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by mighmi 3y ago
> The only real competitor to C here is Zig. Why only Zig?
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by mighmi 3y ago
Do you mean like an old DLL? This question begs further questions (asking for details) before we can help you. Above all, what do you need?
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How Do You Learn and Retain Things in Middle Age?
31 points by mighmi 3y ago|20 comments
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by mighmi 3y ago
What's Threads like? Is it all influencers etc. trying to gain as much space and influence as possible while it's new? Is the UI janky? Are load times poor? Or is it a relatively smooth transition into Twitter 2.0?
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by mighmi 3y ago
This is a very strange article. I'd understand if she shifted from e.g. finance or consulting in say NYC to something in Paris (or better say Marseilles) but... She got an online job from a French company and is staying in Vegas? What
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by mighmi 3y ago
I've been traveling for the last 10-11 years non-stop, with a carry on suitcase and backpack. The main benefit of having so much room are my 15 pairs of socks and underwear, allowing me to last a while without doing the laundry. I also
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by mighmi 3y ago
His biography seems stable and distinguished enough, without the hints of crankdom I expected from the logical leaps and poor methodology described. Perhaps we are seeing another academic descend into madness - or perhaps there are actual f
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A Colder War – Charles Storss(infinityplus.co.uk)
3 points by mighmi 3y ago|1 comments
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by mighmi 3y ago
I asked this on another thread: > What are your thoughts on the city's future? I've seen a lot of doomerish articles of late, many did seem to leave during Covid etc. however I still know many who happily look to buy property o
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by mighmi 3y ago
For a few years, I found myself continuously appreciating Go's design and models more and more. Right now, a bit bored of working in the same paradigm for a decade, I've been trying to find new approaches but find myself rather tr
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by mighmi 3y ago
> The city is in trouble What are your thoughts on the city's future? I've seen a lot of doomerish articles of late, many did seem to leave during Covid etc. however I still know many who happily look to buy property or relocat
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by mighmi 3y ago
Intel recently reduced it's dividend by $.50 (2/3), reducing costs by $3B/yr which is already a massive move. There are however financing aspects which discourage them from totally removing it - as a collapse in share price (
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by mighmi 3y ago
Just a month ago, a friend told me about serious efforts in Brazil in this direction. The larger institutional banks have been adjusting their business models to survive CBDC's implementation (e.g losing out on transfer fees, a loss in
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by mighmi 3y ago
For the most part, modern movies have just been dreadful. Previous great screenwriters like Shane Black would make action significant (with people actually reacting in fear to guns), make comedy light and airy but non-constant etc. (he has
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by mighmi 3y ago
> not consuming enough comprehensible input I wonder if the nature of internet discourse has also changed, reducing how much there is. Comparing wiki.c2.com style pages/discussions with reddit now, things evolve in a much less coher
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by mighmi 3y ago
This is primarily related to profitability in different banking sectors. A few decades ago, a retail bank couldn't play with certain asset types and business models. After that regulation disappeared, banks found benefit in deposits fo
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by mighmi 3y ago
> I'm looking for ways to "hack" my brain and get back into the habit of learning in my free time and wanting to figure things out Please share anything you've found. For me: - discovering Obsidian a year ago was a gr
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by mighmi 3y ago
Can anyone suggest any more detailed treatments? Perhaps investor material for a company seeking to do this? In the past, I was enamored with the idea of buying a dead mall, transforming much of it into apartments, and adding some amenities
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by mighmi 3y ago
Where is the community and how is it? I've honestly found vanishingly small community for anything lisp. Generally I find 10 year old comments everywhere. While I understand any of the relevant scheme communities will generally work&#x
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by mighmi 3y ago
Things are really shifting right now. We were caught in a relatively stable period for almost a decade, using the same few apps - but everyone's now making huge missteps. Reddit and Twitter are (maybe) collapsing, FB is moribound. Amaz
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by mighmi 3y ago
There are also people who can't really focus on moving objects very well. They generally look extremely blurry to me even if moving relatively slow. A few years ago e.g. the Simpsons began to use these computer aided 3-d pans which hur
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by mighmi 3y ago
As a child, I was able to simply read through things (history books, forum discussions about motors and cars, wiki.c2.com...) barely understanding them - but half way words would begin making sense. I could then reread the same things with
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by mighmi 3y ago
What are the pros of using Guile instead of Racket? I've just started with scheme rather recently. Or what kind of things do you do with it?
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by mighmi 3y ago
> SXML became the de facto standard in the Scheme community Is there a good guide to this kind of stuff as someone new to Scheme? Like a community intro, showing what the core packages are etc.?
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by mighmi 3y ago
Do you know of any good forums or discussion places about books overall, or is literal good for it?