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721.
by jes5199 7y ago
I'm not sure that _any_ centralized power generation will survive the next 50 years
722.
by jes5199 7y ago
Woah cool. Back when I was using Haskell (uh, ten years ago, now), people kept telling me that they were _pretty sure_ there was a flag that detected incomplete pattern matches at compile time, but no one could ever tell me what it was. -Wi
723.
by jes5199 7y ago
the first ten characters are, as far as I know, arbitrary, but the following ten are the first ten plus one dot. Then the rest of the alphabet is the first ten plus two dots
724.
by jes5199 7y ago
I sure hope my workers don’t develop skills
725.
by jes5199 7y ago
I'm not going to do that because I don't think Go is a good language and I have no interest in its ecosystem. I'm just here to give people a hard time.
726.
by jes5199 7y ago
well what if we managed to keep a stable population of a few billion? we've already demonstrated that it's a sufficient number for all the processes you named
727.
by jes5199 7y ago
if it cares so much about the tooling and social aspects, why doesn't it have a proper package manager?
728.
by jes5199 7y ago
Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde tweeted a reply to someone who asked this question: “hi - here's our current definition: 1/ Ads that refer to an election or a candidate, or 2/ Ads that advocate for or against legislative issues of na
729.
by jes5199 7y ago
not all companies have the same culture, maybe you should ask yourself why you’re willing to work with people who you aren’t willing to expose your daughter to
730.
by jes5199 7y ago
This is interesting to me because it’s such a cultural blindspot: the left-wing point of view is that energy efficiency is the only way forward, and the right-wing point of view is that more traditional fuels is the only way forward. But so
731.
by jes5199 7y ago
even if there were tens or even hundreds of UNIVAC installations, who’s going to run the telegraph lines for all the teletype terminals this would require??
732.
by jes5199 7y ago
a few years ago I crossed paths with James Fadiman, a researcher who collects volunteer-reported LSD data. He can’t tell people how to obtain LSD for the experiments, but he says that _everyone_ he’s ever worked with had been able to find i
733.
by jes5199 7y ago
“2001, a space odyssey”. post above is making a reference to the opening scene
734.
by jes5199 7y ago
yes, but fentanyl is usually unwanted and is much more dangerous than the others (due to wildly varying potencies). Some shelters have been handing out fentanyl test strips - fentanyl contamination has dramatically increased the number of f
735.
by jes5199 7y ago
if you play it right, you can project Smart Kid Who Doesn’t Apply Themselves and get awarded Bs for F-quality work
736.
by jes5199 7y ago
I used to be a core Puppet developer. We tried, we really did, but we were unable to rehabilitate that codebase. I would not recommend anyone use it.
737.
by jes5199 7y ago
what else are you going to do? inline “SELECT” queries all over your code? Lots of PHP codebases look like that, I guess
738.
by jes5199 7y ago
Even if this is true, there’s a moral dimension to what you invest in - do you really feel okay about making money off of fossil fuels?
739.
by jes5199 7y ago
it’s complicated, but in many ecosystems no-trees and lots-of-trees are both relatively stable states, and human activity can cause a toggle that might _never_ happen naturally
740.
by jes5199 7y ago
Are we doomed? It seems like we might be doomed
741.
by jes5199 7y ago
my screen-name here contains my address from those days
742.
by jes5199 7y ago
getting distracted by my bank balance while I’m trying to go to sleep makes me feel dumber, not smarter
743.
by jes5199 7y ago
there are toilets in the BART stations, but they’ve been closed for “security reasons” for the last 18 years
744.
by jes5199 7y ago
i like that idea, but it seems we rarely live up to the ideal
745.
by jes5199 7y ago
what on earth
746.
by jes5199 7y ago
I was a Ruby programmer for a long time, but I think the world has moved on. Nowadays, I want a language with some type checking, and Ruby is extremely hostile to any kind of static analysis. Rails was pretty exciting as a replacement for h
747.
by jes5199 7y ago
this problem goes back to the very beginning of open source browsers. The first source release of Mozilla couldn’t be compiled at all!
748.
by jes5199 7y ago
Browser MIDI is kinda half-baked- you can use it to do most MIDI things, but it’s not visible to the rest of your MIDI network. So, for example, you can make a web page that functions as a MIDI synth, but your recording studio app won’t be
749.
by jes5199 7y ago
yeah, but buying a new car is just not ever a good idea
750.
by jes5199 7y ago
“The native script used to represent Ithkuil is both alien and complex.” interesting choice

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