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by wirrbel 4y ago
I developed for fun in Clojure and ClojureScript probably for 3 years, it was tremendous fun and got me into Lisps. In many ways Clojure does still hit the sweet spots from a language design perspective for me. I have revisited Clojure eve
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I think I have never seen a chromebook in real life.
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Last time I touched lua support on neovim it really was not as easy as i hoped as an api. As compared to let’s say eMacs lisp.
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Understandable in SVN times, but lack of Attribution in git times
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Has the crypto crowd moved on from Haskell alread?
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by wirrbel 4y ago
This was a really weird take to begin with. I.e. I feel like the courts were a lot broader in the ways they defined „Werbung“ for abortions than Werbung for other areas.
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by wirrbel 4y ago
I think there is some rule that the cigarette ads need to be targeted to smokers and not to non-smokers. As in Marlboro can try to make ads to convince Gauloises smokers to buy Marlboro on their next purchase instead of their usual brand b
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by wirrbel 4y ago
Don’t you have a vaccination record /pass in which all childhood vaccinations are recorded? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Certificate_of...
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by wirrbel 4y ago
It’s a typical phenomenon that the original message/idea is often distorted by its replication. Usually the ideas tend to mutete to be more simple to pass on. So Balance and counterpoint is lost, but sometimes stuff is added because i
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by wirrbel 4y ago
A bit of a scape goat. I remember how teen magazines managed to totally disrupt the body self-image of my sister in the 90ies, which she still suffers from today. We cannot distinguish effects of media meaningfully from our societies on a g
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Did they add local and federated timeline support?
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by wirrbel 5y ago
For a lot of stuff your credit card number is the reliable join key anyway
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by wirrbel 5y ago
> the push to add types to JS, Python, Ruby and other dynamic languages is largely from developers accustomed to Java, C-Sharp, and other enterprisy languages who would probably rather not work in a dynamic language at all I recall Guido
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Definitely. Especially surprising for a long time to me, given that their early songs seem really simple (She loves you...). And while that may be true, what one must realise is that the Beatles kind of started out as a cover band, as a &qu
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I think there are professionals who care about recording quality, and then there is an esoteric pop culture holding subjective opinions on sound. Both are labeled audiophiles at times.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Pretty sure they don’t containerize with docker because they prefer bare metal.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Then you could not write mysterious blog posts about it. Until it’s open source it’s a proprietary project. If it makes sense for the author I guess it’s a good idea.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
On suetterlin (or the overall topic of current) its not just a change about handwriting. At the beginning of the 20th century, most German books were published in blackletter (Fraktur) until it was abolished by the Nazi regime (internal rea
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Somewhat glad to have moved on to Safari about a year ago (decade-long Firefox user).
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Any "10x argument" is just lazy thinking. 'Productivity' is governed by so many factors, its just unrealistic that 'choice of programming language' would have such an enormous effect (unless you benchmark CL ag
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by wirrbel 5y ago
Interesting (I guess one can call it „religious“) belief.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I think the job market has just grown so much that their share in it gets diluted so strongly. Trying to hire senior engineers is harder than hiring juniors
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by wirrbel 5y ago
By now the appeal is a classical desktop user interface that has been micro-optimised for the past decades (instead of rewrites like Gnome).
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by wirrbel 5y ago
A random comment won't qualify as high-quality but I have a fond relationship with Pascal, since I learnt programming with a Turbo Pascal book that was on the shelf in my local library and since Turbo Pascal gave weird error messages (
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by wirrbel 5y ago
In driver's school in Germany about 2004, I learned that one _can_ use the horn to announce overtaking esp. of agr. tractors or harvesters, etc. I think I never did so but I am fairly certain if I'd dig into the law, there would s
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by wirrbel 5y ago
The argument one frequently reads/hears on this is, that a virus has no evolutionary advantage to kill its host and if the virus becomes fitter in terms of infecting new hosts, they can neglect functions in their genome that lead to
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I am definitely alarmed. What I learned while doom-scrolling * SA has a <50% vaccination rate, so its not quite clear whether its spread could be circumvent vaccine-induced antibodies * SA is past its delta-wave, so this variant has made
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by wirrbel 5y ago
All parties have strong conservative wings. There is some potential for reform-pushing within the Greens and FDP, and I expect we won't see as much of that in the agreement but things will pop up once the chancellor has been elected.
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I graduated in physics so I am no stranger to math notation quirks and I think I also do understand their usefulness at times (conciseness in notation, etc). And it can be dangerous, too. As soon as the notation lures you into doing transfo
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by wirrbel 5y ago
I was once in a company that took part in standard writing and while from a technical perspective the work was good, it certainly was in the business interest of the company to be part of the standard-defining process.

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