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by goto11 5y ago
> But there's a catch: the effort is all one way. A conversation is a two-way street. Why do people initiate smalltalk about sports or TV? Because this is a common ground where the most people can contribute. So you start there and
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by goto11 5y ago
> More importantly, it's _not a good idea_, because that semantic separation between data on one side, and the machinery of acceleration and validation on the other side, is critical to the value prop of the relational model and a b
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by goto11 5y ago
He is a fraud because the alleged scientific evidence does not exist.
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by goto11 5y ago
You should look into the concept of "burden of proof". If someone claims a model is based on scientific evidence, then obviously it is the claimant who has to provide this alleged scientific evidence. You can't prove a negati
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by goto11 5y ago
Good for you, but beside the point. The point is that the author claims the model is scientific, but it isn't.
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by goto11 5y ago
Pseudo-sciences tend to make vague and non-falsifiable claims which cannot really be disproven empirically. Can you arbitrary divide people in four groups named after colors? Of course. It is it in any way useful except as a method of selli
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by goto11 5y ago
This approach is great if you are practicing writing algorithms on your own time. If I was writing software professionally, I would think "this sounds like 'group by' in SQL, wonder what the equivalent is in Python", an
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by goto11 5y ago
The names are listed with the biggest star first. Billing order is part of the contract. But the posters typically have the biggest star in the middle, most visually prominent, and then the smaller stars on both sides or sourrounding.
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by goto11 5y ago
This is basically how Linq (in .net) does it. It is much more composable than SQL but still implement the relational algebra.
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by goto11 5y ago
Yeah IE6 held back the web for a long time, no question.
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by goto11 5y ago
Yeah IE6 being abandonware held back the web for a decade, no doubt about that. But it was not CSS that had trouble catching up, it was a deliberate strategy by Microsoft because they considered the web a threat to its desktop dominance.
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by goto11 5y ago
Odin giving gifts to nice children? Sounds dubious. Is there any evidence for people having believed that?
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by goto11 5y ago
> It's taken all this time for CSS to catch up with table-based layouts CSS supported table-based layouts since CSS 2.0 which is more than 20 years old at this point. See: https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS
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by goto11 5y ago
Good thing we don't have empirical research in software development. This means we avoid a replication crisis.
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by goto11 5y ago
This is not true in CSS. In CSS pt is an absolute unit and does not depend on the size of the current font the way em does. See: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values-3/#absolute-lengths Much terminology have a different
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by goto11 5y ago
> only relative values or `px` should be used. Both px and pt (and cm, mm, in etc.) are absolute (in the sense that they don't depend on the current font size, only on the pixel density and scale factor of the display). So there is
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by goto11 5y ago
We can't all be Rockefeller or Carnagies! I get your point - most NFT does not have great prestige and is probably more a question of speculation. My example was more to explain why formal ownership of a piece of art could be valuable
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by goto11 5y ago
If you think the content is shitty, why would extend effort to circumvent the revenue model to access it anyway?
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by goto11 5y ago
Think of it like a patron buying a piece of art but donating it to the public (museum, church, public square, whatever). You still get the prestige, but you avoid the hassle with keeping the art stored yourself.
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by goto11 5y ago
Perhaps you should focus on what you would enjoy being challenged by, rather than what is easiest. The easy stuff get automated or abstracted away, so software development will always be challenging and require learning new things. I change
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by goto11 5y ago
Compared to Go?
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by goto11 5y ago
Churchill's legacy is more complex that just "he had racist viewpoints, but everybody had that back then." He was an imperialist who believed in Britains right to conquer and rule inferior people around the world. He was bitt
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by goto11 5y ago
The quote sounds like either a strawman or a misunderstanding. I don't think many people would claim intelligence "isn't real", but obviously IQ tests are created by humans which certain culturally-influenced ideas about
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by goto11 5y ago
The invention of the microphone is responsible for that. Before the microphone, singers had to be loud to be heard over the instruments and audience. With the invention of the microphone, it was possible to sing in a much quieter voice and
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by goto11 5y ago
Typescript is amazing for frontend development, but I don't understand why anyone would use it on the server side? The point of TypeScript is it extends JavaScript in a backwards-compatible way and still compile down to JavaScript whic
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by goto11 5y ago
Plenty of movies does not lose anything significant on the small screen. Why does it offend you that a few directors make movies designed for the big screen experience?
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by goto11 5y ago
Stars used to be the what sold a movie to the public. A recognizable face and a "brand" which promise a certain genre and level of quality. Today IP brands like "Marvel", "Star Wars" etc have taken that role. S
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by goto11 5y ago
What does "music as metaphor" mean? Rock'n'roll may have been mostly dance music, but Jazz, Folk, Blues, Chanson etc. already existed before Beatles. And songs like Yesterday or Let it Be are not really rock'n'
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by goto11 5y ago
"Programmers" referring to engineers working with machine code and hardware architecture. People writing in high level languages where not considered "real programmers" back in the day, just like people writing in Python
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by goto11 5y ago
COBOL never claimed to be "no code", but what it did claim was that it would significantly lower the level of training required to program. Which it absolutely did. Before compilers, you had to program in machine code which was ex

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