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by flukus 6y ago
> He explicitly supported a political campaign that aimed to immediately reduce the age of consent to 12 No he absolutely didn't, certainly not explicitly. He linked to the news item and added a sentence of commentary, he did it for
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by flukus 6y ago
It wouldn't be the first time in game or in real life where a homosexual ruler has performed their royal duties and conceived an heir, then there are options to legitimize bastards.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Especially since the oil firms out here will reject an invoice if it is off by as little as a penny. Half of them will reject you for being wrong, the other half will reject you for being right because it doesn't line up with thei
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by flukus 6y ago
> Doing most of the work on the client instead of the server can often make scaling much easier. Spitting out html from the server is incredibly easy to scale.
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by flukus 6y ago
How do you reconcile calling something "nonsensical and unworkable" when it's a reality (implicitly or explicitly) in most of the developed world?
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by flukus 6y ago
It's fairly trivial to write your own for any language, I have a c version where you simply start the file with "#!/usr/bin/env crun" the guts of the script is: gcc -x c -ggdb -Wall -Wextra -Wno-main -Wno-
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by flukus 6y ago
> but since you are asking: because I am opose paying for health care for other persons That's what insurance is.
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by flukus 6y ago
Won't the fastest route generally have the lowest carbon footprint anyway? Traveling at high speed on a highway will use less gas/distance than traveling through stop start traffic.
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by flukus 6y ago
> Essentializing Google as a singular Google themselves do this with their shared branding under the google umbrella. Companies that want the upside of this branding need to accept the downsides too.
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by flukus 6y ago
This is certainly true when I want to sit down and repair something. There are other times when I just want to see what's involved and how complicated something will be first, maybe have dinner at the same time. This sort of higher lev
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by flukus 6y ago
Configure and autoreconf may not be the fastest, but they aren't run frequently enough to really bother me. I'd have to disagree with the generated makefile being slow though, I still find it by far the fastest build system. I&#x2
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by flukus 6y ago
It's not the state that's the problem, it's the state being bundled with the code that operates on the state.
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by flukus 6y ago
> What you may be missing is how hard it is to actually create a good take home The biggest issue I see are people underestimating the setup time for "simple" projects. You're a big software company that doesn't start
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by flukus 6y ago
> the problem is that you can't apply that business model in this case Random thought: I wonder if the problem is personal version of "selling support" is home PC repair companies, ubuntu is trying to be MS but they should
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by flukus 6y ago
> All spontaneous chats happen over email, slack, or a wiki to make sure they are documented. That's just anti-human. I'm all for working from home but people in the office are going to chat just as the people working from home
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by flukus 6y ago
> but they forgetting that this way companies exploit them You forgetting one of the ways people are exploited is the commute time and associated costs that are not compensated for now, a few square feet of office space in the home is no
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by flukus 6y ago
> Edit: Oh! I almost forgot, there are people who built their house next to a NASCAR track! WHO thinks that is a good idea? Depends on how often it's used I guess. At times I've lived a couple of blocks from a formula 1 track a
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by flukus 6y ago
> It took Victoria 3+ months to go from 700 case to 0 The first 6 weeks or so weren't strict enough and cases were still growing at the half way point, we squandered the first 6 weeks with ineffective half measures. > How long do
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by flukus 6y ago
Even in code like this just being aware of cache levels and there relative timings can sometimes produce some impressive speedups with simple things like sorting the initial data to make it cache friendly. A recent one I improved was along
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by flukus 6y ago
> Yes the heat and humidity can be unrelenting when you're going from your cozy AC'd house to the mailbox across a stark white heat mirror of a driveway flanking a treeless yard, but that's a product of suburban design est
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by flukus 6y ago
How many iterations that could create this result do they run? 1 in 1000 sounds unlikely, but for all I know they have run this experiment 50,000 times.
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by flukus 6y ago
My anecdotal and unscientific evidence that the world will go back to offices is that I'm interviewing lately and interviews have started returning to in office. This is in an area that legal office capacity will only return to 100% ne
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by flukus 6y ago
Not being the most popular at any given time does not mean it's impossible. IRC (and XMPP for that matter) has been around for a long time and it's still possible to run your own server or connect to someone elses, usually with a
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by flukus 6y ago
> All of the cultural items can be had by renting here, too I have a few older retired friends that thought this, then the area started gentrifying, prices went up and they've had to move out of the area they've lived in all th
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by flukus 6y ago
> The main difference I encounter between WSL1 and WSL2 is that accessing files across the OS divide happens through a networked filesystem instead of a natively shared filesystem This has been my biggest gripe with WSL and linux virtual
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by flukus 6y ago
In C you have to think about lifetimes (and to a lesser extent types) at specific times, typically after the "make it work" step of writing code. Rust on the other hand forces you to think of these things from the start and this i
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by flukus 6y ago
It doesn't help that "Technical Writer" is now an incredibly rare job title, it was one of the first in a long line of specializations that were pushed on to general developers. As you mentioned, they were never allocated the
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by flukus 6y ago
At least for software, the vast majority are in some sort of niche you've either never heard of or thought about. Software for managing operating theater procedures, software for managing doctors/dentists, software for managing mo
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by flukus 6y ago
> He kept going on about the marvels of QT - which at that point was already a decade old and hardly a novelty From what I remember this was because they'd spent so much time and effort building up the maemo (or meeGo or whatever) a
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by flukus 6y ago
> The entire Revelation Space series Fantastic series and probably my favorite writer, but because it mostly sticks within known physics nearly all of it takes palce within about 20 light years of earth with the exception of Galactic Nor

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