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by zem 2y ago
honestly, the scrabble world would have been a lot more surprised had he not won.
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by zem 2y ago
way more imo
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by zem 2y ago
if you're also a fan of eric flint russell I can recommend anvil's "pandora's planet" and "interstellar patrol" novels
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by zem 2y ago
it means that you will be progressively less able-bodied as you age, and that we live in a society that caters heavily towards the able-bodied
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by zem 2y ago
absolutely! better than murderbot imo, especially the first two books.
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by zem 2y ago
it feels like it would be hard for those to tile at all, let alone aperiodially
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by zem 2y ago
thanks for the "half built garden" rec, I hadn't come across that one!
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by zem 2y ago
agree about "closed and common orbit", I really thought that one was going to pull off a hugo-and-nebula when I read it. btw, even if you bounced off murderbot I would say check out wells's earlier fantasy novels, especially
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by zem 2y ago
I thought he was saying "provide your feedback on a thumb drive" as a humorous way of indicating that you shouldn't even email it lest it leak before the vote.
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by zem 2y ago
the only thing I can think of to do, as an individual, is to build community with people who say "no, there really are not two sides to some issues, and we don't have to embrace the viewpoints of those who disagree on fundamental
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by zem 2y ago
> Still, it breaks my heart to see all this work being done to keep developers employed as "Python developers", instead of leveling them up to a broader programming skillset. It seems as if the industry is investing rather heav
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by zem 2y ago
no, to my mind there's diversity, and there's "there are always two sides to everything and both have to be given equal consideration". the latter is a huge mistake and is how we get climate change deniers and transphobe
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by zem 2y ago
pandoc is pretty good https://pandoc.org/demos.html
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by zem 2y ago
there's a scene from the tv show "suits" that has always stuck with me: the show is set in a law firm, and in this particular episode they needed to lay off some of their associates. a young, newly-promoted lawyer was tasked
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by zem 2y ago
well, it's "r" + "actor" - just a coincidence that both "ruby" and "rust" started with an R!
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by zem 2y ago
opalang blew my mind when i first saw it too - it took a whole lot of web development ideas that i'd seen floating around various languages and frameworks, and actually managed to make them consistent, principled and wonderfully ergo
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by zem 2y ago
ruby does indeed, as do python and javascript. here's the ruby library: https://github.com/jaredbeck/graph_matching
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by zem 2y ago
most recently, maximum matching over a graph (edmond's blossom algorithm)
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by zem 2y ago
and ian stewart!
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by zem 2y ago
the elixir ecosystem doesn't have the "library for anything you could possibly need" benefit that you find with rails (and probably django too)
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by zem 2y ago
screwdriver head. perelman's "mathematics can be fun" has that and another couple of fun examples https://archive.org/details/MathematicsCanBeFun-Eng-YakovPer... i got a copy of that book and gardner&#x2
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by zem 2y ago
bionic reading: https://bionic-reading.com/br-method/
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by zem 2y ago
I highly recommend the novella "home is the hangman"
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by zem 2y ago
maybe he's the alien, then!
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by zem 2y ago
I recommend the "build systems a la carte" paper for a good overview of the various problems build systems address
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by zem 2y ago
30-40fps on a pixel 3, not bad!
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by zem 2y ago
the standard wisdom behind why google has so many chat apps is that the way for high-level people looking to get promoted to an even higher level is to launch a new product. so you have people launching a product, getting promoted, and then
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by zem 2y ago
no one gets promoted for maintaining or even improving an existing product
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by zem 2y ago
I was reminded of carrom too, it's super popular in India. kind of like a cross between crokinole and snooker or pool; you need to get your pieces into pockets using a striker, and avoid getting your opponent's pieces in. physical
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by zem 2y ago
fewer dependencies than ipython perhaps, but still unacceptable for something that needs to be shipped as part of the language. also I feel that you are unduly pessimistic about its chances and that the PEP is right about this one - being w

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