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by nindalf 3y ago
The UNRWA, the UN Agency for helping Palestinian refugees has been accused of perpetuating their misery - (The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians, The Economist https://archive.is/c7Pop ).
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Honestly one of the best episodes of TV I’ve seen, simply because it challenged one of my core beliefs. I’ve always struggled with a poor memory and I’ve tried all kinds of systems to improve retention and recall. This episode challenged th
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His feelings were correctly placed. There was a vibecession last year when consumer sentiment was lower than it had been during the 2008 recession. This was in spite of low unemployment, high growth, high wage growth, low inflation and re
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by nindalf 3y ago
Copyright infringement I guess. Other ideas could be passed off as a combination of several sources. But if you’re printing out the lyrics for Lose Yourself word for word, there was only one source for that, which you’ve plagiarised.
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Yeah I think having motivated and paid maintainers helps a lot. If maintaining the repo is the responsibility of a team that’s working 9 to 5, it’s much more likely that it’s going to succeed. Such a project avoids most of the pitfalls th
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by nindalf 3y ago
Cloudflare Pages, I think. I agree though, it costs nothing. They don't even have my card on file. And nothing is free forever, but my sense is that this is going to stay free longer than most other free options.
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It is a valid argument. Certainly it resonated with me. Your original comment made it seem like you were the voice of the community, that a majority or at least a plurality of users want your proposed change. But there’s no indication that
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by nindalf 3y ago
Check out Making Rust binaries smaller by default ( https://kobzol.github.io/rust/cargo/2024/01/23/making-rust-b... ). Previously discussed a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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I think it was a false equivalence between node_modules and Rust. Like any language where developers rely on a package manager to pull in libraries will necessarily be 3GB in size.
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They’ve only spent 10 years writing text editors. They might not have heard of accessibility before. /s
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One alternative is Apache Arrow. It's an efficient in-memory format used to represent flat or hierarchal data. Multiple databases and programs like pandas support this, so they become compatible with each other.
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If anything they took trying their best to the extreme. They would try no matter the odds, to the point where they would want to stay and try to “win” in Iraq and Afghanistan no matter the situation. The solution to every problem was to thr
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> no way an "AI powered" tool can be more reliable The article provides accuracy benchmarks. > you would be better off just rejecting it completely They mention using it in gmail and Drive, neither of which have the luxury o
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Feel like I called this 11 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39251014 > I had to guess, that’s the path that the Astral team would take as well - expand ruff’s capabilities so it can do everything a Python
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Completely agree with this. For people interested, I wrote about why software folks would enjoy Factorio ( https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/factorio-and-software-enginee... ).
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> They're not brain surgeons or rocket scientists Yeah, voters don't want to pay MPs more. Yet when voters are asked, they want highly intelligent, motivated people. They want them to have technical expertise, which means time
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AMD is betting big on GPUs. They recently released the MI300, which has "2x transistors, 2.4x memory and 1.6x memory bandwidth more than the H100, the top-of-the-line artificial-intelligence chip made by Nvidia" ( https:/&#x2
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Why would they be talking about a bomber airplane in this context? They were clearly referring to the Colt Single Action Army revolver handgun.
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by nindalf 3y ago
I think the canonical cutesy error message is > OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this! ( https://knowyourmeme.com/memes&#
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Yes, I can certainly see how such an argument can be made. I can think of counter-examples like India, which had been antagonistic towards the US for decades. This was especially apparent when the US provided naval support to Pakistan durin
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A country that borders Canada and Mexico and also underwrites security for selected countries around the world. That’s Pax Americana isn’t it? You may correctly point out that they only did this because peace encouraged trade, which made th
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Big if. We’ll lose a lot of digital data simply because we won’t have the means to read it. CD-readers aren’t manufactured anymore in volume. It’s easy to imagine society in 40 years not having any CD readers handy but having a bunch of CDs
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Affirmative action on the basis of socio-economic status is a good thing, and will replace affirmative action based on race. What surprises me is that you're surprised by this. Wasn't this called out by the Supreme Court in their
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Some people use ruff because it’s much faster. Others do it because it’s one tool instead of multiple.
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Yeah it would. There are a few attempts, such as C-gull ( https://github.com/sunfishcode/c-ward/tree/main/c-gull#readm... ). > c-gull is a libc implementation. It is an implementation of the ABI describ
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I think it’s interesting that rye uses ruff ( https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff ) for linting and formatting. That’s the right call, and it’s also correct to bundle that in for an integrated dev experience. I had to gues
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by nindalf 3y ago
You'll really like the Quantum Resistant key exchange algorithm - Kyber. A related project is Cryptographic Suite for Algebraic Lattices or CRYSTALS. Sadly they renamed Kyber to MLKEM.
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In the short term that's absolutely correct. In the medium term higher home prices and lower interest rates encourage more building. Assuming that NIMBYs don't prevent that construction (big if), that would lead to lower home pric
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Let’s tackle each of the issues you mentioned. Food prices, rent - true they are high, but there is hope. Average hourly earnings are growing faster than inflation since early 2023. Home prices - these will fall when interest rates fall, wh
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Short answer - usually individual app developers, even of Google’s size, need the platform (iOS) more than the platform needs them. This means Apple has historically driven hard bargains with even the most popular apps. Now Apple is launchi

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