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721.
by pohl 5y ago
I've seen myriad "written in C/Python/Java/JavaScript/TypeScript/Lua" posts over the years. You're not imagining things, though. The world waited 30 years (from the 1985 when C++ appeared to 2015
722.
by pohl 5y ago
The word "currently" serves the same function as "yet" here, doesn't it?
723.
by pohl 5y ago
The lurkers have been the majority in every kind of online forum, from usenet to slashdot to HN comment threads to reddit to twitter. Are you and I lacking in real life for engaging with each other here?
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by pohl 5y ago
He wants both. He wants the territory, either directly or via a puppet administration and, in service of that goal, he needs to control the population. Regarding territory, he'll take what he can get. He's in Ukraine because no o
725.
by pohl 5y ago
Yes, it's the same trans-national crime syndicate. It's the same war, even – it's just recently became kinetic. Amazing the ROI that Vlad got from TFG.
726.
by pohl 5y ago
> ...theyre effectively meaningless as most capable, observant countries have managed to sidestep... In this case, though, one wants to apply pressure not on the country, but on the surrounding oligarchs. When a nation is, essentially, a
727.
by pohl 5y ago
That was the first thing I explored.
728.
by pohl 5y ago
I think Rust has grown way beyond the point where it makes sense to characterize the community as a whole. I imagine you could get entirely different experiences depending upon whether you were engaging with people in some HN thread, or Red
729.
by pohl 5y ago
They should also consider more "Oxidation" of Firefox components, if only because it lowers the bar for mere mortals to make open source contributions.
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by pohl 5y ago
I like it. One possible bug (or maybe I misunderstand the UI): if the note that I pick at the top is C#, and then I select Aeolian in the Scale/Mode selector, shouldn't the label say "C# Minor"? Right now it just says
731.
by pohl 5y ago
I did see that. That phrasing doesn't really tell us.
732.
by pohl 5y ago
How do you know? I couldn't find any example questions in the article.
733.
by pohl 5y ago
It's a common practice in survey design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likert_scale
734.
by pohl 5y ago
Oral traditon is a kind of lossy recording on oddly volatile media.
735.
by pohl 5y ago
God forbid a university's site mentions interesting research conducted outside their walls.
736.
by pohl 5y ago
That's fair. I feel the same way about your moribund federal waste meme.
737.
by pohl 5y ago
If we could get billionaires – who can apparently afford their own hobby space agencies – to pay their taxes, we wouldn't need to catastrophize every little perceived "waste".
738.
by pohl 5y ago
It's my understanding that American Football players frequently wonder, during a game, why there are no automobile tires strewn about the field for them to step into.
739.
by pohl 5y ago
Yeah, that's a bit broad, but citizens who still work towards doing useful things through public policy deserve some recognition, here.
740.
by pohl 5y ago
The idea of cooking food stayed. Sanitation stayed. The practice of washing hands stayed. Refrigeration of food stayed. Why the heck shouldn't the use masks stay?
741.
by pohl 5y ago
I prefer not being at the end of a leash. To each, their own.
742.
by pohl 5y ago
"You're going to be eaten by a bronteroc. We don't know what it means."
743.
by pohl 5y ago
But its effectiveness depends so much on the message I think it's best to think of this as messages (plural) when talking about microtargeting. Everybody could get a different message but, in aggregate, the set of (Target, Message)
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by pohl 5y ago
I do appreciate your condescension, but no one said it had to do with something about Russia being for or against proliferation.
745.
by pohl 5y ago
My experience was so much worse. I was born in 1967. My son was born in 2009. We both have 61.53737504% of our expected lifespan remaining. We used different browsers, but the same machine.
746.
by pohl 5y ago
Tell the people of Ukraine right now how much Putin wants to be left alone.
747.
by pohl 5y ago
If democratically-elected government disappears, something will fill that power void, and they will control that arsenal. Who knows what could happen with them.
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by pohl 5y ago
Not more than a month ago I spent almost an hour trying, unsuccessfully, to google that Michael Levin talk, having forgotten his name, the title, the forum, etc. Thank you, thank you for the link!
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by pohl 5y ago
Rich, negligent assholes?
750.
by pohl 5y ago
Maybe more pronounced, even, as the pricetag gets larger: The yacht is listed for sale at $51 million.

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