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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly I liked 4 better than 2 or 3. But mostly for the first half. It probably goes down as the best movie made despite the objections of the director and I found the self-referential thing really funny.
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m as pro-EU as they come, but if Brexit taught me one thing, it’s: when you make decisions like this, you need a stable popular majority. Otherwise the “fool all the people some of the time” crowd will see an opportunity.
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by moomin 2y ago
It’s got a LinnDrum?! That is awesome!
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by moomin 2y ago
C#’s inference is pretty good these days. As with most things with powerful type inference, you can make a real mess if you put your mind to it.
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by moomin 2y ago
I can recommend “They Thought They Were Free”. The book is imperfect, but it hit home to me the horrific truth on National Socialism: that the people who did it were regular people, not the monsters of myth.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly, reading this article, it's not making Kerala-style communism sound bad. What's more, they appear to have pivoted when they'd achieved their aims into making people richer. It's a classic "invest, then prof
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by moomin 2y ago
“Hey, I mean this word to mean something different from you and therefore you are wrong; I am very intelligent.” is a genre of post I am very tired of reading. Bonus points for making it about a dispatch syntax built into remarkably few lan
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by moomin 2y ago
I think for the purposes of a third-party system, the ease of embedding is pretty much a question of whether or not it’s already embedded.
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by moomin 2y ago
Indeed. People forget that one of the purposes of democracy simply to keep rulers honest and allow for the replacement of components that aren’t working. Which isn’t to say that ruling factions don’t spend a lot of time in democracies tryin
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by moomin 2y ago
If you want to see a non-democratic technocratic government in action, look to China. It's the largest working example of this philosophy in practice.
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by moomin 2y ago
The article suggests there’s plenty of new tech there.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, there is at the very least a theory that at very small levels, the quantum effects take over and we’re actually looking at a cyclic bang/crunch model. It’s literally discussed in A Brief History of Time. But this is more of a r
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by moomin 2y ago
Combine this with the Anubis tech...
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by moomin 2y ago
I remember this argument from the 90s where large numbers of people were upset at having to learn the world "Font". What it came down to was, either you use the correct existing term, or you create a new term and end up with const
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by moomin 2y ago
That video lives rent-free in my head.
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by moomin 2y ago
America has much more serious problems with rail, but the UK experience still isn't great. The broad root cause is that back in the day we had the genius idea of paying multiple private companies to run trains on shared lines. We set u
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by moomin 2y ago
The Clooney Nespresso thing is, at the very least, a little more nuanced than selling out: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/jul/17/geo...
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by moomin 2y ago
I don’t know if I’d go quite so far, but it is very good. The Chamberlain remains a piece of work, and Lena Headey sometimes feels like she’s still on the set of Game of Thrones.
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by moomin 2y ago
If you think this is cause for concern, consider that most economic activity in the US isn’t even on an exchange to begin with.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think Karate Kid must win the prize for the most diegetic analysis of the original text of all time.
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by moomin 2y ago
The publisher is rushing a new cover with “The book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.” in huge letters, I imagine.
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by moomin 2y ago
From Epic Rap Battles of History: Masque of the Red Death? Barely blood curdling. Pit and the Pendulum? Not even unnerving. Perving on your first cousin when she's thirteen years old? Now that's disturbing!
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by moomin 2y ago
It’s a writing convention. At the very least, you put something at the bottom saying you’re still searching for the answers. Like all conventions, great writing can ignore it, but this doesn’t manage to clear that bar.
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by moomin 2y ago
A data point from me: people in Chicago had real trouble understanding my English accent. Then I realised that when they had trouble understanding I reflexively said it again closer to Received Pronunciation i.e. even more English. Then i s
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by moomin 2y ago
It feels like the start of this article establishes three interesting questions and the rest of it fails to answer them.
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by moomin 2y ago
Is it just me or is this sounding quite like BCPL?
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by moomin 2y ago
By the time MAGA is finished, it’ll be Greenland.
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by moomin 2y ago
Truly comedic moments from my work history. I was once the only London-based employee on a project principally done in Mumbai and Chicago. I’m pretty sure the principal reason I was on the project was I was the only person who understood ev
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by moomin 2y ago
US is still pretty far-right on social policy by the standards of most of Europe. This is an average, there’s lot of outliers such as even the proper left in France being weird about Muslim dress.
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by moomin 2y ago
I can definitely save time, but I find I need to be very precise about the exact behaviour, a skill I learned as… a regular programmer. Soper up is higher in languages I’m not familiar with, where I know what needs doing but not necessarily

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