Hemospectrum

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by Hemospectrum 5mo ago
> What’s happened, of course, with FORTRAN is that it has become the lingua franca of the computing world. It is the one language that everybody understands to some level of detail — it is on every computer, in every country, made by eve
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by Hemospectrum 6mo ago
I suddenly understand part of why experienced programmers seem to find Rust so much more difficult than those who are just beginning to learn. Years of C++ trauma taught them to ignore the content of the error messages. It doesn't matt
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by Hemospectrum 7mo ago
The Anglo-Saxon migrations made England English, and then the waves of Viking invasions littered North Germanic vocabulary all over it. You can see it in doublets like skirt/shirt that aren't in other West Germanic languages.
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by Hemospectrum 9mo ago
Great when it works. Too many senders will only deliver to widely used hosts, and silently fail for anything outside their tiny allowlist. Note that I'm not even talking about trying to send email FROM a self-hosted account, but trying
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by Hemospectrum 9mo ago
Rather than downvoting you, I will speak up to say I don't see what you're seeing. Spaces around hyphens, yeah, sure, but LLMs prefer em dashes, and even that is unreliable, because it's borrowed from habits that real humans
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by Hemospectrum 9mo ago
It is not obvious to those who refuse to understand, and who preemptively reject case studies on the grounds that the numbers are surely fabricated.
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by Hemospectrum 10mo ago
> If we took the same approach to other engineering, we'd be constantly tearing down houses and rebuilding them just because we have better nails now. It sure would keep a lot of builders employed though. This is almost exactly what
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by Hemospectrum 10mo ago
Intel Macs were always a second class citizen for Blender. There was a lot you couldn't do because the GPU drivers just didn't allow it. They actually announced they were dropping support in February. Nobody noticed or cared.
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by Hemospectrum 11mo ago
Looking forward to my next long flight where I can watch movies about Bharatna Jones.
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by Hemospectrum 11mo ago
...Except on websites that override this to make those links open in the current tab, or just silently fail. On the modern web, the menu is more reliable.
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by Hemospectrum 11mo ago
> Does that cause any symptoms? Tinnitus.
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by Hemospectrum 11mo ago
> Servo has been in development for a decade I was curious how you arrived at that figure so I checked the dates. Servo began in 2012 as a Mozilla skunkworks project, died off in 2020, and was revived in late 2023. If you simply subtract
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by Hemospectrum 11mo ago
From your link, emphasis mine: > permits the operator of a motor vehicle to turn such vehicle right at a red stop light after stopping Quoting GP, emphasis again mine: > the driver glanced to his left and without stopping or looki
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
I would be surprised to see it high in the rankings before it establishes certain backward compatibility guarantees.
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Are you perhaps referring to this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33229793
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
You mean a borrow checker? That exists, but not for Odin.
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Outright impossible. You see, the US is far more spread out than Europe. You need only look at a map to notice the insurmountable geographic barriers that prevent a Subway from being built closer to an apartment building. It simply can&#x27
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
The citation is right there in the article: > source: i made it up
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Rent can continue to go up as long as there is room (literally physical space) in whatever housing is still on the market. Ten years ago you might have been able to afford your own apartment. Now you need three roommates. Soon you'll n
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
This already sounds like every independent coffee shop I've been to in the continental US.
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
> They could have represented dates as a simple int value In standard COBOL? No, they couldn't have.
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
If they continued to carry any of the games that were singled out for removal by Visa and Mastercard, they would not be able to accept credit card payments for anything else in their store . This same drama has played out the same way wi
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Coriolis forces acting on the human vestibular system can directly induce motion sickness just from turning your head. If it turns out humans cannot acclimate through long term exposure, the only remedy is to increase the wheel radius.
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Wizards wave their hands and say something like, "Whatever, space is an ocean." The Expanse makes the observation that accelerating your ship at a substantial fraction (or multiple) of Earth gravity gives you that same degree of a
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
HBO, wasn't it?
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
Even if we solve poverty, we can always turn right around and un-solve poverty. Something like this has happened in quite recent memory with a whole lot of other "solved" problems. Luckily, we can come back from that failure and s
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
I'm continually disappointed they didn't decide to call it "reinstinction."
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by Hemospectrum 1y ago
GP's lists fall somewhat short of explaining the two most important differences: 1. Kishoutenketsu prefers to introduce the primary conflict as late as possible, whereas any writer in Hollywood will try to introduce it as early as poss
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by Hemospectrum 2y ago
> It's hard to tell which camp is more angry: the C# developers stating Microsoft is ditching its own ecosystem or the Rust developers unwilling to accept anything in this category not being written in Rust. Is it really? I must be
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by Hemospectrum 2y ago
There continues to be a vocal contingent of commenters (both here on HN, and elsewhere) who patiently listen to one side of the argument but put no stock whatsoever in what the R4L maintainers and contributors have to say on the subject.

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