boublepop

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by boublepop 5y ago
Exactly. The 10% of python programmers who used and loved python 2, keep talking about the community “almost dying” at a time when 90% of it joined with a clear preference for python 3. It’s ridicules.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> but it only took me ~6 years to go from Windows power user, to almost never booting Windows up > but I really just don't understand what people find so difficult… Are you serious? I practically grew up with Linux, and switched
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by boublepop 5y ago
> because mediawiki apparently doesn't do proper caching and does a stupidly expensive re-rendering of every page Don’t worry, they are hard at work at making workarounds for all their idiotic design decisions that seem to make abso
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by boublepop 5y ago
Sure but you only get access to 10 of them unless you pay for Wikipedia premium. /comment from slightly in the future
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by boublepop 5y ago
> Big tech should be paying for this stuff… I don’t see anything about anyone paying the content creators. What fairness is it to har one platform currently freeloading of of the work that another platform is freeloading of its users (wh
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by boublepop 5y ago
It’s a joke about the volatility of Bitcoin, not a dismissal of donations. I know Bitcoin proponents can be quite dismissive of anything that could potentially sound negative towards crypto, but I feel like we should not be having a discour
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by boublepop 5y ago
Simply because a car is moving you cannot conclude that it’s brakes do not work. If the rate of childhood obesity would have been higher without the warnings, then they do indeed work.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> I don't feel like I'm fighting the git tools. Is this a common experience? Yes. Today I spent way too much time explaining to a coworker that what he was complaining “should be easy to do but seems impossible” was actually qu
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by boublepop 5y ago
The fintech company SimCorp was built on APL and their backend still has tons of APL.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> what kind of mainstream operating system is supposed to not run on four year old hardware? With hardware lasting at the very least 3 years, expecting no a new OS to also work on the last equipment you bought cannot be considered “crazy
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by boublepop 5y ago
> Passive activities become the only ones you feel like doing. Very true. But changing your lifestyle to a high degree is about turning the activities that you like into these “passive activities” like going for a morning run doesn’t fee
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by boublepop 5y ago
Having all of your issue tracking, docs wiki, build pipelines and more be reliant on a platform Ian or just comfort, it’s lock-in. If you ask a company “can’t we just switch from gitlab to github? Or the reverse, you’ll get a million reason
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by boublepop 5y ago
What do you mean? I regularly transfer money to people from my phone using my net bank, and more often still just using mobile payments. The money is instantly in their accounts and it takes a couple of seconds to type out details. Compare
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by boublepop 5y ago
> so long as a lot of people don't cash out at once A lot of people can’t cash out at once. Teather isn’t obligated to redeem to USD, it’s not just a scam (them not having backing), it’s just overall an absurd situation. “Give me y
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by boublepop 5y ago
This is such a weak argument. It’s like responding to an airplane crash and saying ”No way that crash actually happened, I used to work in aviation, and the amount of work that goes into making sure airplanes never crash is staggering! It’s
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by boublepop 5y ago
If there are more useful government programs. Just issue more bonds and pay for them. The idea that the government should refrain from finding useful programs until it’s paid off all its debt is absurd.
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by boublepop 5y ago
What conspiracy? They are limiting it due to known side effects based on reported cases. There is absolutely no conspiracy here. The benefit of also using Moderna when other vaccines are available simply isn’t as high now that we are reachi
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by boublepop 5y ago
Why can a person not own their own DNA if we are to accept that a company can own a persons DNA?
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by boublepop 5y ago
The central number here seems to be entirely anecdotal and very unbelievable.
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by boublepop 5y ago
I’m honestly intrigued by this attitude, and it’s shared by so many people. What is it you consider creepy? Always having a camera ready? That’s already the case with everyone having smartphones. Is it being “secretly” recorded? Because tha
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by boublepop 5y ago
Stanley wrote on his greenhouse gas powered device from the comfort of his greenhouse gas powered office environment at his greenhouse gas powered employer that his favorite greenhouse gas powered transportation vehicle had brought him to,
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by boublepop 5y ago
The real subject of this as I understand it is “How people ascribe deeper meaning to a guy burning a depiction of his ex-girlfriends new boyfriend because it became a traditional stable of a festival”
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by boublepop 5y ago
Why? Billions of teens are dancing along to songs of Taylor Swift figuratively burning her ex-boyfriends. That doesn’t mean they hate men or that they “look pretty weird”.
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by boublepop 5y ago
Bitcoin is not magic, the opportunities it offers are also available to other technologies and if others solve the problems better than Bitcoin then it too will go the way of the Telegraph credits. Social networks didn’t disappear and likel
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by boublepop 5y ago
To me the most fascinating thing about Bitcoin is perfectly displayed in this comment thread. People act like simply because it’s computers and algorithms that it’s beyond the reach of law. Imagine that mentality in other fields. Like “ther
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by boublepop 5y ago
> Is filing blatantly false reports (even police ones) in the hopes of deliberately crashing the website and also encouraging others to do so legal though? I don’t think you understand the concept of civil disobedience if your argument i
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by boublepop 5y ago
Back at uni our lab just switched from labview to using matlab for automation. Today I’d likely go with Python instead. But the outcome is the same. LabView and other graphical programming languages suffer under the red-stone condition, whe
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by boublepop 5y ago
Personally I think just running portainer as a container is a viable alternative to docket desktop. But I never really used the UI much, so perhaps there are features I don’t know of.
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by boublepop 5y ago
> Are vein patterns even static? What does that matter? Imagine some other characteristic that definitely changes over time lets say your clothing. The case in question had an expert saying: “Yes, the person recorded in the video is wear
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by boublepop 5y ago
Come on, this is beyond hyperbole and absolutely absurd. Yes, Netflix has content people want to watch. That’s not a fact up for debate, it’s is absolute certainty and proven beyond all reasonable doubt. To suggest otherwise is on par with

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