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by munch117 3y ago
Counting in multiples of 20 is not really that unusual. But if you like, I'll give you the Danish word for 70, "halvfjers", literally "half-fourish", meaning half way between three and four 20's.
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by munch117 3y ago
The thing with git is that learning the general idea of the internals is not enough. You can learn enough about git to visualize a DAG of nodes identified by hashes, but what does that get you? You still have a thousand higher-level comma
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by munch117 3y ago
There is. Replying. If there already is a disagreeing reply, you can upvote that. Downvoting a constructive and well-written post just because you disagree is not justified.
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by munch117 3y ago
The west did not go for a strategy of elimination through lockdown. Rather, the strategy was to delay the spread, initially only so that the health care system could keep up, and later in the hope that vaccines would arrive in time to curb
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by munch117 3y ago
And so what? Secret ownership of corporations is a blight upon the world.
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by munch117 3y ago
And that's exactly why I would say "async", because then everyone will know that I'm talking about something like async in Python/C#, and not something like Python generators. Technically, they're may well be a
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Thanks, stackful/stackless is noted for next time. I still kinda like using "async" as a shorthand for stackless coroutines though.
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That's what I thought, thanks for confirming.
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> A disadvantage of the ‘no function coloring’ in fibers is that it makes lockless programming harder. But if you treat fiber-style coroutines like threads, and use locks and message queues exactly the same as you would with threads (alt
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by munch117 3y ago
Advantage: No function colouring. Just like with threads, you don't need to declare which functions might potentially yield. There's none of that noisy async/await syntax. Advantage: Fast switching. Switching between fiber
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by munch117 3y ago
You are making a compelling argument that grassland has a richer diversity of grazers . But surely the diversity of fauna is richer in the forest.
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by munch117 3y ago
There's a tiny "Back to grid view" link. Maybe you're seeing a mobile version that doesn't have that link? You should view this on a desktop screen, though. On an iPhone you'll probably see the text even when
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by munch117 3y ago
Did you actually look at the population pyramid for Italy, and compared it to the one for the US, before you made that argument? I don't think you did. Besides, even if the true number was 3.8% or 4.3%, that wouldn't change the c
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by munch117 3y ago
Observed excess US deaths: 1.34 million. Expected deaths from an unchecked epidemic: 330 million × 50% infection rate × 4% fatality rate = 6.6 million. 50% infection rate is the estimated no-lockdown epidemic penetration rate that I remembe
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by munch117 3y ago
Perhaps Bertyar88 didn't believe they were breaking any rules, and fully expected to be able to withdraw the funds, regardless of what anyone knew.
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by munch117 3y ago
The word you're looking for is "egalitarianism". "Feminism" means different things to different people. If you use "feminism" as a synonym for "gender egalitarianism", then that's not entir
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by munch117 3y ago
Do that and you are just creating targets for the next security auditor that you need any sort of certification or approval from. In the end you'll choose the path of least resistance, which is to slavishly obey every rule on the check
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by munch117 3y ago
The answers may disappoint you, though. Let's try some. > Is a dog conscious? Probably yes. Dog are social animals, so it makes sense that they would have the ability to reflect on earlier events, including a memory of what they we
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by munch117 3y ago
It fits with everyday uses of the word "conscious". Let's say someone is lying motionless on the ground. You then say they've "lost consciousness". Later, they wake up and object that they were not unconsciou
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> contains nothing that is scientifically falsifiable It's observable. You simply ask people what they have been or are thinking or sensing. If they are able to relate that, then, by the definition, they were conscious about it.
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Definition: Consciousness is those parts of the workings of the brain that are available to introspection. End definition. People so love to throw all kinds of babble under the heading of consciousness, so there's scant chance
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by munch117 3y ago
I didn't mean to say that no one should ever use multiprocessing. I was laying out the reasons why I don't. I'm really looking forward to subinterpreters. I think they have great potential for supporting a style of multipro
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by munch117 3y ago
> How did we get into a reusable library authoring? That was always my premise. Maybe I didn't make it clear enough, because I tend to just take it for granted that that's how you write code, in a style that's suited for
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Applying which idea? async does not appeal to me, if that's what you mean.
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multiprocessing needs to run copies of your program that are sufficiently initialised that they can execute the function, yet no initialisation code must be run that should not be run multiple times. That means you either use fork - which i
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Because it's a global solution to a local problem. With threads, I can encapsulate the use of threads in a class, whose clients never even notice that threads are in use. Sure, threads are a global resource too, but much of the time y
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by munch117 3y ago
I'm a happy Emacs user myself. Nobody change anything for my sake.
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I thought HN was written in Arc. I don't think the interoperability between Common Lisp implementations extends to Arc.
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Yank instead of paste. Frame instead of window. Kill instead of delete. kill-ring-save instead of copy. I was going to add 'visit instead of open', but I guess that bit has changed over the years. C-x C-v no longer invokes '
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In the old days, we wouldn't dream of taking up a new editor without first printing out a cheat sheet for it, to have lying next to the keyboard for the first few days. Yeah I know, archaic terminology: 'printing'. It's

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