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by szemet 6y ago
Looking at the photos, I can imagine it is even rotating. Ok-ok, it is near the axle, but you do not see racing bikes with huge internally geared hubs neither, so...
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by szemet 6y ago
> Using extension modules is just a time-tested, highly organized, modular, robust design pattern. I really don't get this. I'am fully on the side that limitations may increase design quality. E.g I accept the argument that Has
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by szemet 6y ago
Another, but much cheaper trick is to always leave the alarm on: then you have around 10 seconds of chance every morning to find it, if not - then better luck next day!
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by szemet 6y ago
Yes. But economics is different for local and remote work: Like it is natural to pay the same price for something we both order from China, and in the same time it is also completely normal that we will pay different prices for potatoes at
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by szemet 6y ago
Based on more mature codebase. /When I tried Clickhouse, I managed to segfault it with NULL pointer dereference error. Ok it is anecdotal, and maybe I just had bad luck, same could happen with Postgres etc etc... But anyway: it can be
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by szemet 6y ago
I use tabbed for Alacritty, it works in any WM. https://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/
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by szemet 6y ago
I actually liked the mixed language approach (keywords/library functions in english, my stuff localized) when I've learned programming (and did not speak english well): Even then, you can learn the keywords and standard library fu
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by szemet 6y ago
So is it a joke on "Gilbert Ryle: The Concept of Mind" ? But it just reiterates his first example using breakfast instead of university ... 'The first example is of a visitor to Oxford. The visitor, upon viewing the coll
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by szemet 6y ago
> an (loosely) inverse relationship between physical attractiveness and intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox 1. certain (genetic) diseases lowers both intelligence and attractiveness 2. I v
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by szemet 6y ago
"Opposition parties are so inept: they could not even operate corruption." (Do not know if it is original or some old joke: I have heard it from hungarian stand-up comedian Tibor Bödőcs - who is btw basically the only comedian le
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by szemet 6y ago
> Who invents the rules Anywho is: they could be someone with states of mind, bending over endless amount of paper, paging, writing and deleting symbols on them with their pencil for some time (or forever) Otherwise how could anyone inve
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by szemet 6y ago
> I called water a "mild" solvent because it's not so reactive as to instantly destroy everything in its path. Ok. But I guess the proper common terminology would be "corrosives" for those. https://en.
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by szemet 6y ago
> Water is ... a mild solvent I remember, when I was a child I asked my parents (both are chemists), about what the most powerful solvent is. To my suprise they answered: water. Wow, that can be true, it is everywhere, I tought... It is
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by szemet 6y ago
https://boardgamegeek.com/abstracts/browse/boardgame I play patchwork and Azul regularly and like them.
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by szemet 6y ago
To show a positive example, without word redefinitions: IMHO western society largely managed to end prejudice against left-handiness, while keeping the word "right". (And this "left -> bad" or "right" ->
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by szemet 6y ago
I like "tabbed". Traditionally I use terminal tabs on local machines, and tmux on remote. (tmux in tmux is just too much tmux for me) After I've changed to alacritty, which does not supports tabs, I could easily recreate my o
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by szemet 6y ago
It happens me every day: I just start to type while still in command mode, and then have to press "u" a couple of times. (But ok, thats maybe just me - thought this is a common experience, and I just wouldn't like to sit behi
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by szemet 6y ago
The only thing what makes modal editing bearable (from UX PoV) is the unlimited undo. e.g. Would anyone take a plane that has modal cockpit buttons?
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by szemet 6y ago
IANAL but I recall some vauge memories that Datomic was to be modifed, to provide real physical deletion according to the GDPR reqs...
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by szemet 6y ago
Italy has hordes of feral cats so does Spain. I would be interested to see now a feral cat/capita - Covid-19 growth rate chart.
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by szemet 7y ago
Its a bad logic anywaz: old people are the base voters for many populist ruling party in Europe
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by szemet 7y ago
Has already been done in the Polgar family, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r The article has some quotations about Judits opinion: "I always say that women should have the self-confidence that
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by szemet 7y ago
Haskell has dataflow support too (just to mention a better known language), but not sure how popular this compared to all the other concurrency libraries Haskell provides. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/paral
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by szemet 7y ago
Doesn't mt76* count? It is in since 4.19. http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1808.0/04276.html I know, because I've immediately bought an usb wifi dongle for my desktop with this chipset
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by szemet 7y ago
Just skimmed over, but this is only about the oil droplets experiment - which would have been a great macroscopic model/demonstration of pilot wave theory. If it fails the double slit experiment - then simply it is not a good macroscop
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A Very Unlikely Chess Game(slatestarcodex.com)
11 points by szemet 7y ago|0 comments
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New combinatorics utility in FreeBSD base(lists.freebsd.org)
2 points by szemet 7y ago|0 comments
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by szemet 7y ago
Why not use hydrogen, its cheap and zeppelins can be smaller and fly higher. We will maybe better in avoiding accidents compared to 1937: - have better materials - can use it only for cargo with drones - no human should travel with them! -
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by szemet 7y ago
Also there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita#Narrative If this is not a traditional example, then what?
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by szemet 7y ago
Another difference that may matter for some: on block based CoW FS, shared executables and libs will not be shared among containers, because file cache is file based not block based. Using Overlayfs - or other file level CoW storage, when o

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