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by pacaro 3y ago
Getting to see a rheumatologist is way too hard. I have a more mundane autoimmune disease (psoriasis/psoriatic-arthritis) and excellent insurance, and it's still a struggle. And then it's a struggle to get authorization for t
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by pacaro 3y ago
I understand this, but haven't found this to be an issue personally. I just download the pre built tarball, expand it, make sure that /opt/zig-latest symlinks to the right folder, and setup path That's more work than apt
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by pacaro 3y ago
This. And profile guided fuzz testing. Ideally every basis path that serializes/deserializes should be tested
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by pacaro 3y ago
Medieval Europeans would have been familiar with polecats. They are/were used for pest control, although they were considered pests themselves. They're probably the ancestor species for ferrets too In the 70s I knew someone who ke
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by pacaro 3y ago
Zig seems to have similar goals and be rather further along, thay would be a good comparison language. I feel that zig's error handling is cleaner that ki's
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by pacaro 3y ago
Another fun fact, you could use one of the Roman dodecahedrons mentioned in another of today's articles to encode or decode Golay codes by hand...
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by pacaro 3y ago
Voyager also uses Golay codes which are pretty neat too. The original paper is just one page. https://www.lama.univ-savoie.fr/pagesmembres/hyvernat/Enseig...
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by pacaro 3y ago
G6
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by pacaro 3y ago
As the saying/bumper sticker goes. "You are not a capitalist, you are an exploited worker with Stockholm syndrome"
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by pacaro 3y ago
It doesn't matter either way, people have long enough memories, there will be an exodus when the job market picks up too. MS did the same thing twice while I was there (99–13) It's a good thing. It helps remind people that the com
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by pacaro 3y ago
I taught my kid that the way to think of infinity is that it's like hugs, there's always one more, unlike candy, which is limited and can be counted, infinity cannot be counted.
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by pacaro 3y ago
The naming conventions/protocols are fairly fixed at this point see [1], but this name absolutely fits the convention for this class of object Quoting Wikipedia: Other trans-Neptunian objects (such as 50000 Quaoar), including classical
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by pacaro 3y ago
These things definitely go in cycles, in the 90s, in the UK "Twoccing" was a big deal, particularly in and around Newcastle. (The stem 'twoc' is derived from Taken Without Owners Consent) It was almost entirely kids aged
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by pacaro 3y ago
Except for the Marxist coders who only drink herbal infusions Because proper tea is theft
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by pacaro 3y ago
I imagine that this show go without saying, but as it wasn't explicit in TFA, I'll throw it in here. These distinctions represent points on a continuum, they aren't (except perhaps at the limits) exclusive. But the mix is als
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by pacaro 3y ago
Absolutely. I remember the articles in the trade press in the mid 90s asking "Is UN*X dead?" (Hindsight of course tells us that Betteridge's law applied) But I was working for a small ISV making a windows based GIS and our cu
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by pacaro 3y ago
I just cut and paste the IPA from Wikipedia! For actual pronunciation guidance I asked a native Russian speaker! [Edit: I think it's possible in the IPA that the t is there to make it a harder ch sound like in check, rather than soft a
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by pacaro 3y ago
H. & B. should always be considered as the null hypothesis to the question "what should I do with all these moneys?"
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by pacaro 3y ago
I love that he name checks and quotes Chkalov. Not that I expect anyone to know who Chkalov was, but there's a Chkalov Drive in Vancouver WA, and I went down the "how do I pronounce that, who is it named for" rabbit hole a fe
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by pacaro 4y ago
At university I took one cs class, which was an easy credit part of a math class. It was taught in Fortran and at the beginning of the first lecture (this was in 1990) the lecturer asked for a show of hands who had experience with BASIC and
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by pacaro 4y ago
Absolutely agree. The socio-economic breakdown of the research backs this up. It's very strongly correlated with household income
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by pacaro 4y ago
https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/articles-reports/2021... Apparently only 37% of Americans have a valid current passport
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by pacaro 4y ago
It's almost as if the charge radius is in miles and the mass radius is in kilometers. It's imperial vs metric all the way down
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by pacaro 4y ago
The best real-world example I've heard of comes from a friend who works for a travel company. You're creating a schedule for a tour. The tour occurs some time in the future. You have a daily itinerary for the tour group. Now the d
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by pacaro 4y ago
And DUI is treated much more seriously in the UK, consequences are stricter (for example, no "oh you need a car to get to work so you can carry on driving but only too and from work" loophole) and there is greater social opprobriu
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by pacaro 4y ago
Malham Cove and Tarn are pretty amazing in their own right. Before the river sank (~12,000 years ago) this would have been a 250ft tall 1000ft wide waterfall. For reference this is about 1/3 as wide as Niagara falls, but 100' tall
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by pacaro 4y ago
I think that the ordering of your substitutions is potentially incorrect. The code as written will convert &lt; to < When it should (presumably) be <
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by pacaro 4y ago
Few people dispute that there are some good peace officers. However, there appear to be no good police unions. The unions bend over backwards to protect bent cops almost regardless of their actions. The "good cops" also support th
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by pacaro 4y ago
So not only have I studied at a university (a canonically prestigious university FWIW), I have also had the good fortune to work closely with academics and researchers in my career. I did not exclude other benefits of a university education
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by pacaro 4y ago
I've done a bit of both so to speak. I studied History and Philosophy of Science as an undergrad, but have worked as self taught software engineer for nearly 30 years. I don't think that jargon is created to confuse or obfuscate,

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