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by etripe 5y ago
> In a fair society That's a central flaw in right-wing ideology. Society has never been fair, and probably never will be. People don't have the same opportunities in life, if nothing else due to the birth lottery. Adopting lai
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by etripe 5y ago
> It's impossible to have a good-faith discussion with these people. To clarify: obviously bigotry, racism, sexism, etc are all real and occur. I am specifically addressing the baseless, knee-jerk accusations towards dissenting opin
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by etripe 5y ago
> the first thing anybody does when working on a hotfix is to create a new directory and create a new tree there. What do you base this statement on? The only people I've ever seen do this is those who are firmly entrenched in how
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by etripe 5y ago
git add --interactive <file>, then mark the file as staged and select the patch option if memory serves. It's not complex once you get the hang of it. The only problem I run into is not being able to split chunks further. I do
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by etripe 5y ago
> I really wish someone would come up with some kind of "accept remote config" policy or some such thing. But there is a workaround: centralising the .gitconfig in a repo, then symbolically linking it to your home directory, so
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by etripe 5y ago
It also highlights the bias in law enforcement/intelligence that "stopping bad things from happening" is a good enough rationalisation to justify a lot of morally grey behaviour, at best. As a colleague once told me before st
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by etripe 5y ago
> exists to only save a few keystrokes. It does that, but it also makes your code read more like natural language. Perhaps I was careless in my wording, as I meant to point to manual, explicit configuration rather than fluent syntax per
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by etripe 5y ago
When applying events, for instance. In F#, you could do: match msg with | IncreaseCounter cnt -> { model with Count = model.Count + cnt } | DecreaseCounter cnt -> { model with Count = model.Count - cnt } | ResetCoun
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by etripe 5y ago
> IDEs and code generators have replaced a lot of the more stupid boilerplate. Not that there isn't a lot of stupid boilerplate in Java but it's been greatly reduced by tooling. I've been dealing with Java for about four y
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by etripe 5y ago
Having used both, Enterprise Architect might be more formally maintainable, but from a CBA (can't be arsed) perspective, PlantUML blows it out of the water. If you use imports in PlantUML, you can define your "objects" or eve
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by etripe 5y ago
> an explanation for why Scala and Haskell are both loved and hated I would posit it's unlikely that the same people both love and hate them. My guess would be we're seeing the OO-FP divide in action. If F# or Elm were more p
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by etripe 5y ago
In Belgium? This system's been around since the late 90s at least.
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by etripe 5y ago
Interesting. If your evolution is anything to go by, I might be at an earlier point. Earlier I might have said perl or C#, nowadays I'd probably say F# or C# depending on what I'm looking to prototype. I find F# stimulates me to t
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by etripe 5y ago
> I live in Europe where student drivers must be accompanied at all times while driving by a professional instructor with secondary controls at their disposal. I don't know if you're familiar with Asterix comics, but this is on
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by etripe 5y ago
I was talking about compensation in a professional capacity in the West. In that context, women are very much not paid unequally. Sectors compensate differently, but that's true for women and men. If you want to pivot to unpaid labou
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by etripe 5y ago
How do you define "last mile"? I worked at ISPs that housed Netflix storage boxes in their access layer, i.e. the last site before the cable/fibre/copper pairs went to customers' houses or mobile towers. So do you s
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by etripe 5y ago
> It's being put to use by the companies and institutions you invest in to provide products and services. Only if you pretend that all stock trades happen when new stock is issued. That definitely isn't the case. As far as I un
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by etripe 5y ago
As written, your comment is neither insightful nor informative. What should jariel have known about, in your opinion? How does that requisite knowledge move the needle towards blockchain or crypto being net positives to society?
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by etripe 5y ago
> To argue that any store of value isn’t speculative to some degree is naive. Isn't there a difference between currency in general being speculative to some degree and cryptocurrencies specifically, whose main value proposition is
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by etripe 5y ago
I have one for work, albeit running Windows. My gripes are: * Nonsensical keyboard layout that I personally can't get used to. Perhaps this is a unique issue with the Belgian azerty layout. * Trackpad is way too big for my tastes * Tou
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by etripe 5y ago
> Please also note that German software engineers have much less money comparing to almost any other country. It's hilarious to me that most people in European countries will think this about their own country. I should know, as a B
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by etripe 5y ago
The difference between a Yelp review and a government social score is the Yelp score doesn't determine whether you're eligible for loans, jobs, education and so on. > Europe will struggle to compete in the future I'd say i
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by etripe 5y ago
> The issue at hand is that working women make considerably less money overall than working men When people tout the "30% less" statistic, it often refers to lifelong earnings, not hourly wage, in a study that didn't contr
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by etripe 5y ago
Nope, I'm not. Fair enough: 46.6 hours per week at 50 weeks then, not 48 hours at 48 weeks.
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by etripe 5y ago
> smaller companies could end up victims of abuse of the court system in the name of competitive advantage. The same already goes for things like IP and trademark, so that's a fair bet. Good point.
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by etripe 5y ago
> to hold all (or the relevant) executives responsible, seize all their assets, prevent them from working in any administrative position ever again, limiting their income to a certain amount. Like really sanction them. All for it, if it
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by etripe 5y ago
> I think this may create asymmetries between risk/reward for those (real) people making the decisions. Those asymmetries wouldn't be new, because the corporation as a construct already shields the real people making the decisi
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by etripe 5y ago
I'm open to having misinterpreted the situation. How is corporate personhood not the same as a corporation being a legal person? I mean functionally, not semantically. If you would, help me understand why this is not a difference witho
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by etripe 6y ago
> You can't put Exxon in jail. If a corporation is a legal person with inalienable rights (as the SCOTUS seems to have decided on), but is intangible and immortal at the same time, what can you do? Any of the below: * freezing asset
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by etripe 6y ago
A quick search tells me that the median is 35k per year, the mean time off is 10 days and there are 13 national holidays. So that would put it at roughly $15 * 48 hours * 48 weeks. For 35k . I agree, that's devastating.

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