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by twic 3y ago
I have a carbon fibre fork on my bike. I had a low-speed accident a few years ago, and took the bike to a mechanic to get it checked out afterwards. He said he'd checked everything, and it was fine - except the fork, which he had no wa
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by twic 3y ago
There are various attempts to explain why people are getting into this, but they all seem like rationalisations to me. A lot of people just like things that are new and different. That's all. And fair play to them. Also: >" It’
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by twic 3y ago
> I’ve always considered DevOps to be Developer/Operator - as in - you run the stuff you build This is also exactly how i've always understood the term, and it makes perfect sense. But the origin of the term is indeed in distin
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by twic 3y ago
To clarify, not even the devs' positions on Stalin, but: > Meanwhile, another [post] suggests celebrating Stalin's birthday as he was such a great guy. > Over the past few days I have tried to engage with Lemmy about these p
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by twic 3y ago
Random RISC-V question: how do you make function calls in RV64? I have read that 'call' in assembly is a pseudo-instruction, which uses auipc and jalr to build the destination address. But surely that can only supply 32 bits of ad
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by twic 3y ago
> mobile dev is in decline This is news to me. Is this really true?
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Reminds me of how sweet champagne used to be [1]: > The most common style today is Brut [(6 to 12 grams of sugar per litre)]. However, throughout the 19th century and into the early 20th century Champagne was generally much sweeter than
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by twic 3y ago
Personally, if i signed up, i would not be interested in getting payouts. I'd have to declare them on my tax return, and it's just not worth it for such small amounts. So a checkbox to donate any payouts to a charity (the EFF, per
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by twic 3y ago
So each user puts a dollar a month into upvote cash. I think i upvote ~10 things per day on Reddit. I use Reddit most days, so say 250 things a month. Given the same pattern of behaviour, each one of my upvotes is worth 0.4 cents. A post ge
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by twic 3y ago
People attach a lot of value to fake internet points, so these bad behaviours are already incentivised. What will be interesting is how they are incentivised differently . Different people attach different relative value to fake internet p
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Cool project! For something like this to succeed at Reddit's scale, it should stay snappy under load (which admittedly Reddit doesn't). So clicked through to Github to see what it's written in: > Languages > Shell 100.0
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by twic 3y ago
The phenomenon of fertility falling as societies get more advanced is called "demographic transition". But societies don't keep getting more advanced! Once a society has become a modern post-industrial, "liberal" so
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Somewhat [1]: > What is the story behind the creation of Lemmy? What role do you want it to serve for people online / why did you make it? > [...] Despite the conservative talking point that big tech is dominated by “leftist pr
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by twic 3y ago
> Oh, and everything involves real numbers, no fancy stuff like complex numbers or rationals or p-adic integers or Banach spaces. Or integers! You could probably do complex convex optimisation okay, but when it's integers, you need
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by twic 3y ago
Is there ever a genuine, non-arbitrary business requirement to limit any string to a certain number of unicode characters? And by characters here we probably mean extended grapheme clusters. If the data is going to get printed in a monospac
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by twic 3y ago
Surely the greatest example of a Ship of Theseus in software is BSD Unix itself? It started out as a small set of patches to AT&T Unix, then grew to a large set of patches, then in the early '90s all the AT&T code was removed,
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by twic 3y ago
My nitpick is even more absurd than everyone else's: the name "subwayshed" evokes watersheds, but that's not what this map shows at all! That could describe a map where you mouse over a station, and it colours the rest o
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by twic 3y ago
Lots of people do print. And there are third-party minature makers who compete partly on cost. But only a tiny number of people who play 40k have access to 3D printers. Also, a lot of people play games hosted in GW stores, and i believe GW
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by twic 3y ago
Miniatures games aren't really play-to-win, though. You have to spend (lots of) money to be able to play, but you can't spend arbitrary further money to increase your chance of winning. The size of your army is limited by the poin
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by twic 3y ago
Whole factions you can play as an army, no. But there are the Jokaero, who are techno-savant orang-utans who float about the universe in inexplicable spaceships making gadgets.
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According to their creator, the Tau are basically Tony Blair in space [1]: > As a bit of an analog for late 20th century / early 21st century western interventionist culture I've always assumed that the Greater Good is ultimate
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by twic 3y ago
> the heroic stronghold planet of "Caliban" being named after a gay club located down the street from the pub where the setting's original creators would hang out This appears to be an urban myth. Nobody has ever managed t
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by twic 3y ago
That's the trend in commercial real estate - prestigious, luxurious, eye-wateringly expensive class A space is doing well, but the bottom has fallen out of the market for practical, cost-effective class B space: https://ther
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> Remotely, I’m vastly more productive in getting coding work done. I’m sure most people would agree. I certainly don't agree at all . Home is where all the distractions are. Home is where i can drift off to make a cup of tea and e
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Pair programming doesn't involve anyone standing behind anyone else or bending over. I think you're describing a sort of "hanging around and kind of doing some programming together", which is probably a more common pract
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Mostly, they are making a mistake. Some people are writing APIs where they genuinely need Rust's efficiency, but not many. I don't think the language of the project team can be blamed for encouraging this, but the community has un
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by twic 3y ago
Did Redox literally have to write their own libc? With the exact libc symbols and semantics? If so, that is a bit of a shame. But the solution is to introduce an abstraction layer on top of libc in the stdlib, so there could be a Redox impl
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by twic 3y ago
FWIW these are the rules in the UK [1] (where districts are called constituencies): (1) A Boundary Commission may take into account, if and to such extent as they think fit – (a) special geographical considerations, including in particul
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... and immediately deported to Rwanda due to lack of papers?
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* From hell (the Operation Trojan Horse theory) Functionally, all of these can be classified under the first option, "ET origin", because they all involve the revelation that some advanced intelligence unknown to the mass of human

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