Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 1y ago
I just calculated that I’m about 6.24 nanolightseconds. A nanolightsecond is just over a foot, so at least Americans should easily get use to the unit.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Waterfall certainly has processes for going back and adjusting previous steps after learning things later in the process. The design was updated if something didn’t work out during implementation, and of course implementation was changed af
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
We used to call that Waterfall, and it has been frowned upon for a while now. So we went full circle, again.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
I guess that's why American kids never eat junk food or drink soda instead of water. I'm sure the 35% of the US population that are obese will get tired of eating badly any day now.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Children are naturally interested in sweets! You don't need to make them forbidden for that. And just you are allowed to eat sweets only one day of the week doesn't mean that they are allowed to unlimited amounts of it, and, in my
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Not at all. My wife and I, living in Sweden, are practicing it today with our kids (5 and 8 years old), and my impression is that most families around us do the same. Energy drinks, vapes and snus might be popular among teenagers, but has t
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
A bit of longtermism wouldn’t be so bad. We could sacrifice the convenience of burning fossil fuels today for our descendants to have an inhabitable planet.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
While I can't say I'm completely calm about the situation in Europe, it is very different from the onset of any of the two world wars. Europe is mostly united against the external enemy Russia, and the few countries that aren&#x27
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
I'm pointing out that there is an implied assumption that private always is better than public, and that assumption in many cases is just plain wrong. Not in all cases, market economy works great for many things, but there are also man
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
That whole discussion is based on the assumption that commercial firms or nonprofits are better in some way than publicly funded research. That is the stupid neoliberal dogma that private and market economy always are better than things tha
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
And most Japanese websites.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
> because the philosophy itself is based on the emotionally satisfying but ultimately unscientific “Gaia” theory of “balance” and “self-sustaining” / “self-correcting” systems. I’m certain some have used those ideas, but that is not
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
The capitalist system is broken. Incentives to maximise stockholder values will maximise stockholder values very well. Everything else will go to shit. This is true about everything from user experience to the environment to democracy.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
We can determine the productivity of factory workers, and that is still(!) how we are seen by some managers. And to be fair, some crud work is repetitive enough so it should be possible to get a fair measure of at least the difference in sp
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
But the reason we read code is to be able to change it or extend it. If we don’t need to change it extend it, the need to read it disappears too.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Why would you need to observe anything in isolation for it to be a physical property? This is the proposition that I find absurd. It’s like saying that a hydrogen atom isn’t really a hydrogen atom, but just an arbitrary set of nucleons.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
The existence of a rock is definitely a physical property, and thus is the number of rocks in a collection a physical property, at least as much as temperature is it for a gas.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
With the same line of reasoning you can argue (and some have) that numbers aren’t fundamental and are only made up by humans. In my view, the number of swans in the pond is three whether humans exist or not.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Entropy is certainly a physical “thing”, in the sense that it affects the development of the system. You can equally well apply your argument that it isn’t a physical thing because it doesn’t exist on a microscopic scale to temperature. Tem
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
I didn’t ditch a “free” product. I ditched a product that I paid with my attention and time, which is something of the most valuable I have.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
> And because of the deployment strategy, you can't easily test that combination in isolation. Also no tests for each service, only full integration tests that takes a while to run. That doesn't sound like microservices at all,
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
And companies value it because it signals that the holder of that paper can do the work and isn’t completely stupid.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
What do you use instead?
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Note that I was careful to write the EU in the second part, considering that both the Balkans and Ukraine are in Europe.
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Logically, that is just stupid. And it glorifies human suffering as something necessary for peace. It’s easy to imagine a world where violence between nations was almost forgotten and conflicts were always solved by negotiations and follow
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by Ma8ee 1y ago
Europe used to be at constant war with each other. Only France and the UK has some nukes. Now the EU is one of the most peaceful and prosperous places in the world. That is built on rules and trade.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
How expensive is it to just keep a connection open?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I prefer to choose myself when I buy new stuff, not let the corporations decide that for me when they decide to brick my old stuff.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Population growth decreases with education and higher standard of living, not only in Europe.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, you are missing my point. In the same way as we do (or at least should do) when we develop software, we isolate the volatile parts from the stable ones. The loudspeakers have looked the same for decades. No revolutionary changes in ampl

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