mvc

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by mvc 6d ago
> Yep, for all the moralizing about sports gambling people on HN do, they sure love to prime their children for it. Can't get through life without gambling at least a little bit. Even taking out a life insurance policy is making a b
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by mvc 7d ago
Watch Ann Droid on the Beeb for a dark but funny prediction of what it will be like wrt to nursing care for the elderly.
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by mvc 9d ago
Well, there are other reasons. For instance if they've been influenced by Russian agents trying to sow discord.
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by mvc 14d ago
C'mon anthropic. Give him a job! :-)
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by mvc 1mo ago
What would an uninsured person do if the tests suggested they needed an medical intervention?
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by mvc 2mo ago
I think you gotta be pretty lucky or disciplined with a high income from an early age to be in a position to start unloading risk at 45. Most folks don't have disposable income after rent and bills until they're 30.
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by mvc 2mo ago
Citation needed for the proposition that an economy is a closed loop.
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by mvc 2mo ago
Yeah, none to the African, South American, or Asian nations who contribute many of the best players though. And they don't share it around their own countries that well either with all the revenue going to the big 5 and the rest can ju
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by mvc 2mo ago
Hehe, grass is always greener on the other side.
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by mvc 2mo ago
Something like emacs?
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by mvc 2mo ago
I've got one of these and I love it. Much lighter than my previous watches (I've used garmin and polar before).
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by mvc 2mo ago
> the cost of distributing it has been increasing at a far higher rate than the rate of increasing surplus. Is it? Or is it that an increasing proportion of total income ends up going to the people who find ways of hiding it such that it
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by mvc 2mo ago
Lately I've been adding a repl service to my docker compose configs so the agent can easily send fragments of code for execution in the project context without incurring the clojure startup costs each time. So cool to watch the AI get
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by mvc 2mo ago
Does eval in these other languages evaluate ASTs or strings? It makes a difference.
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by mvc 2mo ago
> You could add lisp to mspaint and mspaint suddenly becomes awesome somehow? I don't follow the logic Yes exactly! https://docs.gimp.org/3.2/en/gimp-using-script-fu-tutorial.h...
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by mvc 3mo ago
I love ghostel. Thanks for making it.
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by mvc 3mo ago
self-interested hate is it not? Maybe I'm more attuned to this type of thing having grown up as a national of a smaller state living in the shadow of a bigger state but you constantly see actors from the bigger state belittling and con
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by mvc 3mo ago
Isn't it up to Europeans to define the purpose of the EU? What's your claim to having the right to define it?
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by mvc 3mo ago
> The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off Just the co-founders eh? Fuck off Paul.
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by mvc 4mo ago
"show me the diff in emacs" and claude opens up a new emacs frame (aka "window" if you're not an emacs doc writer) with a magit diff buffer of whatever we've been working on. This happens instantly because the
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by mvc 4mo ago
> Reminded me of when I had to be extra wordy to meet the 1000 minimum word limit for my high school essays. At my uni, dissertations were supposed to be 10k words. I handed in 7.5 and got a distinction because it met the brief. Never pa
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by mvc 4mo ago
Hello fellow sighthound owner. I have thought about it. But never done it. Whenever I sit down with a few spare minutes to try it, my lurcher appears and wants a walk :-)
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by mvc 4mo ago
That'll sure teach them not to abuse their power over their fellow humans with less physical strength.
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by mvc 4mo ago
zoom literally makes a summary of meetings available now if you enable it. unfortunately you still have to show up to the meeting and engage with your friends and colleagues for half an hour.
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by mvc 5mo ago
Maybe clojure wouldn't have had it's nubank "exit" if we'd called ourselves clojuristas but this old clojure lefty loves it.
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by mvc 5mo ago
So you've....worked hard. Understood the language and social landscape. Delivered what your employers wanted. And earned lots of money. Congrats I guess? Not sure where the abuse/guilt comes from.
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by mvc 5mo ago
Once a week?! Aren't you killing the repl at least to run a full test suite without any stale leftover developer state before deploying?
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by mvc 5mo ago
> the bettors are motivated to predict truth. But also motivated to bend the truth to their bet as the journalist in Israel found.
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by mvc 5mo ago
> So far, these two groups have used democracy to get their way. Oh is that what January 6th was?
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by mvc 5mo ago
Did the suffragettes not believe in democracy?

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