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by usrnm 2mo ago
"Saragossa" is an old and well-established spelling of that city's name in English and this is an English-speaking forum
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Can we please stop with this nonsense? No matter where you live and which language you speak you never call the majority of places on Earth right. Can we just accept it and move on?
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Until we get any tangible proof of life outside Earth, there is no difference
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Vote. It's literally the best thing you can do, apart from going into politics yourself
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by usrnm 2mo ago
What are you talking about, it powers a lot of people I know
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Now think what ingesting a smartphone would do to your body. That's a very silly metric
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by usrnm 2mo ago
> english happens to be spoken all over the globe due to a big goofy empire that went places Why do you think Latin was popular?
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by usrnm 2mo ago
> I live outside Seoul, and the infrastructure gap is about 10 to 20 years behind That actually sounds like a business opportunity, if there is a steady stream of people moving out if Seoul. > On top of that, there are no IT companies
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by usrnm 2mo ago
In Europe? A lot of people live in apartment buildings
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Life in general would be a lot simpler and nicer in a perfect world with perfect (whatever it means) people in it
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Are from the Alsace region or maybe your ancestors are? If so, maybe not so secretly
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Not even humans can do that, you're literally asking for something beyond AGI
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by usrnm 2mo ago
The difference here is that in a functioning democracy people have some control over their government. All the institutions are specifically built to be transparent and work for the public good, at least, in some sense of the word. A corpor
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by usrnm 2mo ago
There are several large parks that resemble forests and are barely touched by human activity in Moscow as well. Can't say I liked walking in them very much when I was still living there, but I support the idea, it's good that they
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Some time ago I would've considered that a joke, but this year NS has been about as reliable as DB, so I might actually consider that option
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by usrnm 2mo ago
> if not a heat pump Most heat pump installations in Europe are air-to-water systems fitted to use the existing piping in old homes and is used only for heating. Such installations can, in theory, be used for cooling, but very inefficien
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Genuinely curious, what alternatives were there in the 2000s? Did dependency on Russian gas doom German manufacturing or did it provide it 20 additional years of artificial life support?
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by usrnm 2mo ago
Is it actually simpler, though? The unfortunate reality of this world is the fact that C++ is not the latest standard of the language or the newest shiny library, it's all of them at the same time. Adding a new way of doing the same th
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by usrnm 3mo ago
> There is basically only ever one country in the history of ever that has been able to do that I guess you mean the British empire? Or Dutch? Maybe Spanish?
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by usrnm 3mo ago
To be fair, you don't need to implement exceptions in golang because they already exist in the language, they're just called panics
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by usrnm 3mo ago
It's actually pretty common for local payment systems to exist, it's not just Brazil. I've seen such systems in Europe, Asia, Africa and I'm sure they exist in other places I've never been to
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by usrnm 3mo ago
> If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeErasure or Folly.
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by usrnm 3mo ago
Are you calling an entire generation of programmers idiots? Do you think they didn't know about C, Smalltalk or Lisp? C++ was the most popular language in the 90s because it was the best tool for a lot of jobs back then, people chose t
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by usrnm 3mo ago
Or "high lede" in English
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by usrnm 3mo ago
You're wrote those words using technology built in C++. Just saying
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by usrnm 3mo ago
> I always underline ш and write a line over т Interesting. I think this style completely died out in Russia, I wasn't taught it and never really seen it outside of some old letters and documents. Interesting to hear it survived in
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by usrnm 3mo ago
> The Russian language itself comes from Old Bulgarian / Old Church Slavonic, as does Serbian and other "Slavic" languages. That's some interesting nationalistic propaganda, never heard that one before
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by usrnm 3mo ago
Human rights? Personal freedom? The entire structure of society? The economy? The political system? Laws? Modern views on morality? Even science itself was created by philosophy, what is knowledge and how to get it is a philosophical questi
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by usrnm 3mo ago
If I remember correctly, what finally broke the camel's back was the new API that Google introduced. But I may be wrong
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by usrnm 3mo ago
Do you only consider fundamental research in maths or sciences worth pursuing? Do you even realise how much of your everyday life depends on the results of fundamental research in philosophy and humanities?

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