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by riffraff 4mo ago
You see, in this _new economy_ you can't rely on old metrics to judge value. At least that's what I remember from the 00s.
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Kino, a high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0(github.com)
5 points by riffraff 4mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I imagined those just fell down while they were taking them out so they didn't took out 125, lost 20+, and got caught with 102.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I think the point is they had no authority to do that. Michaelangelo's Last Judgment had exposed genitals that were covered with draperies by Daniele da Volterra later. Then at some point they were removed again to restore the original
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by riffraff 4mo ago
no, he's american born. He would be entitled to (or already have) Italian citizenship by ius sanguinis ("blood right") tho.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
In Italy the Carabinieri[0] used to have a Ferrari 250 GTE 2+2 in the '60s. The car is still around[1] and is legally allowed to go around with the original "police colors" even tho it's now owned by a private collector.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
FYI, just cause I discovered this recently and I was mildly mind blown: newgrounds is alive and kicking with new stuff. I do miss kongregate tho.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
taxes were very low for the majority of civilization and war was way more prevalent than it is today.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
"Some may say Ruby is a bad rip-off of Lisp or Smalltalk, and I admit that. But it is nicer to ordinary people." (Matz speaking at the LL2 conference some 20+ years ago)
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by riffraff 4mo ago
FWIW, "lay monasteries" and hermitages exist, and there are some religious ones which are not strict about who wants to join, the Bose monastic community[0] comes to mind talking of christianity, but there's plenty for other
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by riffraff 4mo ago
> overlooked by a huge swathe of readers I think there is no one who read LoTR and ignored Tom Bombadil. If anything, they give him too much importance.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I think GP meant it's not just "laying around", you have to actively look for books. When I was a kid I had a ton of books from my parents in the house and when bored I could pick one up. That's not the same as having a
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I disagree, people used to read newspapers and magazines. Even if you were not an intellectual or interested in politics you'd read the sports daily, or the gossip column. This activity has largely disappeared.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
Brave has its own ad blocker engine built-in rather than as an extension, and it can reuse uBlock's lists https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust I use brave on my phone and I can't really tell the difference f
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by riffraff 4mo ago
it _is_ a browser feature for e.g. brave, vivaldi and (experimental, afair) firefox. Popup blockers were also a differentiator, once.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
yeah I think in Italy this was introduced in the security push after 9/11, and in other EU countries I also had to provide an id to get a sim card, tho I'm not sure it's all of them.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I used LLMs last year to plan an multiple week itinerary through Japan with the family, I wasn't super happy with the result so I tweaked it but they provided a useful template and some surprising ideas. As you guessed, there's a
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by riffraff 4mo ago
I would love to have "Stonehenge architect" as a job title.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
why is it courageous? It seems the perfect time to do it while the market is still bubbly.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
> This is not a pancake in the modern sense, but it is a batter cooked on a flat hot surface, which is the definition of one. Are you sure it was a batter and not a dough? That would make it an archaic flatbread rather than pancake :) (t
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by riffraff 4mo ago
They won't, SpaceX will weigh less then 1% in most indexes, since they're mostly float adjusted, only NASDAQ will overweight them, but FTSE/MSCI/CRSP/SP will not. It's still quite some money but it won't c
172.
by riffraff 4mo ago
Buy inflation linked bonds? They won't yield much above inflation but if you have >1M that's enough to last through retirement.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
Which perpetual bonds yield 6.5% on a UTC basis?
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An announcement from the Steering Council regarding the JIT project(discuss.python.org)
18 points by riffraff 4mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 4mo ago
So they did tweak the rule for total market indexes, just not the "curated" ones.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
They'll still be included in total market indexes (FTSE, MSCI, CRSP). As I understand it, VTI will be a major thing. Still, they're float adjusted (for the most part?).
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by riffraff 4mo ago
You do realize SpaceX valuation is completely detached from the space business at this point? Their S1 cites (by memory) a 370B addressable market for space stuff and a 27 trillion for AI. And for AI they counted all Twitter accounts as g
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by riffraff 4mo ago
Thank you so much for sharing this, I had no idea this condition existed and you provided a perfect explanation.
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by riffraff 4mo ago
> I guess they will just swap on the fast ssd so it will be alright but that should cause extra wear on the SSD, or is this no longer a concern?
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by riffraff 4mo ago
some of those seem like only very vaguely related to types (binding, EULA). Maybe the author just asked some LLM to provide more filler. But other than that, this is quite nice.

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