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by cletus 5y ago
In some ways this reminds me of the ill-fated flight MH370. It's not that there's compelling evidence that the pilot took deliberate action to divert the plane and assumedly land it in the Indian Ocean in a place where it would be
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by cletus 5y ago
This article feels intellectually dishonest. > According to a recent U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, family farms produce over three-quarters of the world’s food. Here's a bunch of data [1]. You see some obvious
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by cletus 5y ago
This actually deserves to be talked about more. Authorities seem to stand behind the Wuhan "wet market" theory but there's really no evidence of that, specifically if it came from an animal population, how come 2+ years later
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by cletus 5y ago
A lot of these "analyses" ignore one simple fact: you need to live somewhere. The way I describe this is that you constantly have a short position on the local real estate market. If rents go up, you lose. If house prices go up, y
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by cletus 5y ago
Have you tried time boxing? Reading what you said, it may work for you. The principle is simple: instead of trying to tell yourself "I'm going to focus on X until it's done", instead say "I'm going to work on X
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by cletus 5y ago
Here’s the best description I’ve heard of why that’s a bad idea. It basically goes (paraphrased): > Q: What would happen if you could look at someone and know who they are and where they live or work? > A: A lot of women would die. Go
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by cletus 5y ago
The most important thing here is if you're asking this question right as you finish college and this is your goal, then you're screwed up. Why? Because resume-building for high-profile employers begins long before graduation. Prob
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by cletus 5y ago
Like anything you weigh up the upside against the downside. The downside is more complex code, code that's harder to reason about, the possibility of concurrency bugs, slower development times, the possibility of security flaws and you
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by cletus 5y ago
Two thoughts spring to mind. The first is RethinkDB [1], which was a darling for awhile but couldn't seem to find a business model. I really wonder if it came later how much money it could've raised. There were claims made that th
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by cletus 5y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted because you raise a valid point: Go has a concurrency model aimed at avoiding many of these problems. This is of course the channel abstraction. Go has other issues. My first piece of advice to any n
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by cletus 5y ago
The mantra I live by is that multi-threaded programming is so potentially complex and it's so easy to screw up (eg erasing all your supposed performance gains as was the case in this article) or by introducing subtle bugs or (worse) se
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by cletus 5y ago
Yes but it’s only deductible against kidnapping related income.
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by cletus 5y ago
I imagine there's a real drop in kidnappings after July 1 then. That's just sensible tax planning.
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by cletus 5y ago
When I first heard about this plan to "face check" articles on Facebook, I was actually floored because it's just such an obviously bad idea. There is always going to be a point where reasonable people disagree about what is
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by cletus 5y ago
It's a good question to ask. Many here probably aren't old enough to remember the cautionary tale of CDDB/Gracenote [1]. Back when Compact Discs were still a thing. on Winamp, WMP, etc you wanted to display a list of tracks,
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by cletus 5y ago
So I agree with this but not for any of the reasons the author states. I find the UI/UX of Discord to be beyond awful, like really, really bad. Am I alone in this? I can never intuitively find a setting, for example. There are multiple
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by cletus 5y ago
So I worked in London for several years. Over 15 years I still get emails from these people . It was the most soul-destroying experience of my professional life and I could talk about this a lot eg fake interviews, not being put up for rol
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by cletus 5y ago
Are people who say this unaware of annual flu vaccines? To compare, we're still by some measures 103 years into the Spanish flu pandemic [1]. [1]: https://www.history.com/news/1918-flu-pandemic-never-ended
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by cletus 5y ago
I wanted to like 4X space games but I honestly never found one I particularly liked. Too quickly they descended into tedium. That includes MOO/MOO2. YMMV. I did play Master of Magic and really enjoyed it. Adamantium halfling slingers a
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by cletus 5y ago
I yearn for the days of turn-based strategy games. I played HoMM2 and (even moreso) 3 a ton . I loved the tactical combat and that resource management didn't get out of hand. I played a ton of user-made maps. Loved it. The other two g
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by cletus 5y ago
A better lesson to take here is second system syndrome [1]. JWST took so long because it was so ambitious. Hubble has a 2.4m mirror. JWST has a 6.5m mirror. No rocket can launch that fully assembled so you've automatically added a bunc
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by cletus 5y ago
The article doesn't really go into detail about this (it's mentioned in the video) but the key breakthrough they're referring to is increasing the magnetic field strength from HTS (high-temperature superconducting) magnets to
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by cletus 5y ago
I got up this morning to watch the launch. I’m used to seeing the pageantry and showmanship of a SpaceX launch and I was left… underwhelmed. Don’t get me wrong: this is a mold-boggling complex device and launch. It’s an amazing technical fe
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by cletus 5y ago
Consider the question: how would a spacefaring civilization travel between stars? If, like me, you believe that: 1. The speed of light is a hard cosmic light; and 2. The laws of thermodynamics can't be violated. then you're left w
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by cletus 5y ago
This is kind of sad. Going back more than a decade ago, google.com used to be brutally optimized. Anything unnecessary was stripped to reduce load times and decrease network traffic. For example, attribute values were never quoted if they d
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by cletus 5y ago
So this touches on two ugly corners of Java: 1. No object value types; and 2. Boxing and primitives. On (1), all objects in Java are references , being a pointer to a pointer effectively. This indirection has a cost but has been incredibly
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by cletus 5y ago
Dorsey joins a long list of founders who were ousted (effectively or actually) or it simply became too uncomfortable to stay [1] who then go on to criticize their former empire. 9 times out of 10 I find such criticism to be completely self-
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by cletus 5y ago
Prison labour is the unfortunate exception to the Thirteenth Amendment that allowed effective slavery to continue. The whole system is corrupt. It allows prisons to pay prisoners peanuts (~25 cents/hour) and pocket the difference givin
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by cletus 5y ago
The phone system is a perfect example of why literally nobody other than a few tech purists wants federated communications systems. It astounds me how many still cling to what (IMHO) is an unworkable ideal. The only thing that has made emai
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by cletus 5y ago
I would love to go back in time, even just as an observer who couldn't modify the past. To be clear, I don't believe time travel is physically possible despite anyone's mental gymnastics with negative mass and/or energy.

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