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Chai-T-Rex

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About Chai-T-Rex

A dinosaur into Haskell programming, the Ubuntu operating system, free software, procedural television shows, and chai tea lattes.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42244348

    If a Rust function can panic, there's generally a non-panicking alternative. For example, `Vec` indexing has `vec[n]` as the panicking version and `vec.get(n)` as the version that …

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    Comment #32532126

    I'm a bit lost on how the bitcoin supply isn't in the hands of the rich. Do they give out free mining equipment and electricity to the poor to equalize things?

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    Comment #32532095

    Based on your own standard, I'm wondering why people should take you seriously when you use terms like 'rabid'.

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    Comment #32413454

    They didn't say discrete GPU, they said GPUs, which includes integrated GPUs.

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    Comment #31222071

    The author doesn't give the impression that they understand what they're reading. > But she gives the game away when she writes: “Maybe my relationship with dreaming wasn’t like ev…

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    Comment #27320009

    Why would a person who did what they did stop for a bit? It's just not part of their personality.

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    Comment #22698552

    You can't support a point about private companies in the US in general with a point solely about powerful global corporations that are US companies.

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    Comment #21238853

    I'm not sure that's down to Venezuela's power companies. That's right about when the US was trying to coup their government, right? Stuxnet's origin story can tell us a bit about w…

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    Comment #14179673

    >The volunteers recognised cloned speech as such only half the time (ie, no better than chance). That's incorrect. It's like saying that one lottery ticket has a 50% chance of winn…

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    Comment #14015907

    There are already things like SCTP.

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    Comment #14015801

    See also https://github.com/FascinatedBox/lily/issues/294

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    Comment #13910220

    One thing that shouldn't be discounted is survivorship bias. The machines from the 1960s that broke early on aren't around anymore. The only machines from the 1960s that are left a…