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by usrnm 5mo ago
Banksy has been active since the 90s, definitely already famous in the 00s
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Of course it is. What should a button on a screen look like, after all, it has absolutely nothing to do with a large mechanical button from the 80s the old designs tried to emulate. In fact, such buttons are becoming rare even in the physic
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Isn't it? The whole promise if humanoid robots is replacing humans in a human-centered environment. Instead of specialized hardware or modifying the existing process, just drop a robot in place of a human, bam, done. Otherwise, what&#x
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Not everything is a conspiracy, europeans are perfectly capable of fucking up themselves, one of the things they're still good at. Russia is one of the biggest exporters of nuclear reactors in the world and sells them just as happily a
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by usrnm 5mo ago
Europe didn't have a common religion before the reformation as well. There were literal crusades inside Europe including against other christians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Crusades
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by usrnm 6mo ago
It's insane, how far our industry has come in less than a single human lifetime. I wish I could see what will become of it in a few centuries.
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by usrnm 6mo ago
To be fair, Deng Xiaoping's reforms were based on the older New Economic Policy or NEP from the 1920s USSR, so it had been tried at that point. It was scrapped in the USSR for other reasons, not because it failed.
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Zeppelins on Venus are the perfect mix of scifi and steampunk, I would really wish to see that one day
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by usrnm 6mo ago
They did exist the same way people and goods did travel across Eurasia, but it wasn't some defined political or economical entity and they did not call themselves "the third world"
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Just like there was no Bronze age, Middle Ages or Third World. It doesn't mean that we cannot use the terminology or that it's necessarily wrong, it's just limited and we need to understand the limits
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Japan?
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by usrnm 6mo ago
That's not a new idea, it's the same thing Germany learned about tanks in WWII.
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by usrnm 6mo ago
You know that you don't have to do whatever Americans say, right? It will come with its own downsides, but it is a choice. Maybe it's the Dutch people who died for your freedom and independence who are rolling in their graves righ
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Did you mean "right to left"?
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by usrnm 6mo ago
> now refer to neanderthals as Homo sapiens neanderthalensis What do you mean "now", they definitely were called that 30 years ago, when I first learned about them
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by usrnm 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Especially for dinosaurs
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by usrnm 6mo ago
When I was young 20-30 years ago older people were saying that the Internet would make us dumb. Why learn anything when information is always readily available one search request away? Videogames were supposed to make me a blood-thirsty man
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by usrnm 6mo ago
For some weird reason people like to simplify that war to "Napoleon vs. Russian winter", completely overlooking Kutuzov. Kutuzov was dealt a bad hand but he played his cards very well
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by usrnm 6mo ago
> Scala is comparable in popularity to Go or Rust Do you have any numbers to back you up? That statement sounds very, very wrong to me
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by usrnm 6mo ago
That is very different from my experience with git. I know that the kernel uses branches a lot, but that's probably because of git's history with the project. At every company I worked git is used exactly the same way as CVS or SV
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by usrnm 6mo ago
> how common is it for go devs to experience leaking goroutines About as often as leaking memory in C++
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Browser engines are probably some of the most optimized pieces of software in existence, so it doesn't surprise me at all.
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by usrnm 6mo ago
Ever heard of hamam?
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by usrnm 6mo ago
They are not supposed to produce code that doesn't compile, why would they?
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by usrnm 6mo ago
What are you talking about, there is actually too much unicode awareness in C++. Unicode is not the same thing as utf-8. And, frankly, no language does it right, I'm not even sure "right" exists with Unicode
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by usrnm 7mo ago
I once spent several days debugging that same mistake. Stuff worked perfectly in tests but broke misteriously in production builds. Couldn't stop laughing for a few minutes when I finally figured it out.
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by usrnm 7mo ago
Atomic operations, especially RMW operations are very expensive, though. Not as expensive as a syscall, of course, but still a lot more expensive than non-atomic ones. Exactly because they break things like caches
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by usrnm 7mo ago
> Just use lambdas/callbacks "Just" is doing a lot of work there. I've use callback-based async frameworks in C++ in the past, and it turns into pure hell very fast. Async programming is, basically, state machines all
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by usrnm 7mo ago
High-throughput is not the same thing as low latency. In fact, they're often at odds with each other

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