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by yissp 5y ago
Could this be a reason why space happens to be 3 dimensional? Like, I don't know, maybe knots are somehow important to the structure of the universe and it couldn't exist with some other dimensionality? Whenever these "magic
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by yissp 5y ago
Is it not possible that different people will have an easier or harder time understanding different kinds of concepts? Maybe IQ favors a particular type of "non-visual" thinking. Or maybe IQ is just another pile of bullshit from t
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by yissp 5y ago
That's a good point, but I would ammend it slightly - Android might turn out to be a net boon for Linux enthusiasts in the next few years. I'm definitely super excited, but I still feel like the mobile Linux ecosystem is still not
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by yissp 5y ago
Building new things is fun, maintaining what you've built not as much. I suspect most software people would agree.
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by yissp 5y ago
Millions of people are using Linux via Android and Chrome OS, but I'm not sure the success of either of those has benefited the general Linux ecosystem in a meaningful way. I think the Steam Deck will be a similar situation. It's
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by yissp 5y ago
This prompted me to search "banana beer", and apparently in some East-African countries there are beers where banana is the main ingredient in the actual mash.
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by yissp 5y ago
how to draw an owl: 1. draw some circles 2. draw the rest of the fucking owl
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by yissp 5y ago
Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?
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by yissp 5y ago
Just looking at UI, though, I think the trend actually favors Linux. GNOME and KDE have made pretty huge strides in the past few years in terms of general usability and polish. Meanwhile I feel like every Mac OS and Windows update elicits n
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by yissp 5y ago
[something].js https://xkcd.com/1508/
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by yissp 5y ago
A similar thing to 2) is probably the reason seemingly every product is priced $x.99. Everyone is probably aware that's basically the same as $(x + 1).00 but when you're on auto-pilot maybe you still feel like the former is a mean
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by yissp 5y ago
Yeah I was surprised by the above comment as a Canadian. I'd definitely say A&W is one of the better quality fast-food chains here.
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by yissp 5y ago
In fact, QNX really is used in nuclear power plants https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/nuclear-plant-powers-up-on-re...
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by yissp 5y ago
You can install apt / dpkg (or dnf / rpm, pacman, portage, nix, ...) on pretty much any distro. You are really just asking why there's no de-facto standard package manager for C like there is for those other languages.
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by yissp 5y ago
I mean if there was a critical bug in the solidity compiler itself that would put the correctness of pretty much every contract into question, right? It seems like a fork would be hard to argue against in that case.
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by yissp 5y ago
// what the fuck?
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by yissp 5y ago
I think your criticism would have been better received if you hadn't phrased it so harshly (e.g. "terrible website structure").
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by yissp 5y ago
I wonder, though, if people who attempt and fail suicide are more likely to be the ones doing it impulsively after a psychiatric episode or other major emotional setback. If someone has thought it through and genuinely wants to die I suspec
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by yissp 5y ago
As someone who has never used go, the third example feels counter-intuitive to me. I would expect a, b := 4, 2; to be equivalent to a := 4; b := 2; is there a reason it was done this way?
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by yissp 5y ago
Even encouraging people to reduce beef consumption in favor of pork or chicken would have a pretty significant impact, and that's a lot less drastic of a lifestyle change than going fully vegan. Although from an animal welfare perspect
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by yissp 5y ago
The newer ones (Beyond, Impossible) are a lot closer nutritionally to beef than the older style of veggie burgers that were mostly bean-based in my experience. Those could still be pretty good for what they were, but not really comparable t
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by yissp 5y ago
Do you mean that as a counterpoint to the parent? These products seem to generally be targeting wealthier consumers. I wonder if China did face a shortage of animal protein, they could avoid some of the political unrest by marketing plant-b
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by yissp 5y ago
A first-person perspective avoids some of the issues discussed in the video, like camera placement. I imagine it's also easier to animate if you only need to worry about the player's hand and lower arm.
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by yissp 5y ago
Also, think about what a waste of talented peoples' time this represents. Probably many person-hours are spent implementing these increasingly sophisticated DRM systems, and then many more trying to crack them, rendering all of it comp
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by yissp 5y ago
Morally of course I agree, I think the parent was wondering if this technically violates copyright law, though. It seems like it might if WaterBear doesn't have the right to distribute their content in your country for whatever reaso
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by yissp 5y ago
I think Eich originally intended JS to be a lisp, but NetScape made him use algol-style syntax instead like every other language.
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by yissp 5y ago
I have no actual data, but I strongly suspect that recent content accounts for the majority of piracy. Just look at the seeder count for, say, The Mandalorian compared to the original Star Wars.
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by yissp 5y ago
How long until they start putting cameras in them and doing facial recognition?
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by yissp 5y ago
Much longer than a century apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_milk#History
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by yissp 5y ago
When I'm compiling a big project, I'll often go read some emails or whatever and listen for the fans on my PC to quiet down again to know when it's done. It's actually become a pretty important part of my workflow lol.

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