memefrog

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by memefrog 3y ago
You're confusing etymology and meaning. The fact that 'sprint', in completely different usage, has that meaning, does not mean any of that connotation carries over to this context. There is a clear rational purpose to breaki
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by memefrog 3y ago
Far left is pretty obvious in its meaning: outside of the Overton window, to the left. People on the far left seem to refuse to understand that their views are rejected by 95% of the population. Nazis were not "just an example".
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by memefrog 3y ago
> That's because you didn't install Linux to save time. You entered the world of Linux (or WordPress, Node, Python etc.) because you got the sense that something is happening over there. People who are as annoying as they are c
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by memefrog 3y ago
Because if you refuse to censor any WrongThinkers you'll get defederated, and as a result all WrongThinkers have to sit in the same couple of isolated instances. The one nice thing about Twitter was that people with very different view
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by memefrog 3y ago
It is not an extraordinary claim. It is consistent with what people see before them and with human nature. It is completely different from the claim some substance causes cancer. It is more like the claim that smoking causes cancer: it v
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by memefrog 3y ago
If the Germans elected the Nazis maybe we should take pause and think why rather than try to ban it. Maybe the lesson should be "dont ignore the concerns of the people" rather than "banning parties is good".
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by memefrog 3y ago
The main parties in Germany refuse to engage with AFD's concerns about the massive influx of fake refugees.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Some democratic processes are good, but not all of them. For example, is it antidemocratic to advocate for a Parliamentary system over a Presidential system? I am glad we have a Parliamentary system in NZ. If we didn't, should the N
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by memefrog 3y ago
It might be idiomatic to you, but it looks bizarre to me. I am a native English speaker.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Because you people that bring up the latest overhyped and useless buzzword nonsense on every single post are super tiring. We do not need a comment about "someone should apply AI/ML to this" on every post any more than we nee
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by memefrog 3y ago
Go didn't invent package management. You have been able to do this for 20 years in general . go.mod and go.sum help you with go dependencies on go packages. What about Python dependencies on C? Or C dependencies on Go? You can do
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by memefrog 3y ago
When you want to write some simple test code to solve a problem, then it is absolutely obscuring the logic to write out all the details of memory management. Some people in this thread have made the claim that Rust is okay for quick hacky c
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by memefrog 3y ago
That's an insane thing to say. I am concerned about electronic waste. I am not concerned about it to the extent that I would never buy or use a new computer. I am concerned enough about it that I don't want to waste a perfectly
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by memefrog 3y ago
It's not what errno does in C. errno in C is a thread-local variable which means accessing it is inefficient (it uses thread-local storage, which is much more expensive than a local variable) and you have to do awful things like save
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by memefrog 3y ago
'Automated error handling' is a misfeature in a language where correctness matters. Perl and Python can use exceptions and there it makes sense. It makes no sense for a language without garbage collection and frankly the only sy
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by memefrog 3y ago
That's a problem with those libraries and not with C. People can make backwards-incompatible API changes to libraries in any language.
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by memefrog 3y ago
C no longer has a conservative standards committee. This was true until C23. In practice it doesn't really matter, because compilers will never actually break old code. But the committee is now actively trying to break your code, by
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by memefrog 3y ago
So what? That's how things are structured in Python. It's one of the advantages of the language. Sure it'd be nice to be like Common Lisp, where you can write dynamic/slow and optimised/fast code in the same lang
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by memefrog 3y ago
>90s style "if error" check What makes it '90s style' other than you don't like it? Calling something "90s style" and its alternative "modern" is a thought-terminating cliche.
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by memefrog 3y ago
That hasn't been necessary for 15 years.
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by memefrog 3y ago
>I'm not concerned about electronic waste. Why not?
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by memefrog 3y ago
The labour market is not a free market, but a highly regulated one in most places. There is a strong argument that government intervention is much more a cause of than a solution to unemployment. That's a separate political debate of
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by memefrog 3y ago
No, this isn't a negotiation or about what you think it ought to be, or what you think is fair. You don't get to dictate Apple's pricing to Apple any more than they get to dictate your pricing to you on your platform. It&#x
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by memefrog 3y ago
This is why I switched from programming professionally to doing something else. Pretty much every field of knowledge (that existed before 1950, at least) is interesting once you get into it. Most of them you cannot do for fun. I can prog
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by memefrog 3y ago
Those are the things I am least interested in geminispace lacking. As you get older you realise that the "news" is mostly not news, especially these days. Social media, interactive media, multimedia content.. Not really the poin
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by memefrog 3y ago
They do undercut each other. Interest rates respond directly to interest rate changes from central banks and commercial savings banks operate on thin margins. It is not price fixing for people to make large profits.
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by memefrog 3y ago
Competition relies on the ability for new players to enter the market. That's very difficult in highly regulated industries like banking. Some of those regulations exist for good reasons. Many of them are not. For example, there is
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by memefrog 3y ago
Right, because the Apple app store is used by people that own iPhones, which are expensive luxury goods for people with lots of disposable income. The Android app store is used by everyone else. The Apple app store is still a minority pla
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by memefrog 3y ago
The US got paid back and then some. Not at all the same as an arbitrary ad-hoc tax on success. Should the Silicon Valley banks that have recently failed also pay a windfall tax? And if not, why tax success? Because it's clearly not a
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by memefrog 3y ago
The "bailouts" where the government bought shares in the banks and was repaid at a significant markup a few years later? Is that like "windfall taxes" where the banks buy shares in the government and get repaid later?

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