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by ergl 3y ago
> El Toro — the Spanish word for "lawnmower" Not even close!
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The East Coast Is Sinking(nytimes.com)
3 points by ergl 3y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 3y ago
I mean everyone dies and yet life insurance is a thing
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by ergl 3y ago
Self-checkout machines in supermarkets are famously shit and generally require customers to perform extra work, and yet they are preferred by shops because they can pay one employee to manage 10 machines instead of having 10 employees
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by ergl 3y ago
TFA recognizes Abiy's personal ambition with regards to this issue in the final section.
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by ergl 3y ago
This could be good, but as always the second-order ramifications could be troublesome (only big agricultural business would be able to afford to have crops, etc, etc). "Cadillac Desert" is a good read to see how bonkers the water
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by ergl 3y ago
The rules are quite loose: as long as you make your content available in catalan, they'll be happy to have your site hosted in the TLD
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by ergl 3y ago
https://http.cat/ is another good one
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by ergl 3y ago
Luckily Communications will remain being printed: > The magazines Communications of the ACM, ACM InRoads, interactions, and XRDS: Crossroads will continue in print.
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by ergl 3y ago
As someone from Europe, I can't understand the inability of mainstream US culture and media to disentangle marriage from long term stable relationships. Take this paragraph from the article: > More women are deciding to have childre
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by ergl 3y ago
If you click "Get access" on their main page it says: > It seamlessly integrates with your existing database, saving you from complicated setup procedures. So maybe their advantage over Materialize is that this can work on top
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by ergl 3y ago
You might have aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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by ergl 3y ago
There's nothing inherently slow about the way you structure a program in Erlang. Most of the problems come from copying values around when sending them across processes.
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by ergl 3y ago
> It would be like a report that says "25% of financial crime in the US comes from New York City" Boy do I have the project for you: https://thenewinquiry.com/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/
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An Inside Look at Ditto's Delta State CRDTs(ditto.live)
4 points by ergl 3y ago|0 comments
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by ergl 3y ago
Amending my own parent comment, since it won't let me edit: I was wrong about this being standard in Paxos/Raft etc. They actually require "f failures with 2f+1 replicas" (meaning that at a minimum a strict majority of r
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by ergl 3y ago
You're right, I misspoke in my original comment. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560124 What usually happens is that a leader won't confirm an operation as successful until such operation has been appli
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by ergl 3y ago
"f failures with f+1 replicas" is the standard for all non-byzantine fault tolerant systems out there. You will find it in Paxos, Raft, Viewstamped Replication, etc. It makes sense if you think about it: these systems follow a lea
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by ergl 3y ago
Psychology and psychiatry are worlds apart and I think you're confusing one with the other. Psychiatry fits within what you described: individualized treatment, medication, etc. It's a branch of medicine after all, and it fits wit
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by ergl 3y ago
The URL is different, so it probably slipped under the dupe radar
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by ergl 3y ago
There's a great scene in Wender's Tokyo Ga about fake food: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ayCKSFU8-mE
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by ergl 3y ago
> Indeed, one of the American Revolution’s complaints was that London was too protective of Native American rights, and was limiting its colonies expansion into Native American territories. I've never heard of this. Do you have some
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by ergl 3y ago
Researches used to have secretaries that helped with the extra work. Who, apart from very high level executives, have secretaries any more?
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by ergl 3y ago
This article would improve by linking to what Zed is supposed to be: https://zed.brimdata.io/docs
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by ergl 3y ago
There are cinemas like this out there, but they might not advertise well. I know in my city there are two small (state or city owned) cinemas that only show old (anything from 1920 onwards) or rare movies.
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by ergl 4y ago
Not every country celebrates All Fools' Day on April 1st
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by ergl 4y ago
Both answers are wrong though?
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by ergl 4y ago
The project is definitely not dead! Right now it is entirely volunteer-driven, so the amount of work being done depends on the amount of work put in by the overall community. Feel free to drop by our Zulip to catch up on the latest developm
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by ergl 4y ago
The text of a story always shows up a bit dimmed, similar to downvoted comments, but the similarity is only aesthetic.
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by ergl 4y ago
You can actually use connect(2) for UDP. From the manual https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/connect.2.html : > If the socket sockfd is of type SOCK_DGRAM, then addr is the address to which datagrams are

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