wassenaar10

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Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work?
194 points by wassenaar10 4y ago|210 comments
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Ask HN: Resources for learning general-purpose GPU programming?
2 points by wassenaar10 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best way to find out when features were added to languages?
2 points by wassenaar10 4y ago|1 comments
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
You ought to read that article, since this definitely isn't whataboutism.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
And yet, it's white people who are allegedly the "fragile" ones.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
> America also became a major economic engine of the world by exerting control over people's bodies without paying them. The actual economic data doesn't support that. Slaves were never more than 17% of the population, slavery
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
The South was already set back economically before the civil war. The plantation chattel slavery system hampered industrialization in the Southern US very much in the same way that the serf-owning nobility system hampered industrialization
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Ask HN: What current common languages use an AST interpreter?
1 points by wassenaar10 5y ago|2 comments
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Nobody was killed by any of the rioters.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
The listing of every native American group that's ever occupied the place is comical to me. All of world history involves the push and pull of various groups competing for land and resources. Somehow we're supposed to treat every
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
The performance overhead of multiprocessing is pretty high, to the point that you really have to take care to ensure that whatever problem you're solving with multiprocessing is large and parallel enough to justify it, otherwise your m
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Interesting. But seeing as the US population in 1910 was about 92 million vs 330 million in 2020, it doesn't say a whole lot about comparative severity of the two pandemics.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
No real response but oversimplification/staw-manning will do just fine, huh? Are you trying to say that the situation in Europe is just "business as usual" or something? Now I don't know if you've been paying attent
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Europeans discover that the continent is not made of magic dirt that assimilates migrants into your society upon entry. Europeans also discover that weapons restrictions only go so far when you have active organized criminal groups with the
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
The earlier comment is conflating general Swiss firearms ownership with the service-weapon take home system in use with Swiss military conscripts. Swiss gun owners are allowed to buy, own, and use ammunition. They may also use a privately-o
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Yes, but as a Swiss civilian you're allowed to own a great number of semi-automatic rifles, handguns, and standard capacity (20, 30, or more rounds) magazines as a private citizen, provided that you go through a licensing processes whi
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Best illustrated by Sam Hyde in 2013
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
It's not really just "historical animosity" if the Russian Federation is invading and occupying neighboring sovereign states as we speak.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Perhaps a cliched comparison, but Adolf Hitler didn't found the NSDAP either.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
> When this kind of force In what way is a RC helicopter with a camera on it in a public place "force"? And with regards to force it's not "only deployed against a specific political demographic". Tons of the BLM
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
That's supposed to be a bad thing? They were in a public place, so it's not spying so much as it is a mobile security camera.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Is there no Russian/ex-USSR expat community where you live?
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Seems a bit political to be on HN, but we'll see if it stays up. On this article (which really says very little aside from "we claim that a lot of complaints contain racial bias, therefore the people complaining are wrong and stup
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
> But Early Middle Ages were pretty bad in a lot of Europe, there is no way around it. I recommend anyone who is interested in this topic watch Paul Freedman's "The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000" Yale course lecture videos,
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
> His mother tongue is Swedish Which is the definition of being an ethnic Swede. He's part of the relatively small Swedish minority in Finland. I was never contesting his Finnish nationality.
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Linus is an ethnic Swede, can't have that
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
> PyPy3.7, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of Python 3.7, including the stdlib for CPython 3.7.10. We no longer refer to this as beta-quality as the last incompatibilities with CPython (in the re module) ha
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Definitely a case to be made for that. The one time in undergrad where coq came up in a programming languages lecture, I distinctly remember thinking "haha penis".
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by wassenaar10 5y ago
Not sure if this is helpful, but I'll give you my story. I graduated from my CS undergrad degree in the USA in May of 2020. One of the job offers I had was from a relatively new tech company in Norway, and the offer was for an on-site
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by wassenaar10 6y ago
> The CCP is 100 million people, FYI. Are you trying to say that all 100 million of them have meaningful influence on CCP policy? Like some sort of great big Athenian democracy?

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