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by adwn 5y ago
Thanks, that's an insightful take on it. You bring up a good point, which is that reading this article can be healthy for some people, and unhealthy for others. I don't think there's a solution for this, because any kind of d
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by adwn 5y ago
You might want to rethink aligning your life to a Cracked listicle, in particular this one. For example: > For instance, some people want to respond to that speech with Tyler Durden's line from Fight Club: "You are not your
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by adwn 5y ago
I think you got a little lost in that analogy...
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by adwn 5y ago
> YouTube should warn people that its content shouldn't be mistaken for a comprehensive education on a dangerous topic. You mean like those hundreds of safety warnings even for trivial appliances like smartphone chargers, which no
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by adwn 5y ago
> [The soviets] lost the most soldiers [...] To be fair, the major reasons for this were that the Russian military leadership was utterly incompetent during the earlier stages of the war [1], and that they suffered from a serious lack
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by adwn 5y ago
> For SIMD workload performance increase of AVX512 over AVX2 is 2x It's less than 2x, because the core downclocking for AVX-512 on older CPUs is higher than for AVX2: 60% vs 85% on Skylake, so only a ~1.4x speedup. Newer CPU archi
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by adwn 5y ago
> a large number of HN community members are - somewhat ironically - very closed minded The other side of that coin – excessive open-mindedness – however, leads to being susceptible to cults, snake oil salesmen, and hyped up technologi
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by adwn 5y ago
Well, it would explain why their phone is toast after only 10 minutes in the sun...
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by adwn 5y ago
> That happens when you throw away 30 years of work to reinvent the wheel because you like variable names before types or something. That's an extremely ignorant and incorrect take on Rust, and your phrasing makes me believe that
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by adwn 5y ago
Then why not just explain to people the predicted consequences of a 2°C temperature increase?
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by adwn 5y ago
That's not really helpful, when you think about it: Are the effects linear? How much ice would the US be under for temperatures of 1°C below 20th century average? A fifth of half a mile? No ice at all? And what does that imply for 2°
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by adwn 5y ago
In those countries that are most responsible for climate change, they already did.
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by adwn 5y ago
You've completely missed the point: A powerful static type system helps prevent many types of logic bugs. No, it won't prevent every conceivable bug or error, but nobody claimed it does. Automatically ruling out a large class of b
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by adwn 5y ago
> Two objects with the same interface should not be treated different unless very special circumstances. ...until you accidentally pass the ClientsTable object to the delete_supplier() function, which expects a Supplier object. Unfortu
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by adwn 5y ago
Wat. I have no idea what you're going on about. The customer doesn't care about the particulars of your unit or integration tests, instead they care about whether your software works properly. A modern, powerful static type system
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by adwn 5y ago
> The decision if an integer is stored as a 4 byte or 8 byte, big-endian or little-endian, should be up to the computer to decide. What about the decision whether a function argument is an integer or a string? A floating-point value or
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by adwn 5y ago
Wrong: Copyleft ensures that the users of a given program can get access to its source code and release modified version of it, and that the users of that modified version have the same rights to access, modify, release it, and so on. Witho
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by adwn 5y ago
> it is kind of wrong to blame the tool for the mistakes made by the one wielding it I strongly disagree. I think it is absolutely legitimate to blame a tool which is practically impossible to use correctly [1]. Some of C's design
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by adwn 5y ago
> Entrepreneurship refers to creative destruction No, it doesn't. That may be the definition used by a small minority of people, but it's not a generally accepted definition.
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by adwn 5y ago
> It's worse than that [...] it makes their entire European business last year overall unprofitable How's that a bad thing under the assumption that they behaved in an illegal way? Fines are supposed to hurt, and this fine wo
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by adwn 5y ago
> zum Kampfe gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung That doesn't really fall under "certain kinds of political views", rather under "I'm going to stage a coup and turn Germany into a dictatorship&qu
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by adwn 5y ago
True, but that article only refers to political parties. It says nothing about personal opinions published on some website (unless you're a representative of a political organisation, then it's a different matter).
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by adwn 5y ago
And which Artikel of the Grundgesetz would that be? Are you referring to Art. 9(2)?
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by adwn 5y ago
Paraphrased: _carbyau_: Simple command to configure your complete dev environment in respect to this project" ? layoutIfNeeded: configure adwn: No, because ... I don't see any pedantry on my part. Also, this: &g
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by adwn 5y ago
Sorry, I just realized that the above workflow is wrong: Since you want to fix a bug, you'll probably clone the development branch of the repo, which doesn't even have a configure script – only source releases have that. So pr
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by adwn 5y ago
That's not even close to being accurate. The real workflow looks more like this: 1) Install an appropriate compiler toolchain. 2) Install whatever other tools are needed (like pkgconfig). 3) Install the necessary *-dev packages for the
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by adwn 5y ago
"What I'm talking about is a solution for people who don't even want to know what a "foundation" or "mortar" is. Allowing them to learn and build only what they would actually need to care about: a house.&
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by adwn 5y ago
If they are really that much smarter, why don't they code their own tools? It's not like there's a programming guild which enforces the monopoly held by certified software developers.
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by adwn 5y ago
> Cross-platform and being a good tool are orthogonal concepts. I agree, but when I need to develop some software for Windows and Linux, a great toolkit for Android or iOS is of no use to me. Similarly, I won't use a Linux-only or
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by adwn 5y ago
Thanks! According to their Wikipedia page, they paid 12.5 M$ to settle in 2007 and continued to operate for another 4 years before being bought for half a billion USD. Not exactly what I would consider "sued to pieces" ;-)

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