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A subway isn't just any random graph, though, and preserving the information about geography at least to some extent makes it more useful in a variety of real life cases.
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2y ago
I wonder if people who wrote that code also consider their job boring and uninspiring
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2y ago
> Your colleagues will resent you Why would they? We're all adults and all more or less understand the rules of the game. And in rare cases in my career when the company culture was all about working long hours and living at work, I
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2y ago
I actually hope that history does repeat itself, and google gets severely punished
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2y ago
> I'd rather make my work enjoyable than having to suffer 8 hours a day. And you're making an irrational decision because it makes you feel better. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't really contradict the essence of t
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2y ago
Whatsapp isn't blocked in Russia. At least, it wasn't a few weeks ago when I last used it to talk to people from there
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2y ago
Actually, we know for a fact that the US 3-letter agencies routinely engage in illegal activities and perform illegitimate searches even on their own citizens, let alone the rest of the world. It's been 11 years since Snowden leaks, it
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2y ago
Are saying that archeology is a pseudoscience?
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I wonder why there is no archeological evidence found. At least, there is none in the article
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2y ago
"Good enough for the MVP"
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2y ago
> might not have been secured like they would have been on the public Internet Yes, because we all know how secure the tings on the public Internet are. /s Nobody's saying that a private network doesn't have to be properly
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2y ago
And all of those places are very walkable compared to the US
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2y ago
He's probably flying a private jet and doesn't give a shit about airlines and their problems
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2y ago
Because making programmers happy is so much more important than making users happy?
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2y ago
All airlines in Russia are operating as usual. Sanctions work in unpredictable ways
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2y ago
> Margarine has always been pretty popular Has it? There are people who use it for ethical or cost saving reasons, but I've never seen anyone say that they actually prefer the taste over butter.
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2y ago
Within Rust is a smaller, simpler, safer language struggling to get out
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2y ago
None of those appliances are autonomous
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2y ago
Nobody can possibly know that for certain
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2y ago
> Can't you just decide to use subset of the language? No, you can't. Not in the long run, at least. You will have to use libraries that have chosen a different subset, new people will join your team, things will get sloppy as
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2y ago
Different types can and do use different encodings
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2y ago
Sending a request and getting a response back is not a new concept, it's about as old as computer networks in general, and gRPC is the only framework that refers to this concept as "unary". This is the original argument from
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2y ago
Romans probably thought so too
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2y ago
That's assuming that the language will still be called English anything. It might as well split into American, Australian, British, etc. We don't call French or Spanish modern Latin, do we?
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2y ago
In 1826, at the age of forty-four, Thorpe studied early English antiquities at the University of Copenhagen And here I am, in my late 30s, thinking that my productive age is far behind me
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2y ago
Apparently aided by his talented stepdaughter, Thorpe started to earn his living as a translator of, mostly, Anglo-Saxon texts...
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2y ago
> making a fusion plant isn't a stepping stone to making a nuclear bomb What about a hydrogen bomb?
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2y ago
RocksDB is a fork of LevelDB created by Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat at Google.
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2y ago
> you actually had to seek porn to find it back then You clearly haven't seen early Internet. Giant flashy banners with semi-porn content everywhere
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2y ago
> replacing substrings, all of which can be done at the byte level You actually cannot implement substring replacement at the byte level with Unicode, just think about what happens if there is a modifier right after the substring in the
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