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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
And the least harmful is not to dump plastic in a landfill, but to not produce plastics at all. :) Similarly, we can put more money into research on how to produce paper/glass/aluminum/others with less energy, and also redesi
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
If you have a team of programmers who always miss their deadlines, will increasing the headcount necessarily make them a team that always meets the deadlines? No, because other than having more people means more distractions and need for
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> everyone loves talking about recycling plastics Who's everyone? I've read more about economists and environmental scientists outright calling out recycling, and then proposing a complete abandonment of plastic altogether.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> North America is quite good at properly disposing of plastic you wonder why we are so obsessed with this as a problem. Yeah, about that, North America ships garbage to China and to poor countries in Southeast Asia to be burned there, o
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> business logic and API layers abstracted into other classes, and have your lean view controller just be the glue That’s pretty much the technique. :) Also, composition by child view controllers.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
If you’re not using protocols almost everywhere though, is your code really protocol- oriented ? I don’t even want to bother with answering that question, though. Even Apple didn’t have a clear definition for it, so debating this point seem
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Well I also used to make giant controllers when I was a beginner. That’s why you can pretty much “spaghetti with any pattern”. Over time I realized that I can just create dedicated controllers or handlers or managers or services with more s
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> Is this a joke? Do you have any professional iOS experience? Let’s just say that I can build a view controller for a large, multi-sectioned list where each section calls a different APIs and shows items with different layouts, and stil
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
POP was an exciting idea when it first came out, but in practice, it just doesn’t make sense to “orient” your codebase towards protocols. I’ve seen a project that was faithful to this and they came up with a codebase that’s extremely diffi
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I think that you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of the Agile manifesto. It’s not meant to be an algorithm or a highly specific set of instructions—it’s really just a collection of values that are meant to be the foundations of sp
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> aren't as appropriate when you're doing engineering Yeah but that's not the point that I'm making, is it? What I'm saying is that people project their own meanings into language all the time regardless of wheth
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> It's a vague as hell set of proscriptions that everybody could project their own ideas on to that got turned into a pseudo-religion. Then you're just complaining about the nature of language, because people do the same thing
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I mean, people disagree with their employers all the time.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Let’s not forget, though, that parents can be mouthpieces of propaganda too—religion, bigoted views, even preference for certain brands produced by giant corporations.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Ah but the Settings app does USB hotspots too
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> But what happens if the models still show disparity? You have yet to qualify exactly what you mean by disparity here—it doesn’t help that the example you used (i.e gender-height correlation) isn’t an ML model.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I mean, if people acknowledge that there’s ambiguity then how can others argue with absolute certainty that he’s just being satirical?
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I was hesitant to use the phrase “moral objectivism” because what I’m talking about is more moral pragmatism where a goal is defined and good or bad is objectively measured against that goal. What I’ve learned from experience is that wher
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> those within a given fashion would think they were objectively right You seem to have just described subjectivism though.
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I may be starting a longer debate here (and I hope not to), but at least the beauty of moral objectivism is that there would be an independent basis for right/wrong even if the moral “fashions” change. I try to put this objectivism int
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
I suppose there’s merit in the complaints from an OSS contributor’s standpoint, but yes, it seems like the current target market is companies with closed-source SDKs. Which isn’t a bad thing if this is MVP1, and I do expect improvements in
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
In terms of learning I’m the exact opposite. I like to start with theory, then apply it into practice to affirm that the theory is correct (or that it isn’t, and then make my own improvements). Not starting with theory feels too much like b
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> the current culture of never disagreeing with anyone so you can never possibly offend anyone I'm not sure what you're talking about--I wonder if this is just your extremely subjective experience of the internet? Because I tho
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
There’s a lot of commentary here on news reporting and social media but I really don’t think that this is a problem unique to our time. The end effect of virality is herd mentality, which then creates populism past a certain threshold, and
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
This kind of subjectivism is so lacking in nuance, though, that the good parts that one is seeing (and, in many ways, choosing to see) are a mere reduction of the whole truth, and isn’t the whole truth of a person So a serial killer is a go
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
> Dividing by sex is a substitute for dividing by the things that really matter: height, weight, strength, bone density, etc. You crucially missed an important variable which competitive sports of any kind fully hinge upon: skeletal musc
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
We talk about cancel culture like it’s a new horrible thing that’s developed only recently but I don’t see it that way. The internet definitely amplifies the effects, but unkindness begets unkindness, and the consequences or the social cost
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
Okay, then iPhones and iPads are computers meant for a subset of the functionality of laptops and desktop computers. The point remains. If it isn’t designed and meant to be used the way you want, it’s simply not the device for you and you s
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
As for me, I don’t share everyone else’s frustration with Apple’s tight control over its mobile devices because I don’t even think of them as fully-featured computers, as opposed to mere consumption devices, pocket internet browsers, or not
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by 3grdlurker 5y ago
It’s odd that no one has pointed out yet that the article is conflating macOS user documentation with developer documentation. In the first place, and this is an unpopular opinion, people have simply accepted “Apple's documentation suc

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