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by earthboundkid 2y ago
I have run a news website since 2019. Every hour, I have a crawler look for dead links. I replace about one link a day with a link to archive.org. The funniest ones are the day after an election when all the candidate websites go blank. The
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
The medieval cathedrals of Europe are known to have been built without slave labor because slavery wasn't practiced in Europe at that time, but they were built by serfs, which is not totally dissimilar. It's hard to describe past
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Seriously, take this picture[1] label the Dinoco car "C++", Rust-eze "Rust", and Hostile Takeover Bank "Go". Done! [1] https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none&#x2F
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Why would you label the Rust-eze car "C++"?
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Here is the Godbolt. My assembly is weak, but AFAICT, it does not shortcircuit. https://godbolt.org/z/4z4Tr9Gjv
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
I think it would be better if Go had nilptr for pointer types and "nil" only applied to interface types. That would fix the problem of "why did I return nilptr but the value != nil?" But Go should also have a named zero
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Fortunately, we have a chatbot that can simulate him perfectly: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/GPT-3-Den...
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/eportfolio/Nature%20of%20...
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Modi is out of control.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
You take that hex and turn it into Crockford32 and it says eatmefatass00.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
I like Crockford 32. It has more letters than hex, but is resistant to swear words. https://www.crockford.com/base32.html
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Dale Beran's It Came From Something Awful is a good history of the evolution of the scene from edgelords to alt right.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Exactly! Thank you for giving a good explanation of why this whole post is founded on a fundamental misunderstanding.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
> It's not a myth, as anyone living in Japan knows I lived in Japan. It is a myth. :-¥
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
This isn’t an encoding problem. It’s a search problem.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Can we please talk about Unicode without the myth of Han Unification being bad somehow? The problem here is exactly the lack of unification in Roman alphabets!
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
This was great, but you should have started the comment with "I'm D. Richard Hipp. You know nothing of my work."
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My Robotic Doppelganger Is the Grim Face of Journalism's Future(foreverwars.ghost.io)
4 points by earthboundkid 3y ago|0 comments
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If you don't own the product, the product owns you(letsdebug.it)
1 points by earthboundkid 3y ago|1 comments
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
The perfect project name doesn't exi…
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
The sync.Once should be sync.OnceValues instead.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
The validator should return map[string][]string so that a request can have multiple problems with one field.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Most American university instructors are adjuncts. Yes, any welder would easily earn more than let’s say 85% of instructors.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
I dunno, ISTM it's like complaining that "0" != 0 in Go (it does in weakly typed languages like JS). A nil pointer and a nil interface are different types, and Go lets you call methods on nil pointers, so it would be weird if
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Yes, single origin beans from different countries taste different. Colombia is really sharp. Kenyan is more complex. Honduras has a good balance. Ethiopian has a couple of sub-varieties that taste very different from each other. Overall, Et
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Hierarchy established.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
> “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margret Atwood > The quote is usually presented as inherently true, capturing the asymmetrical nature of the neverending war between the sexes
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Capitalism and Cozy Games(blog.glyph.im)
58 points by earthboundkid 3y ago|90 comments
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
Do you want The This by Adam Roberts? Because this is how you get The This.
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by earthboundkid 3y ago
As Heidegger once said, "Get out of bed Hannah, quick, my wife is coming over!"

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