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by hguant 7y ago
The various haskell IRC channels are some of the best places to learn and get help/mentoring with that language - so many patient, genuinely helpful people. It's one of those things that made me go "Oh, that's what every
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by hguant 7y ago
>If anything, I'd ask why La Repubblica published a bogus article. Seasons come and go, but click bait is eternal
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by hguant 7y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had at a New Year's party not too long ago - a gentleman I'd never met before and I got to talking, and in the process of getting to know one another (however much you can know someone after 4-5
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by hguant 7y ago
>some futuristic detective that never left the house, instead just solved missing persons cases by analyzing details in photograph Your futuristic detective has the same M.O. as Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's older and reclusive brother
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by hguant 7y ago
TL;DR - implementing parallel code in Python means using multiprocessing as opposed to multithreading, but it depends on if you're CPU bound or I/O bound. The GIL prevents more than one instance of the python interpreter from runn
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by hguant 7y ago
>My biggest takeaway from the article is that you'd have to be an absolute sucker to work in academia given how poorly you'll be treated. Every now and then I get an overwhelming sense of guilt when I talk to/think about m
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by hguant 7y ago
It feels like you're complaining about things in the Rust language without taking the time to understand how the language idioms work. RTFM. Additionally, you're making snarky comments about how you don't like how the base la
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by hguant 7y ago
At higher levels of governance (both corporate and governmental) it's customary to not fire people. The way corporate entities/governments get around this is by asking for some one's resignation, with the implication that if
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by hguant 7y ago
Should go up tbh - they've shown investors that they value shareholder profits/keeping markets open more over all other considerations (fanbase, PR, not being hypocrites, etc).
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by hguant 7y ago
>They recently held a pro LGBT+ event... That was mysteriously absent from their Chinese servers. Activision/Blizzard being hypocrites about their stance on human rights has been around for a while - here's a _long_ forum threa
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by hguant 7y ago
>why is it considered pejorative? There are two aspects to playing a collectable card game[1] - building a deck (done on your own), and 'driving' the deck (playing your deck against other people). They generally correspond to s
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by hguant 7y ago
>(see an aim-9 which is only effective less than 20 nm (really less than that practically speaking) I would really love to see the actual Probability of Kill numbers for the US missile fleet. I know that's never going to happen&#x2F
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by hguant 7y ago
Banana Republic has, in my experience, better quality 'staples' than the GAP. They have excellent sweaters and quarter zips, for example. I have a weird body shape (I look like a Belter) but haven't had any issues finding thi
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by hguant 7y ago
>The New Yorker even fact checks the poetry (seriously!) After the debacle with Lehrer, I'd be amazed if the New Yorker wasn't fact checking everything the print, down to their ad copy.
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by hguant 7y ago
>But the low hanging fruit for me is to try and pressure the people in my neighborhood (either literally or metaphorically) towards better decisions. The problem is that the low hanging fruit in America has been picked 30+ years ago. The
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by hguant 7y ago
If you assume the cable car is moving at a constant 60 miles per hour, about 4 and 1/2 months (138 days). The current fastest elevator in the world (in the Burj Khalifa) moves at 22 mph; taking that up would take you about a year. Howe
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by hguant 7y ago
>Part of me thinks Uber could get away with this if they just relaxed some of their current driver policies (e.g. more limited penalties for cancellations). The issue is whether doing so would drastically deteriorate the quality of the s
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by hguant 7y ago
So, is this all 50 States, plus assorted territories, or a total of 50 States and territories? If the latter, who isn't taking part? The article links to a piece from a week ago saying that half the US State's AGs were taking part
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by hguant 7y ago
>Military/security personnel accepting their own deaths as part of winning is hardly some alien concept. Sure - on paper. The guy in the field sure as hell doesn't accept his own death. _I Don't Want To Die_ is one of the
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by hguant 7y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what Federalism is. FEDERALISM is the decentralization of the state apparatus - the idea that instead of one massive central government, you reserve certain powers to for the individual local or regiona
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by hguant 7y ago
I can see it working both ways - in many cases, I'd like my ambiguity distilled down to one specific point, while the rest of the project deals with lower specific ambiguity (where ambiguity in my mind is equal to "is this thing p
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by hguant 7y ago
Google has long had a policy of 'bringing your whole self to work.' The company actively encourages (or at least, encouraged) its employees to be political, and to be 'true to themselves' in the workplace.
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by hguant 7y ago
I think this request for more mental health support comes from Google's "we're everything to you" policy. Googlers here and elsewhere have compared Google to a college campus in many ways - "you go be smart and do y
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by hguant 7y ago
It's important to note that "moral hazard", while not quite a term of art, has a specific meaning in economics that isn't associated with ethics or morality. The quick google definitions: "a lack of incentive to gua
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by hguant 7y ago
For someone who loves a pun so much, it's hilarious that he never gets that one.
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by hguant 7y ago
For those curious, the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation was a UN convention in 1944 that established the rules of international air travel. One of those rules deals with taxing fuel - see below. Article 24: Aircraft flying
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by hguant 7y ago
If you're interested in Weber, you might find Erich Fromm interesting as well. He studied under Weber's brother in Germany, fled to America during the rise of Nazism, and wrote a monograph for the officials and State Department ty
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by hguant 7y ago
Google also is running (or claims to be running, I don't work at their IT department) an interesting zero-trust-networking setup involving a lot of on the fly certificate generation and revocation, as well as some SDN trickery behind
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by hguant 7y ago
Not sure about the parent comment's stance, but for me, simply because it's "whataboutism" and all it does is distract from the issue at hand.
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by hguant 7y ago
This comment violates the HN guidelines for comments, specifically the first section here: >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. You can find the ful

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