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by kpil 9y ago
I can't imagine a more depressing future than one where the streets are filled with two-stroke terminators running errands for rich people!
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by kpil 9y ago
It's the other way around - mapping copy to ctrl-c was a bit stupid...
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by kpil 9y ago
I don't particularly like vi, but as a intermittent user for 20 years, I don't like it to be changed just because a few junior front end developers (ok a million) think it's hard to use. The default editor in distros could be
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by kpil 9y ago
Every article need an angle or a hook to become a story, and that's OK since they sell ads, just like everyone else these days. It's only when they go hyperbolic, and exclaim themselves as the last stand against the Dark Lord that
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by kpil 9y ago
To be fair, he was interviewed by the police in Stockholm, whereupon the investigation was terminated and he was told he could go home. After a while, a senior prosecutor reopened the case for unexplained reasons, and asked him to fly back
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by kpil 9y ago
Oops, Sorry.
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by kpil 9y ago
I'm connected to one of those municipal networks in Sweden, and after paying about 1000 USD for getting the fiber laid to my house, I now pay $28/month for 100/100 mbit. 10 mbit costs $12, and 500/500 mbit costs $80, whi
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by kpil 9y ago
Edit: I ranted about publicly operated trains in Sweden on a post regarding US . Sorry for that. Since I spent 10 minutes ranting on the subject, I will keep the rest of the rant... The only subway in Sweden that I am aware of is operat
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by kpil 9y ago
Continuations are strangely underused, as they enables writing long-living processes in a simple way, without having to keep them in running in a thread, or even in memory. Then a real programming language can replace all "business pro
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by kpil 9y ago
That building singlehandedly represents everything that's wrong with the profession that used to be architecture. Fact: the building was so ugly that it self-ignited.
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by kpil 9y ago
I'm probably around the same age, and was learning c++ in the early 90s. I can't remember how I got hold of sources to study or the tools. I probably downloaded every source example I could find from BBSes and fidonet. I distinctl
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by kpil 9y ago
It strikes me as a rather naïve analysis. Amazon are ruthless entrepreneurs, making every deal they can. If someone else opened up their internal services, nothing special will happen. Making your distrubutors fill your warehouses without p
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by kpil 9y ago
It could be anything from 10.000 to 500.000 unregistered illegal immigrants in Sweden right now. Possibly even more. The government reports 20.000 people are 'missing' but that does not include those that never registered. The leg
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by kpil 9y ago
Yep. That worked fine for the Iranian uranium centrifuge guys...
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by kpil 9y ago
I'm not saying it's ideal, just that it won't go away. Excel gives a lot of 'compute power' to non-developers. Nothing else is as good and flexible for so called 'end users'.
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by kpil 9y ago
Ok, then I don't understand the claim that the measurement plus a fudgefactor matches perfectly. Well, I don't know shit about the topic, I'll go back to my code editor now...
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by kpil 9y ago
Probably a stupid question: if the average mass density is agreeing perfectly with everything and all that, what is all this 'dark' matter and energy necessary for?
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by kpil 9y ago
I think you vastly underestimate the number of businesses critical processes in huge international companies that uses Microsoft Excel.
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by kpil 9y ago
Indeed. All developers enjoy converting boring and repeatable task into interesting and complex problems. It's the essence of programming in a way...
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by kpil 9y ago
True. It should not be so hard. The obstacles to a smooth deploy is most often more related to bureaucracy rather than technical implementation. I'd say it's possible to automate almost any application update process, if you spe
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by kpil 9y ago
I think this "hard coding-phobia" is a left-over since the 60s, when it took a night to recompile the code. It has since been echoed in the universities for no clear reasons. Today, it's probably not that hard to recompile an
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by kpil 9y ago
I agree, even experienced developers can get stuck barking up the wrong tree. There are at least one or two exchanges like this every week in my team: Dev A: - I'm working on X, and will just need to fix the code for Y to handle
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by kpil 9y ago
Cats kill exactly zero eagles per year.
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by kpil 9y ago
What has changed its the modules and libraries, which has exploded in availability. The actual programming method haven't changed much since the dawn of Unix, or perhaps Lisp - although it took a while to spread.
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by kpil 9y ago
But is it really, for instance the process of finding 'recommended' amounts of nutrients seems to be more or less as good as picking numbers out of a hat.
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by kpil 9y ago
I guess it's hard to test, so they discovered that they can just continue to make shit up...
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by kpil 9y ago
Yes, and as a milk ad. Milk seems to be associated with various health issues too, and that it's important for children's growth is a dubious claim. But it's clear that drinking large quantities of liquids with a high sugar c
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by kpil 9y ago
Air guns at each floor. It will be great
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by kpil 9y ago
I don't think there is a viable solution for buffering solar or wind (or nuclear) with renewable sources, unless you happen to have access to a lot of hydro power. Dynamic remote cut-off of heaters, chargers, and other non-critical con
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by kpil 9y ago
So the best anagrams in English are actually Greek (?) "Soapstone teaspoons" is 80% old English with a splash of Chinese. Interestingly, most germanic words seems to be rather short. But I guess the reason for using long Greek, La

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