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by leononame 2y ago
I've lived in Germany for 30 years and I've sent zero faxes as well. That doesn't mean the administration doesn't run on fax. The number of times I've been told by the tax agency or my healthcare provider to send a
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by leononame 2y ago
That's definitely fair. I just blurped it out that way because, at least in my experience, Russia isn't really considered a European country "colloquially". At least where I'm from, people would usually say it'
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by leononame 2y ago
Sure, renewable _electricity_ is up. But up alone is not enough. When talking energy, you should use gross energy, including e.g. transport. Take this chart [0] from wikipedia [1]. Doesn't look too amazing. Now, being a gross exporter,
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by leononame 2y ago
Where I'm from, when you say "biggest" country, it's by default population unless specified otherwise. Area really isn't an important metric here (unless your country is tiny), because the ability of economic and in
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by leononame 2y ago
It's not too surprising. Yes, Germany is slow to adapt to new tech, but they are a car manufacturing powerhouse and are the biggest country in Europe. The whole country is in an everlasting debate about its dependency on car manufactur
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by leononame 2y ago
And for who is it improved? I just find it annoying to no end because it's an unnecessary extra click and often enough and extra round trip that for some reason takes forever
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by leononame 2y ago
Is that really true about Wayland? I'm no expert on the subject matter, just a regular Linux user. From skimming the discussions, however, Wayland is touted as a simpler alternative to X because it comes without 25 years of baggage and
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by leononame 2y ago
Personally, I disagree. I'm probably in the minority, but emojis don't helot me much when conveying information and I see them more as visual clutter that makes it difficult to distinguish what's going on. This is especially
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by leononame 2y ago
I don't think it's dumb. After all, the array can change in between renders, so you kind of have to start from scratch anyways. And for a list of <1000, who cares?
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by leononame 2y ago
You're right constructing struts in Rust works with that pattern, so I'll take the Rust bit back.
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by leononame 2y ago
If I understand correctly, we aren't talking about named/keyword arguments. This is about a shorthand syntax in ES6 objects, nothing to do with function arguments. In JS, when creating an object, instead of writing {name: name}, w
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by leononame 2y ago
JS and python are just about all programming languages? I'm not trying to be snarky, but e.g. I haven't seen it in Go, F# and Rust, some languages where I have at least seen _some_ code. I also don't remember a similar patter
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by leononame 2y ago
Yeah, how dare people have emotional connections with musical instruments! The great (and very inexpensive) iPad will finally allow humans to become equals and set poor people free. Nostalgia is exactly what's wrong with this world. Ye
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by leononame 2y ago
The writing has been on the wall for years. For every warning that we have to do something _now_, policymakers did nothing. It might not be too late for 1.5C theoretically, but it's not like now is the moment our politicians will get t
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How fast can construct a small list of strings in C for Python?(lemire.me)
7 points by leononame 2y ago|0 comments
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by leononame 2y ago
I think my GP isn't suggesting that it's a conspiracy at all. Just that sugar is in almost every where you can put it even if it doesn't need it just to hook you on sugar a bit more.
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by leononame 2y ago
That's only true if the rest of their bet worth isn't tied up in some high risk investment where they could lose everything. Just because it's financially more optimal to have some debt in some situations doesn't mean th
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by leononame 2y ago
I think the article still holds up. A financial crisis where you lose your job, a war causing deflation, a housing bubble bursting are all events that could lead to you paying _much_ more than rent. If you can't pay, they'll take
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by leononame 2y ago
One of the first points in the article was that wasm became widespread enough that they could migrate them performance critical parts to C++ and the rest to typescript. The necessity for skew simply wasn't there anymore
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by leononame 2y ago
Adopting is a multi-year, sometimes decade-long process where you have to fill out lots of paperwork before you're even considered. It's no wonder that it's not most people's choice. That stuff can really grind you down
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by leononame 2y ago
That's hardly the point. The point is that there is a single format for the language itself and you don't have to argue about spaces vs tabs vs when to line break, whether you want trailing commas and where to put your braces. You
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by leononame 2y ago
Is the humongous fungus bigger than Pando? I had heard that Pando is the biggest living thing on earth some time ago. By which degree does this article make Pando bigger than the humongous fungus? Edit: Wikipedia agrees with the article say
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by leononame 2y ago
Isn't that stack/heap distinction between managed and native code just a technicality? I mean, for native code, your stack is also just allocated space in memory, right? Similarly, your stack in a managed language is allocated on
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by leononame 2y ago
That's not the point. The point is that a lot of discoveries and inventions wouldn't have happened if it weren't for researching just for curiosity's sake. Research results will often be useless for product development o
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by leononame 2y ago
I think it's valuable for brainstorming and refining my texts. As a non native, it helps me immensely in correcting errors and sometimes weird phrases that I accidentally translate literally without noticing. But it's only helpful
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Large language models as research assistants(lemire.me)
56 points by leononame 2y ago|23 comments
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by leononame 2y ago
The performance is astonishing. On my underpowered android, the PDF was super smooth. It's miles ahead of other PDF viewers (the worst offender is the Google Docs in browser pdf viewer, it's just horrible on my phone to a point wh
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by leononame 3y ago
I believe low hanging fruit is not specific to CS. Regardless, it is a perfect metaphor. You want to eat an apple: which one do you pick? Taking the low-hanging fruit is less work right now and gets you to your immediate goal, but disregard
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by leononame 3y ago
If you define odds being good as "the odds are good for the ones that choose to study CS", sure. But if you define the odds as "women overall", 20% is a relatively poor number in my opinion. Yes, we're getting bette
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by leononame 3y ago
Does it really say that or are women just slightly more probable to enter the field without a degree? And I'd argue it's a pretty bad proxy. Because the field might be growing (or shrinking) and percentages don't mean anythin

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