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I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about t…

I'd like to learn how to program for GPUs using either CUDA or OpenCL, and was wondering if anyone here could recommend a resource that could help me get started. It would be aweso…

An engineer (non-software) friend of mine asked me if range() was a function that had been added recently to Python, or if his professors just never showed it to him. I told him ra…

You ought to read that article, since this definitely isn't whataboutism.

And yet, it's white people who are allegedly the "fragile" ones.

> America also became a major economic engine of the world by exerting control over people's bodies without paying them. The actual economic data doesn't support that. Slaves were …

The South was already set back economically before the civil war. The plantation chattel slavery system hampered industrialization in the Southern US very much in the same way that…

Pretty much what the title says. AST (abstract syntax tree) interpreters are about the easiest form of language implementation to write, but they typically result in pretty slow pe…

Nobody was killed by any of the rioters.

The listing of every native American group that's ever occupied the place is comical to me. All of world history involves the push and pull of various groups competing for land and…

The performance overhead of multiprocessing is pretty high, to the point that you really have to take care to ensure that whatever problem you're solving with multiprocessing is la…

Interesting. But seeing as the US population in 1910 was about 92 million vs 330 million in 2020, it doesn't say a whole lot about comparative severity of the two pandemics.

No real response but oversimplification/staw-manning will do just fine, huh? Are you trying to say that the situation in Europe is just "business as usual" or something? Now I don'…

Europeans discover that the continent is not made of magic dirt that assimilates migrants into your society upon entry. Europeans also discover that weapons restrictions only go so…

The earlier comment is conflating general Swiss firearms ownership with the service-weapon take home system in use with Swiss military conscripts. Swiss gun owners are allowed to b…

Yes, but as a Swiss civilian you're allowed to own a great number of semi-automatic rifles, handguns, and standard capacity (20, 30, or more rounds) magazines as a private citizen,…

Best illustrated by Sam Hyde in 2013

It's not really just "historical animosity" if the Russian Federation is invading and occupying neighboring sovereign states as we speak.

Perhaps a cliched comparison, but Adolf Hitler didn't found the NSDAP either.

> When this kind of force In what way is a RC helicopter with a camera on it in a public place "force"? And with regards to force it's not "only deployed against a specific politic…

That's supposed to be a bad thing? They were in a public place, so it's not spying so much as it is a mobile security camera.

Is there no Russian/ex-USSR expat community where you live?

Seems a bit political to be on HN, but we'll see if it stays up. On this article (which really says very little aside from "we claim that a lot of complaints contain racial bias, t…

> But Early Middle Ages were pretty bad in a lot of Europe, there is no way around it. I recommend anyone who is interested in this topic watch Paul Freedman's "The Early Middle Ag…