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by 4WIW 5y ago
Not to nitpick but: trituim is 1 proton and 2 neutrons, otherwise it would be helium
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by 4WIW 5y ago
Looks like this opinion doesn't matter much: the last operational nuclear plant in California is closing in a few years.
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by 4WIW 5y ago
Moron. Don't hire him.
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by 4WIW 6y ago
In a weird way, all this cancel madness could end up in a good thing. People who are still capable of critical thinking, they will seek alternatives to Big Tech and hopefully, these alternatives would come up. Telegram is growing like crazy
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by 4WIW 6y ago
I think you are misinterpreting the article. Whether you are Apple or not, you have to prioritize. If you are doing 2 features, and cannot both well enough, then it's better to do one (important) extremely well and one (less important)
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by 4WIW 6y ago
The "glass half full" perspective here. The OP misses one hugely important factor: cost and hence availability of computing resources. During the recent history of computing, the technology improvement opened new possibilities at
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by 4WIW 6y ago
I would expect deaths of despair to be slow-moving and not follow peaks of infection, as is with excess mortality: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
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by 4WIW 6y ago
To make this code clearer: def get_users(f) -> Tuple[List, List]: return (logged_in_users(f), logged_out_users(f)) def user_count(f) -> int: return len(get_users()) Now it's clear this is just wrong co
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Some people may remember: first there were video terminals with light-on-dark to conserve fluorescent layer of CRTs, IBM PC continued the tradition and then Apple Macintosh came out with white background. Apple's argument was that peop
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Would love for this pointless hack to be abolished. One less reason for confused aliens to declare our civilization an evolutionary dead end and vote for our recycling.
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Starlark is not configuration, it's a Turing complete "feature-challenged" programming language. If this is what you mean by dynamic configuration, this looks like an unfortunate outcome of someone's urge to try on human
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Hah...Terraform is called "Infrastructure as code", so it's HCL language is "code", not configuration, at least by my definition. The whole point of configuration is that it's not code. I use a simple litmus te
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. There are often good reasons for creating DSLs, internal or external. However I argue that I haven't seen many cases where configuration DSL were well justified. By configuration here I mean something that describes
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by 4WIW 6y ago
Creating languages is fun but writing code in a half-assed language created by brilliant but not too experienced engineer with no real support for anything, is not! Then, when this engineer leaves your company, you are left with a mess to c
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by 4WIW 6y ago
This is a new situation, and is going to stay with us for a while, if not forever. Instead of complaining about "good old days" of water cooler culture, wouldn't it be better to take this as an opportunity to adapt, learn new
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by 4WIW 9y ago
Most of the discussion here focuses on The Famous Document which I think is missing the point. TFD could be totally right, or totally wrong but the lawsuit is about wrongful termination and discrimination and has only remote relevance to th
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by 4WIW 9y ago
I think the author mixed this up with his second visit. Not a big deal IMO.
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by 4WIW 9y ago
> To really understand something you have to observe it in minute detail and ideally experience it. Call me squarehead but I refuse to "experience" life in North Korea, not even close to this. Also, I think if I were ordinary N
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by 4WIW 9y ago
How's that "not starving"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_famine
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by 4WIW 9y ago
It may be that our biggest collective luck was that the alarm happened at the time subcolonel Petrov was on duty. He was an analyst, maybe even chief analyst of the unit, he authored the playbook for the officers on duty; being on duty wasn
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by 4WIW 9y ago
"On one side is Mr. Kalanick, who is plotting a comeback". One this phrase is enough to realize that Mike Isaacs is a Benchmark fanboy and he is expected to advance their side of the story, just as he did in the last months/y
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by 4WIW 9y ago
I see a case of clueless police here, not the "evil police". They don't apply excessive force and are generally respectful. They execute dumb instructions the best they can; what they don't know is that for this particul
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by 4WIW 10y ago
I agree with you about the bravery of women who came out with their stories and thank them for stirring this public discussion. However in the context of TFA, the campaign to make Uber employees quit is an _action_, and it still based on ac
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by 4WIW 10y ago
By all means, if crowdsourcing can work in this case, that would be a great positive example of community taking responsibility.
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by 4WIW 10y ago
"collective goal"? What's that, and what collective do you represent here?
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by 4WIW 10y ago
Here is an amazing opportunity for somebody "independently wealthy" to make a real difference: set up a fund that pays for close-captioning of any free content coming out of Berkeley.
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by 4WIW 10y ago
What can be worse than premature optimization? Premature generalization :-) What is so special about efficiency? Efficiency is just one of the concerns the software development orgs are facing, together with cost, utility, usability, deploy
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by 4WIW 10y ago
I think the key to the growth mindset is to help in maintaining the feedback loop: work & effort -> reach your goal -> feel happy. The "fixed mindset" breaks the loop in a way that no matter how hard you'd work you&
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by 4WIW 10y ago
1. My argument was about "National Socialism and any other ideology out there", you focused only on the first part. Even if you filter out unethical ones (not sure how, but let's say you can), there would still be too many to
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by 4WIW 10y ago
You can say the same thing about National-Socialism or any other ideology out there. There are just not enough countries to try them all on, and I am not sure why should we...

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