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by kmm 13y ago
Uhm, I was trying to be funny. You're assuming I have the social skills of a potato. I suppose what I've said is pretty clear. I'm no saint and I'm sure I am in some ways a little sexist (although I hope less than average). Yet I don't want
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by kmm 13y ago
It colours the argument and tries to make the other party sounds bad. Obviously this is done with the intent to "win" the argument. And thus "your argument is wrong for these reasons, you immoral moron" is a disingenuous way to reason, whic
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by kmm 13y ago
There's a big difference between acknowledging the sexist baseline that exists in society, something which we should all strive to improve, and saying a certain subset is fundamentally (more) sexist, which is quite discriminatory and un
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by kmm 13y ago
First, I just knew this was going to be about sexism. It's not because your feelings are hurt, that you receive intellectual immunity. If you are making a generalisation about an entire community, consisting of thousands to millions of peop
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by kmm 13y ago
This isn't manipulating the pixels directly. Javascript is still way too slow to do that, and I don't think that will ever change. The real work is done by the graphics card. The Javascript only uploads a frame to the graphics card, makes i
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by kmm 13y ago
To be honest, the real work is done on the graphics card.
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by kmm 13y ago
Impressive! It's really amazing to see how OpenGL can enrich the web if it's used right. A few years ago I'd never have guessed shaders could be used in a browser. I have little experience with Javascript projects, so can I ask why the name
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by kmm 13y ago
Nuclear waste is stored very, very deep and secure. I cannot imagine future humans having the technology to open these up, without knowing what is in there. Either we lose all of our knowledge and no soul will ever see that site, or we stay
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by kmm 13y ago
I see. I think it doesn't cost more to furnish first-class than second class here, they're practically the same, apart from the colour: ugly blue in second class, warm brown in first class. The major difference is that you're not allowed to
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by kmm 13y ago
Uh-uh. This is called market segmentation and it's as old as the street. Haven't trains had a first and a second class for centuries? It's great when I'm not interested in the top tier, I'm really glad the prices for my train tickets are (p
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by kmm 13y ago
I want to start by saying that's controversial. Famines were frequent in that area way before the Soviet Union even existed. Can you attribute these to Stalin's policies alone? Nobody would blame Coolidge for the Dust Bowl. But you're right
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by kmm 13y ago
Where did you get that from? The total number of Stalin's victims is around 1.5 million. EDIT: I misread. It's about double, 3 million. Unreliable figure in any case.
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by kmm 13y ago
I know and I sympathize. It's just that xkcd is so condescending sometimes and I wanted a good way to let that know.
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by kmm 13y ago
There should be an xkcd about reposting xkcd when you can't add something meaningful to the conversation yourself.
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by kmm 13y ago
WebKit might be C/C++, that doesn't mean the browser itself needs to be that way. So is Anki, for example, a Python program that works with the QT toolkit, which is C++. But point taken. I'm not saying we should use C, I'm anxious to a futu
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by kmm 13y ago
My parent's post said C was bad and software shouldn't be written in it. So I retort by talking about desktop software because this is an area where C and C++ rule supreme. I specified big because big software projects carry more merit. A c
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by kmm 13y ago
I'm not betting anything. I'm just saying that it seems to me the advantages of higher level languages do not outweigh the disadvantages. Most of the software I use was written relatively recently, which means other program languages were a
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by kmm 13y ago
What a victim complex. If someone is debating that we should stop using C, and I ask for software not written in C, it's obvious that I'm looking for contemporary software. And the reasoning that every software is "C" because it needs to do
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by kmm 13y ago
> I was under the impression portage was "slow" (relative to other package management tools) due to the fact that it built everything from source (for which it uses make). Where is the Python bottleneck? I was talking about the overhead
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by kmm 13y ago
To be honest, I was looking for some more recent software. Skype is 10 years old and both Mac OS and Photoshop are both decades old. And Pascal is not "better" than C, it is not a high level language.
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by kmm 13y ago
Was there any study done to the (un)reliability of C? I know for a fact practically every piece software I use is programmed in either C or C++. The sole exceptions are Anki and Gentoo's portage system, both Python. And I'm pretty sure the
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by kmm 13y ago
Fascinating. I have the same symptoms as described by the author, but they're due to a major depression. I stay in my comfort zone, and am lacking the brilliance I had earlier, if I may be so unhumble. I can't write code anymore. I'm sad fo
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by kmm 13y ago
I'm debating going to XFCE too. The only thing I'll miss is extending my desktop with Javascript. I see XFCE has extensions too, but they're in C. I like C, but when I see how many lines a simple CPU frequency plugin needs [0], while a comp
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by kmm 13y ago
^W will delete the previous word.
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by kmm 13y ago
The age hardly matters, language works fast. And this is not some relative mispronouncing it, this is millions of people using a pronunciation that makes more sense etymologically.
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by kmm 13y ago
I realize it's a joke (or I hope so) but it's really not up to him to decide. Language is one of the most democratic things we know, without totalitarian oppression, you can't really change the pronunciation of a word.
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by kmm 13y ago
GIF will be around until there is another animated image format with decent support. APNG seems nice, but needs to be supported more. Personally, I like GIF. It's simple and can be included everywhere with a simple img tag. It's possible to
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by kmm 13y ago
Just a factor is often not enough. If a study would show that cell phone usage increased the risk of a certain cancer with 40%, that might still not be interesting if it's an extremely rare cancer and they found 7 cases instead of 5. Or it
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by kmm 13y ago
To someone with very little understanding of these technologies, could you give a quick word on what the problem is with Mono? Are we talking about performance, completeness, support or something else?
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by kmm 13y ago
> Would you call someone who can't drive a car an idiot? I would if this person was out on the highway. I learned to drive on a parking lot, and then on roads with very little traffic. People who can't drive are a danger to themselves.

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