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by jyounker 2y ago
It has become successful largely because it has always had really good foreign function interface. If you have a scientific or mathematical library laying around in C, then you could wire it up to Python, and then suddenly you have all the
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by jyounker 2y ago
Do you really think that the US doesn't engage in industrial espionage too?
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Yeah, I can't imagine any honest and sane person describing solitary confinement as "non-punitive". What ICE is doing is both cruel and expensive.
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by jyounker 2y ago
Companies don't need the threat of litigation to hide information about products. That's why departments like the FDA and USDA were created to begin with. For example, people were selling crude oil as medicine, and people were sel
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by jyounker 2y ago
My understanding is that "first one whens" is intended for security. Global config is read first, and then local (per-user) configs are read later. Because the earlier config wins, the per-user configs can't override the glob
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by jyounker 2y ago
> Democratic party, which has been comparably insane lately, only a different direction. How do you see the democratic party being insane in a different direction?
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by jyounker 2y ago
The story is kind of wild. Behind the Bastards has a couple of episodes on Rudolf Steiner, the founder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_2HkBugFBw
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by jyounker 2y ago
What separate mass transit system are you talking about? In most places with school buses there is no mass transit of any sort.
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by jyounker 2y ago
It's hard to create a stable state when the US, England, and France have spent well over a hundred years actively undermining your country. The first half of Behind The Bastard's episode on Baby Doc has a pretty good summary: htt
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by jyounker 2y ago
The Republican party has been trying to squash inconvenient science for a long time. One of the signature pieces of Gingrich's "Contract With America" in 1995 was the elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment. The of
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by jyounker 2y ago
"Fleeting" in this context is just a synonym for "short lived" or "momentary".
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by jyounker 2y ago
I think the fear is that the user's phone is in the checked luggage.
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by jyounker 2y ago
Dude seems to be coming from a strange place if he thinks that subtyping is uncommon in programming languages. Java, Kotlin, Scala, C++, Python, Go, and C# all have subtyping of one sort or another, and that covers at least 80% of the code
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by jyounker 2y ago
Correct solution: Contravariance for arguments, Covariance for return types. Another way to put it, if I create a subtype, then the subtype's functions are allowed to be more general in what they accept, and more specific in what they
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by jyounker 2y ago
Portugal also has a similarly active communist party. I think what distinguishes Portugal and Kerala's communist parties from other communist parties is that they were (and are) first, and foremost, democrats. A capitalist dictatorship
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by jyounker 2y ago
I've been to only one They Might Be Giants concert. Half the audience were little kids, and yet it's the only concert I've ever been too that was shut down by the cops. It was hilarious to see one of the John's being hau
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by jyounker 2y ago
They're going wherever customers in SF are ordering them to go. I was in SF last month, and everywhere I went there Waymos skulking around, even on little side-streets on top of hills.
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And don't forget that you will then be harassed every time you cross the boarder again. After all, you're one of those trouble makers.
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by jyounker 2y ago
Thank you. This is why wealth concentration and media consolidation are so poisonous to democracy.
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by jyounker 2y ago
I'm baffled that you're surprised. Trump is threatening military action against Canada. Why would you travel to an country that's threatening to invade your own? What happens to you if you're in US and they invade Canada
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by jyounker 2y ago
Context: https://comb.io/osyksW
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I'd alway been prone to avoiding shoes. I started running when I was 16 (1986). During high school I'd run 10-14 miles a night about five days a week, mostly barefoot. I didn't start regularly wearing shoes until after colleg
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by jyounker 2y ago
It's interesting that you see this as being a punitive policy. Our job is producing quality systems. If our software is so bug ridden that caring for it is a punishment, then failed we've at producing quality software.
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by jyounker 2y ago
I read this as someone giving a tiny bit of background information before they move onto the real question: How do I get housing?
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He has written elsewhere that he has 10 years experience.
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I say this as a person who has spent the last month mostly living out a minivan: You need a laptop. A laptop will vastly expand the number of places you can work from.
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by jyounker 2y ago
If you think that your children aren't social connections, then I have one question: What happened to you? You are right that he needs to ditch the PC, but he needs to ditch it for a laptop.
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For anyone who is still young, if you need financial aid, and if you are independent of your parents, then you can get yourself declared as financially independent from parents, so that they don't influence your financial aid status.
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The author's description of how on-call works at "big tech" seems to be a complaint about a specific tech company, and the author is hastily generalizing to the rest of the industry. His experience has nothing in common with
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Devs need to be on call at three AM so that they suffer when their software fails. This is how you align developer motivation with operational motivation. The organization needs to incur financial penalties when the on-call staff have to re

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