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by gary_0 2y ago
> What happened to all the grumpy computer nerds that basically hate people and/or can barely talk to another human? We're sure as hell not working in Silicon Valley. It's Extrovert Central down there. It's like the g
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I've never bothered with WSL because MSYS2 has always suited my needs. It did have a bit of a learning curve when I first started using it, although I think the documentation has improved since then. (However I do dislike the obscure `
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It's really more about totalitarianism, regardless of flavor. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory I also didn't mention the less "artsy" academic disciplines that might get you
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The scorpion assures the frog that it takes the issue of amphibians being stung to death very seriously.
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> If they don’t produce them at that price point, you let China and BYD steamroll them The problem is that they've already proven themselves unable or unwilling to produce affordable EVs any time this decade, so allowing Chinese com
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Which is far more realistic than defining single-use enums all over the place. I don't know why more languages don't have named parameters...
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Don't forget Microsoft. Windows 11 kernel will soon be booting with Rust inside ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35738829 ) Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code ( https://news.ycomb
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It's hard not to imagine Google giving a little wink as they hand over that check.
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They might already be on the scent: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/05/swedish-c...
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I grepped up some old LINQ code I wrote (sanitized as it's not open source): var list = obj.FindDataNear(a, b...).Select(i => obj.GetPosition(i)) .Where(...long lambda...) .MoreLINQ() .ToList(); So with the
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I noticed the one punycode TLD at the bottom: xn--4gq48lf9j (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc). That decodes to "一号店", which is apparently Chinese for "No.1 Store".
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> code with very horizontal coding styles I'm not sure what you mean. Could you give an example?
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I let it play while I was eating lunch. It's a bit low-brow, but he actually does a good job going over the issues and arriving at a conclusion.
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It takes years just to figure out how to use the machines to produce actual working chips. They're the most specialized, intricate, expensive machines in the world. They're operated in enormous clean rooms that only allow for 1 ha
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I think they mean the general study and refinement of culture and knowledge for its own sake--the kids who go to college/university for language arts, fine art, music, theatre, history, philosophy... these classes are widely attended,
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Institutional knowledge is even actively destroyed. There is only so much you can maintain with written procedure; rather, for all of human history, institutions have mainly relied on the people and culture that make them up. But the &q
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The problem of browser extensions having "too many" capabilities allegedly boils down to some small subset of users stupidly or unluckily installing dodgy extensions and Chrome wanting to prevent this. But people are always going
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This is exactly the complacency that's such a weakness of my country. Canada had one company that made a splash 20 years ago , and that's good enough? I guess it's fine that engineers will virtually never move from the U
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Our universities are decent, I'll give you that. Great for educating folks like Andrej Karpathy so they can go work for American tech companies, or doing research that can be used by American tech companies. Also, bringing up Blackberr
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Someone already mentioned the monopolism/corruption, but Canada also doesn't have much of an engineering/technology culture. Growing up in a BC suburb, it seemed like we were always 5-10 years behind the US on things like hom
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It's also a very bold claim because a warp drive will violate Newton's Laws. ("Technically we're moving space , not the ship itself," you might say, but Nature usually ignores semantic arguments.)
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This article smells off. Unless I missed a breakthrough paper in the last few years, the mass/energy required to move an actual warp vehicle is measured in Jupiters . Given that we're talking about messing with spacetime, there&#
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by gary_0 2y ago
Re: the manual driver updates. Recently I put a clean Win11 install on an ASUS Meteor Lake laptop for someone, and Windows downloaded and installed all the latest drivers automatically (along with a bunch of fresh bloatware, natch). Maybe Q
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And Kotlin and Swift.
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Braces, maybe. But I've always felt that semicolons at the end of lines were just noise. I can tell it's the end of the line because it's the end of the line. The few cases of ambiguity that happen can be solved by common sen
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I have to admit the Emperor parts were a bright side of Foundation , and Lee Pace acts the fuck out of that role. Sadly, even though he was magnificent in The Expanse (and Chernobyl ), it seems like there isn't much Jared Harris ca
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Foundation is why I don't think they'll do Gibson justice. To me, William Gibson is rare among sci-fi writers in that he never spends a paragraph explaining some whiz-bang future tech like a kid with a new toy. He just throws it a
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As a Gibson fan, The Peripheral was a massive disappointment to watch; I felt that it totally failed to capture the stark, grungy (Gibson) vibe of the book and cheapened the source material. Maybe a master like Denis Villeneuve could do
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I just want to pay for things. I'm not interested in spending money I don't have. And credit cards are obviously waiting to pounce on me if I forget to pay the balance, and charge an insane amount of interest. I don't need th
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This is mostly a problem that affects poorer people, I suspect. I know people living paycheck-to-paycheck, who can't leave thousands of dollars lying around in their checking account, who are hesitant to use Interac because of the fees

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