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by yetihehe 11mo ago
It is not TCP based. In Erlang processes have mailboxes. But they don't have promises, you send a message and wait for response with timeout or do something else. And TCP is only used between nodes (vm instances). But you can use any c
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
It doesn't. It's "promise" based, not "communicating sequential processes". Erlang has more preemptive scheduling, a "thread" can be preempted at any time, here you can only be synchronized when you w
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Air bearings run dry until they get some moisture. Then they fail. Old joke about making radio enclosures: make it as watertight as possible, then drill a small hole on the bottom to let the water escape.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
My home construction slipped 6 months on 2 year build time. It happens in construction very often. > software is only tougher to estimate if incompetent people (vast majority of the industry, like 4+ million) is doing the estimating :) N
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
10 days was already after I used this algorithm. Previous several tasks on that codebase were estimated pretty good. Problem with this is that some tasks can indeed take SEVERAL orders of magnitude more time that you thought. One of the har
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
I think software is one of those VERY rare things, where inaccurate estimates can actually be inaccurate by "orders of magnitude". After 20 years in the field, I still managed to use 2 months of time on a task that I estimated as
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Yes.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Yes, but one side seems to commit noticeably more war crimes.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
That's even worse. They are humans who want to see more suffering. The famous quote from one Russian propagandist about Ukrainians dying: "I don't pity them at all". Me and you care and think that losses on both sides ar
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
I don't think that Russians care about this. This whole invasion can be summed by 'Russians don't care about trivialities like human life or impact to nature'.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> Or I'd use it all day to do the work of 3 people and be on the fast track to promotions. Or, like execs want, you do work of 3 people, so we can fire two and get the bonus, plus maybe a 5% pay increase for you. "If someone is
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
AFAIK those who have it, can still play it (but no official multiplayer servers anymore).
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Universal goal of life: make more life.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> Weird that it was allowed to wither and die. It was allowed to wither and then murdered in 2022. You can't even buy it now, not even on GOG (you could buy it on GOG previously, but it was removed).
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> High population density means a lot of roof area. Up until you start building cities and building with more than one floor. Then you have more people and power usage per roof area. Then you have to put solar panels on some unused area
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
A lot of programs break on Polish computers when you name your user "Użytkownik". Android studio and some compiler tools for example.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> I would happily bet that I've done more to help HN and its denizens than you have. I would agree, I sometimes browse your comment history for insightful comments. But it was a suggestion that you can help out some more on this spe
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> I'd even say the 'Get Style', 'Get Strong', 'Get Social' and 'Get Skilled' categories always appear to wander towards (while never approaching) Andrew Tate territory, in terms of their goals
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> This is not right and it's making HN a worse place. I think so too, but It's not a strong opinion from me. Some things are offtopic. The problem is that there are no other good discussion places to discuss this. Maybe it&#x27
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Because HN is about technology, and original link is about social issues. Tech-oriented people are famously bad at dealing with social issues.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> Tech already has a bad reputation in this respect and HN really isn't helping. You are part of HN, now is your chance at helping. Discussion means that you will see opinions that are plainly wrong. That's a good place to argu
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> Yes, I picked those examples deliberately, but I don't see why any of the qualitatively good ones are 'manly'. What was your goal? What was your argument? I said that we need men to be more manly (strong and able to do t
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
No, so we can all be schooled in "Why Every Man Should Be Strong"[0], "How to Set a Table"[1], "9 Ways to Start a Fire Without Matches"[2] or "Win the War on Debt: 80 Ways to Be Frugal and Save Money"
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
Sites like artofmanliness.com seem to be more and more needed in today's world.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
> I cannot find any other explanation for this behaviour than stupidity. I can find one other explanation: greed.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
For a demonstration of Kolmogorov complexity, it's good to watch "A mind is born"[0] by lftkryo. It's only 256 bytes, but can generate over 2 minutes of complex music and video. Also, the name is appropriate for this top
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
It already disappeared from front page. Your comment was 45 minutes old when I was writing this.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
No one likes to be the bad messenger saying to Americans that they were fooled and all that hatred against their opponents (opposite party) was actually induced, not born out of their own superiority.
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
It sometimes happen to me by just passing near them. At my previous work we had such dry air, that I made a habit of touching my steel watch bracelet to corner of entrance to my room, so that I don't reset the computers. Corner of entr
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by yetihehe 11mo ago
I agree with you. Like I said in sibling comment: Free will is essentially freedom from manipulation/overriding external to the entity having free will.

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