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by skywal_l 3y ago
He was denied tenure before writing the book. So I guess if you refuse the shepherd dog, be prepared to face wild dog predation.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I'll throw in Cathode Ray Dude [0] in there. It's hard to believe he will get 500K view on a 70 minutes video about some weird 90s hardware but he does. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@CathodeRayDude
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Supplying gas, which takes weeks or month to be consumed which can be stored and which, ultimately can come from different sources is very different from supplying electricity directly. If Algeria were to stop providing gas to Europe sudden
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Queue the HBO series in 3, 2, 1...
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I understand that, but if better wages lead to increase costs, it should be a zero sum game in the grand scheme of things. But, at least, you are not dependent on China for making stuff.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Doesn't the first and last one cancel each other out?
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by skywal_l 3y ago
> through his obvious joy in teaching He clearly is passionate about teaching. The way he respects his students and try to lift them to his level instead of bombarding them with maths. He's clearly here to teach and not select. It&#
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Chicken is not the opposite of tuna, salmon is. Because salmon swim against the current but the tuna swim with it.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Brando had a massive ego because he's been told by a lot of people that he was the greatest actor alive. I am not a doctor, but I believe you see in this video the struggle in his mind between his ego and superego. Between his will of
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by skywal_l 3y ago
He also said, "Look up for gullibility in the dictionary, you'll see Masayoshi Son's face smiling back at ya!".
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by skywal_l 3y ago
TLDR: "Regex support (turned on by the \r escape sequence)" So, '/' then '\r' and your regex then 'n' or 'shift+n' for next/previous.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I always though that Forbin engineered all this to he could sleep with his female colleague...
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by skywal_l 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_T%C3%A8ne_culture
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by skywal_l 3y ago
It's Susan. But yeah, she looks like a lilly.
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by skywal_l 3y ago
I tried warp [0] and I am unimpressed so far. Pretty complex, limited documentation, buggy. The builder paradigm they used feels pretty constrained and, in my opinion, achieve the opposite of the simplicity it is supposed to bring. I was su
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Isn't it what archivemount is for?
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by skywal_l 3y ago
Related the to recent HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742476
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by skywal_l 3y ago
> China, at the time too apparently As a side note, China is probably the first country to have a central government.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
HN is the jewel of the internet. Youtube might be the amethyst maybe?
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by skywal_l 4y ago
It's a nice PR action for John Deere. Now US farmers know that if Russia invade the US, JD will have their back. But barring a russian invasion, how many tractors are being stolen in the US every year? I don't think this is a real
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by skywal_l 4y ago
The problem is that the code and the diagram will eventually diverge, especially if multiple people are working on the same code base (which is why you have a diagram in the first place). There used to be software like Rational Rose were yo
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by skywal_l 4y ago
But what RISC-V would provide is a "standard" ISA. You can avoid having a manufacturer/vendor lock-in. Anyone can manufacture a RV64EMAFDZicsr. > Not PC Engines an easier time to design and source things Isn't it bett
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I don't know anything about this market so I may be completely off-topic here but would RISC-V help in this case? RISC-V has a modular design where the size and complexity of you CPU can be adapted pretty dramatically (RV32I is not tha
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by skywal_l 4y ago
As it happens, GHacks cookie popup is defeated by NoScript. You might give it a try.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
> and have every winter problems No they don't. They had a problem this year (and will for probably a few years). For the past decades, France has been a net exporter [0]. > An french three-mile island can happen any time And a c
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by skywal_l 4y ago
No country* can produce its electricity only based on renewables. They are not dispatchable and occupy a lot of land. So you need a base. France decided that the base would be nuclear and Germany decided it would be fossil fuel. Not sure th
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by skywal_l 4y ago
I think parent's point is not cultural as you are implying but rather practical. Learning in a base that nobody uses could be easier today and an hindrance later. I think, all in all, this should not be a big deal. For the gifted kid,
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Paper Please too.
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by skywal_l 4y ago
Came here to say this! Excellent movie. I love the "weirdness" of John Carpenter. He had his unique style. Too bad he's not making movies anymore...
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by skywal_l 4y ago
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Sy...

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