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by mempko 4y ago
Ok, but over a million people in the US died from covid and even more with permanent damage.
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by mempko 4y ago
The problem with C++ is it keeps getting better. There was a time when Rust was interesting to me but then C++11 came out. Then they kept improving it
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by mempko 4y ago
This is why we need to build software companies as co-ops and for everything else unionize.
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by mempko 4y ago
It just hit me. The web produces bad UI. I saw a demo of Alan Kay showing a smalltalk environment from the 70s. Wow, we haven't even caught up to that yet.
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by mempko 4y ago
Property taxes. We tax physical property, why not legal fictions like stock ownership?
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by mempko 4y ago
Weird, so people who give justification for neovim and use that thread are wrong. Thanks. Speaking of message-loop design. This is a typical design in the vast majority of GUI software where the center of the program is a message loop. I ne
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by mempko 4y ago
You have it backwards. Interest rates increase the cost of doing business. They cause more inflation. Not only that, higher interest rates encourage banks to create more risky /predatory loans. They add to risk and add to cost of every
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by mempko 4y ago
Ignore them? Far from it. Brahm provided a lot of feedback. The authors got lazy abd forked instead of dealing with criticism of their design.
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by mempko 4y ago
Thanks for this. I had the same read when I read the original thread. The authors were lazy and kind of petty in their responses to Bram. Put me off the neovim project because it seemed the authors didn't care about design.
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by mempko 4y ago
This is untrue. Tons of development is done by others.
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by mempko 4y ago
Exactly! We have a small amount of carbon budget left before we exceed 2C. Using it needs planning. If anything, global warming is a sign that we have basically failed at planning as a species. We glorify our past ability to build but we fa
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by mempko 4y ago
I don't agree with this article about "micro-tasks". You don't learn accountability and how to break down problems into small tasks if someone does it for you. What junior developers need (actually all workers) is owners
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Richard Wolff: Marxism and Communism – Lex Fridman Podcast(youtube.com)
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by mempko 4y ago
> The loan was paid back early and did exactly what it was supposed to do (incentivize alternative energy company creation). I think they may have even paid an early payment penalty to be done with it? So it wasn't a bailout at all.
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by mempko 4y ago
Keep going, you are almost there.... so close. Read the letter, what is it about?
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by mempko 4y ago
Isn't a group of 1 still a minority? Isn't Musk himself a loud minority of the company who wields lots of power? Isn't SpaceX in this case already a Dictatorship of the Small Minority?
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by mempko 4y ago
Why is it clearly he is a major factor? If anything it seems he brought his companies close to bankruptcy multiple times and the government bailed him out. Tesla with a half billion dollar loan from the DOE. SpaceX with it's multi bill
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by mempko 4y ago
Because people died fighting for democracy in politics. Yet we accept complete authority when it comes to our private lives. Ridiculous.
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by mempko 4y ago
This is really cool. Never heard of vale until today. Is there a vim plugin that can take advantage of it? I don't use neovim and never plan to.
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by mempko 4y ago
Satosh was NOT an excellent C++ programmer. As someone who heavily dug into bitcoin code, the whole thing was a mess from the beginning. Poorly architected. Insane amount of global variables. It was just a huge mess and still is. IMO it wa
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by mempko 4y ago
Thunderbird is built on top of a browser. Most code for it's functionality isn't C++. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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by mempko 4y ago
And here we are with vim and emacs still being updated and improved. Good job Bram and John.
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by mempko 4y ago
The only reason you think cars are a good thing and give you freedom and not say, busses and trains, is because cars are available to you and the infrastructure is available to you. Others who have fantastic public transport feel cars are r
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by mempko 4y ago
OMG thank you! This made my day.
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by mempko 4y ago
The people who committed those atrocities were erratic.
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by mempko 4y ago
It makes me so sad we got stuck with Android and iOS instead of the amazing WebOS. I will never forgive you HP and what you did to my love.
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by mempko 4y ago
All the important stuff is already owned by the few. It will just get worse. Eventually will lead to a revolution. That's the end game if it keeps going. There needs to be a jubilee and a 'new new' deal to prevent it. However
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by mempko 4y ago
Skype became centralized about the time Microsoft joined the PRISM spying program. I don't think it becoming centralized had anything to do with p2p being a problem...
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by mempko 4y ago
To be clear, I'm not saying AirBnb is a problem here. I'm saying there is something wrong with our housing system where people are using AirBnb as a place to live on an increasing basis.
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by mempko 4y ago
I have kids. I tell them they have a future. They have no responsibility to change what is happening, we do. What's horrible is people telling them they have a future but doing everything possible to destroy it. Think the Republican pa

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