tormeh

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   by tormeh 5y ago

   This is why I'm holding gold (as a hedge against the stock market in these weird times). There is a buyer who will buy no matter the confidence in it. Gold is an important ingredient in, for example, electronics. Your computer and smar
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   by tormeh 5y ago

   > The basic premise is that money is simply technology that makes our wealth today available for consumption tomorrow. Thus the "best" money is the one that will give its holder the most purchasing power over time. This is absu
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   by tormeh 5y ago

   I don't think people object to the language syntax itself, but rather the unfamiliarity and randomness of language conventions. Haskell/Perl/K/Scalaz is full of line noise I can't be bothered to learn, for example
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   by tormeh 5y ago

   Wish there was a ATX-like standard for laptops. It wouldn't work for 13-inch laptops with super-tight internals, but for gaming laptops and mobile workstations it'd be awesome. Imagine your laptop is getting a bit old, so you swap
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   by tormeh 5y ago

   The dosage maketh the poison. Like any other place, they want to prevent change. So they want to replace the people moving away with new people. Any less and it's a dying village. Any more, and it's gentrification.
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   by tormeh 6y ago

   There are alternative clients for Matrix. You don't need to use Element.
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   by tormeh 6y ago

   25-54FPS here. Firefox Nightly 84.0a1 (2020-10-23) (64-bit) on Linux Wayland with AMD GPU. EDIT: Profiler says CPU-wise the page is 95% idle.
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   by tormeh 6y ago

   Apparently they got a prototype FPGA design booting Linux: https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/european-processor-init...
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   by tormeh 6y ago

   > My wife said such a thing would NEVER happen in New York, there’s just too many people. You're not talking to a random sample of people, so it's not actually thaaat unlikely to be someone who knows someone you do
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    > Also, lawyers are not “doctors” in any sense, despite getting JDs from some places. And they do not use “Dr.”, and can get in trouble for doing so. According to the American Bar Association it's a bit more complicated than that. L
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    To be fair, there are many different kinds of doctorates. Many will be surprised to learn that most lawyers are doctors too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor I don't really know all that much about Stall
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    I believe Scaleway costs 0.01 EUR/GB, so a bit more than half of S3.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    Not every populist is Trump-like.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    > No they don't ban vegetables with the wrong dimensions, they just put them in a lower quality class that no supermarkets will buy Except they do. The premium supermarkets don't, but immigrant shops, etc. do buy class II veggi
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    Nope nope nope. YAML is awful and needs to die. The more you look at it the worse it gets. The basic functionality is elegant (at least until you consider stuff like The Norway Problem), but the advanced parts of YAML are batshit insane.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    If you want this, just use Scala. Full interoperability with Java, all the flexibility you could ever want.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    I agree with this, something RON/JSON-like with type annotations would be great: { "isTrue":false:Boolean, "id":"123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000":UUID }
18. 888.▲
    by tormeh 6y ago

    Also RON: https://github.com/ron-rs/ron A bit like JSON5, but I believe even more advanced.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    Some handymen tried to double charge me, in cash of course, but that's the only thing I've experienced. The stats say 20% of Germans report having been asked for a bribe at some point in their lives. That's not great, but not
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    I don't expect a rerun of WW2. It's hard to tell exactly how things would turn out, but the concept of having factories beyond the reach of enemy bombers is obsolete with today's aircraft. It's more likely that whoever w
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    One of the benefits of Scala's willingness to break bytecode compatibility all the time is that whenever Java/JVM implements a Scala concept, Scala switches to the Java method under the hood. Whenever the JVM gets Java-specific op
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    > Scala can also bring out the weirdness in programmers and create codebases that are incredibly difficult to follow, independent of the maintenance cost. Some programmers are more interested in functional programming paradigms and categ
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    I love Rust, but it always looks ugly.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    This is just extremely entitled complaining, IMO. The edition system already deals with this.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    Google Authenticator ?
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    If you're in with the big cloud providers you have no choice. Hybrid cloud is economically impossible due to the bandwidth costs. Yet somehow, at smaller providers and dedicated hosters bandwidth is usually included as a too-cheap-to-m
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    The raw video link is https://www.ovh.com/fr/images/sbg/Octave-Klaba-speaking-en-v...
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    Same as with the YC hiring posts. This is YC's prerogative, though.
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    If you are using Android it's possible to add in app names in addition to icons. It's in the settings somewhere...
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    by tormeh 6y ago

    It's more than language. Regulations are more important. Also sales networks, word of mouth, network effects..