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by usrnm 4mo ago
It definitely is possible, just very improbable
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by usrnm 4mo ago
Sparta was built on slavery, their obsession with war was necessary to keep their slaves in check and deal with constant uprisings, it was very practical for their way of life.
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by usrnm 4mo ago
Every science including physics consists of models that are just good enough for a particular use case. It's implied
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by usrnm 4mo ago
> came to Netherlands for a short visit and oh my god how much better the food is I really don't want to know what the food is like where you came from, but it may be a WMD test or something. You should get human rights activists an
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by usrnm 4mo ago
I have zero knowledge of economics, so maybe someone can help me with the question that's been bothering me lately. Why is being in recession or not decided based on figures not adjusted for inflation? I mean, a large part of Europe is
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by usrnm 4mo ago
Waxed jackets and especially Barbour are also having a comeback, I see a lot of them around. Not the best jackets for sports, but for a casual stroll in a light rain they work very well and they look much better than Gore-Tex
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Most people managing stuff running in a datacenter don't live near that datacenter, it really doesn't matter where it's located. Also, the Netherlands is so tiny that crossing half of the country would still fall under "
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by usrnm 5mo ago
The last thing I want is work following me wherever I go. I even have a separate phone for all the work-related stuff that I only take with me when absolutely necessary. Which is almost never except when I'm oncall.
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by usrnm 5mo ago
The web is not a software distribution platform, it's a platform for distributing thin clients to propriatory walled gardens that will break your use cases or just ban you at will. Users have absolutely no control over the web, so no I
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by usrnm 5mo ago
So, what you're saying is that you agree with the security concerns regarding these API, but your convenience as a developer outweighs them?
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by usrnm 5mo ago
France cannot really add more of it. Not fast and cheap enough, anyway
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by usrnm 5mo ago
The purpose of every military in the world is hurting people. It's, like, the whole point of their existence, either hurting people right now or preparing to hurt people in the future.
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Is working for the military immoral? After all, hurting others is the entire point of the whole thing
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Personally, I see no reason to be alarmed. Humanity has been growing at an absolutely batshit crazy rate for the past hundred years, even the doomsday Thanos-level event that halves the population of the planet overnight would just bring us
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by usrnm 5mo ago
I read it and found it interesting
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Because that's not how Unicode works. It's not simply a table mapping numbers to all possible symbols. Unicode is full of special codepoints that have no meaning on their own, they serve as modifiers to other symbols and a single
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by usrnm 5mo ago
> It would have been expensive, but all characters should have been fixed size 64bit values You're making the same mistake that numerous people made before you: thinking that it's as simple as using arrays of large enough numbe
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by usrnm 5mo ago
It will need a flashy name, "WinAPI" or something. Just a suggestion
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by usrnm 5mo ago
A company is a company. For some weird reason techies used to think that they were special, but that time came to an end
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by usrnm 5mo ago
I know enough people who tried, to be able to tell you that it's not all roses over there. Some had to go back to being a corporate slave and some just continue grinding a barely viable business earning much less than they could at a l
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by usrnm 5mo ago
In most (all?) European countries comma is the decimal separator
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by usrnm 5mo ago
> Every country should have this Many countries do, it's really more common than you might think. The problem is international payments and things like tourism. Want to order something from another country? Want to go there for a we
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by usrnm 5mo ago
IBAN works pretty ok as an identifier when you need that. Bank transfers between Dutch banks are almost instant anyway
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Just pass it around, store it and then call it. What type does it have? AsyncFn is still an experimental API.
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Wait, wasn't the free market supposed to be a superior system? You cannot at the same time argue that something is better and wish you didn't have it
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by usrnm 5mo ago
In the Netherlands I see plenty of Renault 5s or VW IDs, many Teslas, too. And almost no BYD
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by usrnm 5mo ago
And then you want to do something trivial like an async callback
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Are you sure that latency-sensitive parts are written in async JS instead of having a separate UI thread (pool)? I have no idea myself, but without knowing the details it's hard to argue. Note, that browsers themselves, are usually wri
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by usrnm 5mo ago
The problem comes from trying to sit on both chairs: we want async but want to be able to opt out. This is what causes most of the ugliness, including function colouring. Just look at golang, where everything is async with no way to change
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by usrnm 5mo ago
> overall energy consumption by 3% Is it possible that some non-trivial part of that number comes not from increased efficiency but from losing some energy-dependent industries?

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