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by mempko 5y ago
Ok, but what about car jacking? Have you done the statistics to figure out which is safer? Also what about risk of health via car crash? https://www.startribune.com/a-breakdown-of-2021-carjackings-...
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by mempko 5y ago
I also use vim not neovim. I don't like the neovim culture and money grab. I think the founders misrepresented the origin story. But neovim does have some nice features. But not enough for me to switch and vim is being improved at a ra
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by mempko 5y ago
It's almost like Snowden forgot the US has the largest prison population ALREADY. The time ran out in the late 90s when all the Surveillance technology was being built by Silicon Valley.
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by mempko 5y ago
Another great saying I always use 'Productivity is waste'.
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Oil: It was the best of fuels, it was the worst of fuels(thegreatsimplification.com)
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by mempko 5y ago
For about 7 years Google Maps couldn't give me directions from my house to work. Not that they gave the wrong directions, no, literally couldn't give me any route. Any mapping company has errors for individuals. Question is, in ag
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by mempko 5y ago
HERE WeGo is built by HERE maps which creates maps for the navigation industry. They have been at it for over 30 years. So it's not some new company that is figuring out maps. The UI is good, especially when navigating. Before I travel
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by mempko 5y ago
Yes, HERE WeGo. Benefit is being able to download a whole state or country to the phone which allows it to work completely offline. No need to preselect some bounding box to download or anything. https://play.google.com/stor
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by mempko 5y ago
So there was some damage from that departure. Yikes.
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by mempko 5y ago
I recommend people watch Paul Beckwith who does a fantastic job explaining what he calls The Climate Casino. https://m.youtube.com/user/PaulHBeckwith
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by mempko 5y ago
And yet here we are in the USA with the most prisoners per capita of any country in the world. Turns out we have many people with guns here. The security forces in the US are well funded.
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by mempko 5y ago
I highly recommend people read David Graeber's latest book, published after his death called The Dawn of Everything.
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by mempko 5y ago
I see you are the creator of /tap? Great! I think the multi modal goal is definitely cool and could be really useful. For tiddlywiki, I have to host my own server and only access to it is via a browser. While I have access everywhere t
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by mempko 5y ago
Yes, it being hosted is definitely nice. It's not a big deal for people like me that know how to host software but I can see that being a huge plus for folks who can't/don't want to manage their own server.
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by mempko 5y ago
LISP in your notes? That's cool. For my note taking I use the great tiddlywiki. A lot of features seem to overlap with the tiddlywiki. What seems nicer is the syntax, which is cool. As a tiddlywiki user, what's the advantage of th
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by mempko 5y ago
Lines of code is not a good metric, but log lines of code is probably useful. The most product team ever recorded in a study was the Borland Quadro Pro team. They averaged 1000 lines of code per developer per week. To put that into context,
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by mempko 5y ago
The U.S. also takes it seriously when whistle blowers and journalists leak a story that tells the opposite. Torturing Chelsea Manning and going after Julian Assange for example. The million excess deaths from the wars is very realistic and
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by mempko 5y ago
Oh my! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...
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by mempko 5y ago
Exactly. Unfortunately the little guys don't decide the winners and losers so they suffer as they must. You saw it in the end of the 90s with the tech bubble, and in the 1980s with personal computing. I doubt anyone would agree the bes
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by mempko 5y ago
> But the math and incentives are there. Cui bono as they say. Crypto won't fail because of the group that is driving most of the demand. It's a small group of people with lots of money. If it was a big group of people with lit
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by mempko 5y ago
Yes, when Linus first tried C++ in 1992 this is true. But the linked comments were done in early 2000s which by then C++ was very mature. So by early 2000s, C++ was already 20 years old. Rust is only 11 right now.
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by mempko 5y ago
First, C++ has changed SIGNIFICANTLY since then. Second, Linus is wrong.
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by mempko 5y ago
Oil gets $5 trillion a year in government subsidies worldwide. The market manipulation train left the station long ago.
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by mempko 5y ago
We need to get away from oil. Global Warming is very serious. Higher prices will encourage it and lowering prices will postpone it. We don't need to increase production.
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by mempko 5y ago
Interest rates are a base cost to everything. Base cost to business and base cost to consumers. Interest rate increases will raise prices (cause inflation), especially since many consumers are paying for things with savings and not debt.
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by mempko 5y ago
If you think that's impressive, you should see asset price inflation!
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by mempko 5y ago
All that money goes into the private sector. Government deficits are an investment. Recent investment is huge and helped millions of people. Without the investment we would be in a depression (not just a recession). Elon Musk is not happy a
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by mempko 5y ago
China simply invested more in their people than USA it seems. You now see American business people like Elon Musk promote divestment from the USA in his attack on government deficits.
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by mempko 5y ago
You do realize Chrome's code has a lineage that is over 24 year old, based on khtml. If you are starting a project from scratch with C++, you can avoid a lot of the pitfalls chrome's team has. Additionally Google has an arguably p
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by mempko 5y ago
It's funny but honestly Stroustrup is the best language designer out there. While others abandoned their creations to make new languages, Stroustrup soldiered on and modern C++ is actually amazing. He's a working programmers langu

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