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by catach 7y ago
An act being allowed legally is distinct from an act being encouraged socially.
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by catach 7y ago
A certain mindset is bothered by observing others apparently wasting effort they don't need to. It has nothing to do with any benefit or loss for the observer. Very roughly, one can think of it as a sort of altruism focused on efficien
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by catach 7y ago
Even if we assume most transmission is asymptomatic there's still a ton of value in cutting down symptomatic transmission.
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by catach 7y ago
> But I keep thinking about how, "given the lag time in this disease, appropriate response should look like an overreaction." That's a great point. The impact of the virus is going to be much worse than it could have been
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by catach 7y ago
I would submit that those who enjoy the genre most are probably those who largely attempt to uncover the "winning moves checklist" for themselves.
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by catach 7y ago
A metaphor ceases to be apt when a good portion of your audience interprets your meaning in the opposite way that you intended.
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by catach 7y ago
> but here we are today acting as if they didn't fix most of them over a decade ago. Recall that the defense of PHP in this tree leads with "There was never anything wrong with PHP, really."
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by catach 7y ago
The method seems surprisingly effective for a lot of subs, but also bothers me.
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by catach 7y ago
My favorite bit of this is how it seems like nobody wants to grant credit for incredible growth in existing product lines, as if that feat is trivial.
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by catach 7y ago
Such momentum is not so easily overcome. The roots of Chrome's codebase and LLVM are both significantly older than the very beginning of the Rust project, for example. If Rust manages to actually supplant C or C++ it would very likely
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by catach 7y ago
Minimizing their support surface makes a ton of sense for a long-term release, and of course if you just choose one browser for Enterprise you're gonna choose the one people built their internal apps on for the last few decades. I expe
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by catach 7y ago
External rather than internal dev support.
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by catach 7y ago
In terms of most blogs still having RSS, I suspect that's primarily due to default software settings.
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by catach 7y ago
Schedules are challenging to estimate even when you can count on continuous, stable efforts. That does not seem to be the case here.
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by catach 7y ago
If you can only have one gaming device, and consider GoW to be essential, then yeah, Xbox wouldn't be viable for you. And I agree that Linux has made fantastic, amazing strides, but it's still a subset of Windows gaming. I would n
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by catach 7y ago
I would describe "viable" as "without unacceptable concessions or compromises". If a game you consider essential does not work, that's not acceptable.
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by catach 7y ago
I expect reforming the justice system might take too long as well.
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by catach 7y ago
When you're immersed in corpspeak constantly it takes a conscious effort to realize when you're in a non-corpspeak context.
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by catach 7y ago
The marketing advantage is largely from being associated with Google and Pike and Thompson. That's a good way to get the world to spread the word for free.
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by catach 7y ago
It's possible that a huge marketing advantage kept people interested long enough to come to appreciate the benefits of the langauge's basic nature.
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by catach 7y ago
Wikipedia source is from 2018.
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by catach 7y ago
> So why the obsession with popularity? One reason could be altruism. If you believe your tool is superior to the tools that most others are using you may be highly motivated to convince those people to upgrade. Another reason could be t
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by catach 7y ago
I suspect we are at least partially still in that era.
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by catach 7y ago
Which, if you're the size of Google, is probably the way you want it. At least then great new ideas have a chance to survive when they threaten the current product line.
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by catach 7y ago
A system can have both good and bad parts. The good parts cannot protect the system from criticism about the bad parts.
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by catach 8y ago
Asking if a consequence is intended is different from asserting that a consequence is intended.
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by catach 8y ago
I think implicit to the question is that you're just using words for defining.
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by catach 8y ago
Yes, Chrome was a fork.
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by catach 8y ago
I expect that sometime in the three-digit range projects will typically change to some other versioning scheme.
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by catach 8y ago
As someone who does not stay away from the Rust community, my experience is that r/Rust is persistently inclusive when it comes to other languages: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/a1ffb4/shoul

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