tormeh

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by tormeh 4y ago
Your criticism applies to basically all STEM research. Personally I like progress.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Probably sugar
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by tormeh 4y ago
What I don't get is why one oar is rotated 90 degrees off the other one. It means whenever I use these double-sided paddles I have to rotate them ever so slightly whenever I make a new stroke. It's annoying and I don't unders
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by tormeh 4y ago
It's bare pickings, but there are chips: https://docs.amd.com/bundle/Hardware_and_Software_Reference_...
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by tormeh 4y ago
Unrelated to crypto bros, Discord is just the best messenger for groups. It being used by business is inevitable, as it just outmatches Slack, and obviously Teams.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Cut off the money and expectations will shrink to meet reality.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Does this project have any kind of corporate sponsor?
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by tormeh 4y ago
Using a proper programming language seems to be the obvious end-game of configuration. Everything as code. Not quite sure why we keep trying and failing to use non-Turing complete configuration languages.
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by tormeh 4y ago
The article is about Shanghai, which is known to be a city.
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by tormeh 4y ago
The capital and biggest city of Germany was always going to be expensive. IMO the capital shouldn’t have been moved back to Berlin. Anyway, that’s too late now. What I’d like to see is administration and ministries moved far out of the city
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by tormeh 4y ago
Georgian food is very mediocre. Bread with cheese isn’t bad, but it’s nothing special. Brazilian food, however, is very underrated.
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by tormeh 4y ago
The fascinating thing about the Poland example is that the Germans living in modern fay west-Poland were moved out and into what's now Germany. So the culture and people are gone. What you see are the political effects of better infras
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by tormeh 4y ago
I think it's more that they're smart as hell but know very little or have poorly developed taste. So you have to give them a short leash otherwise they'll hang themselves with it through over-engineering and accidental comple
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by tormeh 4y ago
Not that it makes a huge difference to your argument, but most countries don't look good compared to Sweden. It's a country that hits well above its weight in science and technology. A bit like South Korea.
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by tormeh 4y ago
Depends if you count the cost of statutory health insurance as a de-facto tax, in which case it's closer to 40% again. There's a bit more nuance to this (there's a contribution cap), but if you ever read that taxes in Germany
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by tormeh 5y ago
Rust will eclipse C++. C is a harder nut to crack, particularly for the embedded space where ease of implementing and maintaining a compiler back-end/code-emitter for your new weird 8-bit architecture is important. C is pretty close to
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by tormeh 5y ago
Go ships its own GC as part of the binary for non-wasm targets. Why should wasm be special?
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by tormeh 5y ago
HN is owned by Y Combinator. It's at least as much a tech finance/industry board as a pure tech board.
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by tormeh 5y ago
Hm... Pretty solid argument in favor of federated/decentralized protocols, this. Is there anything out there that doesn't suck? Not for chat. We've got Matrix and chat is usually not censored anyway.
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by tormeh 5y ago
I don't think the comparison is entirely fair since one of the main attractions of TS is that it runs in the browser. Python can unfortunately not fill the same role right now. So I'd keep that in mind while looking at that rankin
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by tormeh 5y ago
It all depends on access pattern. Do you tend to select entire rows? Use a row-oriented DB. Do you tend to select entire columns? A column-oriented database might be for you. That's it, really. None of the designs are superior, afaik.
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by tormeh 5y ago
You can run your own workloads really cheaply on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster on a cheap provider like Hetzner or similar. Cloud being expensive is really just because AWS, Google, and Microsoft are milking the enterprise market. If you
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by tormeh 5y ago
I wish we'd stop trying to make broken languages work. This feels like hill-climbing into the strangest local optimum possible. JS is not the best example of an interpreted language. Wouldn't it be better to put Python in the brow
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by tormeh 5y ago
Yes, but with a much leaner, memory-efficient, and more secure runtime. WASM is kinda "JVM without the Java bits" but that's a good thing. Having the VM provide facilities for GC is not necessary. Go shows that you can embed
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by tormeh 5y ago
Different design objectives, I believe.
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by tormeh 5y ago
The 737 family is from 1967, so it's fairly old.
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by tormeh 5y ago
It's not a Max, but it's extremely clear that the 737 is an outdated aircraft family. It's not directly relevant to this crash, probably, but it makes me a bit sad that we can't find our way out of this kind of local min
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by tormeh 5y ago
First thing I tried was ctrl+shift+f to grep through a project, which didn't work. I see the functionality is there, though. Both Intellij and vscode uses this shortcut, so harmonizing with them would be nice. Also the code completions
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by tormeh 5y ago
Just look at benchmarks and prices. Names can't solve anything.
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by tormeh 5y ago
IMO we probably would be better off not funding any of it. Entertainment talent would be better allocated according to ticket sales than political prestige.

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