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by Devasta 4y ago
The difference is that humans have a finite work output. 50 shades of grey starts out as Twilight fanfic, but was released as a novel years after Twilight was. Twilight isn't harmed by the existence of 50 Shades. AI on the other hand c
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by Devasta 4y ago
Honestly, a cointoss is probably fine.
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by Devasta 4y ago
There are very very few companies that cannot be improved by randomly firing half the folks with MBAs.
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by Devasta 4y ago
I changed the character because I'm a dumbass who thought I was looking at a quotation mark. I don't ever see double prime at my job, so it was probably muscle memory.
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by Devasta 4y ago
XML syntax is fine so long as you're using a proper IDE. I manage a team of reporting analysts and all of them come from Business Analyst or Accountancy backgrounds; they write and maintain XSLT transforms just fine, once they spend a
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by Devasta 4y ago
<star bayerName="Beta Pictoris" spectralType="A6V" mass="1.75" luminosity="8.7"> <position rightAscension="05h 47m 17.1s" declination=
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by Devasta 4y ago
Data served in a tree structure and then rendered with client side templating with the ability to create custom elements... those crazy W3C eggheads in their ivory tower, why did they think anyone would want that? /s
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by Devasta 4y ago
It is amazing to look back at arguments against XHTML and to realise just how awful they really were.
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by Devasta 4y ago
When people talk about wealth, they generally include assets such as the companies owned.
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by Devasta 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It Murdoch's own papers claim credit for election victories. I don't know the exact conversion rate from dollars to votes, but it's absurd to sugges
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by Devasta 4y ago
There are some things, like political campaigns, where absolute inequality does matter. One man one vote may be true in theory, but in practice Rupert Murdoch has fat more political sway than anyone on this thread precisely because of his w
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by Devasta 4y ago
> I want to get up early, set big goals, work hard on them, and then see the fruits of that hard work. You might see the fruits of your hard work, but it's your boss who reaps them.
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by Devasta 4y ago
The employees are still there, just because they are in an AWS facility instead of two doors down from you doesn't mean they don't exist.
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by Devasta 4y ago
We use IronRuby for a monitoring application at my job. Its provides dashboards with hundreds of red/green annuciator tiles that users across the enterprise can create and customize. They can make a call to an API or run an SQL query o
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by Devasta 4y ago
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, and with Jesus being crucified he lived a life free of sin on humanities behalf, opening the gates of heaven for us all. Who knew Judas was the good guy this whole time?
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by Devasta 4y ago
As an Effective Altruist I want to cure cancer, so I maximize my income by selling cigarettes to children outside playgrounds. The money will eventually be donated to the cause in my will, and in the meantime the prevalence of lung cancer i
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by Devasta 4y ago
He spent his teenage years reading terms and conditions, let not pretend he didn't make mistakes.
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by Devasta 4y ago
There is one, XSLT. However, outputting valid XML was considered too arduous for the average webdev so we need to reimplement everything we want in JS instead.
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by Devasta 4y ago
So they lose faith in the system... so what? Tether still has all the assets, why would they care that the itchy and scratchy money they gave everyone is worthless?
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by Devasta 4y ago
If I pay for my friend to have a weekend away with his girlfriend, thereby strengthening their relationship, then he shouldn't be mad when I sleep with her too and weaken it right?
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by Devasta 4y ago
This reveals a very worrying prospect of where gaming discourse will go. Playstation Vs Xbox vs PC arguments are toxic enough as it is, could you imagine what they'll be when you run the very real risk of your whole collection disappea
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by Devasta 4y ago
VB was the peak of computing, modern dev wishes it was as capable. One of the truely great things about the drag and drop form builder was being able to sit with a user and go through requirements with them, to wire it all up later. "O
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by Devasta 4y ago
It'll be very interesting to see the impact on the games market 5 years from now on this, no competant business is going to use Unity for new projects after this.
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by Devasta 4y ago
I don't think I'd buy a card just yet, unless I could be confident it was new. Don't want to risk buying a card that is already clapped out from mining non stop.
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by Devasta 4y ago
It really is easier to imagine the end of the world before the end of capitalism.
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by Devasta 4y ago
Before Opera gave up and became another Chrome reskin, I had plenty of sites that would not work for me until I switched user agent. The exact same thing would start to happen to all non-chrome browsers (and hell, even some chrome browsers)
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by Devasta 4y ago
Its honestly fantastic to see web pages that are using XSLT, is this the most advanced app out there using it these days?
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by Devasta 4y ago
The W3C attempted to improve HTML forms with xForms, but the browser vendors are deathly afraid of anything XML based so it never got implemented. These days HTML is really only viewed as a payload carrier for your JS application so doubt t
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by Devasta 5y ago
I don't think you can improve Excel too much, but you could the ecosystem around it: Microsoft should integrate a package manager. Not something public, but something companies can privately maintain and publish packages to, that would
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by Devasta 5y ago
"Best viewed in IE" was the norm for years and years, supporting only the major browsers has pretty much always been the case. Before Opera gave up and became another Chrome reskin, there were plenty of sites that didn't work

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