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by morelisp 3y ago
And logrus is one of the slowest loggers by far, in part because of its heavy map usage.
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by morelisp 3y ago
> the bar has liability for this. In most states they already do, under so-called "dram shop laws." But since it's very easy to lie about where someone was drinking, the incentives are such you still need the bar owner wil
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by morelisp 3y ago
HN is probably more tasting room crowd than local watering hole (which I'll also cop to), but bars are a public space which can rapidly go from safe to unsafe (and their patrons, harmless to violent), and you need people with some amou
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by morelisp 3y ago
The P3 era was really a golden age. Clock speeds were still rapidly doubling, you could get SMP but most people didn't so everything had to optimize single-threaded perf, and likewise "normal" memory spanned 32MB to 512MB so
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by morelisp 3y ago
Not writing allegory (a very specific kind of comparison) doesn't mean nothing in the book is a metaphor. It's willful ignorance to pretend LotR has no ideology or non-narrative (moral, epistemic, metaphysical, etc.) content. To
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by morelisp 3y ago
Comments like this definitely give the impression you're serious about making sure institutionalization is reintroduced for the benefit of the few patients needing intense interventions and not just out of concern for your fucking prop
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by morelisp 3y ago
The more critical part is "from go" - deus ex machina is considered bad because it's a narrative rupture. In a story of wars openly involving divine beings, there's no such discontinuity. It is also usually associated wi
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by morelisp 3y ago
He doesn't return more powerful, he returns with a different mandate. He is no more or less powerful as he was before, rather he is "licensed" by Eru to reveal more of it as Saruman has abdicated that role, and Gandalf had be
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by morelisp 3y ago
I agree with the sibling commenter that Bilbo is very gay-coded, to the point I cannot imagine it to be an accident, but even explicitly within the text - https://nitter.net/pic/orig/media%2FE5bMUoIXoAAAo9I.png
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by morelisp 3y ago
I don't think you can criticize "deus ex machina" as a plot device when it's, from go, literally "ex deus" - Gandalf is on a mission (/ missions) from god, and Eru's not gonna let him get off so easil
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by morelisp 3y ago
This is a profound misreading; royal birthright, aristocracy, and the ruling class are not taken to task or shown to be "fruitless" at all in Tolkien, and while today we may read Frodo as "the common man" his contemporar
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by morelisp 3y ago
The fuck you doing posting your opinions on social media then?
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by morelisp 3y ago
I really like Egon Elbre's definition of technical debt as idealized effort vs. actual effort to make changes - https://www.storj.io/blog/demystifying-technical-debt It nicely captures a lot of the usually "f
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by morelisp 3y ago
This is a religious belief and not scientific knowledge or strong legal argument.
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Copyright law includes many exceptions explicitly for libraries.
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by morelisp 3y ago
The absolute worst part is that some of these guys, especially the younger (e.g. fresh grad through ~30) ones, do this in person! I was out drinking with some colleagues a few months ago and I said something offhand in a normal human conver
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by morelisp 3y ago
We have wildly diverging views of the average HNer. I'm thinking the median is much closer to "Russian catgirl home-cook on X" than "studious reader of The Atlantic".
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by morelisp 3y ago
He is likely an expert in many other materials too.
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No, mass and social media stopped paying attention days ago because Trump or Hawai'i or whatever. In a few years some might have a flashback, Google "what happened stupor conduct", and after a few sentences conclude science i
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by morelisp 3y ago
People are desperate to turn everything into content-identity fodder. Hundreds of IFLS channels making "fans of science." Piles of WSB bros wanting to play some markets like they have a fucking clue what's going on. Crypto-AI
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by morelisp 3y ago
> did you know that if there is no Host header nginx serves the site evaluated first in its config file (even if the site has a server_name directive)? Before that it goes to the one named "" and if that doesn't exist, the
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by morelisp 3y ago
> Python made it through a backwards-incompatible source change.... Source rewriters would handle most of the transition. It seems we have collectively learned literally nothing from the failed plans to change Python incompatibly.
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by morelisp 3y ago
First, not nearly every kid. When the iPod came out my PMP-300 was still relatively novel; much more common was MP3 CD players, which skipped like hell even if you could put them in your pocket. The market was also divided in a way that&#
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by morelisp 3y ago
As an American, I think freebee56's thinking is very rare - intellectually most people understand the situation as you do, and emotionally flagship state universities engender a strong sense of identity in graduates and state residents
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by morelisp 3y ago
As someone still struggling with this after recent-ish promotion to an engineering leadership role, first I was heartened to read that it's common; then worried to read it might take several more years to fully come to terms with; and
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by morelisp 3y ago
> faculty are unwitting weapons of complete and utter annihilation aimed primarily at students But - especially the "unwitting" part - this is exactly the point of the article.
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> I just wouldn’t call it puppetry. Maybe you should do even the most cursory research before dumping a pile of garbage into a discussion then?
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by morelisp 3y ago
Obama did not "cheer" it and did not kill it. The coal industry had already been dead for years. He was the first president to refuse to commit to continuing the political fiction it wasn't, and to offer an actual alternative
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by morelisp 3y ago
Try to imagine a world without any 3D graphics industry, which within living memory grew whole cloth out of puppetry, model-building, and related fx work. (I watched puppeteers at my university giving soldering lessons to the freshman EEs
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No one's saying things are economically fine in western PA. But, they can still easily afford to teach French.

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