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skipants
·14 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That was the first thing that popped out and made me distrust the whole wiki; there's only One Right Way to store money (as integers[1], as you said) and it should have been explicit about that.

You can also use fixed-point if whatever you're using supports it but it's still technically integers.
skipants
·21 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Because it is.

The average (and above-average?) investor really does not understand tech.
skipants
·23 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I feel like it's the Emperor's new clothes reading this article and seeing the praise it's getting. This sentence doesn't even make sense:

> These products use very low level Linux primitives like containers, Kubernetes, Firecracker microVMs, and networked protocols.

Out of anything that is a "low level linux primitive" I could maybe argue that networking? protocols fit the bill.

And it's obviously fully AI-generated! Which I wouldn't even care about if I could actually trust the content, which I can't!
skipants
·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> I suspect that Canada isn't fond of how Americans view guns

I'm putting this into my overflowing bucket of internet comments that doesn't "get" Canadians. Sorry to be curt but, since Canada-USA relations has been more at the forefront, I've seen too many comments that just "don't get it" and it riles me up each time.

They've had the 2nd amendment since their country was founded. It has no bearing on relations between the two countries, both at a micro and macro level.

We respect that they are their own country and have their own ways of doing things, which isn't even the same across each state. We respect US sovereignty over their own laws. It's the lack of respect for ours by the current US administration that is upsetting.

That's basically all its come down to. Oh, and the tariffs don't help either.
skipants
·30 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Though it can be argued it is an example of a functor (the library is mapped over two countries).

Now that's a special kind of joke I can only find on HackerNews
skipants
·เดือนที่แล้ว·discuss
It looks interesting but, like a lot of AI, looks correct but is not. Most of northwestern Canada says you can get there by road. If you look at Google Maps, there's no roads there for quite awhile. I see one highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk but that's about it.
skipants
·2 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Pretty cool distro! I switched to Bazzite myself but I've also seen a lot of popularity for CachyOS for gaming rigs.
skipants
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
People that haven't read Black Swan and bet on every "sure bet" they can see
skipants
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
pigouvian taxes are both a stronger disincentive and help cover externalized costs.

if this moves nicotine to the black market then the people/government will still pay the cost without receiving any taxes on it at all
skipants
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> Despite this promising start, the conservation experiment wasn't to last, after a rival juice manufacturer called TicoFruit sued Del Oro, alleging that its competitor had "defiled a national park".

... why does TicoFruit even care? Did they just see their competitor do something that might be good for people and sue them out of spite?
skipants
·3 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
These are two pages telling two different things, albeit with the same stats. The information is presented by OP in a way to show the results of the Microsoft acquisition.
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I think that's a fair criticism for issues where Linux devs might be blind to the friction a lot of Linux distros come with, but I don't think it's universal for all devs and for all features, all the time.

Personally, although I'm not a Linux maintainer, I am a dev and I love doing work that makes UX better for everyone.
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
> 1) Kernel-level DRM for multiplayer games (looking at you, Marathon)

This finally forced me to quit League of Legends (this is a buff)
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Is your argument that the world isn't deterministic and so we should also apply nondeterminism to filtering json data?
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
As a Canadian: hard agree. Beer without head is gross.
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Huh. I have the opposite opinion. I'm monolingual English for all intents and purposes but I gathered that opinion from quite a few sources, including:

- We had to take spelling tests in school

- English speakers make (generally light) fun of other's spelling or grammar mistakes in a casual setting

- In a professional setting, a lot of time is taken to proofread our own emails

- There's de jure spellings for every word

- Some online communities are really weird about pointing out grammar and spelling mistakes (namely Reddit)

Language is meant to be a fluid, evolving thing but I always felt like English was treated the opposite way. Maybe that's also why it's the de facto Lingua Franca.

I do think, and hope, that this rigidity will change thanks to AI. I've started to embrace my mistakes. I care a lot less about capitalization and punctuation in my Slack messages, for example.
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
HA! I guess it's not as enforced as I expected.
skipants
·4 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons:

- There's nothing Canadian about a pancake house. We love pancakes but they aren't really ingrained with our identity. Maple syrup on the other hand, is EXTREMELY important to a lot of Canadians. Serving table syrup instead of real maple syrup is an affront. I found a Reddit thread[1] where a user espouses "tons of free syrup" you were given at RCPH. That's NOT a good thing if you ask me!

- In Canada (and I assume other British Commonwealth countries) you aren't legally allowed to have "Royal" in the name of your business without Royal consent from the Governor General of Canada[2]

Just a bit of Canadiana sparked by your comment I thought I'd share. I always get a kick of the small but conspicuous cultural differences between Canada and USA. They give me that Ingluorious Basterds "number 3" moment.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1ajujhi/who_re...

[2] https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-sy...
skipants
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I agree.

This:

> I suspect that removing half of the bus stops in a city will piss people off and cause even less ridership.

is thrown out but how do we know it's true? That commenter throws it out as their opinion but my opinion is the opposite -- the stated preference will be that people think it's bad but the revealed preference will show even more ridership as travel times improve.
skipants
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
It wasn’t always this way: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country”