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by deeviant 5y ago
If your suggestion for making software better is to make mistakes so punishing that users are thusly properly conditioned to not repeat the mistake then... may I never use software you work on. An analogy in my mind is a "hardcore&quot
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by deeviant 5y ago
> If you keep scrolling you will find many individuals whose experience did NOT match this person So I read this comment some time ago then scrolled quite far down the comments. I have to report that there were very few people not expres
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Space-based nuclear energy is all based around RTGs, reactors have no place in space It is true that RTGs are the only type of nuclear power used in space now, but that is more to do with type of craft we send to space rather than prac
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by deeviant 5y ago
Oh your talking about wireless fusion power. Yeah, that's cool stuff. I actually made the same joke about 10 years ago while working for a CPV (concentrated photovoltaic) startup collaborating with Sandia National laboratory. I was tal
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by deeviant 5y ago
Right... Within a decade, solar will have dropped another 300% and "next gen nuclear" will still be 10 years away. At this point, it's a dead heat between next gen nuclear and fusion.
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by deeviant 5y ago
> So it's okay to encroach on the privacy of private individuals as long as it serves a political purpose? Interesting how your turn "public interest" into "political purpose".
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by deeviant 5y ago
Coming soon: insurance companies refusing to cover this because efficacy has not been demonstrated and stories of impassioned family members fighting against evil insurance companies in order to cover "the medicine their love one despe
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by deeviant 5y ago
It's not about the patient reviewing their own data as much as it is about the patient having easy access to their data and can easily share that data with other consumers of it (i.e. some AI based interpretation service)
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by deeviant 5y ago
You seem extremely biased against AI in general, to the point where I very much doubt anybody would benefit from hearing your opinions on it.
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by deeviant 5y ago
> The biggest barrier to adoption, in my opinion, is that people are scared of learning Rust because it has a reputation as being difficult. I would say the biggest barrier is developers not wanting to jump on yet another "this lang
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by deeviant 5y ago
> I'm not impressed with this article "I don't like those facts, I like these facts."
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by deeviant 5y ago
> If it evolved in a lab, it is highly likely that the virus is better at infecting people in lab conditions, for example that would mean inside. Zoonotic diseases jump from animal to human regularly. Countless recommendations from healt
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by deeviant 5y ago
> There is much more evidence in the article for a lab leak than there was for the wet market story which was uncritically parroted in the media for over a year. There was zero evidence of a lab leak in the article, only conjecture. So t
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by deeviant 5y ago
If this is the most shocking article you have ever read in your life, I feel you haven't read many articles in your life. There is absolutely no evidence in it. Just a pile of conjecture. It is absolutely the stuff of conspiracy theori
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by deeviant 5y ago
No, it's not logical at all. Unless, people were buying hype and nothing more, and NFTs are indeed are a ridiculous fad with no intrinsic value.
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by deeviant 5y ago
Ah, what is a "bad" price for an massively underwhelming piece of hardware, in your book, then?
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by deeviant 5y ago
Same here but perhaps to an even more pond-scum drinking level: instant coffee. I found one I like (Mount Hagen), it tastes better to me than most exotic coffees my coworkers rave about, and that's it. Cheap, easy to make, taste like c
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by deeviant 5y ago
Is anybody else thinking about "Rods from God"? Aka orbital hyper-dense kinetic kill weapons? If SpaceEx can launch 10,000 satellite before starship, they can launch thousands of K-Kill rods with Starship. There is little to no re
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by deeviant 5y ago
> "Invest in the team" gets you Juicero. It can get you Juicero, or it could get you Android. That's the whole thing with investing, isn't it? It's rather uncertain.
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by deeviant 5y ago
> but I suspect the real reason people built high quality software in Rust is because cargo is good Do we actually have factual evidence that people do write high quality software in Rust. Something showing the average rust program is
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by deeviant 5y ago
If were talking about libs and APIs then game on, but otherwise, I actually don't care what language a tool is written in. I care how good the tool is. No, I don't think you will find a high correlation between language and tool
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by deeviant 5y ago
So Gerrit, then?
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by deeviant 5y ago
That there is a chance of undefined behavior is a statement without worth or meaning. It's like having an estimation method without an error bound. In my experience, I run into "undefined behavior" in C-land extremely rarel
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by deeviant 5y ago
You forgot to support the assumption that > Unlike most modern languages, which have a context-free grammar, it has a context-sensitive grammar. Implies it C does not have simple syntax. Is there a law a language with "simple syntax
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by deeviant 5y ago
> Terseness, sure, but not simplicity. I feel the same whenever somebody shows up talking about their favorite functional language. Sure it can be less code, but it looks like an explosion at the unicode factory. Really though, I'd
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by deeviant 5y ago
Imagine if we had a metric of "how easy is the code to understand and work with" rather than "can we do it with less lines of code".
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by deeviant 5y ago
> If a civilization doesn't have FTL then expansion beyond their solar system seems unlikely. Yes, it is still possible with sub-light travel, but then you run into the problem of motivation. > When limited to sub-light speed tra
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by deeviant 5y ago
> satellite data has ruled out any habitable planets in a close enough radius to ever be detectable by seti even if they did have intelligent life Satellite data? What Satellite data? What do you define as "close enough radius"
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by deeviant 5y ago
It's a really common theme actually, almost a trope in sci fi.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Nuclear power is uneconomical, dangerous and unneeded. It is not the answer to the climate crisis, a solution that must work not just for rich countries with stable governments, but poor ones with unstable governments as well. The solution

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