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by ihumanable 6mo ago
I find this graphic a good one https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-pric... Obviously it's partial (or else there would be a billion lines) but it gives a good broad view of what things have gotten m
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by ihumanable 6mo ago
> Several large tuna species and sharks, known as “mesothermic” species for the way their bodies run hot, require more fuel to maintain their temperature and are thus confronting a “double jeopardy” of warming oceans and declining food,
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by ihumanable 6mo ago
The graph shows both public and private expenditure. If you only consider the public per-capita expenditure it's more than every other nation on the graphs public + private per-capita spending.
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by ihumanable 7mo ago
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-... The terminology is used to talk about languages that have async and sync functions where you declare (or color) the function as either async or
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by ihumanable 7mo ago
In the author's own analogy of blacksmithing and metallurgy, I see an interesting parallel. Humans worked metal for a long time and you can make better and better forges without knowing the metallurgy of why the result is better. If I
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by ihumanable 7mo ago
Same. I remember when this first came up and I was like "this is so weirdly interesting." Sad that they got acquired because it was just fascinating what they were doing, even if I was never going to use it.
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by ihumanable 8mo ago
Just to emphasize this as someone that's worked in Elixir professionally for a decade now. It really is that easy. The interoperability between Erlang and Elixir is fantastic and the communities get along well. There has been a long
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by ihumanable 8mo ago
I don't think it's a joke, it's the server that github runs on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn_(web_server)
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by ihumanable 11mo ago
Waiting for your child to come home from a particularly difficult day of kindergarten "He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'ro
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by ihumanable 11mo ago
It's the same thing they tried to sell with low/no-code. The problem is that the engineer turning what you want into code isn't normally the bottleneck. I would say about 50% of my job is helping people specify what they wan
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by ihumanable 11mo ago
I'm holding out hope for https://www.slate.auto/en I know it's somehow associated with Amazon, is it going to be a cloud-connected privacy nightmare. I haven't heard anything about it, but I also wouldn&#x27
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by ihumanable 1y ago
I'm surprised it doesn't just have physical connection to the little stand it's sitting on. 30 years ago we figured out how to contact charge cordless phones with metal pads and prongs.
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by ihumanable 1y ago
Until you have a cheap and effective robot butler. I also used to hate folding clothes, and then I got one of those folding boards that you see sometimes at clothing stores. (One of these things https://www.walmart.com/ip&#
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by ihumanable 1y ago
They've got an hour long video of it sorting packages if you want a longer clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkc2y0yb89U They've shown the "putting dishes in the dishwasher" bit before, it seems to be
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by ihumanable 1y ago
There used to be some automated systems that would detect curse words and escalate you. It seems to work less these days, but in the past I would get a robot voice on the other end and just calmly start going “piss shit fuck damn ass” and i
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by ihumanable 1y ago
A lot of what Marx writes is pretty straightforward observations about how capitalism functions. If profit isn’t the excess value of labor then where does it come from. You’ve got some inputs, you transform them into some outputs, you sell
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by ihumanable 2y ago
They aren't ineffective so much as the thing they are attempting to do is not what they say. The democratic party is controlled opposition. Democrats, like Republicans, take in a ton of money from the donor class. America is a capital
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by ihumanable 2y ago
Ah yes, when that famous Democrat, Richard Nixon, put together the EPA in his dastardly leftist plot to destroy America.
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by ihumanable 2y ago
People like Musk dislike the government because people have a say. That say is imperfect and often corrupted, but people get to have some amount of input. They can vote, and organize, and they could decide that they'd rather have roa
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by ihumanable 2y ago
The handmaid's tale is a book, a work of fiction about politics. Many works of fiction provide political commentary. There's no actual invisible hand of the free market either, just some pop-culture metaphor by some Scottish guy.
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by ihumanable 2y ago
Did you know that someone can tell lots of lies all the time. Telling a lot of lies all the time would look identical to transparency. Hell even just talking a lot about things that are true but are not at all important or your priorities
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by ihumanable 2y ago
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-cool-cam
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by ihumanable 2y ago
One of the best things I've learned is that you can go into your watch history and remove something and that seems to work pretty well to fixing the algorithm after clicking on something and realizing it's garbage.
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by ihumanable 2y ago
I enjoy the occasional true crime documentary. It's been amazing to watch YouTube demonetization just drive censorship to an absurd degree. No blood, no violence, no bad words. And the words YouTube deems bad are somehow much stricte
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by ihumanable 2y ago
You might notice the very top of the file that skips it unless docs are being generated. Or the fact that every function is completely empty. It’s a module that exists solely for generating documentation.
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by ihumanable 2y ago
Yea, the physical key is, to me at least, one of the top human inventions. Ubiquitous, cheap, convenient, and provides sufficient security. My little brass key never needs charging, never refuses to open the door because I didn't appl
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by ihumanable 2y ago
I agree with this, especially when you consider that it is us, the taxpayer that is largely subsidizing musk to build out this toll booth. It is not crazy to believe that in the medium term that SpaceX will be one of the only viable ways fo
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by ihumanable 2y ago
Sideshows are the dumbest thing. I live in an area where people do sideshows. Midnight, a dozen or so cars and then a hundred or more random people will show up and make a racket squealing around. More than once they’ve crashed and cause
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by ihumanable 2y ago
I wrote sorted_set_nif, the lack of activity isn’t a lack of care about the library but more just a reflection that the library is done. With data structures that have some definite behavior unless someone finds a defect there isn’t going t
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by ihumanable 2y ago
For anyone mystified about what a NIF is that doesn't want to go read the docs. The BEAM VM (which is the thing that runs erlang / elixir / gleam / etc) has 3 flavors of functions. - BIFs - Built-in functions, these are

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