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by beders 6y ago
> First, point out that Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island, and Fukushima amount to extremely small numbers of deaths relative to the power these plants generated. I keep seeing justifications like that and it makes me want to puke. First of all:
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No need to invoke panspermia. The inner planets have exchanged material such as rocks since the beginning of their existence. I would assume it is DNA-based life. It would be a major surprise if it would be RNA-based life or something not r
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by beders 6y ago
No worries, the NSA will see it all anyways :) There's no privacy on the internet. That said: I'd love to run my own e-mail servers, but Yahoo does a pretty good job keeping spam away from me and offers enough convenience that I j
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Christianity: Be ashamed of your naked body at all times.
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by beders 6y ago
It's tax payers paying for outdated technology. Invest that money into renewables: end of story
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Mandatory link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ05e7EMOLM It clarifies a few of the points made in the article. Personally I would add: Don't overuse mocks, only use dependency injection on the module level (Ludic
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by beders 6y ago
Unfortunately, no direct comparison to Lisps. The two downsides mentioned regarding FP are not an issue if you are using a REPL and a Lisp: - excellent IDE support, since you are working inside your program (which can be inspected) - paradi
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by beders 6y ago
With a failure rate of 1% for commercial reactors, calling something 'safe' is - frankly - ridiculous. You wouldn't fly planes if they had that failure rate. It's not just the death count for which, btw, we still don&#x2
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Anyone remember FUD? This is a FUD-piece á la MSFT-style.
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Another useful thing to understand is the energy required to overcome the Coulomb barrier and contrast that with energies 10 cell phones in your pocket would emit.
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by beders 6y ago
Coulomb barrier - how to overcome it with radiation like that? Exactly, not at the energy levels a cell phone user is subjected to. Why isn't that the end of the story?
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Yeah, but following your argument, no one can ever build a better car...
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It's not regulations we need, it is better education. Especially skeptical thinking. No one would expect Google to not suppress search results that harms its business. It is called capitalism. And internet citizens should know that a
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It's called capitalism. It would be a monopoly if there's no way for a competitor to enter the market. But you are the market. It is your decision to go try a different search engine. Following your argument, google would have n
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by beders 6y ago
Google is a private corporation that runs various free services, i.e. you are the product. You agreed to their terms and services. If you don't like that, you can use a competitor. As long as there's an open internet infrastruct
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Also double-clicking the edges of windows (when the resize cursor shows) will expand the window in that direction.
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I love you too
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I love you
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by beders 6y ago
Yeah, I think Iron Maiden should really change their name. How dare they? And crossword puzzles shall be called intersection puzzles from now on! But why stop there! What kind of a sinful name is Crossfit! Burn them at the cross! And let&#x
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by beders 6y ago
I replied to a posting on Clojurians #remote-work slack channel and had my first Clojure/ClojureScript job within a week. That was just awesome!
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That's oversimplification. Good programmers care about their work, doesn't matter which language. Also, use the right tool for the job. A language that forces you to think about values rather than mutable objects, will produce hig
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https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/10/221326-a-large-scale-... Section 3, RQ1
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Unlikely. At least not for domain modeling. Especially in that industry where your domain is changing all the time, where regulations are changing all the time, where the ability to reason about your domain at different points in time is es
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It's not untypical for clojure libs to appear "dead". They will work just fine. Some libs are just "done"!
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Add that and a read-mode, where the tweet you just typed appears word by word, so you read your goddamn rant before you post it ;)
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"perfect decoupling between API clients and servers not possible " Well, the ultimate REST client: the browser, comes pretty close to that. It doesn't care if you are rendering an app to manage your bank account or a blog or
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One consideration I rarely see mentioned when discussing REST vs. TechDuJour is: who are your users? If you develop an API for your front-end team, use the fastest, most efficient protocol. Use something that you can change quickly
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Someone got inspired by re-frame, I see :) I like the approach. Wondering if there's a way to get ever closer to hiccup (without having to resort to JSX) Also, letting the framework decide if a function inside the markup should be call
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Yeah, which makes them so generic they become meaningless, like generic_map, generic_attribute...no thanks. If you want to define, transform and reason about your domain model at runtime, dynamic languages are the way to go. I know, I'
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by beders 6y ago
So you don't know any successful projects in JavaScript, Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Groovy, Julia, R, etc. etc. etc.? ;) There are well-known advantages and repeating them here will incite another flame-war. I can only speak from my 35 y

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