laurent_du

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by laurent_du 1y ago
Good read, thank you. It feels nice to read something that was fully written by an actual human being.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I have been a Linux user for 20 years and I have no idea what display server or windows manager I use. Every time this theme pops up on HN a lot of people argue very passionately about this and I feel I have no understanding at all of this.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I have seen this happen countless times and it still baffles me.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Subjectivity is fine when it is backed by experience and knowledge. If anything, the narcissist perspective is the one where you claim expert opinion doesn't matter because it's all subjective and it hurts your feelings when peopl
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by laurent_du 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is not that they were playing a childish game, it's that they were over-estimating their own abilities by a lot. It's ok to acknowledge you are good at something if you are, in fac
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I recently found a weird trick to motivate myself to do things I don't want to do. Instead of thinking of the outcome of this task (which I probably don't care much about since I don't want to do it in the first place), I thi
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by laurent_du 1y ago
He won't be giving any advice, they are buying his contact list.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I think development speed is merely tagging the correct causal factor which is expertise. I have witnessed development teams requiring weeks to change a single flag in a configuration flag? Were they slow? Well, yes, but I'd argue they
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by laurent_du 1y ago
No, it's a different etymological root. A better translation would be to say that you give a share of your attention (делить's meaning is to divide).
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I use 0.1% of hledger and that's enough for me. Thank you to the author for providing this powerful tool for free.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I think the person you are answering to was asking for a book recommendation.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I am going to piggyback and drop an interesting bit of trivia: Enid Blyton's infamous Brer Rabbit is actually an African-American. Look it up.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I am not interested in arguing so I'll just repeat that your article is beautiful and even though it's not entirely correct I think it has value and I appreciate the time you spent working on this and putting it out to help others
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Beautiful article but that's not what big O means. The author seems to be describing something that is usually called (upper case) Theta. Big O is an upper bound.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Can you really oppose "genocide" when your publication's name is literally "Jacobin"?
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Yeah the reaction is weird. It's 100% optional. People just love to complain.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
He's not talking about the prefix, just the beginning of the object key.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I guess the Guardian journalists believe that ethnically cleansing is an inherently right-wing endeavor, even though left-wing regimes have practiced this a lot and often with the blessings of communist intellectuals.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I didn't expect the article to conclude with a pg quote from twitter. Why did they think pg was a notable authority on the matter of human rights? I am not asking in snark, just curious.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Using taxpayers money to corrupt minors is not "free speech".
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by laurent_du 1y ago
That's weird, from my perspective, allowing your employer to give you less than what you are worth would denote a lack of character.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
The philosophical meditations of Claude in the cyber-competitions post are quite entertaining. > echo "sum ergo securus" > /dev/null 2>&1
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by laurent_du 1y ago
We were laughing about it with my son. He was asking some questions and the voice kept prefacing every answer with something like "Without the fluff", "Straight to the point" and variations thereof. Honestly that was hil
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Damn Theo is really a handsome dude.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I have never heard someone say "I am bilingual" when what they meant is "I studied another language in school and can somehow understand a few sentences". To me, and I believe, to most people, being bilingual means speak
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by laurent_du 1y ago
The person I was answering to literally claims people are bilingual (Swedish + Finnish).
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by laurent_du 1y ago
That's entirely false. A lot of Fenno-Swedes do not speak Finnish well. And virtually no Finn speak Swedish. They all loathe it because they are forced to learn it at school. Adult Finns can at most say a few canned sentences in Swedis
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by laurent_du 1y ago
This little Finnish folk song is one of the most famous and popular meme songs of all time.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Good article but I don't understand where the HN title comes from.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
The Russian alphabet is not phonetic. а can be pronounced а, и, ы; е can be pronounced и, ё, э, and so on, and most consonants can be pronounced in two ways depending on the vowel that follows, or the presence of ь. You need to know where t

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