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by fifticon 2y ago
note when you make OSB2 and OSB3, you to some degree can make up for this(?)
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by fifticon 2y ago
caveat: In languages where enums silently accept random ints, they break this somewhat, sadly.
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by fifticon 2y ago
One more benefit to favor enums for booleans here. When passing facts/intent solely through a generic true/false, and possible a single more or less well-named identifier, you have increased risk of multiple and differing interpre
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by fifticon 2y ago
They also had an environment which was not at all what their evolution had shaped them for. 0 gallons of water will kill you, 10.000 gallons of water will also kill you.
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by fifticon 2y ago
I misinterpreted this first as hacker/leet-speak, so that those words would be ALLY and CLAN..
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by fifticon 2y ago
it was probably originally Martian Brain
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by fifticon 2y ago
many countries have variants of this, for many years/since olden times. In my country, it is called 'hævd'. Instinctively, it makes incredibly much sense to me, even more so than property law. The way I view it, it is preci
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by fifticon 2y ago
As countless others have replied, those of us that enjoy exercise feel like something is off here :-). I may be wrong, but my impression is that it is like driving a car with flat tires. Yes, that feels wrong, but once you inflate those tir
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by fifticon 2y ago
This sort of exists, but unfortunately only as slow trainwrecks. It is how Bobby Kotick was finally ousted from Activision-Blizzard, and similarly with Amazon's Rings of Power, and Boeing's 737-Max, and also with the crap Disney p
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by fifticon 2y ago
it's weird being 53 years old, click a random article on hackernews, notice the games discussed have something in common - why is that guy trying to recreate Braybrook's games? oh, he _is_ mr braybrook from my childhood.. But I ca
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by fifticon 2y ago
the management where I work, has the known strategic objective of eventually outsourcing all our development jobs to our indian facility. However, they prefer us to not leave our jobs before time, to ensure an orderly transition that wont l
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by fifticon 2y ago
If this in any way would impact revenue, I'm sure it would have become a code yellow in mere instants.
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by fifticon 2y ago
it's like a seat belt. If you never crash your car you are OK with instant death if you do so anyway. I prefer seat belts, even though I also prefer not to crash my car.
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by fifticon 2y ago
We are already so high up this tree you can no longer see the ground. There, one more hyperbolic falsehood for you.
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by fifticon 2y ago
A thought: with humans, we already know we should be wary about trusting them unconditiobally.
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by fifticon 2y ago
unfortunately this cannot be viewed in isolation. For example, a drop in house prices may cause people with a mortgage to become technically or practically insolvent, as happened in japan. So, for better or worse, if you are tied up in a ho
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by fifticon 2y ago
I would argue it is a demonstration of what Altman is capable of bringing about. He can make things like this 'happen' for him. Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander, and now, our current batch.
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by fifticon 2y ago
There were dozens of us!, using M2. I used it on Amiga. It was sort of ironic. I wanted to use C - I guess. But this was pre-internet, pre-university, pre-city. The nearest people to network C with, were cows on the neighbours farm - there
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by fifticon 2y ago
I'd say anger IS a prime engagement mechanism, its purpose is almost to 'engage' ("I must take action to fix this now/it is on ME to engage with this now). The problem is that it can be co-opted and misused to drive
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by fifticon 2y ago
Outlook killed it, gmail arrived at a scene with an already dead body :-(
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by fifticon 2y ago
I disagree with this; I lived through this switch. The problem might be that it was a paradigm shift; I realize what reddit does is not something USENET could be scaled to(?). Using USENET across multiple decades, I was used to following ce
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by fifticon 2y ago
For a few precious first seconds when I parsed the title, I was contemplating a style of clothing called 'Imperative Clothing', and why the latest fashion for those was to add a dash of 'Functional Semantics' to that cl
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by fifticon 2y ago
If you think of the shell as a REPL and an iterative environment, the first variant has many benefits. The first two parts, might be an attempt to see 'can I write a regex to remove the parts we need to get rid of?. I had better run
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by fifticon 2y ago
Though not contemporary, Windows 3.1 and Windows 2.0 beg to differ, as do Motif and Athena Widgets.
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by fifticon 2y ago
isnt there a logical twist in all this.. The problem is that there are so many _different_ books. I have a house not exactly filled, but certainly loaded with books. So people certainly buy books. But of each book, I seldomly have more than
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by fifticon 3y ago
As an old geezer, and not necessarily a great fan of everything microsoft does/burns/kills, I witness with sadness how the standards their roman empire helped build and enforce in the 90's, are deteriorating the last 20 years
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by fifticon 3y ago
I don't quite get why this is downvoted; it may not be the absolute truth, but in my personal anecdotal experience, there is quite some truth to it. I have had a lot of fun playing around with image generation and chat gpt. But have
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by fifticon 3y ago
One frequent unpleasant side-effect of responsive design, is sites that resize themselves when you try to zoom the page. For images, this sometimes turns bizarre: If you try to zoom the current webpage to more clearly see details of an im
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by fifticon 3y ago
isn't this partly to combat people who commit search listing flooding by abusing the upload ability to upload 100.000 variations of the same thing?
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by fifticon 3y ago
people are giving 'cancel culture' a bad name, but in our late stage capitalism, where the markets apparently must dominate both democracy and religion, my take is that voting with your wallet is both your duty and the only option

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