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by shakow 5y ago
> societies that treat minority opinions and individuality badly are poorer and less stable. Remind me what happened to the two states that, for the first, applied a simili-apartheid in half the country, and, for the second, held its po
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by shakow 5y ago
Except that Norwegian oil money is only used for pensions and state investment. Your average Norwegian never sees the color of the petrodollars until their retirement, and they're still doing quite well.
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by shakow 5y ago
Talk to them. And to go further, I would argue that most people would consider not working to be a privilege. Even if I'm a man, I'd love to live off my passive earnings.
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by shakow 5y ago
Because he is talking about the male lineage.
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by shakow 5y ago
> A little surprised by this It seems to me that not birthing children when one is not financially safe makes sense; having children is, in some ways, a luxury now that a two-incomes household is the norm.
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by shakow 5y ago
> Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? In some ways, I agree. My own solution was to develop reading lists storage ( https://github.com/domovikapp/domovik-server/
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by shakow 5y ago
> the internet will be just black text on a white background Where do we sign up?
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by shakow 5y ago
The article is great. But please Jessica, if you read this, would you consider unfixing the header on mobile? It’s very cute, but it’s also taking a fifth of my screen!
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by shakow 5y ago
> Pre-Soviet literature is dark, but it really doesn't compare to Soviet-era works. That's a very werid take. I don't see how e.g. the Strugatskii are darker than Gogol. Have you read the books you allude to?
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by shakow 5y ago
> I would blame more the cold messed up soviet-era society for this Please read The Prince, The Karamazov Brothers, Eugene Onegin, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, or Dead Souls before writing this kind of grotesque sweeping statements.
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by shakow 5y ago
I don't know how it works there, but IME, I can still use my email from a university I'm not working at for over 2 years.
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by shakow 5y ago
> software that doesn't brings any money Orbiter never tried to bring in any money. It has always been a one-physicist pet project (first version published in 2000), closed-source albeit very open to all kind of mods and featuring a
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by shakow 5y ago
The Orbiter Space Simulator ( http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ ) has been one of the major realistic-ish space simulators of the decade. Development has slowed down in the last years due to the obligations of its sole author,
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Orbiter Space Flight Simulator is now open source(orbiter-forum.com)
373 points by shakow 5y ago|71 comments
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by shakow 5y ago
This article is painfully true. Julia is full of gems, but also features so many warts everywhere that I'm not sure whether it will be able to overcome the latter – I hope it will. I would add to the author's list the subtle diffe
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by shakow 5y ago
I guess it depends on what you call “language-level”; I mentioned these libraries because they all make use of macros and/or AST manipulation, which I would put somewhere in a grey area between language and compiler.
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by shakow 5y ago
But what is the “miles on straight-ahead, well-lit US highway” vs. “kms on random European regional road” ratio?
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by shakow 5y ago
The “international” spelling is actually the English one. E.g. France and Germany respectively use “tch” and “tsch”, which correspond to the pronunciation in their languages.
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by shakow 5y ago
> the expressiveness to augment the compiler to do interesting things with a piece of code. Julia has very interesting propositions on the subject, from language-level autodiff ( https://fluxml.ai/Zygote.jl/latest&#x2
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by shakow 5y ago
Postdocs was only there to gauge what kind of peoples one can afford with that kind of money. But in any case, journals don't do any semantic editing on articles, so the whole point is moot: anyone can be an editor as long as they can
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by shakow 5y ago
IMHO, they're pretty, but waste quite some space for no gain apart prettinnes.
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by shakow 5y ago
Great, I'm glad to see it was indeed friendly banter.
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by shakow 5y ago
> The pain... it won't stop. After so much oppression from other text editors, it's time we fight back. > Woah, keybinds that actually make sense. Some text editors should take notes. Am I being overly sensitive tonight, or
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by shakow 5y ago
There are ~15-20 articles per Nature issue (not counting all the rest). I would assume that over $150,000, or ~3 full-time postdocs yearly nets should be enough for monthly minor editorial work.
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by shakow 5y ago
Would not necessarily be a bad idea. https://theconversation.com/economists-an-excel-error-and-th... Not that this is Excel's fault, but researchers should definitely either seriously learn how to use computer stuff, o
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by shakow 5y ago
> Really unfortunate that the maintainer doesn't update the melpa package. Last MELPA update is 05/11; did I miss something?
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by shakow 5y ago
> (for books maybe). We do. I don't know if it's the general rule, but for the one I partook in, we get ~20 €cents.sale-1.author-1.
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by shakow 5y ago
It's even worse, C is “portable” PDP-11 assembly. It has been a few decades that a C program is only distantly related to the assembly the compiler will generate.
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by shakow 5y ago
> it's disheartening that this essentially boils down to a failure of hype. Maybe also, but not only. In contrast to Rust, Ada docs have been awful, and as long as you didn't get a commercial toolchain you had to play with some
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by shakow 5y ago
IMHO, Ada missed its chance to shine when it didn't have any satisfactory FLOSS build chain right at the time that paying for a compiler became a thing of the past.

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