ZaoLahma

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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Could have called it a wee wii though.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I really think we need to make a (large) difference between platforms focused on user interaction and discussion (Discord, Reddit, old school forums, ...) and platforms where the person behind the user is the focus and placed in front of th
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I, Millennial, am seeing a huge decline in social media usage among my peers. It's reached the point where I didn't even bother to install any of the apps when I got a new phone last year, other than Facebook Messenger which we st
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I absolutely agree with you. 100%. The problem is how we can make this transition from a large population to a smaller one with as little suffering as possible. As I said, here we are expected to work into our 70s on average already, which
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
I'm not blind to this very, almost blindingly, obvious problem. I've posted comments on the subject before, where I've strongly supported the idea of a decreased population. I just don't see a way to decrease the populat
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
As cynical as this will sound, breeding is contributing to society in the sense that you provide productivity to it. Ensuring your retirement, in essence. In many (western inspired) parts of the world, the retirement scheme depends on produ
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Ah yes, the ongoing conundrum of trying to maintain a clearly very unsustainable quality of life while also increasing the population numbers to ensure the productivity needed to sustain the large and quickly aging parts of the population.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> It's about kicking the brakes until culture catches up and absorbs impacts, not stopping Which impacts are you referring to?
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Growing up in the 90s, it was bizarre to witness the downfall of Sega. Here the Mega Drive (Genesis) was almost as successful as the SNES. Everyone either had a Mega Drive or played it regularly with friends. It was a very popular piece of
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
There was a bug in an embedded system I worked on that several engineers, software as well as hardware, spent months troubleshooting. I eventually got called in and fixed it with a while loop and one function call inside of that loop. 4 lin
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Huh I see. That makes me happy even though I'll still choose to pay, since I guess it will make it harder for the legal streaming providers to suddenly downgrade the experience. It's sad that we need piracy to drive innovation and
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> The success of p2p file sharing platforms rested on the fact that people like piracy and free stuff, it didn't compete on service quality. Which became evident when most content became cheap and people switched. Nah, it was absolu
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Here, "somewhere in Europe", you can order groceries online and get them delivered to your door for cheap. This kind of service really took off during COVID and then stuck. I guess people found it convenient. We usually still go t
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> I strongly disagree with: "Simple, obvious code is easier to write, easier to get to work .." I get your point, as well as the author's point. Complex code is difficult to write, and unless you really pay attention, like
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> We need to take a good look at our ridiculous unsustainable life-styles, and make some hard decisions about whether we need a stupid over-sized pickup truck and a new phone, or if we need an actual future for us all. That's one as
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> Aside: I don't understand the obsession people have with throwing out LOC. Agreed. A better metric is how much of it you need to interact with on a daily basis in order to perform any meaningful work. If the code is sane, you&#x27
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
The freedom to decide one day to just leave. In my mid 20s I maintained a not-too-extreme minimalistic life style where I could pack literally everything I owned into my car. I could decide to just leave and lose at most some months' w
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
This is just the thing - there needs to be a very clear reason for you to partake in FOSS, something that you want to gain from it that has a bigger value to you than the cost of allowing your time and effort to be used by others for free,
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Well shit.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Let's hope they at least allow you to wait for a flush to pipe so you won't have to carry over the user's transaction.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
For extra amusement, make it so that you have responsibility without authority. I.e. you know what is broken and roughly how to fix it and in everyone's view it absolutely is your responsibility to "git'erdone", but you
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> It allows programmers to be lazy, take short cuts and not think about good software architecture. I think it has little to do with laziness, and more to do with the taboo of reinventing wheels. If there's a very generic and very b
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
This really highly depends on the people that you work with. At a previous employment (a 100% WFH position) I had most of my colleagues in India, roughly 4 time zones away from my own so we almost never met in person, and we'd have per
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
In a large enough company, the experience will be exactly the same even if you do go to the office. It might take weeks or months before you have a reason to reach out and finally realize that you haven't seen someone around for quite
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Oh, but that comes as a needs-to-be-fixed to the pull request from the 6y SE, so no worries at all.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Software engineer straight out of uni: # Get force of gravity as below to be used later F = G * m1 * m2 / r*2 Software engineer 5 years after uni: gravitational_force = ( PhysicsContextConstructorFactory.createByRelativist
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
It would be nice if the rules for 2 wheeled vehicles could be refined as well. Here (not France) you can drive an EU moped (45km/h) on a car license, which could (and should!) be a great alternative to a smaller car. The problem is tha
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
> Before iphone was launched someone could have made the same point about Nokia's smartphones. For my question the phone-equivalent would be someone asking today in 2024 what is the difference between a Nokia of 2006 and an iPhone o
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
Huh, I see. So keeping it around for so long was mostly for avoiding expensive R&D and pilot re-training, and not so much for the 737 being the perfect platform to keep iterating on. Interesting.
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by ZaoLahma 3y ago
And this is what I'm curious about. I can't imagine much of the original design would be left in the aircraft except for the overall shape of it. I'm guessing (remember now, basically zero aircraft development knowledge) that

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