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Re:Ask HN: Best way to make side money 500 euros per month on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:57AM (#39502401)
A friend used to work part-time at KFC, roughly within your parameters.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to make side money 500 euros per month on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:51AM (#39502341)
No, it's based on rumours about some local old ladies' begging syndicate.

My point was about efficiency though.

Re:Ask HN: Best way to make side money 500 euros per month on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:01AM (#39467162)
You can trivially make €500/mo as a beggar, but it's extremely time inefficient.

In other words, how much time you have per week?

Man, do I love programming language comedy. This is probably the best I've seen since Dreamberd.

I may biased though. Just the "Zápis" and "Popis" column names make me smile because of my mother tongue, which is sufficiently different from Czech to provoke unclear but funny connotations.

Re:Things Unexpectedly Named After People on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:42AM (#39466914)
It seems to be Swedish in origin, in which case the closest English equivalent would be "mee" or "mew".

Roughly speaking, the <y> here is close to what is traditionally transcribed in English as [i:], except rounded, i.e. [y:].

Many caveats apply, this probably being Finnish Swedish (which should have the same or a similar vowel), my Swedish being rather rudimentary, etc.

Ask HN: What is must-have for a systems programming language?

Obviously, any systems language must have predictable memory layout for at least a subset of its types, including atomic (as in primitive) and composite types -- but probably it's not quite necessary (nor possible) for function types.What are other language features that are similarly crucial? I'd argue even arrays are kinda optional, since they can be encoded as `Array = exists (n: Size, a:...

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