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by twic 3y ago
I think it's fair to say that Ronson is mostly not a criminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ronson He's more "swashbuckling businessman who was a bit too swashbuckling" than "career cri
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by twic 3y ago
There's already (at least) one in C++: https://github.com/quantlib/QuantLib The appeal of writing one in Rust is that you could use it ergonomically in Rust!
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by twic 3y ago
You need a lot of details in place for a library like this to be useful. I think the most reliable way to get them is to be using the library for real work. Sadly this looks like a hobby project to me - I would love to be corrected if wrong
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by twic 3y ago
Two nearby venues in North London have The Getaway: High Speed II. I wonder if that's true, or if it moved from one to the other, and the map reflects an inconsistent state.
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by twic 3y ago
I assumed they'd bred a very, very small variety of rice.
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by twic 3y ago
The replacement is almost always available at the time of deprecation. Old things get deprecated precisely because there is a replacement.
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by twic 3y ago
And a purely empirical approach: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/179909/how-birds-determines-...
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by twic 3y ago
What's your evidence for that claim?
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by twic 3y ago
My concrete answer is "take pictures which are in focus". I used to have a compact digital camera, with autofocus, and no way to focus manually. Fine for typical snapshots. But show it a complex, interesting scene with some depth,
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by twic 3y ago
Micro four thirds (u43) cameras are generally much smaller than DSLRs, and even quite a bit smaller than full-frame MILCs (mostly because the lenses are smaller). Their optical performance isn't as good a full-frame DSLR, but they are
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by twic 3y ago
Except when it's used in reference to blood or the West Ham strip.
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by twic 3y ago
"Gin tonic"!
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by twic 3y ago
That felt like a bait and switch. Paragraphs of criticism of huge showpiece buildings, old and new. Then advocacy of a better way which is only used to produce small, humble buildings.
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by twic 3y ago
So when i was building castles in VRML in 2000, and used PROTO nodes to cut down on repetition, i was doing parametric architecture? Cool.
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by twic 3y ago
> Two types of toilets of United States design were used. [...] The public toilet was tankless, using water line pressure for flushing, as is typical of United States public toilets. [...] The home toilet was a typical siphonic toilet wi
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by twic 3y ago
Where a group of people all nominate the same set of candidates. The Hugo system [1] starts with nominations - every voter can nominate up to five works in each category. The six works which get nominated the most (in some sense) become the
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by twic 3y ago
The awards went to those books because people voted for them. They may or may not have voted based on the books' quality, and they may evaluate quality differently to you. But that is how voting works. To put it another way, yes, the H
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by twic 3y ago
For the benefit of HN readers who are not familiar with the Hugos, this is bullshit. Until this year, there has been no suggestion that the votes or their counting has been manipulated by the organisers. There have been sort of political or
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by twic 3y ago
I was reading the description of Jsonnet and wondering why we don't just use JavaScript. Read a file, evaluate it, take the value of the last expression as the output, and blat it out as JSON. The environment could be enriched with som
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by twic 3y ago
No. Standard input and output should be a single file descriptor, like sockets.
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by twic 3y ago
Maybe his supply is at 800 bar.
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by twic 3y ago
It is an enjoyable story. My copy is a double edition with War with the Newts, which i think is actually better, if not as prophetic. Yet.
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by twic 3y ago
Do people still do badges as promotional items? My dad had a collection of button badges from long-defunct vendors that I found fascinating as a child. They're intrinsically longer-lasting than stickers, cheaper than t-shirts, and most
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by twic 3y ago
Reminds me of OTEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_thermal_energy_conversio...
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by twic 3y ago
> Use filters in your search, e.g. adding "min_faves:10" means only tweets with >10 likes will show up, which filters out dross. Everything I've ever tweeted is dross :'(
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by twic 3y ago
This also came as a surprise to me! Not only that but: > restoring service was delayed until we could get the community maintainer, Ludovic Chabant, online to help Maintainer, singular! The only reason i use Sourcehut, and the main reaso
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by twic 3y ago
Java too: > A further ten character sequences are restricted keywords: open, module, requires, transitive, exports, opens, to, uses, provides, and with. These character sequences are tokenized as keywords solely where they appear as term
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by twic 3y ago
Exactly. If a service crashes within a second ten times in a row, it's not going to come up cleanly an eleventh time. The right thing to do is stay down, and let monitoring get the attention of a human operator who can figure out what
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by twic 3y ago
A liqueur rather than a spirit, to be pedantic. I agree that it's very nice - a bit like popcorn, but not in a tacky way!
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by twic 3y ago
My lowtech solution was just a bunch of aliases for directories i use a lot. Like: alias .a='cd ~/src/autosqueezer' alias .g='cd ~/src/gcc-squeeze-plugin' alias .u='cd ~/src/squ

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