sobani

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by sobani 17d ago
As someone from a country where neither happens, I don't think this distinction matters a lot.
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by sobani 1mo ago
Similarly with Overleaf (an online Latex editor), where I've done group projects with up to 4 people simultaneously. It works well enough that we occasionally used it for short chat conversations inside the document we were working on.
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by sobani 1mo ago
There's a slight difference between a bog standard daily standup with mildly interested colleagues and a career defining examination where multiple experts will dissect every word you say. It's easy to get used to the former, much
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by sobani 2mo ago
FYI: all your comments are [flagged][dead] I don't know why, because they all look fine to me...
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by sobani 2mo ago
You might be a victim of the Goomba Fallacy[0] where you're seeing two opposing opinions from two distinct groups of people, but since those are expressed on the same site, it seems as if 'the site' is contradicting itself. [
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by sobani 3mo ago
They do have identical value. 500 shares of company A is worth 100% of the market cap of company A. 500 shares of company B is also worth 100% of the market cap of company B. So if you have 5 shares of each, you'll have 1% of the marke
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by sobani 4mo ago
> it seems we actually work more than our ancestors. Only if you count the hours worked for the local lord and forget about all other mandatory work like: - growing your own food - cooking/prepping said food (44 hours per week) - ma
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by sobani 7mo ago
That reminds me of the "Strangler Fig" pattern where you replace a service by first sending the requests to both the old and new implementation so you can compare their outputs. Then only when you're confident the new service
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by sobani 11mo ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine "The Phillips Machine is an analogue computer which uses fluidic logic to model the workings of an economy."
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by sobani 1y ago
How many of those languages can take an expression instead of a lambda? Func<..> is lambda that can only be invoked. Expression<Func..>> is an AST of a lambda that can be transformed by your code/library.
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by sobani 1y ago
> 1-(1-1/1,000,000)^(4×1,000,000) ≈ 98% > Pretty close to 1 account per day No, this means there is a 98% chance you get _at least_ 1 account. `1-1/1,000,000` is the probability you fail 1 attempt. That probability to the 4m
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by sobani 2y ago
Yeah @rlupi, America is far too poor to afford basic living conditions. /s But seriously, no US state is as poor as Italy, in GDP per capita terms (Mississippi 50K vs Italy 40K).
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by sobani 2y ago
Heat dissipation becomes a _huge_ problem when you deploy a data center inside a perfect insulator, the vacuum of space. Currently about a third of the energy consumption of a data center spent on cooling (heat dissipation)? And that's
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by sobani 2y ago
> SpaceX should create a simple 'catch' the rocket game. Play in browser style. Just for kicks and marketing. They did: https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/
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by sobani 2y ago
If someone comes up with a new port that had 10% more throughput than USB, do you think that will be enough to make it a viable competitor, or do you think it won't be worth the hassle of replacing your peripherals (cassettes) and comp
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by sobani 2y ago
I have trouble imagining how you'd get a credit card without a bank account.
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by sobani 2y ago
Would you be willing to trust your child to the care of someone who is unwilling or incapable of finding work outside the jobs program? For any useful job you can think of, ask yourself: What's stopping the unemployed from doing that j
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by sobani 2y ago
> Imagine that our bitter ememies invented a superior logistics tool, known as the wheel. They also invented airplanes and the concept of blitzkrieg. Should we attribute their success to the wheel, and study how it was designed, since th
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by sobani 3y ago
Weighted average prices up to €2.40: https://brandstofdata.nl/brandstof/benzine/2022
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by sobani 3y ago
The difference is during a regular meeting, the skin is uncut. The skin is a major protection against diseases and the body has a bunch of mechanisms at its regular openings (nose, ears, etc) to protect you. When you cut through someones sk
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by sobani 5y ago
> increased employment at small businesses by only 2% > implying a cost of $377,000 per job saved The second doesn't follow from the first at all? The fact that employment increased doesn't tell you anything about how ma
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by sobani 5y ago
> a lawyer will be able to answer it a fraction of an hour Except that they will probably won't know the answer immediately an need more time than that: https://twitter.com/DanielleVEsq/status/1472105731474
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by sobani 5y ago
There are other taxes than just income tax. There's also capital gains tax or even wealth tax. Especially the last one will target the wealthy.
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by sobani 5y ago
If you're using LINQ on a list, it will not use Expressions, but a plain Func. So nothing will get parsed either way. The difference, as @sbelskie already mentioned, is that Where has an optimization for List, while First only uses the
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by sobani 5y ago
When I put two fingers at the same time on a message, the checkboxes immediately appear. If I'm even slightly off, the checkboxes never appear and instead I get to see the contents of the message when I let go.
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by sobani 5y ago
> Is complementing someone's hat really worth the potential anxiety? I still remember the compliments one of my jackets got me 1, 4 and 6 years ago. That probably helped making it my favorite jacket, especially since those are the o
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by sobani 5y ago
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/know-your-amphetamines Start reading from "There's a lot of confusion around the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine." Most relevant quote: "More
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by sobani 5y ago
It looks like the iPhone is about 2-3 times thicker than a MacBook lid. I'm not sure they actually have the space to put iPhone equivalent hardware above the MacBook screen.
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by sobani 5y ago
If you are considering the 13", also take a good look at the air. The difference is $300 and you basically only lose an hour of battery life and the touch bar. https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/?modelList=MacB
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by sobani 5y ago
I don't think mr throwaway was advocating to use email to send the events, only to use SMTP. Email is an entire ecosystem, SMTP is only a protocol. If the distinction is too hard to make: think of it as using the 'Simple Event T

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