Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 4y ago
No, they have some equations that match the observed data extremely well, up to interplanetary scale, and are the basis for a lot of technology that we use daily. Now there are some discrepancies between what we expect and what we measure a
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Yes, this is my problem. I'm seen as slow, because I take my time to deliver my stuff. And I'm rarely the hero of fixing some outage or some critical bug. Because my stuff works, quietly. The heros are always busy; fixing that bug
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
There are certainly people in almost all audiences that are quite unique and exceptional, but the HN audience as a collective doesn't stand out as much as some of us would like to believe.
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> Awareness in my view is useless because touchscreens in auto infotainment are far more visually impressive so they will always be preferred from a buyer's perspective. Except that the HN audience also buys cars, and prefers someth
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Adobe Lightroom has it. Unfortunately it is quite expensive for the casual photographer.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
While I somewhat regret the tone in my comment, the whole notion that pointing out that you sometimes at least are partially responsible for your circumstances is called "guilt tripping" is weird. It's not that my kids never
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
That mostly happens when they feel they don't get enough attention from you. Sometimes you really are busy with something else, like trying to prepare food for them or answering messages from your pestering boss. But often it is becaus
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
My father used to fly when I was little, but he quit. When I asked him about it he said he used to think that it was only the crazy ones that got killed. But then a few people he knew as careful and level headed died in accidents. My father
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
And that is reasonable if you think a country should be seen through car windows. If I have, say, a week to visit a country, I will definitely not use three of those days driving.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Uh?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
If your children are infertile, you are from an evolutionary perspective a dead end.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
But you haven't passed on any genes. You have only been passed genes. That is, if the choice of language confuses people: You have only been given those genes. You haven't given any genes to anyone else who can give those gene
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
The “Uh no” was to someone who tried to correct someone who was right while being 100% wrong themselves. And in the context, I was 100% right.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Uh, no. You haven't passed on any genes until you have fertil offspring. Being born is of course necessary, but far from sufficient.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
And in the theme of the post, I kind of miss those old terms that I remember fondly from learning Scheme a long time ago. Using them felt like incarnating some ancient magic. That said, the terms "first" and "rest" are s
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Like drunk monkey Kung fu.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Oh gosh, you really think you are clever, while leaving ample proof of the absolute opposite.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
No, no goalposts have been moved. It is worse for the environment, in all aspects, including biodiversity, to raise animals to eat than to eat the crops directly. The reason is simple: to produce the same amount of energy (and protein) with
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
How much of the meat we consume do you really think are grazing in meadows? Even most the grass feed cows are raised in fields that used to be rain forests in Brazil. However you turn it, it’s impossible to claim that cattle raising is a ne
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Of course they are. The moment we stop paying for their products they lose everything.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I have better hope that a good programmer can write readable code, than that they will write readable documentation. As you point out, people suck at writing.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
If I remember correctly, Brooks experience was with assembler, which might require some more documentation than modern Java or Python.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I really hope you are joking 100%, because (b) Go home and be happily oblivious that six other systems silently started to produce wrong results since the meaning of the column has changed. But, of course, that is someone else’s problem, so
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Perl had the same problem as C++ and before that Ada have. There’s just too many ways to do things, so everyone use their own subset of the language and their own idioms. Which means that it’s hard for someone else to understand what you ha
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My interpreter is that they lack any good ideas for real change.
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Has it changed since then?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I don’t know specifically about På Spårer, but it’s not unusual that they licences the idea and format of the show, and that’s why they only are allowed to show it in Sweden. That doesn’t explain why my kids can’t watch Beppes Godnattstund
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I just got the batteries replaced in my iPhone X for about $45, and I was without the phone for less than an hour. I am amazed, and very happy not having to shell out $1000 for a new phone that would just have been a marginal upgrade to my
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I think bankruptcy is quite frowned upon in the US too. It’s not like you can borrow a lot of money, not repay them, and then get another loan there either. Your credit score is toast.
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Yeah, we have have only created tiny software companies like Spotify, Klarna or Minecraft.

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