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by lisbbb 1y ago
How much of that is junk knowledge, though? I mean, sure, I love looking up obscure information, particularly about cosmology and astronomy, but in reality, it's not making me better or smarter, it's just kind of "science ju
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by lisbbb 1y ago
It's kind of too soon to tell how this plays out.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
But it is--it's been on fumes since the 1970s. We're in the final stages now.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My budget disagrees--the inflation has been rough. We in the US need to be great, which means forcing our government to change.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Oh man, I had no idea that the decision of whether to rent or buy skis required calculus to solve. I just figured that if you ski more than say, 3 times a season, it's probably better to own your own gear for reasons unrelated to the
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by lisbbb 1y ago
All I can say to that is: Thank God! Governments are increasingly authoritarian and not having control is a good thing.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
This surprises me because I've been to FL in the summer 2-3 times now and it was unbelievably hot and humid everywhere. For Tampa to be all "we never hit this temp before" seems unlikely to me since the whole damn place was
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by lisbbb 1y ago
You don't need an accountant because you already know they took almost all your money!
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The more I study that time period, the more I realize how incredibly effed up every decision that those leaders made. They were desperate, I get it, but damn. And then most of the Nazi scum escaped and did their shadowy best to influence
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by lisbbb 1y ago
It's not "blaming the immigrants"--that is such a gross oversimplification and distraction. No, the immigrants were pawns, and the predictable outcomes caused by having too many immigrants, as well as those who profited off o
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by lisbbb 1y ago
And to what promised land are you headed, might I inquire?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
How many more turns do we get before the dollar is Weimar worthless? Seems like not many...
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I now think that we've been lied to big time: One thing Covid was good for was to provide a cover story for massive inflation that was likely coming no matter what. I'm not saying it was released for that reason (and yes, I do
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I really think the whole human race's ability to exchange information freely is bigger than "porn addiction" bs. We do this over and over and it always ends the same stupid way--millions upon millions of deaths that were avo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
As a student of 1930s and 1940s history, I can say for sure that the most terrifying aspect of what took place wasn't the "Gestapo" and all the open terror, it was the propaganda that fooled so many people and the censorship
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Whatever it is for, let freedom ring. These puritanical laws do nothing but empower government with the end goal of totally controlling online speech.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Plus, I really am working to bring down big government and have been for my entire existence.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Ha! Instead of Canada encouraging more secure solutions, they just ban the flipper zero. Figures.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Legalizing drugs had a pretty bad outcome for Portland, which is why they re-criminalized some drugs. Prostitution leads to trafficking, a word I absolutely despise, particularly when it is used as a past-tense verb: "trafficked."
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I voted you back up because it's important to understand that if the powers that be had their way, encryption would be illegal.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Phones and guns are just throwaway tools to criminals.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Despite spending untold hours learning and using C++ and Java, I never fully believed that OOP was anything great. It always felt so forced to code everything in terms of classes rather than just modules of code that have similar responsib
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Just let me ask you this: How many years have you been in this game? I came in around 1990, but my first professional coding job wasn't until after I finished a BS in CS and Math in 1995. To me, having the perspective I have, OOP lo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Yes! It became extremely tiresome to defend my position as a functional programmer from less experienced people who had big egos. Time and time again I would be accused of "not having enough experience" simply because I disagree
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Over multiple decades, I have come to reject all of it! Even interfaces. I watched over and over again people writing code to interfaces, particularly due to Spring, and then none of those interface ever got a second implementation done an
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Inheritance sucks if you wish to write good unit tests easily. It just totally freaking sucks due to encapsulation. When you step back, you realize that composition is a far better approach to writing testable code.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
No. Functional programming is quite a bit more involved than just writing "functions"--it is taking advantage of the fact that functions are first-class "objects" that can be passed as arguments to other functions, whic
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by lisbbb 1y ago
OOP is not shoved down your throat with Python, though. With Python, I can choose what taxonomies deserve an OOP treatment and which do not. Spoiler: Almost nothing is a taxonomy of any remarkable nature.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The main issue I have with Java is that the JVM was built to be portable and then we got a superior kind of portability using containers, which makes the JVM totally redundant and yet whenever I point that out, I get funny looks from people
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I don't hate C++ as much as I hate Java, though. That probably has more to do wit the time I was working with C++ and the kinds of projects versus the mind-numbing corporate back-end garbage I worked on with Java.

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