marktani

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by marktani 2mo ago
I sort of reverse engineered the first couple riddles (the help menu helped too) before really getting the logic here. What I gathered: - the paramaeters in lemma banish() are "given" - the statement right after lemma banish() is
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by marktani 5mo ago
I agree with your sentiment here. However: > if anything, by most traditional forms of evaluating software quality, the projects I work on are better than what they were 5, 10 years ago, using the same metrics as back then. In this side
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by marktani 5mo ago
> I'm not in a large corporate environment, but that also means we're not always a well oiled machine haha, I'm sitting in a very crusty corporate environment right now and your comment made me chuckle. I get where you&#x2
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by marktani 1y ago
I'm thinking that the domain of (competitive) sports is an outlier as such as it's probably the one domain where physical properties like muscle structure, height etc. have the biggest impact on "performance". But the di
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by marktani 1y ago
For me it feels like talent = \int_{time} love. Reminds me of the meme where a kid is dropping tears on the math assignment sheet, "when you do homework with your dad". Forcing kids to spend time on something is an effective way t
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by marktani 1y ago
True! When I started driving, I was using the "north is always up" setting as it helped me get a better understanding of where I was in the city. Somehow this was more fun. At some point I switched to the more common setting (I as
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by marktani 1y ago
In Japan, physical maps like in parks and city information booths are oriented to be aligned with the actual geography. Meaning, north on the map points to actual north. Made me think of how much more accurate the end to end process of putt
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by marktani 2y ago
Who's Nasrudin? Apparently this quote has been attributed to an Uncle Zeke :) [0] [0]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/23/judgment/
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by marktani 3y ago
thanks, you made me realize I'm not alone
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by marktani 3y ago
this is just hilarious and not at all what I expected
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by marktani 3y ago
> I was just thinking about that on 2023-10-10 FTFY
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by marktani 3y ago
I was there for the first few iterations of TPP and it is probably my favorite moment of the internet. The lore created around TPP was insanely good and captivating, like ascribing god-like status to certain Pokémons and finding funny inter
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by marktani 3y ago
I hope it's also true that you're cranky just this morning
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by marktani 3y ago
So the title of this post could be changed to "What Tranformers Are" or "What Transformers Do" instead
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by marktani 3y ago
This reminds me of the absolute amazement and wonder in the faces of people who are tricked in older movies or video clips, sometimes with simple or outright ridiculous tricks (by today's standards). It's not a great example (and
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by marktani 3y ago
You're still missing Persian, which is the direct origin of Khaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaki#Etymology Urdu/Hindi and probably lots of other languages in that cultural region have plenty of loanword
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by marktani 3y ago
I realize my question was asking for examples of loanwords, but my intention was to ask for loanwords that also adapt the "foreign pronunciation and foreign spelling". I am well aware that English borrowed plenty of words originat
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by marktani 3y ago
very interesting! can you share a couple examples of words borrowed with foreign, non-Latin script? I'm having trouble imagining how this could look like
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by marktani 3y ago
The one case I'm aware of in Europe where debit vs. credit makes a real difference is car rental companies. They will only accept credit cards, not debit cards. Unless you also agree to pay for their shady and useless insurance (useles
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by marktani 3y ago
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1015/
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by marktani 3y ago
my score was 5/20, every question in this quiz is uncanny :D
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by marktani 3y ago
can you share a more helpful real world example? as someone who hasn't implemented transactions in microservices before, I have only seen the bank transfer example and it seems adequate and easy to understand - I wouldn't know wha
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by marktani 3y ago
thanks, I see my misunderstanding now
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by marktani 3y ago
edit: totally misunderstood parent, my bad. disregard the following. > - Take a bag for which “all marbles in this bag are black” is false > - Add a black marble to that bag > - After that, “all marbles in the bag are black” become
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by marktani 3y ago
Context: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/why-we-are-changing-the-licen... TL;DR: In September 2022, Lightbend changed Akka's license from Apache 2.0 to BSL 1.1
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by marktani 3y ago
Your comment made me smile. The manager seems smart and nimble, props to them!
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by marktani 3y ago
can you prove your solver is complete?
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by marktani 3y ago
I loved The Creative Act: A Way of Being . The book is organized into short chapters, each about a certain part of the creative process or perspective of the author. While I don't agree with everything shared, the crisp and clear way
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by marktani 3y ago
I stand corrected! I haven't heard this before and can only find online usage from official institutions and city departments though, so maybe it's a more official term?
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by marktani 3y ago
that's the cool thing about walking/biking, it has built-in exercise for something that most people did on an almost daily basis (commute) no need to book 2 additional hours every few days and overcome that inner demon to go to th

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