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by ad_hockey 4d ago
It would be very difficult for any TV show or film to meet this bar for non-fiction, because even if the footage is real there's still an edit. The Senna documentary[1] is in the grey area. It's entirely composed of archival foota
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by ad_hockey 22d ago
Somebody asked about that on the GitHub thread. You can donate at https://liberapay.com/zedeus or https://patreon.com/nitter . They also take crypto (see Donations section in the project readme)
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by ad_hockey 27d ago
I haven't seen that in the large codebase at work, for what it's worth. The thing that's surprised me about generics in Go is how rarely they're needed in practice. Very nice to have in the right place, but the vast majo
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by ad_hockey 2mo ago
As of June last year[1] the Go team have pretty much drawn a line under this issue, with a very small amount of wiggle room to possibly reopen it at some point: "For the foreseeable future, the Go team will stop pursuing syntactic lang
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by ad_hockey 2mo ago
I don't know. My knowledge is largely based on the caption of that photo :D I would guess it's just uniform world record pace, and it's up to the runner to use their own strategy - stay just in touch with the light for the fi
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by ad_hockey 2mo ago
Yep, they have that as well. You can see it in the photo here: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/18/josh-kerr-make...
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by ad_hockey 3mo ago
I'd get rid of the animated emotes, they're a bit obnoxious. They pop up right over the part of the screen you're trying to read and don't add any value.
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by ad_hockey 3mo ago
I was surprised not to see Sensible Soccer here, it was massive in the 90's (at least in the UK). Turns out it was never released as an arcade cabinet. I think they missed a trick there, it was arcade style and a lot of fun in two play
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by ad_hockey 4mo ago
Disagree on that vibe. The museums are usually free in London, for example. Haven't seen that in many other cities.
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by ad_hockey 4mo ago
As you have it there, "but" would mean the latter is an unfortunate consequence or side-effect of the former, and you're getting both. Whereas "than" would mean you're getting the former and not the latter.
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by ad_hockey 4mo ago
(Assuming you meant "than" rather than "but") You could argue the opposite, it's social media that's creating a society of adults wearing mental diapers. This article is excellent: https://www.theatl
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by ad_hockey 5mo ago
FYI you can also play it in the browser, although it's the DOS version: https://playclassic.games/games/simulation-dos-games-online/...
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by ad_hockey 5mo ago
Minor point, but one of the complaints is a bit odd: > curl -X POST https://backboard.railway.app/graphql/v2 \ -H "Authorization: Bearer [token]" \ -d '{"query":"mutation { volumeDe
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by ad_hockey 5mo ago
The GitHub repo also seems to be archived.
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by ad_hockey 6mo ago
It depends on your plan, but Google[1] and Anthropic[2] at least provide indemnity against this. Haven't checked the others. Still not a situation you want to find yourself in, though. [1] https://cloud.google.com/blog&
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by ad_hockey 7mo ago
This looks interesting! As a Go user I definitely see the value in boring but predictable languages. Does Rox have any support for concurrency?
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by ad_hockey 9mo ago
I don't know about worse, but I think the situations are very similar. It's inaccurate to think the Luddites just hated technological advancement for the sake of it. They were happy to use machines; why wouldn't they be, if
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by ad_hockey 9mo ago
That does the Luddites a bit of a disservice: > But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who
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by ad_hockey 9mo ago
I agree that trying to produce this sort of spec for the entire project is probably a fool's errand, but I still see the value for critical components of the system. Formally verifying the correctness of balance calculation from a ledg
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by ad_hockey 9mo ago
I've been thinking about trying an alternative JSON library, but interested to hear opinions on whether jsoniter is still recommended. There are 208 open issues on the repo, and a question about whether it's still maintained[1] Wo
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by ad_hockey 9mo ago
Corporate, yes. But why do you think the OP is specifically targeting America?
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout is often recommended, and is very good. There was an interesting debate between John and Uncle Bob on their differences in style recently[1], with a related HN discussion[2]. [1] https:&#x
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
That first example is an unintended closure, since the err at the top level actually has nothing to do with the errs in the goroutines. I have seen that sometimes, although the use of = rather than := normally makes it obvious that
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
That seems like quite a high bar, to the extent that I'm not sure we could ever credit anyone with creating a pop song if it applies. Everyone seems comfortable crediting Lennon and McCartney with their various Beatles songs, for examp
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
> The most common refrain is that popstars often write their music. This is misleading: they write the lyrics, suggest a general vibe, and some rough melodies or chords. And even this is a stretch many times. They are not composing or pr
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
You picked the sample, not me. Those categories are taken directly from the YouGov poll that you linked. I took the four categories where "Are members of the ruling class" scored higher than "Are not..." Your own data do
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
Prior to the current government the Tories were in power for 14 years, mostly with a majority. So I guess your opinion that the elites are left wing must be quite recently formed? For the newspaper editors, take a look at the circulation fi
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
Using your own data, then: can you present your evidence that the majority of MPs, CEOs, bankers, and newspaper editors are left wing?
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
That's a far worse proxy. If you want to study PPE at university then you have to pay, there is no alternative. Studying at Eton is entirely unnecessary, given that state schools exist, and also far more expensive - Oxford costs £9,500
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by ad_hockey 10mo ago
The UK. Being educated at Eton is a pretty good proxy for "the elite". We've had seven Eton-educated Prime Ministers in the 20th and 21st Century, and 100% of them were Conservatives. There has never been an Eton-educated Lab

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