laputan_machine

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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> ...which we use as a precursor chemical to make cheap synthetic carbon neutral natural gas in our Terraformer . https://www.dictionary.com/browse/terraform > to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in o
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Totally agree. I've watched that channel for a long time, and while he's always come across as arrogant, this video pushed me to unsubscribe.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
You couldn't be more wrong. Getting people excited about possible technological advnacements is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing, we used to do this, in the 50s up until the 90s the prospect of the future was exciting. Wh
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> However, as we show in a new research paper in Science, these animals do something amazing that has long been overlooked: they dig wells — or “ass holes”. Unnecessarily childish
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Never has your username been so accurate as to who you are.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I agree with the other comments, you sound mentally unwell.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I often think this about Ring / permanent surveillance that exists now. Nobody can even be free in front of their own house without the threat of something ludicrous happening to you and then it being on public record until the end of
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
DS9's first episode has a space alien organism living inside a permanent wormhole and it speaks to you through mind visions, exists at all points in time and can read your mind, put you in your own memories, etc. That happens in the f
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't know such a thing existed
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Listen, you enjoy anime, that's fine, I grew up on Guyver, Dragonball, Trigun, Ghost in the Shell, there's plenty of great anime out there. You seem very defensive. If you have images of anime girls (especially young looking) as y
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
The kind of people I see with a fascination of anime girls are exactly the kind of people I expect to have one. It is creepy, and everyone thinks you are creepy.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
There is an overwhelming amount of superfluous text in this article. The author's solution: > Rather than allowing a user to set their own password, passwords can be issued in exactly the same way as API keys are now: a high-entropy
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Labour are even more in favour of this than the tories are. Lib Dems, too. No mainstream party in the UK values your privacy.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Thanks! I know it may seem obvious to people clued up on this stuff but it's basically a dark art to me. I appreciate the comment
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
You're assuming I'm not a hobbyist programmer (I am). Or that I don't take into account future requirements (I do). That I only care about a passable level of software (I am a big proponent of software craftsmanship... see:
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Been doing this for 13 years, professionally and I see the same thing in the UK. I want to work for a company that doesn't think engineers are "lesser". We have PhD's in computer science, I have worked with people who ha
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> In the UK, the preoccupations of the “elite” – by which I mean the people, left and right, in politics, government and media whose views shape those of the country – are with things like Net Zero (above all), inequality, obesity, deliv
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
A programming language is a tool to get to the desired outcome. The 'best' programming language is one that allows me to get to my desired outcome the quickest, with the fewest bugs and highest maintainability. For me (and, I woul
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> We this that if JPM rises higher than XLF then it will soon revert and trade lower shortly. Likewise, if JPM falls lower than XLF then we think it will soon trade higher. Why?
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
What else is there except reward or punishment? You're rewarded for doing something with something extrinsic (nice food, money, new toy) or intrinsic (doing the thing makes it rewarding), or punished with something extrinsic (jail, fin
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
starting ? auto-generated blogspam has been around for at least a decade, it's just worse now.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Completely disagree. I want something that works, and works well. UX is not about being pretty, it's about being functional. That isn't what (most) UX designers do these days, it's all about fancy animations
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
> I also find it bizarre that so many people feel precious about the code. Would you find it bizarre that a joiner feels precious about not just the cabinet they made (value), but how they made it? The joints they used, the process t
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Is this how you walk around talking to people? Get off your pedastal, mate. It comes across as rude, take a day off. Nobody needs to be informed about your "PSA". Who hasn't had had someone close to us die?
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
All of the inclusivity movements that have happened in my workplace have involved hiring people unfit to do their job. I don't care what your background is, I care what you bring to the table. The issue around unfettered inclusivity is
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Terrible advice. Abitrary rules (make 10 folders!) is just utterly bonkers for everyone except a small subset of people who could categorise their life in this way. It really grates on me when people offer solutions that work for them, as i
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
I agree, these mental maps you have to create is adding extra mental overhead , which apparently the author aims to reduce... odd.
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Then there would be no evidence, which would mean the court case would be thrown out / one-sided. Instead they settled for a large amount of money. Does that not make you raise your eyebrows?
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
Oh wow, thanks for this. I bought TA (& TA:Kingdoms) a while back but it wouldn't run on my machine
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by laputan_machine 3y ago
They're all the politician class. Labour don't represent the lower classes any better than the tories imo.

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