billyoyo

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by billyoyo 3mo ago
I'm not sure any of those things (curry, reggae, tea) are examples by themselves of cultural appropriation. The first two are artefacts of groups who came to Britain and became part of it - British Indians and British Caribbeans are ce
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by billyoyo 3mo ago
This seems rather blatantly anti-british? Feels like you're taking your point too far the other way. How exactly is Britain not a country good at designing things for longevity? It is probably amongst the countries in the world that go
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by billyoyo 3mo ago
I'm not American, so I'll admit I don't exactly subscribe to your american-centric ideas of what the global pandemic was about (operative word: global). You haven't really explained the link between getting vaccinated an
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by billyoyo 3mo ago
You're describing contact tracing, that is not vaccination. If people were less afraid of vaccinations, invasive practices like contact tracing would be less necessary. Arguing against that sort of contact tracing may have merits (Not
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by billyoyo 3mo ago
What does getting the COVID vaccine have to do with surveillance or grocery shopping? Where I live I simply queued up at the local vaccination centre, got vaccinated, and left. I probably had to show some id or something I guess but no more
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by billyoyo 10mo ago
Using a very common utility in the standard library is to avoid reinventing the wheel is not "clean code"? defaultdict is ubiquitous in modern python, and is far from a complicated concept to grasp.
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by billyoyo 2y ago
Just to clarify this as well, while sixth form (17~18 years old) is optional in the UK, education is still compulsory until you're 18. you have the option to do this at an apprenticeship or skills based school but lots of people do jus
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by billyoyo 2y ago
What are you talking about? The US has the 2nd heighest emissions behind China, almost double India's. The only countries higher than it per-capita are Canada, Australia and petro-states or tiny countries. And China is already leading
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by billyoyo 2y ago
That's just elitist though isn't it? These games are enjoyed by players from all over the world, including massive numbers of players in countries with far less average disposable income. Its common in many countries to go to an i
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by billyoyo 2y ago
This is a naive take. Of course these developers already permaban cheaters. Firstly many of these games are free to play so "getting another license" is a non issue. They're doing hardware bans nowadays which are harder to av
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by billyoyo 2y ago
Riot games use theirs (Vanguard) to improve detection of cheating software. basically the idea is by being on from the moment the computer is booted up it can validate the environment better. Here's a recent blog post by riot detailing
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by billyoyo 2y ago
It is only "anti-white" in the sense it's criticizing white men from over a hundred years ago who were doing pretty horrible things in the name of colonialism. And the fact they were white is pretty important as they themselv
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by billyoyo 2y ago
The article is talking about how his stories inspired real world colonial technocrats in France at the time.
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by billyoyo 2y ago
The article is just correctly identifying that late 1800s french colonial technocrats were predominantly white males. The article isn't really making a particular point about this, it's just a quick aside. What are you referring t
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by billyoyo 2y ago
looks like they were playing around with getting gpt to write some code to render the particles
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by billyoyo 3y ago
You dismiss a lot of modern technologies as "unnecessarily complicated", you advocate for reinventing the wheel coming across with a very "I know better" attitude. For example you create your own bundler, when modern bun
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by billyoyo 3y ago
Clearly a bad faith argument. someone with your passwords can do a lot more damage than someone with your DNA. I think DNA is probably sensitive on the level of someone knowing your name and DOB. Not convinced it's much more dangerous
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by billyoyo 3y ago
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-ancient-egyptians-cou... Here's a nice compilation of evidence showing it's completely explainable how they could have made them.
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by billyoyo 6y ago
I didn't mean they literally descended from the scythians, but that they both derive from the indo-europeans from the eurasian steppe, and so cultural memory of this could influence the story the original poster was referencing. Althou
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by billyoyo 6y ago
Well the (Celtic) Scots did descend from roughly the Scythians. although afaik the Picts are thought to possibly be non-celtic. The Celtics though were all Indo-European, and so originate from the Eurasian steppe.
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by billyoyo 6y ago
It's a really minor thing, but decorators are really not a new python feature. The RFC is from 2003, decorators existed in python 2.
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by billyoyo 6y ago
You state that "a drop in overall intake as more students realise it likely isn't worth the money". This is completely unfounded and not supported by statistics at all [1]. University intake in the UK across all ethnicities h
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Show HN: TSPlate – a simple templating library for TypeScript(github.com)
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by billyoyo 6y ago
it was precisely the 10th century when the concept of English emerged, with Athelstan being regarded as the first king of England. the ideas of a unified Anglo Saxon people started to emerge at the end of the 9th century I believe, with lea