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by jgon 4y ago
This analogy doesn't work because programming in "industry" has been like the MMA since day 1 in the sense that you have always had to "test your skills" and make something that people wanted and compete with other
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by jgon 4y ago
I kind of hear you, but honestly I have to question even that? If it is less separate than I can imagine how does that work in the face of catastrophic global warming? It was one thing when elites could pull the strings in one nation, knowi
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by jgon 4y ago
Everytime I read one of these articles I get the feeling that I'm reading a report from the village elders that people have never been fuller or more prosperous now that we've consumed all our seed corn. We just need to keep eatin
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by jgon 4y ago
This has a lot of good context, but one thing it misses is the cultural impact of being a country next to the US. The deadliest shooting in Canadian history occurred in Nova Scotia in 2020. The guns he used were not legal for him to possess
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by jgon 4y ago
I wonder if we’ll see more of a movement towards virtual threads Java Loom style where cheap threads in the language and cheap cores on the cpu will combine to create a programming style where you’ll just dispatch little worklets all over t
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by jgon 4y ago
Just so I can get you on the record, you think it would be awesome if we got sodomy laws back, effectively making it illegal to be gay in America?
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by jgon 4y ago
Alito during his confirmation hearing: "Roe v. Wade is an important precedent of the Supreme Court. It was decided in 1973, so it has been on the books for a long time," he said. "It is a precedent that has now been on the bo
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by jgon 4y ago
Justice Alito's draft opinion specifically criticizes decisions which legalized sodomy aka its no longer a crime to be gay, and same-sex marriage, basically stating that they have the same (invalid in his opinion) reasoning behind them
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by jgon 5y ago
It really feels like Microsoft is trying to basically create the "Netflix" of gaming here, and I think that just like Netflix they're going to see a lot of success as basically being the first to market to do so, and other co
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by jgon 5y ago
I think something like DOTA would be up there, if only because of the immense state space that you have the game and the ability to use your superior understanding of those options to come out ahead of your opponents. Raw mechanics are impo
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by jgon 5y ago
You'd have to think that if Microsoft hadn't been hit with the anti-trust baton, that they would have never tolerated a program like Firefox becoming as popular as it did, let alone Chrome, and that they would have been much more
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by jgon 5y ago
Yes exactly, but isn't that the direct opposite of what the commenter I am replying to was saying? That somehow Alberta is whining about being under-represented and that our landmass should entitle us to seats? I responding to that tir
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by jgon 5y ago
Alberta is heavily under-represented in our federal government, so I don't know what you think it sounds like, but you're dead wrong. Alberta has 34 seats in parliament with 4.067 million people for an average of 119k people per f
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by jgon 5y ago
Yikes! I'd decided to take a pass on anything he's written unless it received unanimous critical acclaim after slogging through Seveneves and not even finishing Reamde, so it's kind of sad to hear that things aren't gett
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by jgon 5y ago
I think another thing is that MOBA's have downtime. You need to walk to places, you need to back, buy items, etc, etc. It's been a while since I played Starcraft, but my memories of it were basically that if you weren't doin
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by jgon 5y ago
Wasn't Computer Modern created with input from Herman Zapf, and Matthew Carter among other titans of typography? I don't think Knuth just whipped it up in isolation without any feedback, so this whole "it looks like a font de
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by jgon 5y ago
“I didn’t think the leopards would eat my face!” says person who supports leopards eating people’s faces as an effective weapon for the less powerful against the more powerful.
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by jgon 5y ago
Isn't that basically solitary confinement, something we consider to be cruel and unusual punishment? I would actually challenge anyone to make it past 30 or even 50 days under those circumstances without losing it. I bet it is much, m
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by jgon 5y ago
The new software update lets you hit a button to take you to a "notebook overview" type page, where you can see all the pages in the notebook laid out in a quasi-grid. You can then tap whichever page you want to navigate to. Of co
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by jgon 5y ago
I regret that I have but one upvote to give to this comment. Thank you for absolutely crystalizing so many of the thoughts and feelings that have been floating around in my head over the past 15 months.
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by jgon 5y ago
We're talking about completely different things here, and it's a bit concerning that you're so confident about your understanding of the Canadian economy and various provincial economies while not knowing what Equalization pa
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by jgon 5y ago
Yeah because housing hasn't crashed (yet). Also Alberta is feeling economic pain only in comparison to the crazy boom years prior. It is still literally the highest GDP/capita of any province, its unemployment rate ranks it 5th am
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by jgon 5y ago
Norway is an entire country that has just slightly more people than the province of Alberta, which is to say that is it much smaller than Canada, while having oil reserves equal to or greater than those in Alberta. Alberta should obviously
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by jgon 5y ago
This claim is nominally true, but leaves out a metric boat-load of context, in the classic "the truth, the whole truth , and nothing but the truth" sense. BC only has resource extraction take up 10% of it economy, but it is more
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by jgon 5y ago
The economy of Alberta depends less on revenues from oil and gas than the economy of neighboring British Colombia depends on real estate (aka flipping houses), and is roughly as diversified as Ontario (in terms of % of economy coming from v
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by jgon 5y ago
The books have been a staple in our household as well, and I echo other people is saying that this a loss of a true talent. One thing I thought I'd add to the conversation is that a series of very well done short films were made based
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by jgon 5y ago
Incredible timing on their part! They just need to build it as part of SF proper and not Corps of Engineers land and get it done for 2024 and they’ll be right on the mark: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Sanctuary_
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by jgon 5y ago
I think a large part of it is that the good things are so hard to describe and the bad things are pretty universally understood. Trying to describe the way time comes to a complete stop when your infant child gazes into your eyes and you lo
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by jgon 5y ago
At a previous job we were repeatedly running into memory pressure issues and had talked about converting to a 64-bit application on and off for years. It was something I had pushed for as we were doing increasingly baroque work-arounds and
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by jgon 5y ago
I feel this deeply, especially the final paragraph. Feels really depressing sometimes to think how much of what we define as "value" can seem essentially predatory.

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