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by miningape 11mo ago
You gave some good context I missed - The (even) more technical (read: pretentious) explanation is that it's a tertiary source. As a general rule of thumb secondary sources are preferred over primary sources, but both are acceptable in
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by miningape 11mo ago
> "Don't just trust wikipedia, check it's resources, because it's crowdsourced and can be wrong" This comes from decades of teachers misremembering what the rule was, and eventually it morphed into the Wikipedia
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by miningape 11mo ago
I also find it hard to get excited about black boxes - imo there's no real meat to the insights they give, only the shell of a "correct" answer
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by miningape 11mo ago
> If you don’t provide the context, Linux is not empowering- it is just a windows that works less Couldn't agree more - Linux can be a great way to get into computing. But only if done in the right way. Arguably for an older kid &#x
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by miningape 11mo ago
Yeah that'd be a really good idea, and don't get me wrong - I still think Linux is a really nice idea, and will really give the kid an advantage. You just don't want to have the opposite effect by having the kid associate the
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by miningape 11mo ago
> Now my friend wants the same for their daughter who is 8 years old. Be careful - even the most obvious things (to us) won't be to a small child. They'll need a bit of a guiding hand and/or someone to ask questions to. Li
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by miningape 11mo ago
I've been enjoying writing a Gameboy emulator in Odin - it interfaces nicely with C libraries (I've been using SDL and its been much easier to set up than with C++) Tooling it a bit lacking, but the language is simple enough you c
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by miningape 11mo ago
Was wondering why we haven't had any fires today - it's nice having some calm on a Friday. Could we make this a weekly thing?
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by miningape 11mo ago
lol, takes like this are why I keep coming back to HN
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by miningape 11mo ago
Yep, if you churn out a bad change - AI or not - I'm going to be more careful with reviewing what you put out*. This is judgement, and it is a good thing - it helps us prioritise what is worth doing, and how much time should be spent o
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by miningape 11mo ago
> Should European citizens be subject to the laws of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and pals? Are these EU citizens operating/running businesses in the above countries? Are they even inside the above countries? How are you even c
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by miningape 1y ago
Go back far enough and conservative meant "conserve the monarchy"
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by miningape 1y ago
Yes! It annoys me to no end when people pretend that time is developing us into a perfect image - we're just the latest generation in a long string of improvements. Making it seem like development is predetermined. Ask a medieval peasa
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by miningape 1y ago
this. A while ago I was working on a DSL to solve this exact issue (env switching, http requests + chained requests e.g. to an auth server to retrieve a token) - but I haven't had the time recently, and I moved jobs to a GraphQL shop,
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by miningape 1y ago
Where I am there's actually a %-age of your salary/wage that's "returned" to you when you retire. You don't get a choice. You can choose to contribute to an employer-match scheme (I do) or even fund your own pe
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by miningape 1y ago
I think you've made a few common misconceptions about China and hopefully you'll let me clarify my argument by addressing them. But you are also right they are seeing a collapse in the birth-rates due to modernisation, the differe
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by miningape 1y ago
(kinda unrelated but) I personally hate these forced savings schemes from the government. At least in my country the rates are low so it almost feels like I'm donating the entire difference in rates between the pension scheme and the S
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by miningape 1y ago
China (or rather the CCP) have their hands are tied by 3 opposing forces 1. Birthrates 2. Revolt 3. Economic collapse For example, if they try to increase the birthrate by liberalising the economy, reducing social control measures (e.g. huk
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by miningape 1y ago
Wouldn't the US be cut from the supply if there was a war, regardless of the current tariffs?
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by miningape 1y ago
Yeah but then the argument dissolves into the sea of absurdity. We can (and should) assume at some level there's another intelligent being on the other end that we're communicating to.
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by miningape 1y ago
I don't mean Java annotations, those would be too clunky - in OCaml a type annotation is really just adding `: <typename>` to variables, function return types, etc. so fibonacci could look like this ``` let rec fib n = match
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by miningape 1y ago
OCaml's type inference is truly amazing, makes it such a delight to write statically typed code - reading it on the other hand... But I think that's easily solved by adding type annotations for the return type of methods - annotat
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by miningape 1y ago
Nah it's a feature, you're just not using it properly
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by miningape 1y ago
IMO it's more likely to get confused because there are less unique tokens to differentiate between syntax (e.x. pipe when we want bitwise-or or vice-versa)
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by miningape 1y ago
Orange man bad
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by miningape 1y ago
Aside from the fact Pakistan is not a theocratic dicatorship, lets deal with your actual accusation: > According to Western leadership, all Muslims are supposed to be barbarian religious fanatics who want a worldwide nuclear holocaust! T
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by miningape 1y ago
Yeah, I’ll take my chances with the global hegemon that has reigned over a historically unprecedented global peace. (Although I'd prefer we all did like South Africa and decomission our arsenals) And yeah, the US should get out of the
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by miningape 1y ago
> China is a member of WIPO China's issue isn't so much the laws / treaties they've agreed to on paper. The issue more the actual implementation and enforcement of said rules. > Why should India change its policies
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by miningape 1y ago
For example, not respecting copyright laws (China), not participating in other sanctions (India), or intentionally destroying diplomatic relations (South Africa). It could also be more serious things like declarations of war, or long standi
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by miningape 1y ago
You can easily take "the west" out of that sentence and replace it with any other country and it's still fair. E.g. China sanctions a country then "China is not responsible for any deaths caused by governments that refus

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