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by foofie 3y ago
> Stop complaining about usage, from crypto to AI, they all have relevant uses to push the world forward. Can you elaborate on what you have in mind when you clam that crypto is "pushing the world forward"?
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by foofie 3y ago
Great callout. To me the biggest revolution came from USB mass storage devices. You either juggled 1.44MB floppy disks around, had to use CD-ROMs, or you had to open up your desktop and plug in a HDD. With USB, all you had to do was stick a
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by foofie 3y ago
> I also recommend USB Made Simple [1] What a treat. I hope that the page is eventually updated to feature major updates up until USB4. Thank you for posting this link.
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by foofie 3y ago
> We have submarines, mostly for the military, a bit of scientific exploration, etc... There's a special mention that deserves to be featured: submarines used for logistics in intercontinental trade routes: the infamous narco subs f
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by foofie 3y ago
Science!
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by foofie 3y ago
> Curious as to why you think it’s sad it is not open source . You're commenting on a discussion on how someone leveraged this sort of open source software to improve cooling.
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) but if he really wanted them to do something specific (...) Musk pledged donating orders of magnitude more to OpenAI when he wanted to take over the organization, and reneged on his pledge when the takeover failed and instead wen
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by foofie 3y ago
You would have an argument if Elon Musk didn't attempted to take over OpenAI, and proceeded to abandon it after his attempts were rejected and he complained the organization was going nowhere. https://www.theverge.com/2
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by foofie 3y ago
> Do new building codes account for this? Yes. Survivability to fire is explicitly listed as a requirement, and different classes of buildings have strict requirements on survivability (i.e., how long a structure must remain safe while s
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by foofie 3y ago
> For normal construction tasks, I don't care one bit about this one bit. And you shouldn't either. I agree, and I'd go as far as to say that the author is a bit confused and showing some confirmation bias. Let me explain.
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by foofie 3y ago
I think you're getting lost in semantic games. Cloud providers sell you access to their computational resources. When you pay for a server, you're paying for the right to access that server and do what you wish to do with it. Much
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by foofie 3y ago
> To use, not to collect. And thermodynamics says you can't just store it. I don't think these semantic games are productive. Thermodynamics says you can transform energy. "Collect" in this context means using energy
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by foofie 3y ago
> (...) Amazon declined with the argument that it was short notice and that the hearing seemed to focus solely on Amazon despite the company consisting of less than 1% of the sector. What a bullshit excuse. Amazon representatives represe
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by foofie 3y ago
> Unless the alien civilization has some way to destroy energy (...) If the point of a Dyson sphere is to collect energy, wouldn't it be enough to just use it or store it?
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by foofie 3y ago
I think there are a few videos on youtube showing clouds just vanishing. I never saw that phenomenon in person but the videos were so unexpected to me that they kept me wondering if they were fake or not. But then again, who would invest so
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by foofie 3y ago
> Anyone can write clean and modular code without them, just as you could before they existed. I don't think so. There are multiple books dedicated to the topic of writing modular code, including books specialized in C++. Projects s
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by foofie 3y ago
You Rust fanboys get very tiring. No one can sneeze in a discussion on <INSERT_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE> without one of your types jumping in with a clueless and gratuituous "So... time to move to Rust then? "
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by foofie 3y ago
> My possibly Luddite opinion is that using the most amazing and surprising new C++ features is not the best way to build code consumed by others. It's ok if you opt to not jump onto the latest and greatest, specially at the interfa
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by foofie 3y ago
> I think it is fair to say there are two different versions of modern C++ you can learn: one for library designers and one for everyone else. I get what you're trying to say, but this assumption that only a subset of developers nee
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by foofie 3y ago
> Considering how we arrived at this point (Houthis threatening and attacking trade and communications) (...) Aren't the Houthis a proxy of Iran who are being used to try to goad the US into a regional conflict?
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by foofie 3y ago
> It's useful for streaming data where you want to pass small chunks of data incrementally. JSON by itself isn't streamable (you need the entire blob to decode it). What's wrong with JSON patch? https://jsonpatc
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by foofie 3y ago
The full quote is "we should make X illegal for countries to (...)". What kind of democratic process do you expect to follow to make something illegal for countries to do anything when they didn't voted for it?
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by foofie 3y ago
> What we should make illegal is for countries that (...) Your comment is self-contradicting. If you expect solutions to work at a democratic level, you cannot advocate for a solution where a random third-party is able to force it's
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by foofie 3y ago
> worthless climate certificates I think that carbon offsetting is a good idea in the spirit of a glass half-full. It's unrealistic to expect the world economy to quit fossil fuels cold turkey, and a system that allows those who can
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by foofie 3y ago
> By whom exactly? You didn't read the article, didn't you?
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by foofie 3y ago
Is it weird that the list doesn't include plain old Linux package repositories? Downloading the dev version of libraries is ancient history.
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by foofie 3y ago
> This is a thing people experience at the beginning (...) This is not an onboarding problem. This is a trait of the programming language, which only gets worse as a project grows. It's high time for the Rust community to start to g
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by foofie 3y ago
Can anyone explain to me what's the selling point of this format?
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by foofie 3y ago
Rust is renowned for imposing a high cognitive load on all but the most trivial tasks. This is perhaps the worst traits a programming language can have.
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by foofie 3y ago
> From the employer's perspective it has to be annoying too, since many pf the applicants arent really interested. I think employers are ultimately the root cause of this problem, or in the very least recruiters paid and working for

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