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1. 61.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   This is a beautiful video!
2. 62.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   It just makes it more important to keep you bubble clean from dissenters, thus furthering the divide. Of course, this is probably the point.
3. 63.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   Mediocracy
4. 64.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   So biased towards western people that Asian Americans regular beat them at it.
5. 65.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   I thought NeoVim would fix the "dozens of different package managers" problem, but apparently not.
6. 66.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   > So imagine you’re a small business Is SparkFun considered to be a small business?
7. 67.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   And?
8. 68.▲
   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   Germans will generally buy any pseudo-ecological snake oil, but this is a fad I also want to get behind.
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   by _pmf_ 5y ago

   A racing game has clear criteria for who is better. Software development does not even have clear criteria for when a project is done (for us, it's typically when the customer stops threatening legal action on a weekly basis). Internal
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    I think the honest, uncomfortable way of dealing with the Stallman and Felleisen fallout would be to ask "what can be done to offer non neurotypical persons an alternative career path that does not involve creating a living hell for ot
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > So they sublet their San Francisco office and moved to a cheaper city where they could focus: Kyoto Come on ...
12. 72.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    About 80% of my university professors (CS and otherwise) were similar to this. I don't know what's wrong with this profession.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > I see how kids and adults are spoiled here Where do you live in Europe, and what do you mean exactly?
14. 74.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    I think the "cast" makes the association with fly fishing obvious enough.
15. 75.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    If rich people lose this way of ensuring a smooth passage for their offspring, they'll just invent a new one.
16. 76.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    Since the competition is Electron and JS, the bar is somewhere in the stratosphere.
17. 77.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    Also: Lotus Notes
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    There's also this piece (paywalled) about the role of PowerPoint in the making the second Iraq war happen: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html
19. 79.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    Every hardware demonstration is like the board room scene from Robocop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM
20. 80.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    Only emotionally.
21. 81.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > downplaying In what world do you live where you call the year long constant fear mongering "downplaying"?
22. 82.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > law-enforcement agencies undermining civil rights by forcing Tesla or other self-driving car-makers to redirect cars against a customer's will Seems safer for the customer than a spike mat or a shot to the tyre.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > when did denouncing white supremacy become something controversial White people existing is not "white supremacy". White people existing in positions of power is also not "white supremacy". "White supremacy&quo
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > I'm pretty sure porn has prevented people from getting so sad and desperate that they are driven to abuse real people Pretty sure the opposite is true.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    It's unfortunate that the customization of UML is not more accessible. This could cover exactly the use case "a reduced, specialized subset" with full editor support.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    It seems like there's a fundamental lack of differentiation between the OOA and OOD parts of the UML in the recent discussions.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    > Many people prefer print debugging over interactive debugging tools. I don't "prefer" print debugging over interactive debugging tools. I need something that works reliably, repeatably and with as much difference from th
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    We're using traffic sign and zebra crossing detection as a Turing test. Machine translations in the Play store read as if they were done by 5 year olds. When you buy a garage door, the recommendation algorithm of the most advanced comp
29. 89.▲
    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    Sometimes, automotive components are just better QA'd (validated) regular components.
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    by _pmf_ 5y ago

    I'm a heavy terminal user, and I cannot understand how people use something like tmux that constantly causes full screen refreshes and hangs due to one part misbehaving.