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by ab5tract 1y ago
Significant whitespace is a divisive enough choice that a non-zero percentage of programmers won't even consider the language unless forced to do so by economic circumstances. It might not be a highly visible downside, but it's th
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by ab5tract 1y ago
“Opt to be paid in..” Seems like you haven’t had much time with the history of company towns and company stores.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
This makes no sense in relation to Right to Be Forgotten, right? Why mandate a mechanism for a person to be able to legally request being 100% flushed from company databases only to try to pull this?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Also the ability to just put a function somewhere in the “bare” part of a namespace was something I didn’t realize I missed as much as I did.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
And I bet you consider yourself scientifically minded. Depressing. Do a bit of research on ADHD. Maybe look into mortality rates between medicated and unmedicated ADHD. Consider for a moment why stimulants are prescribed for ADHD in the fir
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by ab5tract 1y ago
What is hard to believe? The effect of stimulants is calmative for genuine ADHD. Anyone else will have more micro fidgets as a result of the medication. This is coupled by response time markers as well as success rate. EDIT: https:/&#
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The idea that the tools we use shape the output of what we create is intrinsic to reality. The more essential something is, often the harder it is to argue. And no one in this thread said superior. They said different.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
There is a much more objective test involving tracking micro movements while performing a series of response tests both before and after medication. Those with ADHD will respond positively in the tracked markers when given medication. Those
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Common Era was first used in place of AD in the seventeenth century … by a Christian . That’s as nested as you’ll get me to go today. Blessings!
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Anything that isn’t explicitly Christian is anti-Christian, now? BC/AD already exists, there is no reason for Christian activists to try and neologize our neologism.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Do you understand that the majority of the world is not Christian? Why do you think one should get away with trying to rewrite the very acronym that exists to not reference a religion into being a direct reference to a religion?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
CO2 emissions risks were already being discussed in the 1800s. Furthermore, Big Oil notoriously suppressed any hint of their internal climate change models from being published and hired the same marketing firms that Big Tobacco employed.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Greece had multiple colonies in India and there was significant cultural diffusion in BCE times.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Flash was a lot of things, but also, at the same time, neither of these things. (You could come across poorly coded and thus poorly performing apps, but that wasn’t the standard). Modern day SPAs are far, far worse offenders when it comes t
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Thanks for this! More or less what I expected, just wanted to be sure.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
People think of “alcoholism” as a binary. It’s not, and the new language reflects this. We absolutely should educate “problematic” drinkers that they are on a sliding slope to an ungroovy dependency. It also highlights that just because you
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by ab5tract 1y ago
One day the things that I do with my body and mind will not be subject to capital’s desire to milk as much money as possible out of me through sheer longevity. Seriously, the moralizing of life expectancy makes no sense. Let us each optimiz
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Just curious, but would it have been feasible to update the Objective-C compiler to reduce these pain points? Or was there issue more intrinsic to the design of the language itself?
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by ab5tract 1y ago
Also, if it hadn’t been (slowly) improving all this time then I would have defenestrated my work laptop, myself, or both long ago. I’m trying to imagine using it without the stream API just shuts my entire brain down. Records arrived pretty
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by ab5tract 1y ago
When you say stitch, I hear subjugate. Fair point about the before and after Caeser. The historical record is pretty clear that enormous volumes of Gauls died during their “civilization” at the hands of Rome. It’s true that populations that
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by ab5tract 1y ago
> It isn’t anti-intellectual to say that most of what the US federal government does would be better performed by private industry. Considering this is simply a religious statement posing as an assertion of fact, I would argue it is anti
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by ab5tract 1y ago
This is painting the Gauls as far more primitive than they were. They weren’t particularly “uncivilized” (which is far more a compliment than I think you realize), they just didn’t want to be subjugated and thus were subjected to genocide b
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by ab5tract 1y ago
That still doesn’t imply that people cut him slack strictly because of profits received, which was my only point.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I think he was all of those things, but also could be the opposite of those things, too. Humans are complex and when you already changed the course of history by 25 or whatever, you are going to be even more complex. I don’t idolize Steve J
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by ab5tract 1y ago
The real major issue with multiple inheritance is that only a few languages (Eiffel, for one) seem to require declaring invariants for each class. Then multiple inheritance is much cleaner because you can test constructor arguments against
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by ab5tract 1y ago
I’m surprised this is considered a controversial take. You can write spaghetti in any language or paradigm. People will go overboard on DRY while ignoring that inheritance is more or less just a mechanism for achieving DRY for methods and f
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by ab5tract 1y ago
If you can find any examples of non-totalitarian regimes that are facing the same media consolidation problems that were not immediately preceded by Clinton-esque laws deregulating said media consolidation, I would love to know about it! ED
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Markets tend toward monopolies, with a stop at duopolies along the way. I do agree that Apple and Google both played the game with moves below the table, but that’s what “the market” gets you (amoral profit seeking that has no qualms with c
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by ab5tract 1y ago
That sounds like a classic upfront cost fallacy, especially if you haven’t revisited it with actual calculations and for other appliance types.
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by ab5tract 1y ago
It’s weird that they leave the EU letter-grade system out of this discussion.

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