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by fsloth 3y ago
These were my first encounters with the stories first hand, and loved them. I suppose it’s a matter of taste. We’ve never been through classic texts at school, I think it’s a cultural thing if they are fundamental enough to be taught at sch
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by fsloth 3y ago
Oh, brilliant, I definetly need to get a hold of Logues translation. Thanks!
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I can warmly recommend the new Iliad translation by Caroline Alexander as audiobook. Suberb! I understand the new translation by Emily Wilson (whose Odyssey was excellent) should be good as well. The new translations really bring these old
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by fsloth 3y ago
Not an issue with F#. It’s trivial to exit ’purely functional’ domain, write it like ’pythonic C#’ and still end up with a program that is correct out-of-the-box.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yeah, it’s the ecosystem, not the paradigm. In .net, most UI stuff is easy on C# and semi-painfull on F# because of limited tooling and examples. I don’t see any theoretical reason why a usable functional language could not be used everywhe
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by fsloth 3y ago
Mutation is fine in pragmatic functional programming and IMO is not the defining feature what makes it so good for industrial use cases. Functional programming must allow easy immutable programs, and you can do that in SQL by never erasin
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I don't think eating out is an option for the demographic of this cookbook as a startegy for acquiring daily sustenance.
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by fsloth 3y ago
"Deeper nerd-cut, it's a 40K prequel, if only unofficially." Yup. Horrors of the warp could hardly be better brought to cinematic form. The actors are surprising high profile as well. An excellent "B" movie that own
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Quite many countries limit the supply of doctors with less expensive health schemes.
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Autodesk is huge in ’visual’ pipelines that are not directly related to engineering. Maya etc. This is very litle about manufacturing, except you can of course always convert a model to 3D mesh for visualization etc. That is quite common, a
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by fsloth 3y ago
The whole point of public astrology is to make statements that are general and harmless. Genericity means people patternmatch the advice to their daily experience often enough to feel the advice was indeed meant to them. ”Your week starts y
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by fsloth 3y ago
“I'm not aware of any software which directly helps with that, unfortunately.” If the API surface is not too large that’s one of the things ChatGPT is usually competent enough to ‘type out’ for you most of the way (delta some errors).
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by fsloth 3y ago
NATO is not an anti-Russian league. Russia has nukes to protect its sovereignty. It has absolutely nothing to fear from NATO. What Russia does not like, is to be denied the capability to invade and threaten it's neighbours (because the
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by fsloth 3y ago
Russian state makes publicly whatever statements they feel are judicious. Don't trust anything the Kremlin says. Note they accepted Finlands entry to NATO alliance without so much as a whimper. While complete calculus behind the reason
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by fsloth 3y ago
Neither was this war about NATO. NATO was an excuse. The war in ukraine is colonial and genocidal war with the intent of eradicating Ukrainian language and statehood and subvert the fee will of Ukrainian people under Russian yoke.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Modded down for a good reason. 1. The client states weren't client states. They were de-facto annexed polities with centuries of distinct characteristics. After Soviet Union fell these countries could resume their legitimate existence.
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I would guess the F-16 fleet is easier to quickly expand than one based on Gripens as the supply of F-16:s is larger. Also creates a direct link to US military industrial complex which will help with US support in coming years (good busines
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Yeah, human craftmanship can reach really, really complex heights. I guess industrialization has made lot of people oblivious to this fact.
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That’s basically a ”rapture” hypothesis. ”We can’t see them because of ancient technobabble sciencemagic lifted them to another realm”. In otherwords this is a supernatural, not natural hypothesis. In other words, that’s more of a religiou
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A slightly different thing - Visual Studio allows you to create custom visualizations for any live debug data. This is absolutely wonderful.
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by fsloth 3y ago
The fact C++ has so many ways of defining things is not the reason it's so popular. The reason is the enormous industry investment on the language tooling and ecosystem. IMO the language itself is the worst part of the ecosystem, but t
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The majority of time in professional codebases is not spent on typing but reading and understanding code. "saves a bunch of time and makes code way more readable" Not when everybody defines their own operators. Note - we are discu
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Having operators defined for value types within the langauge spec is different thing than defining operator overloading for arbitrary struct and class types. For numeric value types mathematical operators are the only sane option. For arbit
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That't literally the only place where operator overloading makes any sense. In other places they monkey patch c++ defincies as a language. And they are confusing and error prone. Nobody is pretending we will get rid of any c++ syntax e
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Bagwell’s HAMT paper is one of my favourite data structure papers! Thanks for sharing! In case this is unfamiliar topic - immutable value based programming is super cool because it simplifies the cognitive load of reasoning about your prog
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The Economist holds to it's guns, until it's proven 100% the other side of the argument in fact is correct. After which they change tack. It's not only value but ALSO data driven publication. Although it's in some positi
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I don’t see the API claiming to be a standards compliant GLTF renderer, and I would be very confused if it did claim something like that as it’s feature. That said a ’render GLTF PBR’ sample would not be a bad thing to show the authors inte
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"Just based on the screenshot, I am not sure that I would even bother to dig too deeply into the library." Adding any PBR materials as samples would have been the wrong choice, since those are not hardware or graphics api depend
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The problem was they sold tourist trips in this deathtrap. Sure, do whatever you want by yourself, if it hurts only you. Selling this as a product, by tapping into the existing market for adventure tourism was borderline evil. The differenc
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As a funny anecdote engineering students placed a modern miniature statue on the ships deck as a prank just before it was raised ( in Finnish but translation tools help https://fi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa-jäynä )

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