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by zem 2y ago
> It is amusing that the reaction to using a Chinese app being banned because your government says it is dangerous to give them your information my guess is that nigh 100% of tiktok users think the app is getting banned because the gover
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by zem 2y ago
the chinese government doesn't care about you one way or another; the US one is actively hostile towards you.
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by zem 2y ago
I'm kind of the opposite, I can't bring myself to let go of my collection of paper books, or even to stop buying a new one every so often, but I do not like the physical experience of reading one nearly as much as I like the exper
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by zem 2y ago
'against the storm' is an interesting twist on the genre, if you haven't checked that one out yet
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by zem 2y ago
thanks, that does look excellent!
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by zem 2y ago
one of my all time favourite games too. for me the best aspect was that I felt I was playing out the story of how railroads helped settle a continent, so its spiritual peers were civilisations and to a lesser extent simcity. the closest mod
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by zem 2y ago
dava sobel's "longitude" is excellent
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by zem 2y ago
yeah - the need for a boss in the first place. there simply isn't one.
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by zem 2y ago
"you're not the boss of me" does not mean "i am the boss"!
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by zem 2y ago
I stopped thinking it was cool when athletes were prohibited from publishing their diaries because it violated some "exclusive media rights" deal. that was pretty much the last time I paid any real attention to it.
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by zem 2y ago
ten years ago i would have enjoyed learning about this a lot more; today all i can think about is that blizzard has the ability to shut the whole thing down by asserting their "rights" over streaming footage of a game. (whether th
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by zem 2y ago
zildjian cymbal cases are popular in the tournament scrabble community for carrying round boards, though less so these days since foldable boards took over from the rigid ones.
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by zem 2y ago
agreed, I'm a programmer living in SF for over a decade, but not in the VC or AI space, and I checked 3 boxes off
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by zem 2y ago
i think it was doctorow who addressed this, saying that he would rather you not bypass his publishers that way because they formed a valuable part of the book ecosystem and he would rather they continued to make their share and keep publish
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by zem 2y ago
I've built a scrabble tournament management app on google sheets, because it was the easiest way I could think of to let multiple people edit it with all the others seeing live updates. From a developer's point of view it kind of
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by zem 2y ago
I don't have kids and had never heard of sandra boynton, but I happen to be waiting for someone at a department store some years ago and idly picked up a copy of "not the hippopotamus" from a nearby rack of children's bo
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by zem 2y ago
someone who is drained by interacting even with compatible people whose company they enjoy
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by zem 2y ago
it's by far the best language I've found for writing a quick bit of code to explore a problem, or to do a one-off task. perhaps something about it just fits the way my brain works, but I find it incredibly easy to convert ideas to
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by zem 2y ago
the point of "related threads" is not "this is a redundant post and should not have been made", it's more "other discussions have happened around the same general topic; if you are interested in this post you c
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by zem 2y ago
the linked article on combinatory programming is lovely
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by zem 2y ago
there's another story in the same collection, "unauthorized bread", that is probably the most prescient-feeling science fiction dystopia I've ever read. helps that it's a near-future story dealing with topics that a
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by zem 2y ago
or store them in some encrypted form that you know how to reverse easily but which would take an attacker more trouble than it was worth to break.
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by zem 2y ago
pytype ( https://github.com/google/pytype ) is based on symbolic interpretation of python bytecode, but with the data stack storing types rather than values. it works very well and has been running in production within g
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by zem 2y ago
i remember it as just the opposite - it was funny in part because of how mechanical it sounded.
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by zem 2y ago
that's my point; to me "the results were surprisingly low" does mean "we the authors were surprised it was low", and reads better than "to our surprise the results were low". my reasoning is that the for
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by zem 2y ago
even "completely different formulation" could convey something different from "different formulation", e.g. "we tweaked the method" vs "we scrapped the method and started anew". I also disagree about
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by zem 2y ago
nice! do you feel like oberon has something that gives it an edge over more currently popular languages, or is it just a matter of personal preference?
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by zem 2y ago
I've been in the US for over a decade and it still occasionally makes me double-take when a room numbered 1xx is on the ground floor
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by zem 2y ago
scrabble is by no means over optimised; the randomness means every move is different, and single-game upsets (someone beating a much higher ranked player) are very common. what makes a champion is winning over the course of tens of games.
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by zem 2y ago
he knows them anyway

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