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by cjfd 1y ago
One cannot just look at the end result. It is also of relevance what risk was run. Nobody else was willing to lend those bank some more money. Guess why. If can play russian roulette and win 100000 dollars if you survive and it turns out th
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by cjfd 1y ago
If we accept the possibility that AI is going to be more intelligent than humans the outcome is obvious. Humans will no longer be needed and either go extinct or maybe be kept by the AI as we now keep pets or zoo animals.
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by cjfd 1y ago
I kept my old 32-bit laptop alive for quite a bit using archlinux32 but in the end more and more software started breaking, so that is not really a route I can recommend anymore. I was using the laptop mainly if I was traveling or on holida
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by cjfd 1y ago
Sure. It still is burdensome, though. Now there are lots of nightly build from old projects that break at random times and require developer attention.
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by cjfd 1y ago
It is also quite possible for old containers to no longer build.
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by cjfd 1y ago
Very often comments generated by humans are also useless. The reason for this are mandated comment policies, e.g., 'every public method should have a comment'. An utterly disgusting practice. One should only have a comment if one
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by cjfd 1y ago
There are many more things that are interesting to do than there is time to do them. Pick one or a few and drop the rest.
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by cjfd 1y ago
Well, if TODOs are not for doing, how about just not putting 'TODO' in front of them? Maybe we could sometimes attempt to use words to stand for what they actually mean. Could that possibly be helpful for peoples understanding? Al
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by cjfd 1y ago
Just call it caching. The whole concept is a bit too simple to be a word.
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by cjfd 1y ago
I think it is very unfortunate that Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V works for some programs in Linux. This makes the environment inconsistent. These programs should be adapted to the environment they are in and only support selecting using left mouse button
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by cjfd 1y ago
Do you realize that making + do what the ordinary mathematical + does, is quite expensive? It requires arbitrary precision arithmetic and hence, potentially, memory allocations.
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by cjfd 1y ago
For market purism to work people need to have an idea what they are paying for. If this is changing too quickly or there is personalized pricing it becomes a very different kind of game.
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by cjfd 1y ago
This talks about 'bad' seeding quite a lot. But it really depends on what you need what is bad and what is good. Sometimes you need to have a reproducible program so you need to write the random number generator yourself and/
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by cjfd 1y ago
One can present these two systems as equal alternatives but there is a very big difference. The system with the rule of law leads to much more prosperous societies than the tribal one. Corruption is economically extremely expensive. Like, o
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by cjfd 1y ago
Well, if people are really that stupid maybe they should just not be developers.
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by cjfd 1y ago
Never try to smoke an inner joint.
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by cjfd 1y ago
They can understand morality but have chosen not to. They can decide what is morally wrong and right and then have chosen wrong and have decided not to care about it.
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by cjfd 1y ago
I do not know much or anything about your situation, but here is one thing that might work. I would suggest picking a fixed point in time every week. At this point in time you will finish (if they are small enough, otherwise split in multip
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by cjfd 1y ago
We realize that test driven development has a refactoring step, right? Science can happen there if the practitioner is smart enough.
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by cjfd 1y ago
Too much consumption versus production. One component is the ever ballooning government debt. Essentially in 'trade deficit' the thing that is not taken into account is one very big export article of the US. Pieces of paper with &
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by cjfd 1y ago
Just switching country names does not really work. The US is the very curious case of a super power that attempts to become a third world country.
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by cjfd 1y ago
I am not sure. I was not alive during world war 2. I would think, though, that during world war 2 it was relatively easy to think that we just need to wait until the bad guys are defeated. Now the rise of dictatorships and populism makes me
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by cjfd 1y ago
Much better solution: don't write useless docstrings.
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by cjfd 1y ago
If we manage to blow up the earth and all life ends, a state that 'persists over time' will be created. Is this the ultimate success?
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by cjfd 1y ago
Appointing a dictator for a period of a year in case of emergency is compatible with democracy. Appointing a dictator for life is not. Mainly because the dictator for the period of a year is, after that year, still accountable. Orban, Erdog
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by cjfd 1y ago
If your only two options are holdings slaves or nuking a significant proportion of the world population some debugging needs to occur in your thinking.
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by cjfd 1y ago
So, a reasonable middle ground is what is needed. A country should not have so much outsourced that it is extremely vulnerable to supply chain problems. And a country should also not have so much local production that it is inefficient and
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by cjfd 1y ago
It seems the article is much wiser than this comment. It is a distinction without a difference whether 'requirements always change' or whether 'every requirement always changes forever'. If you don't know which requ
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by cjfd 1y ago
"Think instead what a self driving car is to someone who cannot drive." It would be a very dangerous thing if said self-driving car crashes ten times every ride.
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by cjfd 1y ago
This is not a very accurate summary of said article. In fact it is inaccurate enough to call it lying.

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