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by mitchty 8y ago
> I am mostly interested by gains in security, gains in maintainability, and gains in simplicity. Dynamic libraries reduce the number of parts that need to be managed, reducing overall complexity. I'd argue they do no such thing, th
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by mitchty 8y ago
Indeed, and "much slower" is somewhat ambiguous as its a lot more nuanced than that based on what I've read so far. I know Firefox switched to clang+llvm for more reasons than just "binary size and program speed" al
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by mitchty 8y ago
Indeed, all that would do is make me walk out and say good luck with that tactic. I'll find somewhere else to work.
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Personally so far what I've seen working ok for us in human systems is to just have a talk with the person we are interviewing, see what his/her hobbies are and generally feel if he/she is a good fit. Bingo. Thats basica
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by mitchty 8y ago
Exactly, making the card is half of the trick to remembering. If you can’t commit to making your own materials you might as well forget about using things like this. Yes it’s harder, but no there is no shortcut for learning in life. Just li
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by mitchty 8y ago
Reminds me of that one quote attributed to everyone under the sun: Honesty, if you can fake that you've got it made. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/12/05/fake-honesty/
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by mitchty 8y ago
So like aluminum then.
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Vincent is in the lobby, do you want to meet them now?' Them who? Vincent and his unannounced friends? Maybe Vincent is actually 3 kids stacked on top of each other in a trench coat? My them example was in reference to the parent&
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by mitchty 8y ago
Singular they works and has been used since the 1300's. Say do you want to meet them? would work fine in this case.
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by mitchty 8y ago
> I cannot wait for the day that the US seriously revisits the farming subsidies and agricultural practices we've adopted. As someone that grew up on a farm, can you explain why? And also explain why the practices, aka fallow fields
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by mitchty 8y ago
Right but that seems to be the ultimate thing at question here not? Whether the ninth circuit's decision is correct. I'll have to wait for this week in law to cover the case from a legal perspective, they're lawyers so they t
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by mitchty 8y ago
> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking. I respectfully disagree here. After using the methods/strategies in the Fluent Forever book/videos/etc
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by mitchty 8y ago
I think this is their argument ultimately: Apple has seized upon a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that limited damages for anti-competitive conduct to those directly overcharged instead of indirect victims who paid an overcharge passed on by oth
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by mitchty 8y ago
Still gated by the speed of light. It might be spooky action at a distance, but it will still take as long as light/gravity would take to observe.
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by mitchty 8y ago
Because females are the ones that bite and transmit malaria. https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/mosquitoes/index.h... Killing the males is pointless if your goal is preventing disease.
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by mitchty 8y ago
> It's all about tradeoffs, Android phones getting updates usually means the phone gets faster as opposed to ever closer to unusably slow. You say this like it is unique to android, iOS 12 was basically the same. And I can say from
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by mitchty 8y ago
Yep, if we haven't observed it, it is effectively not happened. Same as finally observing some of the first galaxies created after the big bang. Speed of light ~= speed of information. If we haven't seen indication of it directly
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Consider this, does an electric vehicle have ANY emissions reducing equipment at all that one must maintain? Yes, you need to keep it clean, drag affects all things equally, and dirty anything means more drag.
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by mitchty 8y ago
I'll snag that book then, thanks for the pointer! I'm semi-useful right now but every little bit helps. Edit: neat, its on safari queue, i don't need to buy a thing (sorta.... ignore that I pay for this yearly)
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by mitchty 8y ago
> I am currently and avidly learning Rust. It's a steep learning curve I'm (re)learning rust (last i used it was 3 years ago), after Haskell/Idris/Agda its really not that big of a deal I find. My only annoyance is si
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by mitchty 8y ago
I bought the 2018 mbp on day 1, so far zero issues with the keyboard. Not definitive by any means but its all I can offer up to go on. YMMV but thats true of all hardware.
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by mitchty 8y ago
Ok so 2015 gets features added to it or would this instead be the 2018 edition?
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by mitchty 8y ago
> NLL will be enabled in Rust 2015 sometime early next year Wouldn't that be 2019 not 2015?
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Language changes over time, you can’t use an outdated 18th century term to refer to the modern linguistic meaning of a term. Thats just it though, science is natural philosophy. Doesn't get changed by modern terminology at all. h
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Philosophy is not science becase it does not work. I'm slightly amused by this statement, as modern science is descended directly from philosophy. Indeed without philosophy, I could easily argue there is no science as we know it.
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by mitchty 8y ago
> I've no idea about BMW but if they did the design and someone else did the manufacture, then BMW would still be a car company; they would 'just' be designers and not manufacturers. What's wrong with that? In a nutsh
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by mitchty 8y ago
> You do realize that 99% of people feel cold in 40F. Yes, I addressed that in my last sentence. You presume I don't feel the cold, I do, I've just learnt how to tolerate it. Buddhist monks can dry wet towels in -40 weather. Th
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by mitchty 8y ago
I've gone for runs in -30 weather, its not that bad if you cover up your skin. 40-60F is short sleeve/shorts weather around here for me. Around freezing is when it starts getting fun to run. Yes I'm an abberation but I didn&#
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by mitchty 8y ago
> I thought they were a design/branding company A design/branding company that designs their own chips? Sure then they are a design company. A company that builds brands, also sure. What proportion of hardware do they have to &
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by mitchty 8y ago
> Let me simplify further, in the face of your ad hominem: Sorry? I attacked your phrasing and logic, not YOU. Its like you're wanting to get angry at nothing. I'm done here if you don't want to act civilized.

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