Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 2y ago
In my case, my stereo is connected to an inexpensive Airplay adapter. So I do get all the advantages of a connected device, but if the adapter is bricked, I can easily replace just that small device. And more likely, when there’s a new sta
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
And the obvious solution is to isolate the device from the world. Most of my stereo is isolated from “the world”, and some parts are close to 30 years old. Why does a soundbar need contact with the internet?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
So what do we buy instead? Brother was the last not-evil printer company I knew of.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
If everyone just solved the problem for themselves there wouldn’t be any problem for the world. The real problem is that a lot of people use everyone else as an excuse to do nothing, and then nothing gets done.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I don't think that "Bell curve" should be interpreted strictly as a Gaussian in this context, but more literally as a curve with a shape resembling a bell.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Or maybe the smartest people understand that it is as important that less smart/experienced people than them can work with the code.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
You don’t have to go as far as the Middle East. A significant part of the US electorate takes the Bible as true.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The ones that until now copied and pasted everything from Stack Overflow.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The rules are what make it flexible. The rules let me understand what the heck is going on in the code you wrote so I can change it. Code that is faster to rewrite from scratch isn’t flexible.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’d say that globally we have agreed on a system of units and measurements. It’s just the US and a handful of third world countries that don’t follow that system.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
”Far left” is the new ”communism”. ”The civil rights movement is communism.” ”Gay marriage is far left.” The labels don’t mean anything else than ”something we don’t like and you should be scared of”.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Bacteria and other organisms “eat” the wood, and then “breath” out CO2 (and sometimes methane). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_respiration?wprov=sfti1#
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’m sorry, but that comment contains too many errors for me to bother to refute them.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The post makes it clear that the author made the votes because of who wrote them. He did it intentionally and systematically. That was the reason to suspend the author. Reading before commenting saves everyone time, not only mine and yours,
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Old forests sequester more carbon than new ones. When you cut down a tree, you leave half of it under ground, and when the roots break down all that carbon is released to the atmosphere. It is far from straightforward whether it is better t
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Read the post.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> I’m not sure why you’re having such a reaction to a pretty mundane observation that military funding on technology gets further and faster than the civilians can Because it is just plain wrong. And it glorifies military spending and wa
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
How do you know it’s infinite?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The point raised about removing the attributions of Luigi Mangione is valid and important. I don't sympathise much with the authors whining about being suspended for upvoting Mangione's post, just because they were Mangione's
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
We are on the other hand still waiting for the room temperature super conductor and the fusion reactors. I’d say that most interesting breakthroughs never reach the stage where they are useful.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
What a load off bull! Most fundamental discoveries have been independent of conflicts.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I read somewhere that about 50% of all developers have less than 5 years of experience. That fact explains quite a lot.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, your abstractions are there to make your requirements easy to express in code. It’s where businesses language and technical implementations meet.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Maybe that’s the problem. Everyone knows that abstractions are desirable, and encapsulates as much as they can, and ends up with redirection hell without any of the advantages of true abstractions. If people understood what the word actuall
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
You can only do the “what” with clearer code. The “why” needs some documentation. Even if it is obvious what the strange conditionals do, someone needs to have written down that this particular code is there because the special exemption fr
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’m not the one you asked, but I rely heavily on the Apple’s Reminders app.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, the right seems to very happy with elitism and connections.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> Result is negative. If you swap the variables, you have to imagine the area is a negative area And why is that a problem? Just reverse the equation before and after the proof.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
(a^2 - b^2) = -(b^2 - a^2) use the same visual proof but with a and b switched to get -(b + a)(b - a) = (a + b)(a - b)
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
You are not swapping the values, you are swapping the names.

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