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by WildUtah 10y ago
The principal problem with abandoning Apple at this point being that you can't get developer grade desktop hardware anywhere outside Apple at a reasonable price. And if Apple ever goes back to making new laptops, those will probably be
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Only in two professions pro athletics and computer programming is forty years old. Also, forty is old in the oldest profession that those two most resemble in their degree of exploitation and social stigma.
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Reduction to absurdity isn't a valid argument. The Wik says Aristotle called it " ἐις ἀτοπον ἀπαγωγή " and reductio ad absurdum has been considered an important and valid form of argument for at least 2500 years. [0] [0]
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What would a piece of legislation be to actually solve the issue with East Texas court being so pro-patent? Something like all patent suits must be prosecuted in the jurisdiction of the company supposedly infringing? Well, we could try pa
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How does three miles of developed prime beach in crowded Europe manage to go unused for 70 years?!
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Modern C++ pretty much avoids manual memory management (except in the few instances where you really want it) with smart pointers and STL.
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I love the jk chord. No more escape reach for me and vi gets even more vi-nature as the fingers stay where they belong. I even remap ESC to nop so that I won't ever forget.
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by WildUtah 10y ago
I use caps lock for exactly what its intended purpose is: I use it as a control key, just like it was on the original IBM PC keyboard. Just remap ctrl to caps lock and you're set. As for switching languages, Apple puts that in a fine p
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Paris is moderate density? It's denser than London or New York. Similarly dense to Hong Kong. Twice as dense as Tokyo or Mexico City or Seoul. And four times as dense as the city and county San Francisco, not including surrounding spra
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There are eight megacities of 10MM or more people in the first world. Some of them sprawl, others allow reasonable densities in newly built neighborhoods. Reasonable density, in this case, means 100 or more, about what you get from building
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IF they ever get updated. The recent history of Mac and Macbook Pro updates leaves some doubt as to whether there will ever be an update ever again. On the positive side, even with a three year extended warranty, you can now—whenever your m
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Evidence says that bureaucratic skills have become more and more valuable in the digital age. Fewer and fewer good jobs are available for qualified skilled people and more and more reward licenses, certifications, and connections.
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TO be more specific, a US college psychology major neither trains nor qualifies one for any job whatsoever in the psychiatric care field. Neither is such a major helpful in gaining admission to a trade school where one can learn to be quali
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In European countries where free tuition is taken seriously, stipends for students and subsidized part time work for students fill in the gap of mitigating opportunity costs. Free college tuition is a start, but you're right that even
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Critical thinking helps kids get accepted to college? It sure didn't help back in my day. I should have said, few are capable of learning a new language without total immersion. And few are capable of learning to do linear algebra, cal
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Do you think the government shouldn't be footing the bill for senior citizens to drink, party, tour national parks, use up the national V14gr4 reserves, and generally lay about recreationally? I think Social Security retirement pension
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by WildUtah 10y ago
And what share of 18-23 year olds are capable of learning a new language or critical thinking? Darn few. But nearly all are capable of partying, drinking, casual sex, and learning to write and appreciate fine arts a little better. That&#x27
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College is a good way for young people to spend four or five years learning to drink, date, and party. Some of them even get a bit of an education. It's an essential part of living a life of leisure and privilege in modern industrial s
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by WildUtah 10y ago
Actually, a chessboard has a light colored square on the bottom right. This game accepts either a chessboard or an inverse chessboard.
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English is tough, though through thorough thought it can be mastered.
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American education is singularly obsessed with the gap between racial averages. Closing that gap is the priority. Top performers are an afterthought. The USA can always import talent to build the future; there's no urgency felt to prod
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There used to be thousands of UFO sightings every year. Now with the arrival of smartphones and ubiquitous cameras, there are almost none. Which indicates that the UFOs are an intelligent civilization that is adapting to observe us in secre
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1. Ants are not, technically, apes. 2. Ant biomass is about the same as human biomass on Earth. 3. Typical human mass is 60kg, typical ant mass is 3mg. 4. Do the math.
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Advanced civilizations with a constructive proof that P=NP don't need all that much compute power.
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"No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light." Any civilisation advanced enough to harvest dark energy isn't going to bother with backwards, ineffic
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"We could dam all the streams, but that's not a meaningful pursuit given our interests" Could you please explain that to the World Bank and governments in Africa, SE Asia, China, and Oceania that insist on damning the last fr
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Population of apes on Earth: Orang-Utan: 50,000 Chimpanzee: 200,000 Bonobo: 35,000 Homo Neandertalensis: 0 Homo Habilis: 0 Gorilla: 100,000 Homo Sapiens: 7,500,000,000 Yup. "The first civilisatio
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I use a moon on my home planet to keep tides interesting and find it lends a pleasing glow to the night sky. Thumbs up.
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Motorola has a patent—asserted in the Microsoft case—on a specific number used as an error correcting code.
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"This opinion is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the internet works." Your opinion is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how the law works. Under the CFAA, to "intentionally accesses a computer without

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