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by golergka 2y ago
What's your opinion on calculators? Update: I meant to compare calculators to something like a slide ruler for logarithms. I'm not from US and I tend to forget that some people use calculators to take 20% of 500.
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by golergka 2y ago
8 billion people growing their own food wouldn't be able to live in our planet even if they had all the necessary skills. Industrial agriculture and related technologies have radically increased the amount of food we can grow compared
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by golergka 2y ago
You would. But your high school wouldn't.
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by golergka 2y ago
Never use SMS for anything other than the automatic notifications, so I really don't care in the first place.
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by golergka 2y ago
Why is there a setting to import all comments from HN, but not all posts?
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by golergka 2y ago
It reads like a good documentation and not a sales pitch, which helps a lot. Also, the design is great too, looking almost as simple and beautiful as c2.com. Both of these give off "made by an engineer for engineers" vibes.
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by golergka 2y ago
The most important thing for a university or a school is it's signalling value for a graduate. If people know that "X graduate" is a mark of a well-educated, smart person, a school will be successful beyond measure. If, howev
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by golergka 2y ago
If you have a single national exam, that all the schools are going to teach is this one exam, an example of horrible overfit. If, however, you have a diverse amount of colleges with different entry exams, then schools will have to teach the
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by golergka 2y ago
“Open” in OpenAI stands for the open door that all leadership and talent is walking out through, I guess.
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by golergka 2y ago
Second this. Would gladly pay a one-time $10, but $20 annually doesn't make any sense for an app like this.
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by golergka 2y ago
As a whole section of tech sector that builds a lot of useful tools and products exclusively on Microsoft stack? I understand that Windows Server, MS SQL Server and ASP .Net folks are less represented in the HN crowd, but pretending that mo
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by golergka 2y ago
Having lived in a country where only lucky few had personal cars, I would not agree at all. Social fabric of a society where people can expect some privacy and personal autonomy in their commute is certainly a better one.
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by golergka 2y ago
How about just raising prices and using extra revenue to expand production? This is what any business would do.
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by golergka 2y ago
It means that prior to parsing JSON, parser is given exact path (or paths, or wildcards) it must retrieve, and then it will scan the string in one forward path with minimum possible allocations. It's for cases where you, for some reaso
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by golergka 2y ago
YOLO is a millenial thing.
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Wow, I was just looking how to benchmark a streaming JSON parser that I'm working on! I'm creating it specifically for performance-intensive situations with JSON strings sizes up to gigabytes, and I thought that I had to implement
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by golergka 2y ago
> It's true that there've always been some Jews living continuously in Palestine, but for centuries they were essentially a bottleneck community, and over time (especially after the Alhambra Decree in 1492, but starting well be
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by golergka 2y ago
> They just went to war against their new neighbors Arabs have been massacring Jews living in the region for hundreds of years. Arabs started widespread pogroms in 20s and 30s. Arabs have rejected partition plans. Arab states invaded Isr
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by golergka 2y ago
This is weird — I agree with you completely. I'm sorry if my characterisation came off as something unique and unprecedented, this is really not my intent here. On the contrary, my point is that this is exactly what different ethnical
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by golergka 2y ago
First of all — really enjoy this argument. > they weren't invited by the folks living in the place they wished to settle This is false for several reasons. Places that jewish settlers have chosen have mostly been uninhabited and the
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by golergka 2y ago
https://github.com/golergka/golergka/blob/main/israeli-pager... The difference is: 1. Who is targeted 2. Objective of the attack 3. Value of military objective compared to expected collateral damage In o
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by golergka 2y ago
> Nobody told Israel they had to be in the desert, their barbaric and outdated religion told them to go there. First of all, most of the new jewish settlements in the beginning of 20th centuries were in the coastal swamps, not in the des
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by golergka 2y ago
> The population there has been the victims of genocides for the sake of freeing area for Israel since more than half a century before Israel was even created. Were the massacres of native jewish populations also done for the sake of fre
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by golergka 2y ago
This attack has nothing to do with terrorism. I've grown tired of seeing this claim again and again, and wrote everything up here if you're interested. https://github.com/golergka/golergka/blob/main&
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by golergka 2y ago
I recently learned to ride with a stick, on a trip with my girlfriend and her dad. My gf just told me what to do, when to press the clutch and when to let go of it. This didn't help me at all; I didn't understand the nuances of wh
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by golergka 2y ago
> The reason we have laws is to facilitate corruption? That seems like something we ought not to want. No, the reason we have laws is because politics and corruption and crime is intristic to society. They are the reality of human condit
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by golergka 2y ago
> they say bans never work and only make the problem worse or introduce new problems No, that's not what we say. The primary argument for it is because we do not subscribe to a utilitarian morality. If we know that some decision lea
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by golergka 2y ago
"Politics and corruption" is exactly what is complex about society, and it is absolutely intristic to society. That's why we have laws in the first place. > because the public wouldn't support many things in the statu
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by golergka 2y ago
You have to consider that eating meat or not is not matter of life and death for an animal. It's a matter of either living and then being killed, or not being born at all. When people don't eat meat, farmers don't breed the a
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by golergka 2y ago
Could an ancient civilisation have their own Burning Man?

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