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by foobarian 5mo ago
Now that you mention it, there were also several iterations of the original Glagolitic, the angular being my favorite :-)
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Would you say Rust is more complicated than C++, or just harder to write? I think that complication a la C++ where there are too many features for the language's own good is a different problem than being a clean language but with hig
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by foobarian 5mo ago
It's been pretty great for ramping up into codebases too. "Give me a summary of project in current checkout in markdown form."
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by foobarian 5mo ago
Some of this was a top-down overhaul of the writing system in the 19th century. Before that it was an awful mess and people just "vibe-wrote" the weird Slavic sounds using latin how they saw fit; try reading some old writings from
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by foobarian 5mo ago
The unique quirk with South Slavic languages is the linguistic work e.g. associated with Vuk Karadžić [1] which resulted in a cleaned up purely phonetic alphabet. This was done across the region and ended up getting plumbed through both alp
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by foobarian 5mo ago
> 2. No east-west dithering - PL knew right away to which economic and cultural sphere wanted to belong I wonder how much the Catholic vs. Orthodox background affected things there
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by foobarian 5mo ago
The one thing that brings me back there is their croissants. There are none other like it, and their product is a 12ct pack for a very reasonable price.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
> I'm from a non-English-speaking country. Same, our solution was to pirate Softice, then step through the startup to find the checks and replace them with nops or point at the desired location. Sierra games were not that amenable
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Systemically, the problem is that there needs to be a last person, and yet people leaving expect market value for their homes which normally happens by selling to the next person. The last person can currently only get the money if a disast
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Wow seeing that hit me surprisingly hard. Such good times
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by foobarian 6mo ago
I like to say, AI is the duck programming duck I always wanted
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by foobarian 6mo ago
The most interesting honey I had was "forest honey," which bees don't make from flowers at all.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Heh I thought like you until we had kids. The 6th graders now are all "bro this," "bro that." And it's not even the usual English "bro," it's a slightly Aussified "broah" like it has a weir
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Wow that is a good way to describe it. For me it's constant coffee, or chocolate, or chips.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
> nodes running VMs, huh, but how would bursting work then? Do VMs support it nowadays?
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by foobarian 6mo ago
It's like unit tests and integration tests!
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Not to detract from your point but the Bialettis also let you make a great cafecito
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Yes, on the surface the religion is the textbook antithesis of free thought. And yet I think my friend was getting at something deeper I can't quite pin down easily. Maybe it was just a lucky combination of aristocrat philosophers just
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Wait a minute, if this is on AWS then what are we talking about? On-prem k8s sounds fine to me but you don't have the ECS option.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
That's an interesting take. Many years ago, I was chatting with a coworker who had emigrated from China; we got into topics like these, and something he said stuck with me all these years. He basically lamented that Chinese civilizat
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by foobarian 6mo ago
What if an OEM did the IBM thing and published open specs and software, spawning a whole industry? It's a shame the incentives don't seem to be there for it.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Not JS but I like having explicit return var assignments because it's easier to break on and inspect. I don't know why tools don't make this easier.
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Speaking of missteps, there was a period in late 2010s where MacBook Pros really took a bad turn IMO chasing some "thinness" fetish, but recovered nicely afterwards. My M4 is a glorious device built like a tank
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by foobarian 6mo ago
I wonder who would prosecute them. What about an AG who, when confronted about doing a bad job, deflects by pointing out that Nasdaq is "smashing records?"
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by foobarian 6mo ago
It's worth noting that the common complaint about systems like this, which is that they could cause dangerous conditions during power outages when people expect the power lines to be unpowered, is addressed by electronics that only fee
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by foobarian 6mo ago
You have to just close your eyes and hum a requiem for the glory days. Like I do when questions are begged
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by foobarian 6mo ago
Dams are just too good a source to ban them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medog_Hydropower_Station 60 GW planned capacity!
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by foobarian 6mo ago
And who gets paged when the Claude integration fails?
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by foobarian 6mo ago
At least this site managed to not get shut down because it appears to foster timely communication to cybercriminals :D
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by foobarian 6mo ago
The build quality and least-nonsense OS is why I like it. Huge caveat though, I keep it plugged into a KVM setup so I don't actually use it directly, but I do keep it open on the side of my desk for meetings.

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