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by idoubtit 8y ago
Italo Calvino is a likable person, and I'm glad he wrote one of my personal classics: "Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore" is an extraordinary book. I've also enjoyed most of his works, especially "Le città
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by idoubtit 8y ago
> Two or three lines gives you about 80% of the value in any ORM and avoids the -20% value found in the other 100k LOC. I have a hard time believing this when the two lines above are obviously wrong. You can't use :column to escape
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Debian's package amd64-microcode contains the non-free AMD CPU firmware with its license. Extract from /usr/share/doc/amd64-microcode/copyright: > If You redistribute this Software, You must reproduce the ab
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by idoubtit 8y ago
O solitude, my sweetest choice. Places devoted to the night, remote from tumult and from noise, how ye my restless thoughts delight! This wonderful song was composed by Purcell on a translation of a French poem which was popular across all
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by idoubtit 8y ago
You can use mithril.js without m.request, but then you have to dispatch redraw events when you finished handling the request[^1]. It also provides a promise API for web requests in old browsers, i.e. without fetch(). If I choose not to use
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I've read the draft[^1] of the article, and I'm not convinced. The hypothesis is simple : less rain in Germania caused more Germanic raids on the Empire Empire, which caused political instability, which caused imperators' ass
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by idoubtit 8y ago
I think the "scientific consensus" you describe never existed. I am no specialist myself, but I remember reading a long article about Easter Island, signed by several archaeologists. They were really annoyed by the charismatic peo
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Gide was communist for about 5 years, and when he discovered what life in the USSR really was, he wrote a pamphlet that caused him many troubles with his former friends. Anyway, I recommend "Les faux-monnayeurs" if you can forget
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by idoubtit 8y ago
Of course antisemitism didn't magically disappear after the war, but I don't think that's relevant, because it had disappeared from the main media and the intellectual circles. Even when Poujade and Le Pen briefly gave antise
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by idoubtit 8y ago
> In the past decade, his reputation has shown signs of renewed vigour. I haven't seen anything like this "renewed vigour" in France. There was a TV documentary and an exposition in Paris for the 30th anniversary of its de
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by idoubtit 9y ago
> US crash rates are lower than worldwide rates, so Tesla’s estimate of lives saved worldwide is low. Road fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants per year (2013, WHO): UK 2.9 Spain 3.7 Germany 4.3 France 5.1 USA
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by idoubtit 9y ago
What other word would be more appropriate? The GO suggested "Arakan people", but that would imply that Rohingya are not inhabitants of Arakan, which would be plainly wrong and politically biased. For the same reason "Arakanes
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by idoubtit 9y ago
Being skeptical is a good attitude. I'm very skeptical of this Eldorado that some posters see in PHP7. My experience is quite different. > Additionally PHP has an amazing performance debugger by FB called xhprof. xhprof is unmaintai
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by idoubtit 9y ago
> It's made by French! /joking I did not understand the joke. I suppose it goes with the view that outside the USA there are no good software developers, well, because these are all second-class countries. My friends (most of t
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by idoubtit 9y ago
> they'll be used against the Houthi forces (and whichever civilians have not been able to evacuate certain conflict areas) This is what the Saudi side claims, but when an independent survey analyzed 8600 bombings, they found that 3
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by idoubtit 9y ago
This is funny to read, but please take it with a grain of salt. For instance, medievalist.net's story of Leo's murder is based on a single source, John Skylitzes, who lived more than two centuries after the events (circa 1040-1100