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by moomin 2y ago
I read something once about the question of Airbus and Boeing subsidies. The short answer was “It’s complicated.” Of course, that particular question seems to have been rendered irrelevant by Boeing’s quality crisis.
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by moomin 2y ago
I’m gonna be the grumpy old man here, but this is a marketing page. If there’s science going on here, it’s not even mentioned. Instead it’s all artist’s visualisations of infra-red data of an unusual galaxy. Is the galaxy of any scientific
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by moomin 2y ago
Read any of the “I asked site X for my personal data” articles to get an idea of what’s going on.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly I don’t know why more languages don’t just adopt e.g. npm, maven or NuGet. They’re largely language independent at the binary level anyway.
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by moomin 2y ago
A lot of the hate you get depends not on what you say, but what you are.
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by moomin 2y ago
I have no idea whether fission plants are competitive with gas plants, and knowing a bit about multi-decade projects, I suspect no-one does. It’s all guesswork. What I do know is fission has a horrible cost profile. First there’s a huge bui
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by moomin 2y ago
The Economist always phrases articles to imply that private investment is a magical elixir that will make problems go away.
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by moomin 2y ago
One day it is hoped that enough mathematicians will have worked on the problem to have finally, definitively answered Steve Ballmer’s interview question. The job will be shared between them.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, C#'s IEnumerator is equivalent and is way more complex. You just don't need to think about it much.
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by moomin 2y ago
That would be true if Twitter hadn't changed, but it really has. More bots, more commercial accounts (or nakedly commercial accounts) and far fewer people getting into deep discussions of Nix and Haskell with dumb jokes.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, yes there’s arrow data types, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s got full parity with the numpy version.
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by moomin 2y ago
I never got disenchanted with Twitter. It got boring. If it had stayed the same I’d still be on there complaining about it.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly the results as reported mostly tell me that the positioning run by organisations that find certain scientific consensuses inconvenient to have been effective.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think the thing that's really sticks out is that the breath noise are gone, which is one of the things that gives the track its character. Willing to bet the same kind of thing happens to fret noise as well.
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by moomin 2y ago
I mean, Unreal is still Epic and while they’re sometimes underdogs, they’re pretty much always the bad guys.
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by moomin 2y ago
I have no idea how this would work either, but I feel like the election makes this more likely to happen, not less, after the amount of rhetoric that Google needs taking down a peg.
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by moomin 2y ago
The question isn't really how many would think it meant nanonmeters, it's how many would recognise it as nautical miles.
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by moomin 2y ago
We're talking desktop apps here. Why should they be written in Javascript?
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by moomin 2y ago
Finding “V’ger” hilarious.
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by moomin 2y ago
That’s every programming language abstraction. All of them break when you get a fair amount of complexity or performance requirements.
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by moomin 2y ago
Speaking as a consumer, Netflix’s solution is objectively better than it’s competitors. It handles network blips better, it’s more responsive to use, it has far fewer random bugs you need to work around. You can argue whether or not that ed
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by moomin 2y ago
In my experience the people who left first were the funny and interesting ones. I left a while later because I was bored. Turns out HN is my Colorado.
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by moomin 2y ago
Honestly not true. At its best, Twitter educated me on many subjects including many non-political ones. And as for journalism, well I’m not sure much that I would recognise as high-quality has survived the economic pressures of the internet
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by moomin 2y ago
Back in the day, a gay colleague of mine forgot the dash in the website of the then trading venue Chi-X. He got a very threatening page in his browser. I assured him I'd back him up in the disciplinary. What was particularly funny was
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by moomin 2y ago
The thing with H1Bs is you can be against them whether you’re bothered about immigration or not. Pity it wasn’t on the ballot.
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by moomin 2y ago
InfoWars was a supplements business. The political stuff was just a funnel to sell the supplements, where the real money was made.
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by moomin 2y ago
I think you've managed to explain why H1Bs shouldn't exist pretty convincingly.
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by moomin 2y ago
Here’s the thing: let’s assume that that’s exactly what happens. It’s still a good thing. This is now reflected in the visible part of the cost enabling people to make better decisions.
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by moomin 2y ago
Which have a one to one correspondence with regular languages, so this isn’t actually an answer to the question.
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by moomin 2y ago
There’s people in the comments characterising this as political positioning, and I think they’re dead on. However, it continues to do my head in how utterly ridiculous this statement is. Literally, there’s not even a motive.

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