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by kick 7y ago
There is, it's just done subtly.
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by kick 7y ago
Sure, they're the ones corrupting the government. The accusation, then, should be malice, not stupidity.
513.
by kick 7y ago
That's a religious justification for noble birth. No. (See: Chinese Mandate of Heaven; the multiple examples of people claiming to be ordained by gods and similar higher powers historically despite no or little connection to nobility
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by kick 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings
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by kick 7y ago
Obviously, but it's hard to call a company's management short-sighted for taking advantage of a corrupt government.
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by kick 7y ago
Why does Cray need you to use their programming language? The people who need it will seek it out, and Cray probably doesn't mind that people unwilling to spend a minute clicking on 'browse sample programs' or similar won&#x2
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by kick 7y ago
There...literally is, though? use CyclicDist; // use the Cyclic distribution library config const n = 100; // use --n=<val> when executing to override this default forall i in {1..n
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by kick 7y ago
do you think there's a threshold of being 'healthy enough' that online communities should reach? They should obviously aim to be as healthy/good as they can be. "Healthy enough" is just a baseline. is this t
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by kick 7y ago
If the government is almost guaranteed to bail them out, it makes sense that they would prioritize other things.
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by kick 7y ago
The actual reasoning has been listed already (you were close!), but I figure I might as well chime in to clear up a misconception: Posts can't be downvoted, only comments.
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by kick 7y ago
Months-long? Let's not kid ourselves: years-long. A modern example of this is lambda-the-ultimate.org, which has so many threads that have been running for years without any clear purpose that it's almost impossible to find a thre
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by kick 7y ago
What criteria do you use to determine 'health' in online communities? This is a question that I think is too broad to be worthwhile, because signs of health in one community aren't necessarily signs of health for another. A
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The Federation Fallacy (2019)(rosenzweig.io)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Why would Apple sponsor something like this? PureDarwin isn't even Linux.
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by kick 7y ago
The homepage notes that it can't run complex graphical software yet. With that in mind, some recent versions of Adobe software like Photoshop have worked fine in Wine for a while now.
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by kick 7y ago
I love Aphyr's writing already!
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by kick 7y ago
Lots of great stories on folklore.org! Highly recommend spending an hour there for anyone bored of the current Valley.
528.
by kick 7y ago
Glad to share what I know!
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by kick 7y ago
"App Store made almost twice as much as Google Play in 2018" https://www.cultofmac.com/601492/app-store-google-play-reven... Market Share 2018 Android 85.1% iOS 14.9%
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by kick 7y ago
This is an amazing post for a bunch of reasons (as soon as I finished reading it a few days ago, I immediately sent it to half a dozen people), but one that should immediately jump out for you is that the picture of the Mac Plus is dither
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by kick 7y ago
It's a pretty common comparison, actually. I think the first "big" article on Go was one comparing Go to ALGOL-68. http://cowlark.com/2009-11-15-go/
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by kick 7y ago
I didn't make python 3 No, but you're complaining about a person using Python 2, the one that didn't arbitrarily break compatibility, while promoting the use of Python 3 because not being compatible is bad. Again focusing
533.
by kick 7y ago
Raku's renaming was recent. It took 19 years to happen. Python 3 still has time to be renamed!
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by kick 7y ago
That modern languages are even worse does not make ALGOL-68 good, in my opinion. It's understandable why people would like it, though, compared to modern languages.
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by kick 7y ago
...use the hammer that didn't arbitrarily break compatibility, then? (Note that the original analogy pointed out that they couldn't be mixed, anyway: "or even take advantage of the nails you've hit!") This is like c
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by kick 7y ago
I saw this reply earlier! It was gone by the time I tried writing a response, but I don't feel like it's too far afield at all: it's a really nice response. (And thanks for doing that! It's always nice to see people volu
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by kick 7y ago
Wouldn't occur in this case, as the script starts with: #!/usr/bin/env python2
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by kick 7y ago
No "horrible problems" arise from Python 2 being used on the same system that Python 3 is on. The only problems are trivial, which was highlighted in the analogy.
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by kick 7y ago
There's also a strong argument to be made that people shouldn't have to care about ecosystems that are so delicate that a proof of concept in a previous version "hurts the overall [ecosystem]." "How dare you use a h
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by kick 7y ago
Pascal has been in an incredibly strange state of being both dead and alive simultaneously for the past thirty years. ...but yeah, it was definitely doing pretty good throughout the 1990s.

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