joelwilliamson

In Canada, members of the Royal Canadian Engineers have just as much right to the title of engineer as professional engineers do, and the operators of locomotives are also referred to as engineers.

Function colouring, deadlocks, silent exception swallowing, &c aren’t introduced by the higher levels, they are present in the earlier techniques too.

Who calls WWI, stagflation or Covid good old times? Only the post-WWII boom was really a good time.

When did that happen? Did they admit guilt in the big settlement, or was there a different case?

I think tourer was arguing that the Nazis were a template for how to use speech restrictions to maintain power.

GitHub is a poor example of Chinese internet restrictions, since access to it is usually fine from China.

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.

Give 10 years of copyright for free, then a $1000 fee for the next decade, and make every subsequent decade 100x more expensive.

Even Amazon Prime’s catalogue is only a third the size of what Netflix had 15 years ago.

Have you tried Real World Haskell?

He’d be dead either way, the question is if having those three years were a net improvement to his life

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.

He probably typed BSD, and it got autocorrected to BAD.

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.

That’s a 2000x increase. 2000% is 21x, so $210,000/a.