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How Americans see EU Tech(youtube.com)
4 points by Bost 21d ago|0 comments
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by Bost 8mo ago
> The problem is that bass music travels through everything. It’s not just bass tones—low-frequency vibrations travel through everything. I live in a five-story pre-WWII building, and sometimes, when a neighbor runs their washing machine
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by Bost 8mo ago
There's nothing wrong with your reading. It's a misleading, clickbaity name at best.
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by Bost 8mo ago
The TheJeffDeanFacts repo contains no issues. (TRUE)
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by Bost 9mo ago
Side note: as of now, I have 14 various "travel" apps installed on my phone. Buses, trains, local buses, etc. In every EU country and city there's something else being used.
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by Bost 9mo ago
Reserved seat in a missing cart is boring - 95% of the time you'll find an empty seat. Much more fun is a reserved bicycle rack in a cart that's missing. The number of bicycle racks is limited, and they're quite often sold ou
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10 Signs That Programming Is Not For You(youtube.com)
1 points by Bost 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Bost 1y ago
I think the Russians probably realized, "We don't even need to fund them - they will glue themselves to the roads for free."
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by Bost 1y ago
Good point. What a great society it must be, where school shooting has become normality - a part of everyday experience.
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by Bost 1y ago
"problems is [..] with Germans requiring to use their hard language [..] nobody bothers to learn German anymore, (some small percent still learn, ok) everyone who I know rather works in different country because of this" I assure
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by Bost 1y ago
Yes, "windshadow" one is more descriptive than "slipstream". (At least for me.)
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by Bost 1y ago
I wonder how he managed to reconquer his castle. By, uh... besieging it, maybe? Probably? Now repeat that eight times - and honestly, I’m struggling to see where and how exactly he tried to save his subjects. Sorry, but losing your castle n
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by Bost 2y ago
Have a look at "Code is Data / Data is Code" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity And then see how it's done in real life: https://guix.gnu.org/
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by Bost 2y ago
What about "If things don't go my way, I don't mind starting civil war?"
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by Bost 2y ago
Apparently that's the case.
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by Bost 2y ago
We need to understand that such people want to be distracted and entertained. Give them the show they want, promise them something and they happily make you their king. They don't ask you to fulfill the promises. They just want to hear
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by Bost 2y ago
> that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types and type system paradigms. Could you please write where in the video is Rich talking about it?
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by Bost 2y ago
That idea `function can return multiple values` was a bit of `Wait what? Ah I almost forgot :facepalm:` moment for me. (The quadratic formula function for solving quadratic equations `ax^2 + bx + c = 0` returns TWO values.)
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by Bost 2y ago
Honestly, "norms of warfare" is just a rather ridiculous concept imposed by the winning side.
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by Bost 2y ago
The international court of justice is irrelevant if you don't have nukes or guns to support your cause.
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by Bost 2y ago
This story is not about viruses and vaccines, but what about the 1949 Nobel Price for lobotomy? https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1949/moniz/articl... "Sure. We're smart, we're sc
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by Bost 2y ago
> Anything that can put a dent in that is going to far outweigh any potential risks and side effects. Ha! Explain that to the anti-vaxxers.
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by Bost 2y ago
> Because at the end, it's all just graphs with vertices and edges. That's not the end. At the end there are just objects and morphisms between them. Graphs (with their edges and vertices) are just a special category of... Well
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by Bost 3y ago
Check out "Guix patch review hacking session" on meetup.com: https://www.meetup.com/guix-london/events/299176148/?utm_med...
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by Bost 3y ago
I'm sorry, that doesn't work: $ echo "foo" > access.log # create the access.log with some content $ < access.log | cat | head -n 5 # no output This works: $ cat access.log | head -n 5 foo $ &
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by Bost 3y ago
Thanks for the snippet. Now I have a recipe how to calculate the size of a binary file, plus the shared objects, i.e. the so-file(s), it requires directly. Now I just need to extend your snippet so that it works recursively. A shared object
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by Bost 3y ago
What I see is the tens of thousands of people in troll factories producing content for 3/4 of the world population ready to believe whatever they see in the TV. Edit: Putin on AI, 2017 https://youtu.be/aJELcvjREgk?t=29
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by Bost 3y ago
> So what we are missing now is a 500GB framework that can write the config file for the programming language that is writing a config file for the actual program I wish to use. That exists since 1960. It's called LISP. The e.g. ht
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by Bost 3y ago
Your snippet is not working. #lang racket (define (division x y) (let/cc return (when (= y 0) (return null)) (/ x y)))
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by Bost 3y ago
> If it got the notion To me, it seems like precisely this part got lost in translation

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