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by cat199 6y ago
yes .. but elon (handwaving wooo )
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by cat199 6y ago
agree - in my view, if you're not designing for the 'hit by a bus scenario', you're not an expert, irrespective of technical knowledge
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by cat199 6y ago
As I like to say, populism is not a 4-letter word...
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by cat199 6y ago
> obsessed with virtue To point out making this claim, while also noting that what people consider 'virtue' changes, is implicitly treating relativist ethics as valid; Leaving this assumption unchallenged is a key part in enabl
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by cat199 6y ago
> Meh... Where are the remote jobs? would guess since this is AMD and low level Linux, there may be a good deal of interfacing with physical hardware, in addition to any other preferences they might have
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by cat199 6y ago
think the point is here that things would stain / be too expensive.. jeans don't really "show" if you wipe your hands on them, and if they do, oh well, just part of that 'worn jeans' look
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by cat199 6y ago
> It's a rather useless form of binary thinking, since it completely ignores scale and severity. You may also be interested in: "there are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary, and those who do not"
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by cat199 6y ago
nice trick.. though if you are relying on the 'generator' aspect of comprehensions this may be problematic (will create in-memory copies)
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by cat199 6y ago
> and more about high impact failures than mere bug reports. It's often more about people problems than software problems..
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by cat199 6y ago
Haven't seen anyone mention that "-" is not a function at all. it is a symbol . A symbol which bound to the function which does subtraction. Users are free to redefine it outright, or to redefine it it multiple ways in diffe
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by cat199 6y ago
hence the second statment: "Preferable to 'failing' in the sense of staying in a 'failed marriage' (where the 'positive relationship' is no more positive) perhaps, but both of these are 'failures&#x27
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by cat199 6y ago
Thanks - I specifically worded this as generically as possible precisely to avoid getting into 'fairy tale' definitions, but yet, people are happy to reverse-project their own values onto a neutral statement to attack the some st
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by cat199 6y ago
> For most of history marriage was property transfer, Failing to see how this debunks either 'lifetime committment' or 'positive relationship' which are the only logical assertions I made - I did not attempt to qualif
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by cat199 6y ago
> Why not? Because marriage is intended as an act of lifetime committent to what is seen as a positive relationship, and so failing this original intent can never be a measure of success.. Preferable to 'failing' in the sense o
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by cat199 6y ago
> In my anecdotal experience, big companies are far less likely to behave fraudulently than small, local companies. I'd imagine it's kind of a bell curve, with very small companies more likely (since some of those are 'fly
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by cat199 6y ago
Can't find a link to any real bill / action - Article seems to make it seem like this is legislation - i'd be surprised if power to simply 'legislate' this is even consistent with the state constitution..
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by cat199 6y ago
think you're missing the point - the only people to survive a total nuclear war would be the elites sheltered in some bunker somewhere; the point is that decision makers were/are willing to risk destroying the species itself just
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by cat199 6y ago
all the better to frame WSB and the proles as the culprit, rather than information assymetry / under-regulation of short selling (why for example, is short interest data not available at higher frequency)
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by cat199 6y ago
this is a false dichotomy - witness the numerous parallel lisps (and schemes, etc)
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by cat199 6y ago
this is sort of exactly my point but inverse - X windows is awesome on a lan & due to the 'native' support for individual applications, but there is definately huge room for improvement w/r/t display protocol perform
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by cat199 6y ago
> haven't really figured out what to do with it pretty much the same thing one does with any other exotic hardware- install a niche unix variant, then proceed to stare at 'top' and 'show registers' output in the
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by cat199 6y ago
> I'd love to see the result of a concerted ground-up creation of a hardware and software system that starts from scratch and leaves unresolvable legacy considerations to virtual machines or whatever. https://en.wikipedia
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by cat199 6y ago
> There is no economics textbook that accounts for market participants buying stocks to watch them crash as a form of entertainment, which is true for a non-trivial subset of people holding GME right now. same modulo motivation holds fo
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by cat199 6y ago
> In my admittedly somewhat distanced opinion, Wayland's biggest mistakes were not launching with a coherent strategy for replicating functionality like screen sharing, screenshots, and to a lesser extent remote desktop/applica
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by cat199 6y ago
> Hopefully China will keep advancing science, while the West goes into another dark age due to its religions. .. given this and the uighur thing, they certainly do seem to have a knack for atheist eugenics. Opium of the masses and the i
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by cat199 6y ago
> when we all know perfectly well what the normal usage of the word technology is yes, exactly: technology goes back to the ancient Greeks, or the invention of bronze, or maybe the first chipped piece of flint.
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by cat199 6y ago
... alternately, if you think running in docker is suitable for and solves all problems, you are a noob.
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by cat199 6y ago
your average unix program, esp. something like postgres which has been developed for literally decades, will basically spread itself into well defined compile-time locations which are easily removed by any competent package manager or even
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by cat199 6y ago
the original language was ambiguous. e.g.: "A synthetic form of the molecule cannabidiol, a molecule which is also known as CBD" is structurally the same but less ambiguous because of the addition of additional words..
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by cat199 6y ago
except that uniwidth describes a different thing?

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