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joelwilliamson
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Function colouring, deadlocks, silent exception swallowing, &c aren’t introduced by the higher levels, they are present in the earlier techniques too.
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·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Who calls WWI, stagflation or Covid good old times? Only the post-WWII boom was really a good time.
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·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
When did that happen? Did they admit guilt in the big settlement, or was there a different case?
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·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think tourer was arguing that the Nazis were a template for how to use speech restrictions to maintain power.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
GitHub is a poor example of Chinese internet restrictions, since access to it is usually fine from China.
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·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
They could open source it and not even have a Github project associated. Just provide a read-only git repo on anthropic.com or drop a source tarball every release.
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Give 10 years of copyright for free, then a $1000 fee for the next decade, and make every subsequent decade 100x more expensive.
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·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Even Amazon Prime’s catalogue is only a third the size of what Netflix had 15 years ago.
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·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Have you tried Real World Haskell?
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·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
He’d be dead either way, the question is if having those three years were a net improvement to his life
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
The “board” in a boarding house is food. There can be other services as well, but food is definitely required to be a boarding house.
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
He probably typed BSD, and it got autocorrected to BAD.
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·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
She said she wouldn’t care if the hotels were set on fire.

“Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care.”

That “for all I care” changes the whole meaning of the sentence.
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·11 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That’s a 2000x increase. 2000% is 21x, so $210,000/a.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
My daughter’s school had a race day to wrap up their swimming lessons, and one of the events involved rolling from front to back every second stroke. It was funny to watch but not very practical.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
> SpaceX is the only entity that have recovered and reused any rocket parts after sending payloads orbital

This is not true. Say what you will about the Shuttle, but they definitely recovered and reused rocket parts from both the boosters and the orbiter.
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·ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
“What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away”
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·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
It's useful for any Unix that has BSD sockets, not just Linux.