isitmadeofglass

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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> It is not possible for a from zero beginner to read ordinary Python code with decorators, generators or what not and understand it. Having taught beginners both python and other languages, I’d say it’s significantly easier to teach dec
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Things being what they are, gitea is essentially the form, and this is the continuation of the existing open source model. Gitea(Tm) is trying to fragment the community by creating a company, but this fork is just about building a great ope
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Can’t wait for the final episode in the FTX serious where out of nowhere SBF suddenly stabs Carolina Ellison and her pet iguana decides to take out its rage by destroying her office chair.
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> there is a paranoid subculture that assumes every donation brings legislative power And there is a certain class of people so naive that they think any individual would give hundreds of millions to a politician with nothing but just go
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that it’s a coincedence and not deliberate action on the side of Lewis? It’s not like there has been a shortage of people being perplexed by FTX/Alameda’s ability to seemingly print money, and it’s not like
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
I hope they ditch any attempt at making it serious or realistic. Just have it Silicon Valley style and every episode starts with some wacky attempt at making a big scoring trade which ultimately fails and the episode ends with someone going
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> What would happen? You are completely out of touch with the reality that the majority of the human population still faces. What would realistically happen was that people would buy washing machines and have more time to read books with
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> It really depends on how you define a machine. Sure, and depending on how you define a computer program hamlet is a computer program, and depending on your definition of Christmas movie, Planet of the Apes is Christmas movie. The poin
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
That’s bullshit. Working for Google is a plus in job seeking but not because other companies believe you personally made Google great. Same with people coming out of FTX, others aren’t going to assume you where in on the CEO syphoning funds
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Actually no. If you are uninsured there are programs to provide it to you free or discounted.
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> You are going to have people with different opinions saying different things, and sooner of later some of them will be wrong That’s a rather dismissive attitude towards the craft of journalism. Imagine the same applies to medicine. Som
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> This is so true! You have to be 110% sure the other person is actually attracted to you. Or just be a woman. Causal sexual harassment and even sexual assault in the workplace is almost always just ignored or glossed over if it’s perpet
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
These types of articles are always biased due to being written by people who are generally not seen as relationship material by the other gender. That’s why they are still on apps and why everyone eventually ghosts them. It’s not because of
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Nha, he spent a good couple of billions on buying favor of politicians. He’ll end up with a slap on the wrist and a “boys will be boys” sentence compared to Holmes.
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> That shows poor judgement How so? The fact that people make decisions based on only what they actually know is in no way a lapse of judgement. I mean what else are they supposed to do?
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
The patent has expired anyone can make insulin cheaper if they want to. The new drugs on patent (many set to expire in the short term future) are all improvements that greatly improve quality of life for patients which is why they are prefe
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Are you suggesting that experts advices that they should default on A1 bonds even though they could clearly manage to extend and pay them? That seems highly unlikely. I don’t think any expert in the field would have such disregard for the i
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
Yes, and in contrast to Mick, you know that they can’t be lying because while he presented the evidence he had, (which is a very one-sided thing to do), they are doing the very balanced thing of saying “we have the evidence and we are willi
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
WSL2 1.0.0_final_kevinsfix_final4real
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
So I guess Elon ends up winning by instantly showing how much damage he can wreck against big organizations if they don’t pay him huge sums to “advertise” essentially internet anarchy protection money. And I’m sure how bigger companies are
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> to have generously funded a lot of effective altruism charities That should have read “dubiously funneled money to his mates fake charity” For all of this the fact that he was, even back when he wasn’t “the next big tech wizard” was fu
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
What do you mean? He was always treated with respect and admiration on HN, with an understanding of his personal difficulties. I think your conflating the treatment he received here with how he was treated on Reddit.
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
There’s little chance that any form of digital currency that does not allow for tax evasion at then same level we currently have will ever take off. The people doing the tax evasion are the ones running the world.
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
When the news of an 8$/month verified account came out, I naively thought that meant verified would still mean that they verified the identity of the user. The badge should be swapped out for a green dollar sign and called “Paid” inste
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> HTML is a subset of Markdown. Yes, so all websites are already written in markdown. Its just tjat No browsers support the typical header/list shorthands, but that doesn’t matter because even if they did you’d still need more tages
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
It sounds like this hypothesis would predict a much larger population of obese vegetarians and vegans than what is actually observed.
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Data sharing has close to a quarter of a million forks. This project would have to become an extremely popular experiment before it starts pushing that limit. That said, I hope it does; this is a great and fun project.
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Just because you take something into consideration does not mean it becomes a criteria. But I think we can all agree that it would be a mistake in a mass layoff to accidentally fire the top 10 contributors to a given project if the 11th con
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Nesting is the concept of having a thing under another thing. 1+2 will be referred to as a mathematical equation and 1+((((a-b)/3+2/87)-6) 23) will be referred to as a nested equation. Of cause this is rather lose semantics since
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by isitmadeofglass 4y ago
> I'm not sure you'd want to write maths that way. Every WYSIWYG equation editor I've used are very annoying to work with. Try Marhematica and you’d change your mind. Yes every other tool does it poorly, but Mathematica do

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