ivanhoe

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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Some people get paid to destroy competition, others just enjoy watching the world burn...
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
It's hard to prove that these mutations are adaptations to the global warming specifically, but events like mass die-offs of Australian flying foxes are pretty conclusively caused by extreme heat waves - and since there is a 100+ years
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The last desktop app I wrote was in Delphi 5, so I guess it was around 20 years ago. Back then my impression was that it's already a done deal, desktop is no more - so I'm a bit surprised that someone waited until 2017 to write th
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
If you don't want to contribute anymore you don't have to, just go and do something else - but once the code was published it's not just "yours" anymore, it belongs to the community, that's the whole idea behin
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
To some degree yes, but mainstream US is still far more culturally uniform from state to state than Europe's countries are. In Europe most of countries are nation-based and as such encapsulate also all the possible differences in ethni
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> Also, the concept of "practice" yielding improvement is not a new concept, and I'm surprised it seems to be so shocking of a concept. It seems you really wish to believe anything can be mastered at any level, but it&#x27
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I guess it depends from a person to person. I actually find it relaxing, as being an Eastern European + an introvert I never really got used to American habit of smiling to everyone as a social norm. With mask I look less grumpy. :) And als
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
> will we all have to wear masks at work until we retire It's really funny to watch all the push back against masks considering how many uncomfortable things people put on themselves every single day, and usually just because someon
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I feel exactly the opposite: "never work for corporations unless they're paying really crazy money". With small companies there's everything, some are bad, some are great, there's a variety to choose from. Corporati
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I don't get the problem even if there is a wasp in it, why would any vegan be upset about it? Wasp is dead, ended up there 100% naturally, died naturally, has no specific taste - what practical/medical/ethical/philosophi
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
I agree fully that export is a must for app like this. On the other note, your collection of flashcard sounds impressive, perhaps you could consider publishing those flashcards publicly on github or somewhere, and kill 2 birds with 1 ston
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
or more free time, more PTO days, etc.
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Futurama references never get old :)
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
It's all the same scam - you send them your dna to do some fun test, like see what % of neanderthals genes you have or how much Scottish you are (which is btw a total scam because error margins on these tests are usually huge and thus
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Yeah, this is exactly how the rest of the world feels about US-based companies harvesting dna data for years...
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
The further back in history you go less relevant it is for the current events commentary - I thought it's something well established?
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Are you seriously comparing conquests and migrations of the 7th century and a thing that happened in our life time? Well, my life time at least... I actually went to high-school with a Palestinian kid who immigrated with his parents to Yugo
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
You lack historical context there, what about Israelis expelling people from their homes, people who lived there for centuries? There's no good and bad side there, it's 2+ sides fighting for limited space and resources (and coloni
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Does it also make it proportionally slower to brute-force attack it?
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> But how long can someone reasonably expect newer releases to support legacy code? IMHO as long as majority of your users are on a certain version, you need at least to provide bug fixes for them. > It would make more sense to have p
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Exactly my point, Cobol was considered "old" even in times before Perl became popular. I remember when I was doing C in early 90s, Cobol was something "only old guys use". And nevertheless it's still alive and kicki
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Well, unless Larry Wall suddenly decides to make those breaking changes this really doesn't apply to big community driven projects like Perl - they don't belong to any one group of developers, so neither group can decide to break
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Hell, not even Fortran and Cobol are really dead, and Perl is way more popular still. You still have millions of perl scripts running daily, many of them doing some really critical stuff. It's not mainstream language anymore as it used
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Thing that always confused me is why in so many languages peppers are named the same or very similar to pepper?
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Plants physiology changes significantly during the night, so it's not just "no more photosyntheses without Sun"... respiration rates at night are strongly correlated with the amount of stored carbon and sucrose in the leaf ti
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by ivanhoe 5y ago
Perhaps she's just a more socially skillful, so she offered a better sounding excuse? That guy has a douche written all over his face, but that doesn't mean others involved are any better...
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Well, having a bathroom in each apartment could also be seen as a total waste of space and water, just as wifi is, but there are good reasons why people prefer having their own reserved resources and privacy - in both cases.
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These are very complex bio-chem processes, so there's probably no single "root cause", but a multivariable situation where certain combinations of nutrients in certain proportion causes these beneficial effects. Also nutrient
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speaking of this, what hex editor would community recommend for examining (potentially quite large) binaries?
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So far these diamonds were both the primary cause of conflicts, as well as the main way of financing and prolonging them. Wars are expensive, so if you take money out of the game many militias/ fractions/ criminals will simply loo

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