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by mvc 2y ago
Again, how do people here think public servants will live beyond their service to the government? Or is the idea that if they choose to work for the government, they need to work until they die.
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by mvc 2y ago
You gonna give them all a defined benefit pension scheme too because otherwise, how will they save for retirement?
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by mvc 2y ago
Nice work. Xpath is a beast. Obvious why paligo would be interested too. Must be a lot of commercial documentation out there where the best representation they can get looks a bit XMLish.
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by mvc 2y ago
Why do you care where a forum with no regulations is hosted?
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by mvc 2y ago
> So long as the companies and banks can influence the gangsters, they don't care. There are powerful executives who thought they could influence the Russian gangsters. And they could. Until they couldn't. If they were lucky, t
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by mvc 2y ago
Do you think Russia is one?
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by mvc 2y ago
> The scale and mature feature sets of US based cloud providers outweigh the benefits of keeping it within European ownership for most commercial organizations. That's what companies thought about manufacturing in China. But that wa
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by mvc 2y ago
I'm quite excited by the prospect of jank so us Clojurists can get in on some of the ML fun with the torch C++ bindings.
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by mvc 2y ago
Haha, I was recently running a backfill was quite pleased when I managed to get it humming along at 6400% CPU on a 64vcpu machine. Fortunately ssh was still receptive.
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by mvc 2y ago
Sorry, I suppose I meant anyone not living under the yolk of facism. Good for you though for supporting those who prop it up with your hard-earned dollars. Extra points for the Kindle.
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by mvc 2y ago
I can't believe anyone feels the need to buy digital copies of books anymore, especially from companies who have very obviously pirated every copyrighted work in existence as part of their AI offerings.
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by mvc 2y ago
> any serious Russia politician claim that the Baltics or Poland should be invaded. The last few years have seen the talking heads on right-wing news TV become actual politicians with real power. Dunno if that same pathway to power exist
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by mvc 2y ago
> Europe has past its good times phase and is hitting the reality of the hard times. > The question is if it can overcome the next phase without another Adolf or war. This whole thread is a joke right? The US is the one who just eleva
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by mvc 2y ago
> Only those who actually make and build and invent things get to write the rules Create things? Or destroy them? Seems in reality, the most powerful nations are the ones who have acquired the greatest potential to destroy things. Creati
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by mvc 2y ago
> My 286 was replaced by a faster 386 and that by an even faster 468. How much was your 286 chip worth when you bought your 486?
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by mvc 2y ago
> The US companies got too greedy? How? They invented this entire space, literally And when they thought they were the only game in town, they tried to corner the market in GPUs and lock out any users who can't pony up £200/mo.
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by mvc 2y ago
What defence remains against an autocratic government who will use that very freedom as an attack vector for their nefarious goals.
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by mvc 2y ago
> what we have today in the west is definitely not democracy On the metric of "people power", do you think people in the east have it any better?
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by mvc 2y ago
Just for the record. Is Russia a foreign adversary of the USA as-of today?
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by mvc 2y ago
Oh yeah "immigration". Can't wait for the immigration discourse in 10 years time, when people all over the world, rich and poor, christian, muslim and jew, white and black, are being displaced because they're homes are l
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by mvc 2y ago
> not an ally like the UK Let's see how long that lasts.
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by mvc 2y ago
Please do let me know where I can live that is guaranteed to be safe from unexpected natural disaster.
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by mvc 2y ago
In all seriousness, "thankyou for your service". I'm an absolute middling athlete. In my 40s. Half a life spent at a desk. And then I picked up a bit of running/cycling as one does. And joined a local club, and became ab
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by mvc 2y ago
> There is a lot of value in being close for many tasks! horseshoes and hand-grenades?
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by mvc 2y ago
The thing is, most GUIs by necessity involve fairly deep hierarchies of graphical objects so you're either going to have deeply nested calls like this, or you're going to scatter the fragments across a number of files in a way tha
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by mvc 2y ago
There was a single victim in Depp vs Herd.
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by mvc 2y ago
The problem with saying a thing and then assuming that people know you really mean another thing, is that some people will believe you the first time (because it's what they wanted to hear) and not be happy until you've delivered
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by mvc 2y ago
There's another Clojure rules library worth considering. It has a section in the README about why you might prefer it to Clara. https://github.com/oakes/odoyle-rules
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by mvc 2y ago
So funny to watch the US competing with China to be the most authoritarian state.
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by mvc 2y ago
14ft. Similar to 13ft but implemented in Rust.

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