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by antod 3y ago
I remember the ads for it and wishing I could afford it. It seemed so awesome, but as you mention elsewhere I probably would've struggled.
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by antod 3y ago
Firefox on Ubuntu isn't showing any warnings or errors for me.
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by antod 3y ago
True, but this way it seems like an exotic Greek island.
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by antod 3y ago
I didn't realise this was an assertion scoring debate rather than just a discussion, but here goes: * I have experienced what software development was like 25yrs ago, when it also took a lot longer to gain seniority and responsibility.
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by antod 3y ago
That is such a weird take for a young software dev to have - you are uniquely positioned in an intersection of both age and the industry you're in to have faced extremely little ageism. Compared to just about anyone else working their
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by antod 3y ago
Sheesh - what a lame statement. All the juniors I've worked with are very keen to learn from us old timers, and likewise their enthusiasm and energy rubs off on us. It's a win-win as far as I'm concerned.
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by antod 3y ago
The movie LA Story comes to mind where the TV forecaster prerecords their weather reports.
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by antod 3y ago
Part of me wonders if these people are intentionally framing the debate around ethics and potential risks as longer term extinction level problems to distract from the nearer term damage caused by them accelerating the economic inequality o
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by antod 3y ago
Heh, I had to go off and read some stuff to get my head around what "negative" potential energy would even mean (high school physics was decades ago). So... the negative is just a convention to represent work done against the &quo
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by antod 3y ago
I'm no physicist, but isn't the gravitational potential energy between two objects inversely proportional to the distance between them?
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by antod 3y ago
I could've sworn I saw it used unironically in Wired magazine more than once... But yeah, never used by a real world person.
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by antod 3y ago
Thank you. Saved me posting it as a counter example. Basically nature will nearly always be able to defeat human efforts at putting things in neat boxes.
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by antod 3y ago
I'm not worried about robots taking away trades (yet). There's a whole phase before that where the service industries shrink so much that the trades are both scrambling for customers and competing with a flood of people retraining
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by antod 3y ago
Yeah I felt that one. But it actually makes sense. Due to the apparent wind (adding the vectors of wind and bike velocities together), and drag being proportional to the square of velocity, you will seldom feel a tailwind and headwinds will
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by antod 3y ago
> If picking up a rifle and traveling to a foreign country to participate in their socialist revolution isn't enough to bury any accusations of not being a true believer, I can't imagine what is. I had the impression that he
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by antod 3y ago
I learnt to program using those books. Although I swear there's a few titles missing. I remember one of them being more about computers in general rather than programming and having this two page illustrated branching "flow chart&
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by antod 3y ago
Not really sure it is the same theme though. The bullying belittling stifling culture of a postwar British classroom is practically the polar opposite of todays education culture.
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by antod 3y ago
I wonder if they included that pretty much irrelevant book banning bit at the beginning to prove their point about people being unable to concentrate long enough to actually read anything? Nah, probably not. If you had read further, it was
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by antod 3y ago
Same here. Although "professional" might've been a stretch for me back then. I had no idea what lisp or functional programming was.
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by antod 3y ago
Really? I'm always adding value by cascading and socialising learnings to my team. The rest of my value is thinking up innovative new nouns to verb.
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by antod 3y ago
You're completely correct that IE 4.0 - 6.0 was kicking Netscape's butt in terms of CSS support (not difficult as Netscape 4.x was truly awful). But not quite right that it was the best or only until 2003. Opera could probably cla
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by antod 3y ago
> I will say that the most issues I’ve encountered with Python happened on macOS machines. Same here. It's probably somewhat to do with my only partial MacOS/Homebrew knowledge, but every time I'd ressurect a Python proj
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by antod 3y ago
I thought it was renamed after Oxide picked up the sponsorship.
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by antod 3y ago
Likewise, anyone talking about civil engineering and bridges. At least back in the day Slashdot was fully aware of how broken their ubiquitous car analogies were and played it up.
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by antod 3y ago
During a mental health first aid course, I remember being told those mistakes can (admittedly rarely) happen in the other direction too. ie someone thinking they were having a panic attack actually having a heart attack instead. The advice
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by antod 3y ago
At the time though it didn't seem any worse than the Mac though, and it had colors - even if the defaults weren't great, any colors seemed better than none. Or at least that was how tasteless teenage me saw it.
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by antod 3y ago
Depends how compressible the fluid you're floating in is right? Note that's 'fluid' rather than just liquid. As you increase gravity, with fully compressible fluids the buoyancy scales the same as weight, you wouldn&#x27
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by antod 3y ago
> Or are they just saying that the VM my binary runs on might be some predictable Linux version, but the underlying thing launching the VM could be anything? Yup. eg with Xen the hypervisor wasn't Linux, even if the privileged man
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by antod 3y ago
> This is evasive. How often did you see people describe Python that way before it became as widespread as it is now? Quite a lot back in the early 2.x era before the Rails hype first kicked in. It really was a breath of fresh air comp
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by antod 3y ago
>For the latter, I normally have to roll out a quote I can't remember well enough to google, that's something along the lines of "your dog is juggling, filing taxes, and baking a cake, and rather than be impressed it can

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