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by rich-tea 7y ago
> It's a matter of fairness. Riskier jobs should have higher salaries. Interesting argument which I doubt anyone here agrees with. After all, that would mean builders, miners, street sweepers and the like would be paid the highest,
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by rich-tea 7y ago
I wonder how often these long distance couples have met up and one or both of them has realised they are not actually attracted to the other. It must happen sometimes. I'm surprised it doesn't happen most of the time. It says some
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Not reliable at all. It is reliable for freshness, but that only matters for some things like poached eggs.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Most of it is just straight up assembly. I don't think there's much inline assembly because that's hard to maintain for multiple platforms. Rich Tea is a British biscuit. Maybe that's why you remember it?
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Except when they imply that it's "not having a life".
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Yeah. It's also perfectly OK to code outside of work. It's still "having a life" but it's my life and therefore my choice.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
It changed when people realised the truth that was being revealed was the wrong truth. People remembered that huge swathes of society are built on lies and deceit and they aren't prepared to do better.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
I suppose Adobe want to draw attention to ligatures because they want to draw attention to the fact that their software supports them. That "Th" ligature is pretty bad.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
This one was quick. It took decades before anyone questioned the war on fat. Looks like the war on carbs is already at that stage. Give it a few years and we'll start to see the bad affects of too much protein. Mark my words. People wh
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by rich-tea 7y ago
They are serious tools for professionals and you have to learn how to use them. I don't know why people think they should be able to use things without training these days. Once you know what you're doing, the toolchains are solid
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by rich-tea 7y ago
How could you bring up such a quotation here? What's the "temporary safety"? Not ruining innocent people's lives? I don't get it.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Yeah, some people lack imagination. I used to make electronic music. I lack imagination. I wasn't good at it. But I had fun doing it nonetheless.
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by rich-tea 7y ago
What I've wanted for a while now is to be able to run a single jupyter server but have many kernels running inside different containers. It's possible to have the kernels in different virtualenvs. I wonder if I could achieve that
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by rich-tea 7y ago
Just want to add that GMP is not "C". The critical parts are written in assembly. It's not really possible to do fast multiple-precision arithmetic in C. You need direct access to add with carry instructions and the like.