sirtaj

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by sirtaj 10y ago
Where have I suggested 100% taxation? What point are you making, please be clear.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
When I went to Australia I was surprised at the number of people from my ethnic background who had immigrated as adults and would complain bitterly about taxes. They loved the safety and security, general standard of education, healthcare,
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by sirtaj 10y ago
As an example: India has 700 million mobile phone users, of which around 300 million are estimated to be smartphone users. Number of credit card users are around 20 million. the vast majority of "non-cash" payments would be done a
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by sirtaj 10y ago
In the cases where I need to do this, I use a singleton: DEFAULT=object() # used for no other purpose def fun(arg=DEFAULT): arg_val = {} if arg is DEFAULT else arg
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I get the impression they never had much interest in Linux ports in the first place, it was mostly just Carmack's interest in the platform that drove it. But now his attention is elsewhere, so they don't have to bother any more.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I've always considered that type of AGW argument as analogous to watching a rubber ball bounce down a hill and saying, "See? It bounces so high! There is no trend."
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Oh, there's plenty of shame. First, many athletes are coerced into it by coaches and higher up, to the detriment of their own long-term health not to mention personal integrity and ethics. Second, most sports are zero sum, and each pos
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I should have been more clear - I'm not defending demonetization. I'm really, really tired of standing in ATM queues. Just pointing out that black money is a real and serious problem at an almost intractable scale.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
> Let's assume that "black money" is a real problem and not an overstated political bogeyman. It absolutely is a real problem. I would say that undocumented cash transactions are the default, not the exception. > Let&#x
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> Twisted, Gevent, Celluloid, EventMachine all did too. The problem is, they've never reached critical mass, and their respective languages refused to bless them as "official." At least in the case of Twisted, it probably
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by sirtaj 10y ago
As I understand it, print() was created not from a sense of consistency, but because a few awkward cases could be simply solved by turning print from a statement into an expression. Use in lambdas would be one example.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Not to argue your general point, but it seems to me that your specific composability examples could be addressed with PostgreSQL's temporary views and WITH clause.
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> That means that you can't pass a GraphQL query directly to an underlying DB provider without verifying what is being requested. You'd end up writing about the same amount of code that you'd have written with a standard R
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by sirtaj 10y ago
> The racism and sexism are sort of victims of their own overuse. Or possibly there's just a lot of it around.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Usually these kinds of errors are due to weird interaction of the python GC and the parent/child lifecycle used internally by QObject (and derived classes). In this case, you're depending on the Qt side (signal/slot managemen
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by sirtaj 10y ago
A content-free comment.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Whatever the emotional state, in the end they supported the candidate openly espousing racist and misogynist opinions, and is on the record saying he sexually assaults women. Maybe the people who voted for him aren't themselves racists
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by sirtaj 10y ago
The ocean reacts to temperature changes in the order of decades. The effect of things we do today will only really be apparent in approx. 20 years. Even if by some stroke of universal good sense we stop global warming today (this is not goi
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by sirtaj 10y ago
> So, then, why do you think that "We need to rewrite everything in Rust" isn't doing something productive? The Linux kernel didn't get written because people on a forum said "we need to write a complete open sou
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by sirtaj 10y ago
It's not so much stopping thoughts, as it is to be able to guide your focus at will, as you said. In the end your mind isn't so much blank as hyper-aware of itself without the normal push-pull of thoughts that you described in you
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Turning off the continuous thought-churn and "stopping" the conscious mind is a large part of what meditation is for, at least to begin with. The reason they ask you to catch your thoughts and refocus them to a single point - the
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Well, we've established we have differing hardware and differing requirements from our computers. The wifi modules were a generic device with a Ralink/Mediatek chipset, and another TP-Link branded device. I don't recall the s
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Ten days ago, in fact, which is why I feel so strongly about this. If your hardware had drivers included on disk, great! If not, at best you'll get generic drivers that won't give you full hardware support. Some devices that worke
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by sirtaj 10y ago
This doesn't sound like any linux desktop I've used in the last ten years. Usually I pop a Mint usb in, go through the installer and come back to a system with almost all devices configured. Then it's just a matter of putting
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Melody in the form of the pentatonic scale is much more universal across cultures, though. Use of non-trivial harmony is significantly less widespread, it's usually no more than a melody played over a single root tone or chord. South-A
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by sirtaj 10y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of people here who use them. I'm responding to the person who claims libreoffice et al are artificially limited. My implicit argument is that the vast majority of people who use spreadsheet programs use t
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What needs are those? Which ones can't be served by the tools I mentioned?
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by sirtaj 10y ago
This argument extends easily - you're artificially limiting your needs by using Office, when you could be using ScipPy/Jupyter/IPython/Pandas.
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Perhaps this remaster using extracted MODs and high-quality instrument samples might be of interest to you: http://www.snakebytestudios.com/projects/media/deus-ex-sound...
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by sirtaj 10y ago
Indeed, what kind of fool picks a UI scripting language most likely to already be used by the vast majority of interface designers.

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