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by pkd 3y ago
Currencies are formatted differently in different locales, even foreign ones.
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by pkd 3y ago
Naughty Boy is a name brand product of black leather school shoes made by the shoe company Bata. Although it is a Czech company, it is probably the biggest shoe brand in India - at least in recognition. I would say that most people in India
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by pkd 3y ago
> Uh? If you use `%w` in fmt.Errorf(), it should still work with .Is and .As? You still need a stable error to compare against in errors.Is. fmt.Errorf is not going to provide that if the message is dynamic - which is almost always.
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by pkd 3y ago
Probably helpful to understand the API first before understanding the implementation. There is a well known guide here: http://silverhammermba.github.io/emberb/
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by pkd 3y ago
Ah nice! I stopped looking after I found the support page.
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by pkd 3y ago
For the paranoid but lazy, here is a page on a google.com address that talks about and links to this page: https://support.google.com/qwiklabs/answer/9210144?hl=en It seems like this course is "contracted&quo
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by pkd 3y ago
It is available in a zotac mini PC.
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by pkd 3y ago
- A Fire Upon The Deep - Brave New World - The Dispossessed - The Sirens of Titan / Slaughterhouse 5 - Recursion - Exhalation - There Is No Antimemetics Division - Foundation Series
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by pkd 3y ago
I certainly agree that reading these books won't make you have the skills needed to be a Staff engineer but I think the rest of your point seems highly biased by your individual personal experience. Btw, Will Larson was at Etsy in a ve
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by pkd 3y ago
Honest question: how many people employed as journalists do you personally know? I ask because this sort of comment against an entire profession is generally a symptom of a level of separation that allows for the lack of nuance like "j
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by pkd 3y ago
What does Crystal's IO stream support provide that Ruby's does not? Both expose very similar IO stream interfaces from my experience.
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by pkd 3y ago
Indian print media (The Indian Express is a print publication first and foremost), in my experience, has very legitimate journalism. Most of the vitriol from both sides happens on TV news, not print, and is manufactured for generating views
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by pkd 3y ago
Perhaps if you read it instead of falling prey to counter propaganda yourself, you'd realise that they don't claim that it has anything to do with religions.
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by pkd 3y ago
The thing I found amazing when I found Verner Vinge was that there were still sci-fi authors of his calibre that I had never heard of, given I have been reading sci-fi since I was 8. There are more things in this world etc etc. A Fire Upon
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SmolCSS(smolcss.dev)
2 points by pkd 3y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 3y ago
Since a library is mentioned, it is possible that the Ruby library was particularly inefficient compared to Crystal. Crystal is definitely faster than Ruby, but I expect differences to diminish in IO-bound operations (which sitemap generati
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by pkd 3y ago
This is a good list but it has a massive jump in levels from $40 to $200+. I would say that Platinum 3776 belongs in between these levels and not alongside the 2000 and Vanishing Point. Other entries on this level may include: - Faber Caste
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by pkd 3y ago
It is not a problem that can be fixed "forever". Iodised salt solved it, so moving away to non-iodised salts can make it resurface. One should evaluate their own personal iodine intake - if you are not getting it from salt then yo
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by pkd 3y ago
I prefer to call it "prompt alchemy" for exactly the reasons you described. It can't be engineering if you can't understand what you are trying to engineer with. Alchemists were sort of proto-scientists and engineers bec
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by pkd 3y ago
The runic script (futhark) could also be written l2r and r2l in alternating lines.
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by pkd 3y ago
I am not sure your sources are in disagreement with what I said. You are hypothesizing a situation where only manufacturing exports can balance out manufacturing imports, but that is not true - we gain capital from service exports also. It
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by pkd 3y ago
To provide more context on this, Raghuram Rajan participated in a march across India led by the then leader of opposition. He has not in any official capacity joined the opposition.
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by pkd 3y ago
Eh, this is a bit misleading without context. The person in question is Raghuram Rajan. He is not criticising manufacturing led growth, but the idea that India can blindly follow the path that China took, simply because the world is very di
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by pkd 3y ago
While being good at Leetcode is not necessarily negatively correlated with being a good software engineer, is is also not positively correlated. Thus, by relying on it solely, you are still making a coin-toss decision about the software eng
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by pkd 4y ago
There is a great discussion of the trade-offs in this podcast episode with Stephen Dolan, who works on Ocaml. Link to the start of the relevant section in the transcript: https://signalsandthreads.com/memory-management/
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One Bag Travel(onebag.travel)
2 points by pkd 4y ago|0 comments
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by pkd 4y ago
I am aware of the intricacies - I am Indian :) Regardless of everything, my comment was pointing out the obvious difference between the other examples and India-Pak dynamic.
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by pkd 4y ago
I'm not sure that's a great example. The Indus water treaty has been respected by India despite all the wars and tensions with Pakistan over the decades. Only in the last month is it that it has been brought into question.
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by pkd 4y ago
India also has nuclear weapons, unlike South Korea and Taiwan, so there is a strong deterrence effect.
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by pkd 4y ago
Rust does not prevent you from changing the model through iteration - it simply makes you explicitly think about it each time you are making changes. That is not against lean/agile way of working. I have worked on one of the largest Ru

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