Carioca

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by Carioca 3mo ago
> The point of the "x2" modes is that they use the second pair of lanes that would otherwise go unused. Thank you for answering a question I didn't know I had
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by Carioca 3mo ago
While this is a good long-term heuristic, I'd describe the upper rungs of government as more cynical on matters of science and theology than a typical fundie. The only relevant difference is that you might be able to push it back a bit
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by Carioca 3mo ago
For a country that has been a "brain magnet" for a good century, a "brain drain" might just be "talented people from wherever choosing to go somewhere else". Case in point: an EE I know who is finishing his mas
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by Carioca 4mo ago
A friend in a prestigious European university said that applications were up in basically all fields
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by Carioca 4mo ago
> Why would this be news? Mostly because international litigation is, let's say, fraught issues (as in "good luck!")
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by Carioca 5mo ago
I mean, could be accurate if they deliver the drones broken
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by Carioca 5mo ago
One weird analgesic/antipyretic is metamizole/dipyrone[1]. It's banned in the US and some of Western Europe (and prescription-only in other countries). Yet it's by far the most used medication here in Brazil and I have a
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by Carioca 6mo ago
Big difference for ffmpeg especially (but I imagine for curl too): it's not just one guy in Nebraska. Seems to have a very healthy community of devs involved in it.
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by Carioca 10mo ago
Yup! And their whole social media “thing” is doing these kinds of on-topic analysis of (mostly consumer) devices
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by Carioca 1y ago
> USG has not deleted and re-issued their USD even once so far afaik. Other countries do it more often. Interesting side note: they did it once, just after the ratification of the US Constitution. The Revolutionary War was funded in some
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by Carioca 2y ago
Also never seen one here in Brazil FWIW
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by Carioca 3y ago
And beyond pricing strategy, there are people who feel that a fair price is intrinsic to the product (e.g. the amount of work that goes into it). For example, it's pretty common in the classical guitar luthier world for there to be a d
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by Carioca 3y ago
As agoose77 said on another comment, Github probably disabled the whole LFS (Large File Storage) for that repo
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by Carioca 3y ago
I'm pretty sure Github disabled image downloads for that repo in the last few minutes.
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by Carioca 3y ago
While I agree with most of what you've said, I'm not sure I see a use-case for the distinction between Hyphen, Minus and Hyphen-Minus. Specifically, with having all three. If I were designing Unicode, I'd remove the Minus sig
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by Carioca 3y ago
There are a few answers to my question now, if you're still curious
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by Carioca 3y ago
> such as the (in)famous evaluate polynomial instruction, POLY. What CPU has this instruction and where can I learn more about it?
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by Carioca 3y ago
As a Brazilian, I'm here to tell you: that's how it starts. If this isn't curbed, you'll have a presidential candidate thoroughly linked with them in ~20 years
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by Carioca 3y ago
I kept reading the post and had a growing feeling of “oh my god, it's like Perl but MORE.” Only when I got to the end I saw the footnote that it's indeed Perl 6
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by Carioca 3y ago
Having lived in São Paulo most of my life, I'd like to corroborate this. The groups tagging buildings generally have nothing to do with (other) crimes. The only unsettling part was the time I saw that that the wall below my 6th floor b
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by Carioca 3y ago
The choice of bananas as a benchmark seems really bad given that the US invaded and supported coups throughout Latin America specifically to keep the price of bananas low. > The idea that US and USSR were equals or even anything near it
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by Carioca 3y ago
I've been reading up on Soviet Rocket history and both Kurolev and Glushko were sent to Gulags for suspicion of organizing against the government. On the other hand they did do dome engineering work while there, so I suppose there were
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by Carioca 3y ago
On the scale that the CIA said the average citizen of the USSR ate better than their counterpart in the US[1], while still having a lot of science and engineering going on. Material conditions in the USSR improved dramatically after WW2. A
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by Carioca 3y ago
Nitpick: Pix is free between people. Companies pay ~1% of the transaction
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by Carioca 3y ago
The first version I heard went through a long diatribe on how “the US” (implying NASA) spent a long time and a million dollars creating a pen that would work in space and the punchline was “Well, the Soviets just used a pencil”. Glad to see
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by Carioca 3y ago
Reminds me a lot of the million-dollar space pen vs pencil story
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by Carioca 3y ago
Put the two together and have a feijoada
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by Carioca 4y ago
It's all fun and games until the chat-responder inadvertently buys the product. And when/if you reveal the deception, the other company sues. In AI court, obviously, where it will be decided by an AI judge
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by Carioca 4y ago
We did it in São Paulo, Brazil a long time (15 years?) ago. It was a relief and I'm always a bit bothered when I'm on cities that allow it. It might be the case that some places in some cities should still keep it, but otherwise I
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by Carioca 4y ago
This is sugarcane ethanol and it is way more efficient than corn ethanol

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