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by thomasz 4y ago
That is just nostalgia. There is something to be said about the icon design, but you really wouldn’t want the II of that era back. Nowadays you start an application by clicking a fixed location in the task bar or by pressing the windows key
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by thomasz 4y ago
The foreign conception of Germany as a paragon of effectiveness always did sound weird to me. The whole political system is set up to require broad consensus to move anything forward. That makes it really difficult to get any meaningful cha
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by thomasz 4y ago
Taiwan is the key part of the first island chain[1] that prevents china from projecting hard power beyond their immediate neighborhood. It is way more important for the American hegemony than Ukraine for example. I really do not think that
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by thomasz 4y ago
He got incredibly lonely, lost all his friend, and got ostracized over posting some alt right and Q shit on twitter.
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by thomasz 4y ago
Absolutely not. To a degree that both parties might walk away feeling a bit disgusted.
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by thomasz 4y ago
You want to replace qualified with unqualified labor. That's not going to be competitive, or let alone possible due to the code violations that a bunch of untrained guys will inevitably produce.
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by thomasz 4y ago
Most pyramid schemes do not require massive amounts of energy.
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by thomasz 4y ago
It is actually pretty easy to provide a proof of effectiveness for vaccines. The theory of peace through interconnected and colonies is more complicated. All we have are arguments, and these are not even that convincing. Every trade connect
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by thomasz 5y ago
Is it online somewhere?
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by thomasz 5y ago
> So what? Yes people are richer, more gifted, more athletic than others. Can't we celebrate an achievement because not everyone can do it? Because one of these is not like the others. You can play Soccer with four stones and a can.
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by thomasz 5y ago
Windows 7 with the dock, searchable launcher and hotkeys for placing windows was when Windows became quite usable. I’ve never heard people complaining that it was ruined, just moaning about having to relearn stuff. But that is inevitable.
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by thomasz 5y ago
Discrimination happens when you treat equals as unequal, or unequals as equal. There is a world of difference between "we already have enough asian compsci majors", and "we already have enough compsci majors, but there is roo
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by thomasz 5y ago
Exactly. For a counterpoint, compare what VW had to pay in the US to what they had to pay in Germany.
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by thomasz 5y ago
Seriously. If GM goes belly up next week, who’s going to be without health insurance for the foreseeable future?
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by thomasz 5y ago
Local inference is a gift sent from heaven, global inference not so much. Reading OCAML (and F#) is exhausting because you have to look into the implementation of each function (or into a separate interface file) to figure out how it's
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by thomasz 5y ago
PHP is way more complicated because you have to deal with apache, php.ini and what not.
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by thomasz 5y ago
In practice, the difference is pretty small in C#. For almost all purposes classes act like a namespace (System.Math), and can be imported like one. Former 6 will add even more syntactic sugar, so that methods can be defined outside classes
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by thomasz 5y ago
It's not like the working class doesn't have to eat. In fact, they will be hit hardest by increasing food prices. > Indication of some degree of food insecurity was reported by 14.2% of the sample and tended to be higher amongs
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by thomasz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel)
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by thomasz 5y ago
Melt the poor!
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by thomasz 5y ago
There is no inbuild async nature. It just did not have a stdlib whatsoever, so node could come along and offer a completely async one. There were async server frameworks in python before, like twisted and tornado. For a long, long time, the
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by thomasz 5y ago
Pretty sure it stopped being helpful with Windows 2000.
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by thomasz 5y ago
Thanks, that would have been really helpful advice a quarter of a century ago :)
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by thomasz 6y ago
There is a galaxy of difference between offensive speech and child rape.
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by thomasz 6y ago
> My sources are mostly the 4-part netflix drama[...] Seriously!?
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by thomasz 6y ago
In these situations, malicious and over the top affirmation is the safest and most effective form of critique. See Laibach and NSK on how it’s done. Woke hyperliberalism With all it’s terrible contradiction should be an easier target than T
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by thomasz 6y ago
A lot of these people, including McNeil, have written submissive apologies. https://twitter.com/marcatracy/status/1357806202277797889/ph...
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by thomasz 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
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by thomasz 6y ago
It's a tradeoff. You might want to encapsulate database access and deal with objects instead of relations in most of your stack, which leads to these inefficient access patterns. Usually it doesn't matter. And if it does matter,
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by thomasz 6y ago
No, not necessarily. Curried functions have their own problems because they are missing the vital parameter names. But that's not what I meant. Think of the classic memoization example (written without a compiler at hand...) let

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