greydius

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by greydius 3y ago
Protip: Delaware has no sales tax.
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by greydius 4y ago
I first read Harrison Bergeron in 9th or 10th grade.... In a class for gifted kids.
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by greydius 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtTi_uyYynA
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by greydius 4y ago
sin(x)/x
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by greydius 4y ago
Half the games are below the median.
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by greydius 5y ago
> the Japanese used ivermectin to treat COVID This is not true. https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-japan-ivermectinan...
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by greydius 5y ago
What are inadequacies of neoliberal policies?
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by greydius 5y ago
War is extremely profitable.
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by greydius 5y ago
I interviewed at a startup years ago that did a similar thing. They set up a half-ass web site to screen candidates with their hastily implemented lisp. I easily did all the screening questions and also wrote a detailed critique of their la
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by greydius 5y ago
> toAdditive ((toMultiplicative a) <> (toMultiplicative x)) <> toAdditive b > This is of course an insane way to program If you have a set with two binary operations, then a monoid isn't the correct abstraction. How w
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by greydius 5y ago
Health insurance
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by greydius 5y ago
> Multiple monitors, high res monitors, printers, gaming and Bluetooth come to mind. I'm running Ubuntu with two 4k monitors, an HP printer, and a bluetooth mouse. All of this works perfectly without any fiddling. I've also pla
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by greydius 5y ago
Citations needed
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by greydius 5y ago
Subject of a cool song by The Claypool Lennon Delirium https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOHiGonWwU
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by greydius 5y ago
I wonder if he ever heard of Henrietta Lacks.
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by greydius 5y ago
> one can pop in after 20 years and nothing has changed 20 years ago Clojure didn't exist and Ruby was practically unknown outside of Japan
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by greydius 5y ago
Frank Zappa was smarter than everyone at that table.
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by greydius 5y ago
Being a monopoly is never an inherent disadvantage. The only threats to a monopoly are government intervention and poor management.
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by greydius 5y ago
I think the reason this word choice is divisive is that male/female refer to biological sex, whereas man/woman refer to gender roles. A large segment of society recognizes that gender is something people are free to choose.
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by greydius 5y ago
- building and maintaing roads is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices. - building and maintaing roads expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage. - Expanding government programs
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by greydius 5y ago
Of course. But if you see something that none of the people around you see, then you might want to question your own sensor or signal processor.
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by greydius 5y ago
> reliable encounters with one sensor There's no such thing. An anomaly that doesn't appear on multiple sensors is a defect with your sensor.
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by greydius 5y ago
Hard choice indeed
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by greydius 5y ago
> "[verb] the [noun]" is pretty natural For an English speaker. There are many human languages that put the verb at the end of clauses. Japanese is one example.
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by greydius 5y ago
Noone needs a fancy car. Noone = zero people.
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by greydius 5y ago
I'm leaving next month.
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by greydius 6y ago
> all the common culprits for memory bugs in C would be the code marked unsafe if rewritten in rust You've answered your own question.
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by greydius 6y ago
Camel is rakuda. Raku means easy, comfortable, without trouble, etc.
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by greydius 6y ago
There is no correct way to turn "1 cup flour" into a mass. For one thing, you can fit more into the same volume by compressing. But more importantly, the material is ambiguous. There are many different kinds of flour with varying
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by greydius 6y ago
It's unfortunate that so many people in the software profession have a negative attitude towards these concepts. Despite its unfortunately alien name, monad is a great abstraction for patterns that come up often in this field. > So

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