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by pkd 6y ago
False dichotomy. You don't have to sign up for a contract that give them even ceremonial powers forever or behead them in grotesque violence. It is possible to negotiate a deal where they have no power and get to keep their properties
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by pkd 6y ago
Having many small players is not by itself inefficient. The inefficiencies come from lack of modernisation which is (in large part) a direct result of the stasis induced by the kind of government meddling that these farm bills are trying to
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by pkd 6y ago
Great work and I am glad this show is building a cult following. I consider the later 3 seasons of the show as the third best TV series I have seen in the past decade (behind only True Detective S1 and Chernobyl). If you have been struggli
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by pkd 6y ago
Precisely. Too often I see bad behaviour in open source communities justified with the lazy reply of "being nice does not produce good software" (multiple examples of this in yesterday's thread about suckless) and Jason'
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by pkd 6y ago
Also Julia I think?
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by pkd 6y ago
Eh, no? It's based on the field of view, not on the physical length of the lens. Fuji's 27mm pancake lens is only 23mm tall. A telephoto lens it is not.
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by pkd 6y ago
Several recommendations on this thread have led me to buy the SQL Performance Explained book.
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by pkd 6y ago
It doesn't translate very well to English. The word for "duty" has way more weight attached to it. It's things you ought to do from a sense of righteousness, not things prescribed to you by some random corporation.
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by pkd 6y ago
It is actually very much correct if you believe in data backed research and can read Capital in the 21st Century.
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by pkd 6y ago
My domain registrar (Namecheap) provides mail forwarding for free and I've not needed more than that.
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by pkd 6y ago
I hope alcohol gets the same treatment as cigarettes and other tobacco products in a couple of decades. People should be allowed to drink it if they chose to after being made aware of all the risks with every purchase. But hopefully the tre
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by pkd 6y ago
Congratulations on a finished project. A book at that too!
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The E Programming Language(erights.org)
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by pkd 6y ago
Tamil isn't the oldest language either. That would be one of the Austro-asiatic languages of the Andamans.
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by pkd 6y ago
This seems to have gained quite a lot of popularity. I think it's the third time I've seen this on the HN front page in the last month. Although I find it abominable that even one person has carried their discrimination with them,
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by pkd 6y ago
Congrats! It would nice to have an overview of what games are available to play. The only hint I got was rules for Rush!.
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by pkd 7y ago
Having personally read this book, I can add another anecdotal data point to the "it's great" category. It is an insightful book without being preachy and has something useful for people at all levels. Obviously it's most
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by pkd 7y ago
From the first tweet, I thought they were talking about the actual chalk-on Blackboard.
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by pkd 7y ago
It's not the actual measurement, it's the physical act of dividing an angle graphically into thirds using nothing but a compass and a ruler.
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by pkd 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying. But that seems a bit unfair and arbitrary. Rails definitely boosted its popularity but Ruby itself is quite potent without it. Stripe has its systems written in Ruby without using Rails, for example. If we apply the s
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by pkd 7y ago
Almost nobody was using Python in 1989 either. Clearly it's a mistake on the part of the writer and not some deliberate attempt at judging when a language became popular.
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by pkd 7y ago
I don't think there's any guilt by association being assigned to anything. The article in my head amounted to the realization that the corporation behind Robert's Rules does not itself adhere to the book's teachings and
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by pkd 7y ago
I hate to be pedantic about this but it bothers me that in the west, "saag" has been taken to only mean spinach. There are other leafy greens that saag can be made out of: mustard leaves, for example is a popular one. Fenugreek le
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by pkd 7y ago
This is just true for tech overall. Job hopping will almost always lead to more money than staying at one place and navigating the ladder. What you gain with cash, you lose in clout.
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by pkd 7y ago
The manual approach to lookahead is primarily what makes PEG, PEG and resolves the ambiguity in a CFG.
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by pkd 7y ago
Not every single one of them, but it's definitely rare to find auto renew turned off.
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by pkd 7y ago
I can think of two. Letterboxd, and Pinboard. I pay for both.
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by pkd 7y ago
Because of the use case. Go wins if all you need is the easiest way to write services with high concurrency requirements. I expect this is true for Twitch's systems. Crystal is still immature, Rust is more suited to use cases where you
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by pkd 7y ago
It's not Ruby + types, it just looks like it at first glance. The semantics are all diffrent (for good reasons). I very much doubt that anyone is using Crystal at the scale Ruby/Rails is used yet. It's still far away from a 1
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by pkd 7y ago
Look into readwise. There's no API access to highlights, do they scrape it from an open tab.

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