borud.bsky.social
Programmer, maker, photographer, enthusiastic driver of cars, occasional motorcycle rider, voracious reader, and non-militant bicyclist.
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Hvor? Jeg ser jo for meg mange kandidater til ord som kunne vært puttet i anførselstegn :-)
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I would be surprised if cybertrucks could even get there.
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How long before Canadian Mounties will have to make incursions into the US in order to disable supercharging stations within 1000km of the border. In case the entire fleet of Teslas suddenly receive orders from the Führer bunker at Mar-A-Lago to form up on the Canadian border.
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(accusations that the new KDF leisure suits from Hugo Boss to be delivered with the new Tesla KDF Wagen are ripoff of Adidas' Gopnik Wear line are at this time rejected as malicious slander)
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There are also plans for an elongated version of the Tesla Model S, called the Tesla Model SS, with a roof that folds down and handholds for up to three oligarchs, enabling them to salute the peasantry from a standing position while travelling over crumbling and bumpy roads.
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On first delivery it will play a rendition of the Horst-Wessel-Lied and the new owner will be presented with driving attire from the new "Kraft Durch Freude" leisure wear line from Hugo Boss. A voucher for a small bottle of "Eau de Despote" is also offered as an added bonus.
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If he doesn't want to share this information it only means he has flip-flopped on the issue.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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The lies are not told because they are to believed. The lies are told to ensure we believe in nothing.
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Because we haven't seen this deployed at scale for at least 3 generations neither moderate republicans, nor centrist democrats have any idea how to deal with this. Let alone recognize and articulate what is happening and educate voters.
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The apathy and paralysis is a result of debate being flooded with propaganda and lies. This makes facts irrelevant by erasing the distinction between truth and falsehood. Voters lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fiction. Objective truth can/does no longer exist in the voters mind.
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Your interpretation is far more charitable than mine. That is, you are open to the possibility that they think they are actually fighting fascism. In my opinion they aren't. This is apathy and paralysis.
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Dropping Amazon Prime is a goal for 2025. I don't think it'll be much of a sacrifice anyway.
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Crap. Håper du ikke får varige skader av det der.
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I think you are absolutely right. Which means they're stupid as well as cowardly.
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I cancelled renewal of my WaPo subscription. I was going to give the WaPo a chance to convince me that I should renew when the time comes (in a month or two).
It would appear that the Washington Post does not deserve my trust or my money.
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This is what Bum Fights look like in 2025: the drug addict vs the alcoholic.
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Also, movies should come with a warning label for directors of photography who make mushy, depressing, under-exposed-by-4-stops rubbish. With skin tones that look like cheap Paraguayan leather. Or dark tones that end up banding because video codecs aren't designed to encode shots that are this bad.
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Custom error types that have to be cast to be useful turned out to be the wrong thing. In part because we never got useful conventions out of it and in part because people can't even design useful error types. Just look at SQLite for instance. Its errors are a pretty worthless design.
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I think my key point is that some people think that we can use language design to counter bad behavior. These people are almost always wrong. You can, however, provoke good behavior by making it easier to do things well.
Go does this to a much greater degree than most languages.
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You could possibly use this to signal other kinds of error "types" as well by joining in more sentinel variables. For instance if an error is permanent or transient (which can be useful in some circumstances).
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There is no good way to do it apart from making package level "ErrSomething" sentinel error variables. At least that way it ends up in the package documentation.
Another thing people need to get better at in Go is to use errors.Join() to provide both API level error and root cause.
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There is nothing special about exceptions. People are still free to catch-and-ignore. Or just just declare that they'll throw whatever they don't want to handle (and then catch and ignore). I have seen people do this more often than I like.
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(Language mechanisms that are supposed to guarantee handling of error conditions tend to be circumvented. I have yet to see any language where exceptions actually provide real value. In most languages exceptions are complex, clumsy, slow and ugly. Rust's matching is much better than exceptions)
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If Go had had something like JavaDoc and documenting return values meticulously had been a thing, that would have been a good thing. I don't quite understand how Go ended up with such poor documentation practices.
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In Java it wasn't so much checked exceptions as it was better method documentation markup and better practices than you'll find in Go (or most languages). After all, lots of projects preferred unchecked exceptions in Java. (Exceptions tend to never deliver on meaningful promises)
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I guess it didn’t SINK in that the choice of a song from a movie about a SINKING ship would be oddly fitting for Trump’s campaign.
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Hel ved impliserer vel at man er en....treskalle?
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Positively Teutonic
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that'll show them
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Støre klønet det til skikkelig. Ved å outsource avgjørelsen til Nord har han både vist mangel på handlekraft OG han har _garantert_ at Kjerkol ikke får samme behandling som en vilkårlig student ville fått ved å plassere et enormt press på Nord.
Det var korttenkt.
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Link?
Føler jeg har forsømt det å more meg over bydgetullingpartiet.
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To be honest, I'm not sure.
At my age the time not spent looking for my glasses is spent looking confused and muttering "but why?".
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So does this mean that Aziraphale is modeled after Terry and Crowley is modeled after @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com? :-)
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Confirming your own biases online is easy. Finding truth requires willingness to be proven wrong. It also requires the willingness and ability to reject low quality sources that tell you what you want to hear.
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Sadly, Hernán Cortés had left the charger for his iPhone back in Spain. :-)
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For instance. Although I was mostly thinking about even simpler instruments. Imagine banging on a hollow piece of wood and discovering that the sound is pleasingly loud :-)
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From what I've gathered we know the didgeridoo to be at least 1500 years old since it has turned up in cave paintings that are that old. I've seen speculation that it is the oldest instrument we know of, but I don't know what evidence exists to support this.
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I guess I should mention stringed instruments as well, but we've been making those for about 5000 years so they are perhaps a more recent invention.
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I was thinking more in terms of instruments that have a resonant cavity. Like a drum or a didgeridoo.
(I suppose you could count the systematic use of *locations* that have resonant cavities. Like caves, inside glaciers etc.)
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Possibly when humans discovered ways to exploit resonance to get a bigger sound?