Although it was not smooth and took a while on the whole, it was very painless for me, and in my environment I did not experience it as such a big almost-catastrophe as you
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by dxdm 11mo ago
What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Which Guido van Rossum debacle are you referring to? I can't think of one where he unilaterally caused a mess by dictating a hampered "second system" into life, as your comment seems to imply, but may just me misunderstanding
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Because I had to look it up: a11y = accessibility There's some irony here, I think. =]
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Do you have a link that explains in more detail what was kept away from whom and why? What you wrote is wide open to all kinds of sensational interpretations which are not necessarily true, ir even what you meant to say.
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> It isn't grumpiness. I am allowed to complain I was actually not sure which word to use before: "grumpy" or "complain". I went with the former, because somewhere above, you told somebody off for their innocent
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by dxdm 11mo ago
> I wouldn't even put this in the "somewhat amusing" category. This is really in the 16 pieces of allowed flair category as far as I am concerned. There you are, the perfect quote for you to print out and stick on your lap
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by dxdm 11mo ago
Finding oneself with the need to apologize in advance is an excellent hint to examine extra hard if you really should do what you're apologizing for. Apologizing when necessary is good, not having to apologize is much better. It's
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by dxdm 1y ago
Thanks for supplying the full quote, it really underlines my point, at least I presume to a somewhat switched-on observer.
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by dxdm 1y ago
> There are no substantial technical or usability reasons to switch to JJ from Git and it's impractical for most working programmers to switch. Not in my experience. jj is easy to pick up and a joy to use. I like git. I deeply appre
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by dxdm 1y ago
I think yours a perfectly reasonable stance, and I often feel the same way. And all this complaining about git is getting tiresome, especially if you had to deal with its predecessors. FWIW, I still tried out jj and found it a joy to use. I
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by dxdm 1y ago
Saying "nothing's happened yet" and "it's dumb" is not making this any better, neither the threat, nor the question of trust, which I think we were discussing here. Also, while I don't share your assessmen
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by dxdm 1y ago
> The offer to buy Greenland from Denmark was never a threat. It was an offer. The highest ranking member of the US executive, in a publicly televised speech before Congress, said that "we're going to get Greenland one way or t
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by dxdm 1y ago
> So is gender research or feminist queer dance theory studies a part of basic or applied science? People's ideas about how humans should live together can be beneficial for the wealth and well-being of whole societies and its membe

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