jancsika

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by jancsika 9mo ago
> It fueled extremism and populism, both on the left and on the right. I think you're confusing the Occupy Movement with the housing crisis itself . Any anti-establishment/libertarian right-wingers would have already gotten en
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> As an outsider to all this, it's funny how these movements always crumble as soon as there is any mainstream recognition. It crumbled when the physical encampments were forcibly removed by the police. I mean, even at the tiny enca
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> This may prove out if after 5yr+ of it being banned or limited, nothing changes in the youth (et al.) -- that would be my prediction. You're speculation here could be a counterargument to Jonathan Haidt's meta studies on the
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> lack of concurrency has nothing to do with the language That's an extraordinary claim for any C codebase. Unless it ships with code enabling concurrency that is commented out, we should assume that "concurrency in C ain&#x2
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by jancsika 9mo ago
So when an immigration officer makes an error parsing the tourist's words, you think the security protocol ought to be to let the tourist pass through the gate?
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> First, there is modeling ambiguity, too many ways to represent the same data structure. Boy, are you telling me! Boy are you a person, one of whose attributes is telling me! Boy are you a person whose telling-me attribute is set to tru
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by jancsika 9mo ago
Music has a lot of these. A fugue subject may traverse the boundaries between two metric groupings, and between two clear sections of the form. There are also non-contiguous examples. Smack in the middle of Wagner's Tristan und Isol
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> So turn back the clock to when Hildegard von Bingen was only one of many extremely powerful and influential abbesses that were polymaths and prolific artists and writers and educators of women in Europe? Who were the other female compo
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by jancsika 9mo ago
Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic. It was clearly Citizens United (2008) and the explosive growth of Super PACs that followed. Unlimited spending from the fossil fuel industry basically standardized Republican candidates on climate den
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by jancsika 9mo ago
My point is he made these claims on the campaign trail, which I cited; he had a real domain expert on his team, which I cited; and it became evident even a year in that his administration wouldn't deliver on that plan according to his
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> Nothing had changed and the country wasn't "saved". Let's be precise and remove those scare quotes. In 2015/2016 Trump was literally talking about saving U.S. critical infrastructure: 1. Promising to fulfill
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by jancsika 9mo ago
The author misunderstands basic human behavior here. And there are enough literal-minded people on HN that everyone ought to just avoid this advice entirely. Just one example-- some narcissists will take the author's strategy personall
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by jancsika 9mo ago
> modern complexity is the enemy of reliability There are years-long threads dozens of pages long on priuschat.com with data files posted by wizards just to figure out the 12v charging pattern. The vehicle itself will probably stop runni
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by jancsika 10mo ago
It's sad how both the author of the FF bug and Gnome merge fail Chesterton's fence. One calls it "very weird" and the other blithely calls it an "X11ism." My understanding is it's a cross-DE way to highlig
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by jancsika 10mo ago
I'd really like to vectorize-- prep once for, say, 8 or 16 contiguous shots at pan searing the salmon the correct way. There should be an app that matches home vectorization needs with busy restaurant schedules. So I would pay , say,
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by jancsika 10mo ago
If it's a zillion dollar hammerbot the company is offering to your boss for pennies, that had better be your first priority!
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> To preempt replies: ask yourself why 24 frames per second is optimal for cinema instead of just being an ancient spec that everyone got used to. "Everyone" includes the filmmakers. And in those cases where the best filmmakers
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> The arguments against pure functions appear to be somewhat contingent: current adoption levels, practice, convenience, and taste. At least with many GUIs, the time it would take to know, document and/or test all combinations of UI
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by jancsika 10mo ago
I don't understand the dichotomy. What's the situation where I'd ever be forced to choose between, say, UTF-8 or Linear Pulse-Code Modulation? This reads like someone who got really excited about a subject but only ever learn
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by jancsika 10mo ago
But with Lua all those errors are now off by two
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by jancsika 10mo ago
Not really. 1. I just checked Epstein's Wikipedia entry-- it lists the very recent Drop Site News allegation of his and Wexner's ties to the Iran-Contra drug smuggling operation. And that in a whole section on the topic of intelli
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> The canonical git format is “patches applied”. How many Debian packages have patches applied to upstream?
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> If the only tactic the police knew was to pull over every Infiniti with tinted windows and no plates, the crime rate would drop to zero. Your efficiency gain in the size and complexity of the policies and procedures handbook would be u
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by jancsika 10mo ago
Since you know C and you know Rust: I'm curious what you make of quotemastr's point about a race causing a mismatch between the pointer's capability and its index. First off, in your estimation can this realistically be explo
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> his soloing was a little underwhelming I mean, it is true that a lot of his solos get busier and bangier until he's hammering out polyrhythms at the end. I just take it as part of the ride when listening to Brubeck. But I really
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> ask any French and they would have no idea what a Vichyssoise is. Neither would most Americans! It's nice to know both cultures are equally provincial in this regard. :)
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by jancsika 10mo ago
> There wasn’t much but the mostly fabricated WMD narrative was questioned a lot. Cable and network news did not question that narrative, aside from the exception I mentioned. Read David Barstow's Pulitzer-winning stories in NYT--
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> Every time something new happens in the world, my younger kids ask me about what they saw on Tik-Tok and their initial understanding is shaped by a well funded actor, and is often completely a false narrative. As someone who remembers
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by jancsika 11mo ago
So what are the top 10 (or top 100) videos in terms of being actively replicated across the largest number of Peertube peers? I can't find this anywhere. Prisoner's Dilemma Bonus: I'll upvote all responses if no responses a
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by jancsika 11mo ago
> But she also was frantic and obsessive and short tempered which was off putting. My audio subsystem behaves exactly the same way! Sometimes I'll send it a simple email politely asking to grab the block of samples it just sent to

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