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by shakow 4y ago
> Land and property records so far have survived centuries (if not millennia) Not really, no. Just taking the European example, there have been countless cases of litigious states of affair after e.g. invasions, revolutions, nationalizat
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by shakow 4y ago
> Unlike VSCode, Emacs and Vim have a learning curve. That's not the point, we were talking about plugins.
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by shakow 4y ago
If you will directly write yourself everything to a GL canvas anyway, what do you gain by going through a whole WebGL dependency & context rather than just using a native OpenGL context?
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by shakow 4y ago
> Atom practically invented the kind of extensions that VSCode had Let me introduce you to Emacs, vim, Sublime, TextMate, ...
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by shakow 4y ago
> Per capita, Germany uses far less coal It would be great if globabl warming were per capita, too. > This blip has received an overwhelming amount of attention given that it was relatively small, lasted a few years and coal usage sta
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by shakow 4y ago
> That's already not true. I just read it from GP's figure, I indeed didn't check further.
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by shakow 4y ago
1. Because Germany is still producing 6× more energy with coal than Poland; 2. Because Germany deliberately shut down low-carbon footprint nuke powerplant to please their voters, then built coal-burning plants to compensate for the lack of
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by shakow 4y ago
> countries with a strong egalitarian bend in their schooling system seem to do much better than the American ones and not just on average. I'm not sure; France and Russia and their selective systems, respectively classes préparatoi
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by shakow 4y ago
> but a lot of their peers would have had the privilege of studying with them If you need other students to successfully study, that's either yours or the educational system's failure; but other children shouldn't be dragg
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by shakow 4y ago
The very concept of a ligature is to alter the letter depending on its surrounding context.
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by shakow 4y ago
> are technically optional and could be done without My bad, I thought those were mandatory.
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by shakow 4y ago
If we programmed in Chinese, one would need to know thousands of characters to write any decent-sized program; if we programmed in Japanese, one would need to master several alphabets , if we were to program in Hindi, the very shape of our
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by shakow 4y ago
and I meant: “concerns were raised within the Soviet high command that an invasion of Hokkaido would be impractical and unlikely to succeed” Sure, there was a huge political part at play and I don't deny it, but even abstracting the US
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by shakow 4y ago
> that wasn't really an issue as food production has been pretty much restored during 192x "New Economical Policies" Fair point; I meant that many efforts were devoted to the industrialization of the country, depriving the
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by shakow 4y ago
> Or was it a desire not to have to split the islands with the Soviets who were lining up to invade I don't think that anyone, the Soviets the first ones, ever seriously envisioned a Soviet invasion of the US mainland; I'm not
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by shakow 4y ago
> The USSR famine of 1932 had while not exactly the same yet similar reasons Partly only. The 1932 famine was much more complicated, and a conjunction of what you said, a weak economy a few years after WWI and the civil war, Stalin pushi
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by shakow 4y ago
> There are more renewable energy sources [...] Buying electricity is also a good option. Is that supposed to be a good faith argument? > Renewable is the only viable option. A lot of words without arguments, isn't it?
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by shakow 4y ago
> That makes no sense. The market (demand & supply) decides. The static model is long past. Indeed, the supply. And what is the very charateristic of Germany's renewable supply? That they do not have any inluence of it. They hav
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by shakow 4y ago
> Germany has been a large net exporter of electricity for years. 18.9 TWh It does not mean anything if they can't decide when they export it. Waht matters though, is that most of the time their electricity has an awful carbon foo
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by shakow 4y ago
> because in recent years they had to shut down their nuclear plants during heatwaves, when the rivers they use to cool them got too warm This is an ecological concern, not a technical one. If the French are ok with frying fishes, they c
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by shakow 4y ago
I don't know what Wiki says, but this here[0] says that right now, Germany is both producing one of the dirtiest electricity in Europe, all while still importing over 1GW. [0] https://app.electricitymap.org/map
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by shakow 5y ago
> Why is this something that can’t happen? Because if you crack wallets, you are either (i) cracking it through social means, i.e. stealing login/password, and it's nothing extraordinary; or (ii) you just broke EC crypto, and t
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by shakow 5y ago
Cryptocurrencies are far from all being in limited supply.
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by shakow 5y ago
I'm not sure I would qualify any post-Soviet Eastern European country (Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, ...) as a boradly successful. Typically, they are highly corrupted, wealth amass in a tiny sliver of the population, they are hemorragein
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by shakow 5y ago
> As long as you have bounds checking and a test suite you're golden. And other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself
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by shakow 5y ago
That FB renamed to Meta in a bad conjecture while it was hemmoraeging users, whereas as the Alphabet renaming looked like a mere organizational refactoring in a constant growth context.
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by shakow 5y ago
I concur. I recently ported some bioinfo computations from scalar to SIMD with primitives from core::arch, and the gain was an immediate ~10×. It is a shame that one needs to fiddle with RUSTC_FLAGS just for SIMD extensions to trigger thoug
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by shakow 5y ago
> doesn't run on AIX/Illumos/NetBSD These OSs distribute their own coreutils. > yes(1) turns out to be really slow without that weirdness[0] I'm not sure there is a workflow where yes writing slower than 10.2GB&#x2
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(Probably Voltmeter) With Magic Eye(hackaday.com)
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by shakow 5y ago
Or just use something like GNU stow or chezmoi.

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