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by yazantapuz 1y ago
I have fond memories of watching F1 races with my dad in the late '90s and early '00s. Legends like Lauda and Gilles Villeneuve were mythical figures from a distant past to me. Now, for my children, Schumacher, Häkkinen, and Damon
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
I allways think of async concurrency as state machines.
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
This. My humble setup is a Sony a100 with some good old Minolta lenses.
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
Porco Rosso is my favorite Ghibli/Miyazaki film.
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You Are Not Needed(osnews.com)
1 points by yazantapuz 1y ago|0 comments
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
No, you don't write code by hand. Maybe pseudo-code, analize some given code or you have to specify the general architecture for a system. But in other courses, for example operating systems, networks, distributed systems you have to a
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
Yes, pen and paper.
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
I teach on a small university. These are some of the measures we take: - Hand written midterms and exams. - The students should explain how they designed and how they coded their solutions to programming exercises (we have 15-20 students pe
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
> Didn't take me long to destroy everything by trying to install some old SUSE-Linux from a floppy disk :D With a friend we destroyed the msdos 622 installation on the new 40 mb hd of my family 386 when deleting tmp files...
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
Very nice!!! It remains me of the old days with pascal and msdos writing into A000:0000 :)
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
Well, yes. In spanish we use "estadounidense" a lot.
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
Not a game, but where i live, stories of haunted smurfs toys (or clothes!) that killed their owners where pretty popular, and definitily scaried me when i was a child (we had a tiny smurf action figure and a sega genesis cartdrige of the sm
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by yazantapuz 1y ago
> My long term goal will be to have an “old computer” set up in the house for the kids to play on, learn to type, and more without the risk of undue exposure to the internet, advertising, and bullying Same here. I plan to restore my old
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
That was similar to my experience too. I discovered "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" in a pop-science magazine article about science fiction novels in the nineties, along with Foundation. Both titles resonated with me and ig
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
Star Trek has been hijacked by people who have no understanding whatsoever of the franchise's spirit. Perhaps this is a symptom of something deeper: not only are they unable to conceive of optimistic stories, they can't even imagi
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
TIL that winkey+dot in kde launchs the emoji selector ... but it is copied into the clipboard, so more keystrokes
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
When i see the brick wall i think of the -Wall option in gcc.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
> These moral judgements aren't great ways to make economic decisions. In my experience, a lot of people who make these kinds of extreme claims (no billionaires, no inheritance, etc.) do not seek plausible economic solutions, they o
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
A 100% inheritance tax is quite silly imho and very unfair for the parents. One of the reasons many people strive for success is to secure some well-being to their children... well at least myself and many people i know.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
Oh, well, here even the state communication director posted a ghibli-selfie...
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
I like my numbering to start like my tape measure: at zero.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
As always, many complaints about the UI. I will say what I always say about Calibre: I love Calibre, and I double-love its user interface, maybe a little arcane, but free of modern ux nonsense.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
If for internet we think of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the like...then YES.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
When I read Juju I think you were talking about JuJu Densetsu xd.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
I had a Bravia 40BX425 (latam model) for several years. I bought it used and after many years I had to sell (needed the money). An astounding TV, much better than some of the new smart cr*p out there.
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
> and we can feel it under us. I think that we don't feel gravity directly, just our atoms resisting being squashed.
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Asimov's Jokester(asimov.fandom.com)
1 points by yazantapuz 2y ago|1 comments
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
In "Jokester" Asimov tells the story of Noel Meyerhof, a "Grand Master" who knows what questions to ask Multivac... I used to think that the Grand Masters where the ones that know how to efficiently use Google Search, bu
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
> You can upgrade your Ubuntu installation and then discover that your browser is now contained within a Snap This. Maybe i am missing something, but Firefox and Thunderbird keep getting replaced with their snap counterparts periodically
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by yazantapuz 2y ago
diffie-hellman should be on that list... maybe instead of he pagerank one imho.

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