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by simongray 1y ago
I mean... 20% is not really a lot. It's probably a lot closer to 100% in most countries of the world.
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by simongray 1y ago
It's gone from the frontpage now and isn't anywhere in the top 200 either. Hmmm. I guess he was right.
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Bret Victor: Computational Public Space [video](youtube.com)
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by simongray 1y ago
There are several early retirement systems in place in Denmark for people who are unable to work.
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by simongray 1y ago
It's different in every country. In Denmark it is a mix: everyone receives a state pension (the Nordic model of universal welfare), but almost everyone also has a private pension account that they out money into.
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by simongray 1y ago
Full-time in Denmark is 37 hours/week and most people have around 6 weeks of vacation/year (the legal minimum is 5). Some people will be working part-time, bringing the total hours worked down, so the numbers make sense to me.
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by simongray 1y ago
I just auto-replace three hyphens in a row.
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by simongray 1y ago
And lots of people write on the web using English as a second language, which both reduces the presence of their native language and increases the presence of English.
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by simongray 1y ago
I wonder if this is why Time Machine started taking up all my CPU resources after I upgraded? I had to shut off automated Time Machine backups because it literally makes my M1 MBA unusable for few minutes every hour.
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by simongray 2y ago
Aha, TIL! Thanks.
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by simongray 2y ago
This video contains visits to and interviews with both Isar and another European startup, RFA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRFnGnJzRJQ I found it quite interesting. They are taking two very different approaches.
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by simongray 2y ago
If someone built a space port in the Canary Islands that would actually be at a similar latitude to Cape Canaveral, though the latitude of French Guiana is hard to beat (and the Canary Islands are technically part of Africa, not Europe).
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by simongray 2y ago
Before the inauguration, Tesla was trading at a P/E 30 times bigger than Toyota. Now it's about half that (110). Some say Tesla shouldn't be valued as a car stock; it should instead be valued as a Tech stock. Well, Tesla trad
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by simongray 2y ago
> anyone know a European alternative to SwiftKey? :P Sadly, SwiftKey is/was actually a UK company that was acquired by Microsoft. Most successful European tech start-ups seem to end up being acquired by one of the American tech gian
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by simongray 2y ago
It's something I've noticed that has started happening on this site whenever the EU is mentioned, especially when LLMs/AI is also mentioned or any kind of regulation. Hacker News is also quite biased against academia in gener
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by simongray 2y ago
My bad. I misread the official website: > We don't currently support Apple Silicon, as there is not yet a Kokoro implementation in MLX. As soon as it will be available, we will support it. I thought that meant that it didn't su
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by simongray 2y ago
Ah my bad! I just read the "We don't currently support Apple Silicon" on the official website, but I didn't realise that only pertains to GPU support.
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by simongray 2y ago
Oh no, it doesn't run on Apple Silicon. That's too bad.
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by simongray 2y ago
I guess you are one of the lucky ones who writes everything correctly the first time around. I tend to move around parens quite a lot while developing, constantly refactoring, so some kind of structural editing was necessary for me from the
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by simongray 2y ago
Thank you, Colin! Now you mention it, it makes so much sense that you use Parinfer yourself. The implementation is so great and doesn't feel quirky to me (or maybe I just got used to the quirks).
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by simongray 2y ago
I've been using Parinfer with IntelliJ (Cursive) ever since I started developing Clojure professionally back in 2018. The best thing about Parinfer, or at least the implementation in Cursive, is that it doesn't preclude you from
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by simongray 2y ago
AFAIK Calva does have a Parinfer implementation.
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by simongray 2y ago
He was mocking the way people talk about the EU and intentionally used companies not based in California as examples.
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by simongray 2y ago
It wasn't legal at the time, that's what's just been established by the verdict. Apple (uniquely) having a near zero tax rate is considered illegal state aid to a company. Private companies are supposed to operate on the same
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by simongray 2y ago
They've also hired Michael Fogus to work on Clojure, so more resources are definitely being put into developing the language.
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by simongray 2y ago
RDF is open-world and entirely additive; it doesn't solve the synchronization problem. You will end up with an ever larger set of triples. Also, the author has created the most popular client-side database in the Clojure community (Dat
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by simongray 2y ago
I'm the same, always just used parinfer with IntelliJ, though I do know a few paredit key combos that I use occasionally (paredit isn't disabled just because parinfer is enabled).
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by simongray 2y ago
Autocomplete also works for the functions and vars in the namespaces. You don't really use methods in Clojure unless you're doing interop with Java or JS.
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by simongray 3y ago
Seems to be a breakout group from XTDB (which has a similar feature set), but they switched from Clojure to Common Lisp.
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by simongray 3y ago
Can you provide a bit more context, please. Private right of action? March 8th?

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