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by toolslive 5d ago
it was called "Slow arse". This was because it was rather reluctant in handing out resources (memory fe). Having fought it, I remember the system APIs being really well defined and picky (which was good). At one point, the C compi
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by toolslive 8d ago
There also was the Corsican wildcat[0] which briefly was a new species and now has "uncertain taxonomic status" (whatever that may mean). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsican_wildcat
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by toolslive 9d ago
pattern is there: first hit a public place (market, ...), then when people are scrambling to help, hit them again. "double-tap". Seen in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, ... It's quite cynical, the topic has its own Wikipedia p
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by toolslive 21d ago
your body needs exercise or you end up an obese couch potato. Your mind is similar: it needs exercise or you end up a dunce.
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by toolslive 21d ago
yes. but most of it is not to other countries. Most government debt (over 80% globally) is privately owned through sovereign debt instruments like bonds.
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by toolslive 28d ago
Humans are so good at pattern recognition it's uncanny. Back in the modem days, most people automatically recognised the most important phases of downloads because of the way they sounded .
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by toolslive 29d ago
Our knowledge is an inflating volume. New knowledge gets acquired at surface level, and the surface is ever growing.
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by toolslive 29d ago
I have the same. I'm looking at my laptop's screen as I type this, and if I close my eyes while typing I cannot even visualise said screen. Now, I can blind-type, recognise faces, navigate aso without any problem. I can even play
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by toolslive 1mo ago
maybe, it's the other way around: If you search for one, and you find one, then your system is not complex.
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by toolslive 1mo ago
the halting problem?
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by toolslive 1mo ago
One of the problems with running the application code inside the database server is that you need to make application developers use the programming language(s) you prepared for them. The other is that you need to trust them to not do crash
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by toolslive 1mo ago
tangential: I still remember how disappointed I was in PCs being used to a C64 (which was released in 1982) The quality of the games & sound effects was just not on the same level (C64 being much more advanced)
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by toolslive 2mo ago
> "guardrails matter" This thing has been solved in the 70s. Basically, have a powerful type system, and a compiler that beats you into submission when you try to stray from the straight and narrow. Languages like (S/OCa)M
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by toolslive 2mo ago
yup. soldiers in dire need of a drink
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by toolslive 2mo ago
OK, I think this will be close to an all time record: Leopoldsburg (Belgium, 14k inhabitants) had more than 150 pubs in the 1980s.
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by toolslive 2mo ago
Reading the title, I was thinking "Karpathy? I don't know this chess player." (The Pelikan is a well known chess opening, and famous chess players often have book titles like "X's Y" where X is the player, and
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by toolslive 2mo ago
football games can have "momentum". An extra break allows for a breather and a tactical intervention from the coach. That also why we saw keepers sitting down (faking injury) in the Premier league last season. Anyway, a hydration
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by toolslive 2mo ago
I was wondering what exactly what to think about the Tom Cruise speech before the final.
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by toolslive 2mo ago
Not a one-note solo, but Miles Davis's solo on So What is really minimalistic.
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by toolslive 2mo ago
I only skimmed the article. There's a lot of good stuff (debunking a lot of classical harmony) but they miss some important things too. There's nothing about repetition. Repetition legitimizes. Our brain is really good at pattern
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by toolslive 2mo ago
These guys are from Galicia. Maybe that makes a difference.
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by toolslive 2mo ago
hold on. Just realised it's not even (part of ) a vector space. It's not linear, non-euclidian and can't be mapped onto 3 dimensions. It's not even constant or always reproducible: Look at an object; Observe
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by toolslive 2mo ago
I have some Spanish ex-co-workers. I just verified it. They both had it on their required reading list in high-school. (one of them is in his 30s, the other in his 40s)
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by toolslive 2mo ago
> Democracy is safe in Spain! iirc, The Prince from Machiavelli is required reading during secondary education. That will surely awaken their political awareness.
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by toolslive 3mo ago
Tetrachromacy !?
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by toolslive 3mo ago
Doesn't matter: there's no RGB model that captures the colour space. That exactly the reason CIE exists.
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by toolslive 3mo ago
Just going to sound really pedantic here, but RGB does not capture the entire colour space. In fact, it only captures about 35% of the colours the human eye can perceive. https://www.oceanopticsbook.info/view/photometry
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by toolslive 3mo ago
Somehow, I expected Deng Xiaoping to be number 1, pulling a billion people out of poverty. Then I read the methodology used.
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by toolslive 3mo ago
> Rust is equally bad at compile times OCaml enters the room...
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by toolslive 3mo ago
3e+6 ?

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