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by Dewie 12y ago
There doesn't seem to be much in this article that would discourage me from usually wearing sunscreen. There is this: > “There wasn’t and there still isn’t absolute evidence” that supplements are bioequivalent to sunshine. which mea
902.
by Dewie 12y ago
> One thirtysomething told me about a friend at Facebook who half-seriously claims to avoid sun exposure for fear of premature wrinkling. From what I've read, there isn't much health-benefit from sun exposure. You have the vit
903.
by Dewie 12y ago
You gotta love the usual hand-wringing from suburban dads.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I use grid layout for SC2; easy to learn and no reaching for awkward keys. I haven't seen any arguments for using the standard keyboard shortcuts.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Sadly that puts me in the 'climate control denier' category, that is the group of people who believe that humans cannot control what the climate does (good or bad). How are you able to reach that conclusion? Clearly, the clim
906.
by Dewie 12y ago
> Could it suggest a cyclic pattern? We already know that we are currently in an ice age that goes through cycles of glacial periods (such as the colloquially named "last ice age") where a lot of North America, Europe and Siber
907.
by Dewie 12y ago
Are there really a sizable amount of people who deny climate change itself? Or do they just deny/question humanity's role in it? Denying climate change in the face of conclusive data probably wouldn't have any legs to stand
908.
by Dewie 12y ago
> Are America's poorest better off because of technology, or better off because of America's dominance over the rest of the world's resources? The rest of the First World seems to be doing OK, even without anything remotel
909.
by Dewie 12y ago
Yeah, but that concern was not what I was replying to.
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by Dewie 12y ago
It seems that the want to keep out sufficiently bad workers is already being seen by some that employ programmers - that they would rather not have an extra programmer than to have a sub-par programmer, because the 'contribution'
911.
by Dewie 12y ago
I think people are talking about wealth here, not money per se. If everyone can afford at least two houses, three boat and 12 cabins, they are certainly more well-off than most people are today, no matter what relative money-wealth is being
912.
by Dewie 12y ago
Maybe it will turn out that the big middle class of the latter 20th century was just an intermediate state between the exploited workers during the early Industrial Revolution, and the mediocre-humans obsolescence of the later 21th century.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> That is what's known as a straw man argument. Nobody said verbosity always improves readability, You're right.
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by Dewie 12y ago
I see what you're trying to do But your post would still be decently readable if you just made a new paragraph for each sentence ;)
915.
by Dewie 12y ago
I don't think that the OP is necessarily saying that there are ~mainstream languages that are faster than C; just that C is far from optimal when it comes to speed and how much it can be optimized. "Not that fast" doesn'
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by Dewie 12y ago
Isn't Ada geared more towards runtime assertions of correctness of programs (contracts and such) rather than ensuring memory safety? Can you statically guarantee memory safety in Ada when using manual memory management? It seems that o
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Developers always seem to be complaining about having to type this or that, when they should be much more concerned with what they have to read! Or maybe they find terser syntax to be more readable. If verboseness was always more reada
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Who is "he"? The poster michael was replying to said s/he was waiting for Rust to be viable.
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Polymorphism moves the burden of reasoning about types from compile time to run time, How? Doesn't this depend on the specific kind of polymorphism/implementation of which, rather than being about polymorphism inherently? Wha
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I would find it incredibly hard to believe that sexual maturity has anything to do with an interest in STEM. When you put it like that it sounds kind of strenuous, sure. Just like it sounds weird in isolation to say that being sexually
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Gender and race representation is simply of less concern for less aspirational, lower-paid professions that do not require extensive education or access to technical resources. This comes off as classist, to me. I have had the impressi
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by Dewie 12y ago
> I wish I remembered where the study was now, but I remember reading one which said that girls were naturally curious about STEM careers, up to around 12, when it starts to tail off dramatically. The theory was that societal issues begi
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by Dewie 12y ago
Maybe it's just that code is a shorter word, which makes for snappier titles for initiatives and whatnot. Then that carries over to the surrounding discussion about it.
924.
by Dewie 12y ago
Maybe she just has a shapely butt.
925.
by Dewie 12y ago
> People are probably most familiar with them, I think, in the form of Haskell's Maybe monad. Or just simply "Maybe" ;) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/1acyOfxv...
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by Dewie 12y ago
They go so far that the operator name can even be prefixed by the lexeme (?) for single-line comments (--) :) > (--|) = (+)
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by Dewie 12y ago
How would you even be able to abuse inference? If someone leaves some types to be inferred and someone reading that code is confused, the compiler already knows the type of the function so it should be able to spit it out for him in somethi
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by Dewie 12y ago
> Operator overloading can potentially be abused because in Swift you are not limited to standard operators like in C++. It is both a blessing and a curse, as far as potential for abuse is concerned. You pointed out the downside of arbit
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by Dewie 12y ago
Every article that has anything to do with with involved, intellectual hobbies has to have the word "nerd" or "geek" in them nowadays. It's what sells, apparently.
930.
by Dewie 12y ago
So? It brought up a subject that was probably on at least 20% of the participants in this threads' mind, anyway. Might as well get it out of the way.

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