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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Just like talking to other people in the car No that's not true, talking to other people int he car is not associated with reduced safety. Probably because the other people in the car are also partially watching the road.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> The fact that some just want some directions to where they're going, and to listen to some music along the way, hardly represents the downfall of civilization. Yeah, but on the directions front, it does represent a big loss in sel
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by gerbilly 7y ago
It doesn't immediately mean we're better off with them either. I'd argue that life is worse since smartphones were invented, on many axes. The privacy implications alone far outweigh the benefits.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Why is carplay even a thing? Geez, can't people stop fiddling with their phones? They've become like a kind of soother, a techno nanny that people can't do without. The sooner people put those things down, the better off we&#
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Touchscreens in cars are all about reducing cost for the manufacturer. They are less safe, less convenient to use than physical controls. The manufacturers know this, but they don't care. I believe most customers also currently like
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Two things killed it: * It required twice as much RAM as windows to run well. (4Mb IIRC) * They had a ridiculously tone deaf ad campaign. One ad had copy to the effect of: "OS/2 Obliterates your programs."
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by gerbilly 7y ago
No, not dial up only, it supported Ethernet and token ring cards, even pre-warp versions did.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
They could have done a lot worse. OS/2 was very stable compared to the NT of the same era. I'm not sure why we laugh at old systems that are still doing their job thirty years later. If anything we should celebrate the resilience
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> However as soon as you want to change how something is presented you might be in for a world of pain. So yeah, don't use LaTeX then use TeX, where you can change things easily because it's not as complicated.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Maybe it's because I did way more plain TeX than LaTeX, but just what is it that everyone finds so difficult about LaTeX? Is LaTeX itself that much more difficult than plain TeX? If so then why not just use TeX, the TeXBook is really e
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Totally agree. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Yeah, exactly. I know people in the journalism industry. Many people on this site see to believe they can be replaced by bots. Good luck with that, and if it ever gets implemented, good luck with your communities and political systems ...
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by gerbilly 7y ago
We see this all the time in Tofino. Eagles try to catch things in the inlet, where it's shallow, and often have to swim their way out if they miss.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Not the OP, but have a look at this: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/reson...
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Mom-and-pop shops are probably the only way to go to avoid being targeted now. Yeah, and pay cash before they get rid of it and make us all pay for everything with wechat bucks or whatever.
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Planet of Weeds: Tallying the losses of Earth's animals and plants. 1998(davidquammen.com)
1 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" You know what bothers me? movies like the lord of the rings trilogy that make us yearn for an imaginary a more magical time. We are living in the end days of that magical time right
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I take magnesium bis-glycinate, it's well absorbed and has no serious side effects.
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Squirrel Alarm Calls Are Surprisingly Complex(wired.com)
1 points by gerbilly 7y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I read the article you linked. It's too bad they didn't decide to pass a fat pointer with the array dimensions. But when the article implies that null terminated strings and the problems associated with them are caused by arrays
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Server side Java paid the bills. :-) And in some ways the industry stopped programming in C as much.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't know about companies, but the linux kernels is C, git is written in C.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I know both in fact.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I don't know, I'll go and read up on it more. The feature leaves me 'meh'. I don't find slices as awesome as everyone is always saying, especially without negative indices. I guess part of it it that it isn't
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by gerbilly 7y ago
My one line take on this: You don't use Go for the language design, you use it for the tooling.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> append() doesn't operate on arrays, it operates on slices. [...] This is a pretty standard data structure in most languages. If you say so. I know I should go read the docs more carefully, but this whole slice thing is confusing
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Does anyone remember reading K&R for the first time? To me seemed like C was such a tight, perfect little design. Only thirty keywords, and simple consistent semantics.¹ When I first learned it, it was still pre ANSI, and you declared a
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by gerbilly 7y ago
I used to run CP/M on an Apple ][e with a Zilog Z80 card.¹ I learned pascal on it (Turbo pascal) and C as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Melting polar ice caps (not antarctic, polar) does not affect sea levels because it's floating ice.
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> Because the vast majority of the earths history has been without ice on the poles. Yeah but the majority of human history has been with ice on the poles. We might have to reorganize a lot of things (agricultural practices, national bor

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