ur-whale

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by ur-whale 3y ago
> when I finally decided to read his books in his original English instead. Good for you. Sooo much is lost in the translations of Pratchett to other (even linguistically close) languages. I mean, the translator try their best to carry t
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Not to mention the Jarvis Cocker fascination If you like the Pulp (original AFAICT) version, you have to listen to this cover by Cap'n Kirk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St8FtbzH_JE https://www.you
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by ur-whale 3y ago
>I have learnt from a historian that when the elites adopt the modes of the plebeians, things go badly wrong. Interesting theory. Would you care to provide a couple of historical examples?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/89rNF
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Dirt cheap too!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I dunno, this looks a lot like decompiled code. And what if it is? At what level is using decompiled code copyright violation as opposed to just replicating an algorithm?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> No, but Russia is running out of steam source?
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Jack Vance tributes pour in after his death (2013)(theguardian.com)
2 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
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Less Is More – Looking at Jack Vance (2018)(milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com)
1 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Reminds me of this lady in the Bundestag (need to turn on subtitles with auto translate) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNLPIepG0C8 Alternatively, a pretty decent AI translation: https://www.reddit.com/r&#x
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by ur-whale 3y ago
All the crypto naysayers on HN would do well to read this.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/6MIlR
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Is Ukraine Counter Offensive Over?(economist.com)
17 points by ur-whale 3y ago|8 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
>The API breakage coincides pretty well with their brand new CTO You can go and engage him directly on the topic, maybe he'll present a perspective we haven't seen, or maybe he'll listen to your arguments and reconsider:
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I don't have a problem with surveillance. Hard to continue reading you after that kind of statement. > That said, Bitcoin is a state sponsored pyramid scheme, And now damn near impossible.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Not sure why there is some much negativity in this thread towards HA. I'm a very happy user, and there simply is nothing out there that comes close in terms of ease of use and breadth of devices supported. Sure, if you're goin
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Thoughtful. That single one word is the one thing he systematically uses to weasel out of difficult conversations. The full sentence is usually "this is a difficult issue, we have to be very thoughtful about it".
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by ur-whale 3y ago
So what does this do exactly? The github as well as the wiki seem to be entirely devoid of the "this program does X, Y and Z", and no, "explore the electromagnetic spectrum" does not cut it.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Isn't geometric algebra simply a more general theory that actually encompasses complexes and quaternions?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
ETH FTW!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I have GFS, to a degree that's probably way worse than the article's author. I'm also old enough (40+ years experience as a dev) to actually objectively measure the impact this trait has had on my career. I'll summarize
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The First Cyber Nation-State Recognized by a UN Member Nation(joseon.com)
19 points by ur-whale 3y ago|33 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> MAME 0.260 How large is a full ROM set these days, I wonder?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
In particular, fixes the one gaping shortcoming of cut: separators can be regexes
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Hck, a better cut, written in Rusthttps://github.com/sstadick/hck
2 points by ur-whale 3y ago|1 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
esp32 with encoded video being streamed out to Wifi?
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Embedded would be my guess.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It's always to the detriment of the listener. Not always. If the listener has a functioning brain, he can quickly infer the kind of weasel the speaker is simply for stooping down to using that type of language.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It is useful Says you, and without a hint of rationale to justify a highly questionable claim.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> We're lucky to live in the west where that kind of thing doesn't happen. Was that a sarcastic comment or did you entirely miss out the whole Snowden affair ?

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