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by bpizzi 8y ago
Thank you for the nuances, I wanted to spell it somehow, but didn't find the words (westerner too but not native english speaker).
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Actually, cheating involves lying. A spouse is explicitly or at least implicitly expecting the other part no to lie about extra relations. If lying about those extra relations in this context doesn't makes you a bad person, then I don&
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by bpizzi 8y ago
A bit off-topic - well, to be fair, it may have been the other way: the man could have been the one saying "he'll cheat on us", and the women telling him "it's ok". Women are as prone to cheating as men. Women
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by bpizzi 8y ago
'It's really incredible how the world of software developed by adults differs from the software developed by kids.' Well, if I may... What actually tells adults and children developers apart is their swift ability to bring nu
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by bpizzi 8y ago
My personal guess is that it's somehow related to fundamentals differences between introvert and extroverted personalities and that the people making theses decisions (floor plans) are mainly extroverted. Just my opinion.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
You know why: some organizations are simply not meant to be fixed. People get hurt for silly reasons and one may not want to hurt the wrong people.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
It doesn't harm the development, indeed. However it does harm the developer's freedom in choosing his tools, for example Vim will try to fold regions delimited by brackets in C files. Nothing unbearable in the end.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
They were not forced, it was their choice, and the choosen editor (vs6) do have search/replace. My personal guess is that keeping those BEGIN/END was seen as a smart move.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
At work we're maintaining a rather big software written in C (not that much, <1M loc). It's a bit odd: there's no brackets at all (only BEGIN and END), and the majority of names (functions and variables) are 6 characters l
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by bpizzi 8y ago
At the article's end: '[...] AI developers, as inexperienced in politics and philosophy as I am in technology [...]'. What a nice piece of flawed logic: 'I am not educated in technology but I'm educated in politics
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by bpizzi 8y ago
For the posterity: {a+b=10;a-b=1} translates to {a+b=10;a=b +1}, thus the first equation is ((b+1)+b=10) giving (b=4.5), and from there we get (a=5.5).
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Especially with deadlift, back injuries are no fun at all.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
Yet it's still a path worth being followed for its long term effects.
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by bpizzi 8y ago
> "Reducing human population" is a phrase that can only have so many meanings: controlling reproduction, removing access to healthcare, or killing people. There are no other options I'm aware of. Well, you forgot sending h
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Excession... Always a great re-read. It's construction, characters layout and plots resonates really deep inside my technical, introvert self. RIP Mr Banks.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Yes Opsec is hard, but not in this specific example: one would just setup a VM with tails [0], and one would only performs its shady actions within this VM, and all one's outgoing network activity would automatically jump threw a TOR e
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Kind of nitpick, but actually the first look at https://ada2012.org is a CERT_INVALID error from the browser.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
I'm very fond of the way he left religions out of the way when trying to explain that a God-like mind may exists above our universe.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Well, then yes, please, be my guest and look into it. And kindly point to me any study (may I say the countless studies) that can support your claim: 'Children do learn faster than adults. Countless study's support that.'.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
And please allow me to refer to real and actual scientific studies. The critical period for language acquisition Snow, C. and Hoefnagel-Hoehle, M. (1982) - http://grammar.ucsd.edu/courses/00-OLD/lign179/snow.h
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Indeed, your edit is way more civil ;) Let's agree on not agreeing then (and sorry, no, I did not learn anything).
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Actually I've put said example in a precise context: especially *when it comes in its extreme flavour* of 'I just can't learn this new field/langage/tool/technique because I'm not a kid anymore'.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Somewhat related: I think this title should not be read as an hypothetical confirmation of the usual layman's asumption that 'kids learns better and faster that adults'. Which is a misconception I'm often confronted with
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by bpizzi 9y ago
I fully agree on what you said. But the question is, as always, about proportions and statistics: how many people adhere to a religion today because their parent told them they would go to hell otherwise, versus how many choosed actively by
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Of course some percentage will seek religion on their own. But the main point of that fathomless hypothesis is that, on the scale of humanity, today's religion would fall back to old traditions initiated in a previous era and now only
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Well, let me rephrase more accurately then: 'then religions would gradually be forgotten as more and more endoctrined people die without passing their religious doctrine to their children'.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
If infantile religious endoctrinement was avoided, then it would only take one generation for religions to disappear almost entirely.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
His reply was a bit too much indeed, but however I think it would still be great if you would be nice enough to state what you challenge yourself with. We'll be curious to see that it has something to do, even remotely, with famine a
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by bpizzi 9y ago
Maybe I can offer personal insight here: finding comfort in discomfort, pleasure in pain and motivation in embarrassment really is the key, at least to me.
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by bpizzi 9y ago
[...] their high-school is taken over by mobile-phone-zombies, utterly un-interesting and useless peers. So, yeah. Its an epidemic. Kids don't need technology This is not technology , this is addiction .

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