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by st1ck 6y ago
That's very relevant context. I had an impression that he considers Cardano worse than Facebook, while IMO it's mostly harmless project compared to major software employers.
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by st1ck 6y ago
While Cardano is the biggest of the elephants, there are others, like e.g. Dolla, slightly related to Well-Typed through e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-feuer-04111a73
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by st1ck 6y ago
Maybe I'm a bit silly about this, but can't linear or affine types be actually useful for blockchain? To represent something which can be used (spent) only once?
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by st1ck 6y ago
They are likely all in-house tools. Take a look at github projects of this Haskell-using bank for example: https://github.com/barclays Not sure if this counts, but IIRC in one of the talks, Edward Kmett was describing row-p
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by st1ck 6y ago
> Whos going to: - clean your hotel/office/home - cook your food - serve your food - fix your household - grab your garbage [...] People will take these "sucky" jobs, but they will be compensated well enough to justif
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by st1ck 6y ago
I've been using TTS for years by now, and IMO it's really good by now for original digital epub editions. The biggest remaining issue is some words can be mispronounced (wrong part of speech, foreign or rare words). Even "te
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by st1ck 6y ago
> The argument that made them stop was when we told us that we where hosting the applications. I didn't get that, can you please rephrase?
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by st1ck 6y ago
I wonder how much practice pilots get nowadays, when there are so few passenger flights worldwide.
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by st1ck 6y ago
The positives you listed are features of most social networks, not just Facebook. If Facebook disappeared overnight, another platform(s), hopefully more ethical, would quickly take over its role, and it could be a net positive for the world
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by st1ck 6y ago
I don't quite get this concern about proprietary JS. I agree JS can be malicious, but it has nothing to do with license. Or you can say you don't want to give your data to Slack.
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by st1ck 6y ago
By "biased to the left" I guess you mean they support socialism a la Bernie Sanders? So far I enjoyed listening to Greenwald's podcast (System Update), except it was rather weird hearing him casually saying that annexation of
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by st1ck 6y ago
You can also try The Intercept.
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by st1ck 6y ago
> What gives you the "ticket in" is another topic That's the primary factor which would determine the outcome. As a community, you probably want to attract currently undervalued people and help them to uncover their potent
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by st1ck 6y ago
Yes, except that we use google spreadsheets for collaborative editing. My coworker switched from MS Office to LibreOffice just because the former never detected UTF-8 encoding in TSV files.
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by st1ck 6y ago
With in-person classes, instructors (and students, and everyone) will get infected because of how the virus works, and there is not that much one can do about it until vaccine or herd immunity is developed. Students will lose their visas be
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by st1ck 6y ago
OTOH, if a critical mass of great developers went back to their countries of origin (assuming they want to live there), they would be able to earn US-level salaries there (probably less than what they earn in the US but comparable after sub
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by st1ck 6y ago
Note that I meant Saruman, not Sauron. Unlike most of LOTR characters, Saruman is a very modern and enlightened kind of person striving for "Knowledge, Rule, Order", but using Machiavellian means to achieve this purpose. Maybe Sau
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by st1ck 6y ago
I find it hilarious that Thiel is a fan of Tolkien, yet he seems to embody Saruman's ideology (if not worse), while Tolkien's philosophy is more of Gandalf's. Tolkien was generally against technology, but especially against s
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by st1ck 6y ago
You can walk while listening to audiobook or TTS though.
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by st1ck 6y ago
Open Source Security (company behind grsecurity) sued him for that post, but the case got dismissed and looks like OSS has to pay his legal fees: https://www.digitalmunition.me/maker-of-linux-patch-batch-gr...
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by st1ck 6y ago
If LinkedIn charges per application regardless of job fit, it's LinkedIn problem.
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by st1ck 6y ago
I can't find reasons why would this be immoral. I'd say it's rather aggressive and won't earn you good reputation for sure. But it's sort of fair game. Compared to many business practices (lobbying, forced arbitrati
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by st1ck 6y ago
I think there are also tons of other optimizations currently missing in DuckDB, vectorization probably the most important.
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by st1ck 6y ago
For analytical workloads, DuckDB may be better than SQLite, but it's just incomparably slower than e.g. ClickHouse (which is admittedly not embedded).
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by st1ck 6y ago
Not sure why are you downvoted. Without knowing too much about Russian scientific community, in the first article she doesn't seem to say anything too bad. But on vk.com she seems to unironically go full Stalin (the guy who sent thousa
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by st1ck 6y ago
Don't forget about PyPy, which may well be faster than Perl (I haven't compared them) or Cython if you're stuck with CPython.
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by st1ck 6y ago
I have Home & End on my keyboard, but they are not very conveniently located. Mapping <Super>-A and <Super>-E to Home and End is much more ergonomic (or you can use other modifier like <Ctrl> or <Alt>). Not sure
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by st1ck 6y ago
yet > no one from the city government has been criminally charged for the attack
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by st1ck 6y ago
Apart from other reasons, it just looks ugly. Any kind of braces is better than <>.
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by st1ck 6y ago
> race, color, religion, sex, or national origin Out of these you can't change only race and national origin. Sex can be changed, except on chromosome level. And religion is just as malleable as any ideology. I don't think it&#

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