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by davorb 7mo ago
You should look into how he destroyed the small indie MMO Darkfall and gave the game 2/10 without ever playing it, in a Eurogamer review a few years ago. The developers had receipts and could prove that he hadn't played it. It doe
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by davorb 1y ago
It would especially have been useful to see what is recommended in this day and age.
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by davorb 2y ago
It's also Persian for "money"
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Show HN: I built a flash card app for Swedish(svenska.davor.se)
1 points by davorb 2y ago|0 comments
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by davorb 5y ago
Ukraine has 200k soldiers. But most of them are grunts with rifles. Russia has all kinds of equipment and combined arms. You can't really compare the two.
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by davorb 6y ago
Satellite imaging is used by a lot of researchers and non-profits to analyze concentration camps in North Korea[0] and it's one of the few sources that we have access to. Would you consider offering free-of-charge images of these camps
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by davorb 6y ago
I wish you had some screenshots on the page
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by davorb 8y ago
I don't think this follows. What you are saying is basically "All Bs must be a subset of A. Therefore dogs like the sun."
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by davorb 9y ago
> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task... For a lot of modes, Emacs does this using regex.
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by davorb 10y ago
Buddhism also talks a lot about purity. It doesn't necessarily follow that those practices should be abandoned or even avoided, just because parallels can be drawn with religion. Let's say that I spent some time brewing your favor
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by davorb 10y ago
Unfortunately, you're misunderstanding stoicism. It's a very different way of looking at life, that can take a very long time to grasp. You should read up on Cato the younger, who for generations was held up by stoics as an exampl
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Mark Zuckerberg rejects 'crazy idea' that Facebook swayed voters(theguardian.com)
2 points by davorb 10y ago|0 comments
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by davorb 10y ago
Charles De Gaulle once said: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
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by davorb 10y ago
If you are a technical/rational type, a lot of the information on meditation can seem ...well, wacky. That's why I would suggest listening to a few episodes of Sam Harris' podcast. Specifically those about the mind and consci
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by davorb 10y ago
Teaching other people is a great way to learn something yourself, and a lot of times you don't really understand a concept until it's explained in a slightly different way. I really don't see the problem with people reachin
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by davorb 10y ago
> That last part is madness. Europe has had a lot of bad experiences when it comes to how we've treated our minorities, and the census has often been used as a tool for finding "undesirables". And I'm not only talking
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by davorb 10y ago
I think it's an ErgoDox.
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by davorb 10y ago
> It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever be supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project recommends avoiding all modern Intel hardware. If you have
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by davorb 10y ago
So you've never sent an email to someone with a Gmail account? Or you've never let anyone with whatsapp on their phone, add you to their contacts?
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by davorb 10y ago
I used it to learn APL, and it really is a great resource.
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by davorb 10y ago
The military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understand this, the decision to set all nuclear launch codes to 000
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by davorb 10y ago
Emacs can do this using the built-in tramp-mode. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
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by davorb 10y ago
> for us to go from writing with only consonants to using vowels for the first time Speaking as someone who has studied cuneiform and Akkadian, I would say that this claim isn't true. Here's a vowel that predates the period tha
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by davorb 10y ago
Assuming that you are somewhat familiar with assembly programming and know how to produce a syntax tree, getting it to output compilable LLVM IR should take you at most a couple of days.
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by davorb 10y ago
I use emacs and just press the dot button to access an additional layer on my keyboard with the special characters. The APL characters are surprisingly easy to learn and in my experience superior to the ASCII based ones used by J et al. I t
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by davorb 10y ago
The European Parliment doesn't have the power to propose new laws.
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by davorb 10y ago
> Maybe you can tell us something about their coding practices. A friend of mine who work at GS told me they have an absolutely massive ball of spaghetti that takes 7 hours to compile. That's for their trading systems. In case no on
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by davorb 10y ago
> Actually those obligations are very carefully worded to allow US to weasel out of it if necessary. The only reason the US keeps 30 000 troops so close to the DMZ in South Korea, is so that they won't be able to weasel out. Make no
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by davorb 10y ago
Money is just an unit of account, and in this context rather uninteresting. I could give you a billion Reichsmark, and you would be no better off than you would have been if I gave you a roll of toilet paper. Corporations and individuals cr
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by davorb 10y ago
> Having children might reduce the number of people you spend time with. That is something that they bring up in the actual paper. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/3/...

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