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by pas 1y ago
cultural values you say? like rape, corruption, extreme pettiness and selfishness? these people are in a cult. their sunk cost bias is overwhelming most of their sanity. and of course the world is not going in the way they wish, so their co
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by pas 1y ago
And, for the full picture it's probably important to consider that the main claim of the book is based on very unreliable data/methodology. (Though note that it does not necessarily make the claim false! See [1]) https:/&#x2
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by pas 1y ago
It's very hipster, Das Kapital. (with the dot/period, check the cover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital#/media/File:Zentra... ) But in English it would be just "Capital", right? (
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by pas 1y ago
the important bit of information is that this is yet another institution that self-censors regarding the claims, a constitutional crisis can easily lead to unimaginable destruction of things that are upstream from US science, so ... it does
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by pas 2y ago
it's ridiculously worse. getting things done on the computer got more tiresome, almost every part (booting is still slow, login is still slow, after login starting the browser is slow, rendering the start menu is slow - which should be
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by pas 2y ago
oh, that's extra dumb, since there's no canonical[1] Linux desktop. that said they should offer shortcut presets, like JetBrains products. changing the default is just whack. [1] oh, what the hell!? pun unintended, but now at leas
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by pas 2y ago
why is it problematic? could it be on a raised platform?
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by pas 2y ago
I was pretty hyped on C++ during the (early?) 2010s, hoping that eventually I get to work on project that has really serious number crunching needs, and ... and then ... the big guns. Now reading this feels like the best argument for Rust&#
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by pas 2y ago
... the birthplace of the railways cannot seem to build railways anymore, unfortunately. Growth requires economic/business opportunities, infrastructure that can serve said growth, like-minded people to help manifest said growth, and .
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by pas 2y ago
that's not the hard part. it's the out-of-band key exchange. (or key discovery/verification. so basically how to avoid the trust on first time use problem.)
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by pas 2y ago
We managed to send to everyone except MSFT. MSFT sends to us but then they don't accept anything from us, not even bounces to their own mail. Relay between gmail addresses works fine. (ARC is enabled and working for years? ... since
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by pas 2y ago
everyone is using kernel optimisations at that size. (because it's worth it, because there's a well known pattern of load, file/chunk sizes (so I/O in general) and metrics to shoot for) nginx is a big state machine built
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by pas 2y ago
isn't London still paying more taxes than what's spent there? though of course it's not surprising, productivity is vastly higher in cities. but that's an argument for allowing and helping them to grow more. urbanization
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by pas 2y ago
how much is that 1-2% of GDP of UK? Poland spends 3+ % data for 2024 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/7EF2/production...
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by pas 2y ago
... that's the problem right? The big furniture factory is good at making (cheap) furniture, but they are very bad at managing local teams to deliver and assemble and ... IKEA (at least in most of Europe) is good at this, because they
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by pas 2y ago
The 2024 presidential election's outcome depended on about 100-150K people. Out of the more than ~120 million that voted it's a tiny sliver. Not a lot of people have to change their minds.
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by pas 2y ago
Unfortunately the general population trusts what Republicans say about immigration. And this seem to give them a carte blanche apparently. https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-cant-hide-from-immigr... The boring and
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by pas 2y ago
How soon? -2 weeks? https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/03/13/chicago-attorney... https://www.aclu-il.org/en/press-releases/22-people-arrested...
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by pas 2y ago
deportation is a legal process, this is people getting snatched on the streets. it did not start this month [1], ICE was always a big fucking void of basic civility, but that does not change the nature of these renditions. people held at th
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by pas 2y ago
support moderate candidates in races where they have a chance. https://www.slowboring.com/i/157620293/be-the-change also note that the general public is very Republican when it comes to immigration https:/&#
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by pas 2y ago
it seems there are biodegradable coatings, like this https://www.kit-technology.de/en/technology-offers/details/7...
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by pas 2y ago
it seems there's even a biodegradable version https://www.kit-technology.de/en/technology-offers/details/7...
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by pas 2y ago
that sounds like the lump of labor fallacy. there's plenty of things to do in IT besides babysitting hypocrite hypergiants.
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by pas 2y ago
Was there an option to roll back Google Docs to an earlier release? Or do shadow release A/B testing for a fraction of users? (And thanks for the war story!)
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by pas 2y ago
Thanks for linking to this semi-interactive thing, but ... it's completely incomprehensible. :o (edit: okay, after reading about CLT it's a bit less alien.) I'm curious where is the state stored for this "planning".
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by pas 2y ago
I think that's misleading. There was a lot of physics already known, importance of insulation and cross-section, signal attenuation was also known. The future Lord Kelvin conducted experiments. The two scientific advisors had a conflic
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by pas 2y ago
There was a brief moment when Scala seemed like the new Holy Grail. Gawker (the big 2004-2016 online tabloid/blog media group, before FB and Instagram/TikTok fueled by recommendation systems ate everything) transitioned from PHP t
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by pas 2y ago
If capabilities (Capture Catching) proves to be very useful (and really solves the problems it claims to be able to solve) then it's likely that Java will also implement it, no? So... in about 8-15 years?
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by pas 2y ago
Just as context for anyone curious: Scala is even more "powerful" than TS or Rust as it has real HKT (higher-kinded types), and for example Effect.TS needs to emulate/simulate it. https://github.com/Effect-TS&
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by pas 2y ago
Do people still do that? I thought that the whole "you can just google goobedygook" meme died already! ZIO for this reason has sane normal proper names for things for example.

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