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by ur-whale 1y ago
This very classical piece is nothing short of admirable. Really funny, very well written, and most of all, while exaggerated: all true. German is laden with a ton of fairly useless and purely ornamental flourishes, it's truly a pain to
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by ur-whale 1y ago
Why is the "=>" going in the wrong direction ?
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by ur-whale 1y ago
> the language motto is “No hidden control flow”. Oh man, I wish the Haskell crowd gave at the very least lip service to that type of idea.
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by ur-whale 1y ago
That's not what this is about. Most American movies are shot outside of the US these days because among other factors Hollywood unions have made it way more expensive to shoot in the US.
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The Stochastic-Quantum Theorem and Simulations of Stochastic Processes [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ur-whale 1y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 1y ago
https://archive.is/xni6k
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by ur-whale 2y ago
https://archive.ph/liq8S
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Those who are truly passionate about the law will only be able to pursue it as a barely-living-wage hobby while being advised to “not give up the night job” — their main, stable source of income — as a cabaret singer. They might be a j
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by ur-whale 2y ago
https://archive.is/kVsvc
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by ur-whale 2y ago
https://archive.is/H02yP
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Spoiler alert: > THIRTY SUPERNOVAE PER SECOND, over the entire observable Universe.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
https://github.com/pcarrier/gauth
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Edit: I'm in germany Yeah, Germany is quite (in)famous for this. I have seen quite a few times in my career large US tech corporations specifically choosing not to open a satellite EU sales office or a dev office in DE because of
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Silver lining: one less person working on the spying machine.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
So epsilon * phi is exactly 1, no ?
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Somehow this has only gotten funnier since it was originally posted.. Especially the "only if you think your users are scum" part. Back in the days, even the asshat in green seem to have tried to uphold some kind of guiding p
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by ur-whale 2y ago
The whole article is predicated on the idea that IP laws are a good idea in the first place.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> The foolishness of "natural language programming" Wasn't that the actual motivation behind the development of SQL? IIRC, SQL was something that "even" business people could code in because it was closer to &quo
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Glibc has great backwards compatibility We're clearly not living in the same universe here. glibc backward compatibility is horrible. Every. Single. Time. I try to use an old binary on a modern distro, it bombs, usually with some
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by ur-whale 2y ago
https://archive.is/n3VNc
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by ur-whale 2y ago
It's indeed from 2018 and may therefore not be state of the art, but , it's really nice to read something like this: it cuts through all the marketing hype and pseudo-science-reporting articles written on cutting edge semis of th
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I'm trying to remember the last time some actually positive and surprising (in a good way) news came out of Google. I seem to remember a time when they produced one of those every week. Lately it seems to be mostly the kind of fuck-up
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Point 8, the fast dismissal of Monte-Carlo method is a huge blunder. Yeah, I had the exact same reaction when I read the article. MC is the "keeping it real" algorithm, slow, but almost always dead simple to implement and tha
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> You will be tracked For a peek at what you can expect, take a look at Saudi Arabia, where your bank account gets blocked until your traffic violation fine (usually issued electronically within minutes of the actual deed) is fully paid
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Really, really interesting way to approach QM! If you've ever been deeply frustrated by the way QM is taught traditionally, (the good old "shut up and calculate, don't expect your intuition to be any kind of useful here"
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Jacob Barandes, a New Formulation of Quantum Theory [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ur-whale 2y ago|1 comments
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by ur-whale 2y ago
If there is ONE thing that needs to be decentralized RTFN, it is DNS. It's taking time, but the thugs in charge in various countries are slowly coming to realize that the easiest place to apply censorship is DNS because of its antiquat
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Excuse me? C8 would be right in its place in Moscow, on the contrary. It's a propaganda channel owned by a billionaire FN backer. Cyril Hanouna is basically a Russian TV host that speaks French. The embodiment of bad faith. What y
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Could you give concrete examples I thought I already did, but here it is again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieudonn%C3%A9_M%27bala_M%27ba... The dude kept on saying completely outrageous things on public channel
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> I believe France is and has been the top at individual freedom. You could not be more wrong. However, I am not surprised you would believe that: I have quite a few French friends who believe the exact same thing because they've al

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