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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
You're making it sound like the motorcycle equivalent of the original Fiat Panda 4x4 (well, except that you didn't mention anything about repairability, but you get the vibe I'm going for)
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Yeah, and keep in mind most of those houses where merchant houses where trade happened at the time so there probably was a lot of loading and unloading going on everywhere. Although, given the current-day Dutch attitude to bike helmets I wo
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Funny, I'm Dutch and have an arts degree so obviously the name Van der Heyden is familiar to me, but I didn't know he was also an engineer who modernized our firefighting systems. Having said that, "Dutch golden age painter
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
I feel the same as you about programming games, but can sort of see it for truckers, because surely some truck drivers picked that job because getting in the "flow" of long-distance driving appealed to them. I presume the trucking
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
Hey, as someone born in Ghana I just want you to know I think it's pretty cool you used a Mankala-based game as the minigame this time :) (at least, that's what I'm prematurely concluding based on ten frames of trailer footag
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by vanderZwan 3mo ago
The hive-mind reads another history article about how self destructive the various meta-hive-minds acted over the last centuries. While the critical self-reflection is justified, it thinks the non-hivemind versions weren't much better
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
I think you're better off watching any of the various recordings "Performance Matters" conference talks[0] by Emery Berger to learn about all the ways that developers are benchmarking the wrong thing using the wrong technique
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
US drug policy is more "which population demographic uses it?" based than anything else.
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
Does this new proof have any practical consequences for determining if a PRNG algorithm is any good?
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
> Why should I take the moral high ground and listen to an argument I dislike if I'm not offered the same courtesy. I mean not using the Dutch translation of the n-word as part of your username and thinking you're clever for
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
The police of Amsterdam also used to have Porsche police cars https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/for-more-th... Any other police departments that did this or just those two?
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
David Hockney has indirectly been incredibly important to me during a very difficult period of my life. Thanks to him I'm probably the only art student to ever win "Best Talk" at a conference for physics students. Over half a
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
Yeah, ages ago I read in a book about evolution that mammalian genes are actually simplified (or optimized, if you will) compared to amphibians because we don't have to accomodate as wide of a temperature range due to being warm-bloode
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
I'm sure it does and you have my sympathies, but your situation would not be a reason to let Texas freakin' Instruments off the hook. They're not exactly "a small company", and I wouldn't be surprised if the
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by vanderZwan 4mo ago
Well, as far as I understand it's pretty much a given that it happened underwater or underground, to protect against cosmic radiation and other harsh conditions averse to lifeg so that's not really a "what if" unless you
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Well I wasn't about to spend hours looking up sources and details specifying this hypothesis. All I remember now is that it's one that's taken seriously.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
There's a hypothesis that sign language evolved before vocal languages, and that the latter "took over" as the default because it's energetically much more efficient. There's lots of circumstantial evidence but of c
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Yeah, one of the cool things about sign languages that most people don't realize is that it's spatial, and that allows it to be more "parallel" compared to vocal languages because its "information channels" (e.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Now I wonder if mixed Italian-Dutch children have two different forms of communication by gestures. Would be interesting, especially since neither are true sign languages.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Nah, food comas are noticeably different, at least for me. Plus I also had this drowsiness at student parties where I whs the only sober guy (because tee-totaller) while everyone got tipsy, and no food was involved either.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Well, this is probably a thing where humans are very diverse in their subjective experience. I'd say this is definitely a noticeable thing with small children at family gatherings, birthday parties and the like. But I grew up in a ho
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Well, at certain angles you actually get very noticeable gaps in the strawberry that are visible when rotating it, but almost invisible when static. I think it's mostly due to that.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Oh nice, thanks for the tip! Don't know if I can justify picking up a copy given that I do not work with C++ at all nor with large-scale systems. But I know a few people who might be interested.
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
My point was that TypeScript isn't exactly about to replace JavaScript, which was what you were arguing. I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to argue now. Like, yeah, what you say about TS and Kotlin is true about TS a
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Thank you for explaining and looking up the link, it's appreciated! :)
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Well, if you mean "as an official C++ syntax" then I agree, and I suspect Sutter would agree as well. He labeled one talk about it a "Towards a Typescript for C++", after all[0]. But I do think it is different than other
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
Yes, I've heard that before, but comments like this one in your linked issue still make me wonder: > at least for gcc and Visual Studio using #pragma once has a significant impact. The fact is, the compiler does not need to continu
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
As a developer who doesn't really write C++ code I'm inclined to agree, but I think Herb Sutter's "syntax 2" project might provide a nice way out of that mess eventually. I played around with cppfront over Christm
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
> The header is the cost. Not the reflection. The reflection algorithm is fast – asymptotically ~0.07 ms per enumerator, essentially the same as the hand-rolled switch in the X-macro version (~0.06 ms). What makes reflection look expens
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by vanderZwan 5mo ago
One of the things whose non-existence I'm mildly surprised by: a mash-up between Kraftwerk's Radioactivity and Imagine Dragons Radioactive . Sure, they're extremely different songs melody-wise but that never stopped people

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