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by agent327 5y ago
So a guy with a backhoe who digs through a cable by accident could be tried for human rights violations? Get real... Try reading article 1 of the declaration of human rights, in particular the second sentence. Try to uphold that lofty stand
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by agent327 5y ago
I said "intensely internal", not "intensely personal". If you think the only thing that programmers do is typing out code without any thought, you have very badly misunderstood the profession.
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by agent327 5y ago
I'll jump on this completely out of context and say that if I'm ever forced to work with another human being permanently glued to my side, watching my every move, and requiring constant maintenance in terms of explanation and sync
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by agent327 5y ago
It's appreciated! :-)
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by agent327 5y ago
Nah, that wouldn't happen more than once.
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by agent327 5y ago
Not necessarily; as a previous poster commented, it does depend on the ratio of vaccinated against unvaccinated as well. If a population has 1000 vaccinated people and 100 unvaccinated, and ten of each end up in the hospital, it looks like
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by agent327 5y ago
I hate how every single article about covid leaves out a great many details. For example: - Ok, so if you are vaccinated you can get infected. There's no word about the seriousness of the infection though. - Hospital beds are filling u
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by agent327 5y ago
If that's true, then lockdowns aren't a valid answer either. And on the side of not having lockdowns you'll find things that are much worse than some assumed percentage loss of happiness: people dying in total isolation despi
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by agent327 5y ago
It totally is. In summer I go out on the bike for fun all the time. In winter? No way - essential trips only. And I'd say that's typical for all Dutch.
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by agent327 5y ago
There is no side effect. The loop only interacts with variable 'x', which is discarded after the function ends. Since it is not observed, there is no side effect. That leaves only the loop itself, which can run infinitely long (wh
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by agent327 5y ago
I don't believe it has to, some kind of bucket-optimisation (multiple elements per allocation, instead of one element per allocation) should also meet all constraints the standard sets for this type. And I don't like it when peopl
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by agent327 5y ago
I noticed that, but it lists only 37 plugins, not 200+, as advertized here: https://steampipe.io/ I figured the remaining 163+ might be built in, instead of being supplied as plugins.
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by agent327 5y ago
Indoctrination: perhaps it is, but I don't think so, since other people make largely the same distinction, as witnessed by a series of articles on wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programmi
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by agent327 5y ago
Looks neat! Is there a list of those 200+ data sources somewhere? Is there one for the Steam database?
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by agent327 5y ago
Source? A hash map should in principle be faster than a tree, with far fewer comparisons, and against a computed hash value instead of the whole object, in principle.
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by agent327 5y ago
I'm totally onboard with casting integers, and I can understand casting between pointers-to-char and pointers-to-other, but why on earth would you want to cast between pointers to (different) integers? That seems like asking for troubl
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by agent327 5y ago
How about you simply... provide them with a photo? Download a face here ( https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ - you may have to reload a few times to get a suitable face), and send it to Google to use as your avatar. Maybe s
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by agent327 5y ago
Hi! If you ever see this, you can vote on the idea here: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/728459 Thanks :-)
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by agent327 5y ago
I still don't get why you think all you can eat restaurants operate at a loss. Businesses that operate at a loss close after a while; all you can eat restaurants are no different. However, they tend to turn a profit by charging you a p
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by agent327 5y ago
I totally hate people who repeat a phone number back to you, but with different digit grouping. How the hell am I supposed to know if that's the same number!? Just repeat it as I said it already...
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by agent327 5y ago
Isn't it "five and sixty thousand five hunderd six and thirty"? At least that's how it is said in Dutch, and I believe German works the same way...
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by agent327 5y ago
That's not quite it. Let me explain... The first computer language I used was BASIC. It was excellent for what it was, but clearly it had a limit on how much you could do with it, on account of it missing amenities like named functions
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by agent327 5y ago
Since I left university (eighties) I have only been positively impressed by two languages. One was the Wolfram language. I haven't used it; I'm just going on the demo here, but the idea of having not just a powerful language, but
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by agent327 5y ago
It's still asking for trouble though. Look at this minor variation: https://godbolt.org/z/ncjEejsxe It shows what happens if you take away the compilers' ability to reason about 's': it could be a g
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by agent327 5y ago
Sanity check: all you can eat restaurants are not free. You still pay for the food. And there's only so much you can eat during opening hours. Your problem is that you presume food is abundant because it just is. Reality is that food i
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by agent327 5y ago
There's a wealth of videos on youtube showing AIs finding unexpected ways to cheat at any given task. There's no reason to believe they wouldn't cheat at programming either.
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by agent327 5y ago
>I work in water management in the Netherlands. Wim Lex, is that you!?
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by agent327 5y ago
So your idea is that, rather than type in the programs directly, we instead switch to some kind of language for defining the program in? A language that abstracts from all the low-level details? Sounds like a winner to me. Somebody should i
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by agent327 5y ago
One tool I've found really helpful in this regard is Color Oracle ( https://colororacle.org/ ). It lets you see what your presentation (or software) looks like to someone who is colorblind. I've used that to tune ou
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by agent327 5y ago
I prefer to say "they're a bit less developed on some of these types of things". Their attitude is still very much that of the Industrial Revolution, where a worker was no more than a replaceable meat unit with no rights and

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