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by shakow 3y ago
A racing pure-blood sure, but an average horse goes for a couple thousands dollars at most.
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by shakow 3y ago
Yeah, if one wants a more realist overview of Siberian environmentalism, they should rather read Borodin's The Third Truth . https://archive.org/details/thirdtruth0000boro
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by shakow 3y ago
> has native linux support It does, a game or two of Warthunder are my guilty pleasure while waiting for some CI pipelines to finish.
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by shakow 3y ago
This is what the first section of the article is about.
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by shakow 3y ago
> Target: Dog Walkers > Features: Built-in waste bag dispenser I'm not yet sure whether I hate it or love it. > Target: Visually Impaired Individuals > Features: Haptic feedback Haptic shoes, how revolutionary!
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by shakow 3y ago
We can't really know as we can't see the author's patch, but given that (i) the guy answering is responsible for the whole CPU architecture in Linux and (ii) the author mourns his putative contributor badge but does not criti
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by shakow 3y ago
> I'd be pissed if I put in a lot of effort revising my contributions to a project, only to be told at the end that "I like my version better, so go away!" Frankly, I think that's a non-trivial problem to solve: how t
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by shakow 3y ago
I don't think OP says that her work was not smart or non-innovative, merely that presenting it as “pioneering frequency hoping” is over the top. E.g. Hoare did a lot of smart things with Rust bringing real-world impact, still you would
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by shakow 3y ago
Not really, because the nychthemeron does not carry the concept of an anchoring hour, only a consecutive 24h span.
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by shakow 3y ago
Do you have an example in mind?
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by shakow 3y ago
By para, you mean a complete day & night cycle? If so, we have something similar in French, with « jour » being a 24 hour span, whereas a « journée » only designating the daylight part of it.
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by shakow 3y ago
I see, thanks for the context.
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by shakow 3y ago
> Buyer beware, I guess? I don't know how common it is (quite a lot I believe), but in my country (France), you need to provide a certificate of inspection guaranteeing that the car vital systems behave correctly when selling it.
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by shakow 3y ago
I'm not saying there were no dumb people in the past, I'm saying that being amazed that most people of the past could not see further than their nose is a very naive take.
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by shakow 3y ago
> in that it's not suffering from the idea of an ideal standard of divine beauty embedded in the universe Frankly, it's your take that feels extraordinarily modern. Do you really believe that people living at this time, being f
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by shakow 3y ago
Or as the subspace of all the vectors are orthogonal to a given single vector, or as the subspace generated by any orthogonal basis with one base vector removed, or as the kernel of a linear form, ... – but a more visual explanation is prob
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by shakow 3y ago
A subspace of dimension n-1 of a n-dimensional vector space. It is an extension of the well-known concept of a 2d-plane in a 3d-space to nd-spaces.
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by shakow 3y ago
> getting something this basic wrong... Despite the obvious vitriol of your message, I'd precise for the posterity that when KDE was created, this was not such a surprising thing to do as e.g. old Apple OS did so, and it was a commo
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by shakow 3y ago
Privacy? I don't necessarily want my bank and/or the state to know that I blew up 3k€ on PrettyOlgaBlueEyes in a night of loneliness, or that my hobby is to buy & restore old cars, or whatever else.
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by shakow 3y ago
> This doesn't scale. --will-cite
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by shakow 3y ago
> R, for example, has 320,000 Which is, to be frank, ridiculous compared to the number of papers it enabled.
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by shakow 3y ago
Poland is (i) a pretty poor country compared to Germany, (ii) does not present itself as the “obviously right way forward”, (iii) didn't close perfectly working nuke plants to please the Grüne, (iv) does not actively lobby with all its
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by shakow 3y ago
> more efficient. Beg your pardon? How is 2.5 tons of steel to carry a handful of people more efficient than a tram?
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by shakow 3y ago
Germany has still on average one of the dirtiest electricity of Western Europe, must import from its neighbors quite frequently, and is currently seeing the premises of an exodus of its industry due to energy cost; I'm not sure that us
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by shakow 3y ago
> even though it's wrong. Well, empirically, we only observe that countries heavily relying on renewable (Denmark and Germany are the poster children) (i) have a much worse average CO2/kWh ratio, (ii) still need to import energ
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by shakow 3y ago
Why would we want to spend so much money to transition to driverless transportation? Just take PT if you don't want to drive.
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by shakow 3y ago
> Moving towards what? Toward a better stdlib? E.g. we had to wait years to get Min/Max.
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by shakow 3y ago
> essential features not matched by any other language ecosystem > proceeds to list features abundantly common in other languages Least enthusiastic Go user.
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by shakow 3y ago
> The despair and famines caused by Stalin, Hitler, Mao all caused far more deaths. That's true, but if you take the demographic residue, the fall of the USSR is the only time, safe for the worst year of the stalinist purges, to mak
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by shakow 3y ago
> Paris is 140 miles That's only the subway; a better comparison would include at least parts of the RER network, which covers 360 miles; let's say half of that in a range comparable to London subway. And London is much more sp

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