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by troad 2y ago
And my father-in-law is still upset about it. It's led to some interesting outcomes - for example, I've seen people write "Princess Highway" a fair few times, presumably on account of the official spelling ("Princ
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by troad 2y ago
Yeah, I am aware of the differences. I equivocated about specifying examples, because I worried someone would try to explain them, rather than engage with my overall point. My overall point is two-fold. (1) There is nothing in the function
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by troad 2y ago
Not at all too rambly, very interesting, thank you. Your answer makes intuitive sense to me; I'll ponder over it.
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by troad 2y ago
Clever question, but a boring answer - the learning resource I was using simply said so (in fact, several did!). It seems common for learning resources to somewhat apologetically explain that Common Lisp has many functions with similar name
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by troad 2y ago
> eSports has grown It's not really clear it has, or is. [0] People, at least in the West, don't seem to think watching video games be played is equivalent to watching sport, which is honestly the least surprising thing ever to
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by troad 2y ago
Interesting, thank you! I suppose what draws me to Lisp is that insight people say it gives them on programming. I already do much of my programming in functional style, so I'm trying to discover what it is about Lisp that's so be
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by troad 2y ago
No doubt! I look forward to learning it in due course, but it's not exactly penetrable for a newcomer, particularly amidst a sea of parentheses.
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by troad 2y ago
This is a really cool story! Perhaps a slight segue, but I recently tried to learn CL for the first time and I was genuinely surprised by all the decades of accumulated cruft (mainly masses of semi-redundant and soft-depreciated standard li
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by troad 2y ago
Relevant previous discussion: A leadership crisis in the Nix community (lwn.net) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199153 - 2 days ago (274 comments)
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Eelco Dolstra steps down from NixOS Foundation board(lwn.net)
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by troad 3y ago
Isn't it just a thin wrapper around `flatpak permissions`? While obviously a handy GUI, I've never been able to overcome my trust issues with allowing a random package from GitHub to govern permissions for my Flatpaks. Ironically,
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by troad 3y ago
For you art is expression, but the interesting question is, why do you find expression meaningful? Do the stars care about your expression? No, they're busy, they're fusing hydrogen to helium. Who does care then? Well, you do. Art
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by troad 3y ago
> Objective meaning doesn't exist, but pain receptors definitely come included in the box, along with a lot of other drives. You can override them with culture, but culture is not exactly arbitrary either. You're conflating me
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by troad 3y ago
I think you and I are actually saying the same thing. Life is intrinsically without meaning. Emphasis on intrinsically: it can be given meaning, but it doesn't come with one included in the box. We can pick an arbitrary thing to imbue
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by troad 3y ago
"Cooking is narcissism, move on. 'Flavour' is a secular religion. Suck your slop from the tube." /s Life is without meaning in and of itself. It falls to us to give life meaning. Art is a way of giving life meaning.
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by troad 3y ago
> I think their success speaks for itself and people who want a long term, stable job are not necessarily “mediocre lifers”, which is a pretty ignorant thing to say. That's a pretty ungenerous micharacterisation of what I said, and
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by troad 3y ago
So the main qualification for being an Aldi executive is years of experience throwing people's groceries from one side to the other, never making eye-contact? And this translates to the skills required to run a multi-national business
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by troad 3y ago
It's a very effective manipulation technique - get the person to commit slightly past their comfort zone. For instance, the Nxivm corporate training scam / sex cult [0] operated this way. At your very first meeting they'd ask
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by troad 3y ago
> If you're using a debugger in a production system, something has gone horribly wrong. That's right, hence the debugger.
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by troad 3y ago
I travel extensively, and I think attitudes towards self-checkout vary heavily depending on what preceded it where you are. In some places, you had smoke-stained cashiers throwing your groceries to their side without so much as looking at y
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by troad 3y ago
> Unless this is a new app backed by a bank cartel Good news - they've already got the cartel ready to go, and it's conveniently already in bed with the regulators! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPAY &
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by troad 3y ago
The apps are bad, sure, but it was the banks who heavily pushed contactless EFTPOS terminals out to merchants in Australia. Without those, Apple Pay is a very cute curiosity on your phone, but I hope you remember your PIN because here comes
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by troad 3y ago
To be part of Apple Pay, banks have to enter into an agreement with Apple. Though the details of this agreement are generally confidential, it's fairly well known that there is an Apple cut, and that that cut is rather high. (It's
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by troad 3y ago
Funnily enough, Apple Pay launched in Australia following a multi-year push by local big banks to increase the use of contactless payments. So all the infrastructure was already there, built out by the banks themselves, when Apple came in
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by troad 3y ago
It's definitely not true for Australia. WhatsApp use is marginal at best.
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by troad 3y ago
> This is the sort of thing that’s true, but only if you don’t think about it deeply. I have a linguistics degree and a passion for historical linguistics that will result in me talking your ear off about Indo-European ablaut, so this is
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by troad 3y ago
I don't think anyone claims it's /exactly/ the same entity (except in a legal sense after a government-in-exile is restored home, such as after World War II). But there's a general sense that a country can in some w
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by troad 3y ago
Amusing anecdote - last year I tried to buy a copy of Švejk in Prague and I had the following exchange in a bookshop (in Czech). Me: "Hello, do you have a copy of Švejk?" Assistant: "No." M: "Uh, OK, do you know of
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by troad 3y ago
A sharp increase in the cost of living IS inflation, which is precisely what Milei is laser-focussed on ending. The economic shocks of the early 90s produced vibrant prosperous economies in countries that stayed the course, and much sufferi
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by troad 3y ago
> the cost of his reforms It wasn’t the cost of his reforms, it was the cost of 40 years of communism. The only way out of the frying pan is through the fire, sadly. Blame the people who put Poland into the frying pan, not the people who

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