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by mlindner 4y ago
That Veritasium video is probably the worst video he ever produced. It was full of the most obvious mistakes possible along with a pointless hype. He probably felt forced to release it because he spent so much money on the failure. AFAIK, i
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by mlindner 4y ago
I at least personally refuse to use any walled garden VR system. Importantly no one should be using any Facebook VR system.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure why you think the sunk cost wouldn't be factored into the unit cost? Lockheed Martin (and them any other subcontractors) aren't a charity.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I was specifically implying India where English is an official language.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure if you can call Brothers Grimm version "canonical" as from my understanding all they did was document in writing single versions of already well known folk tales that were carried through generations by oral memo
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by mlindner 4y ago
Individuals who can do things that will change the behavior of others through positive reinforcement can change things or by going to work at a company that was started with one of those efforts in mind. For example one of the biggest impac
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by mlindner 4y ago
Collective individuals have simply no way of affecting the environment in any major way simply by collective behavior change. The only thing that will change things is positive policies that encourage good behavior through positive methods.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Well polar bears are not affected first off, and secondly the amount of CO2 is basically nothing compared to even the daily world CO2 production.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I got a good laugh out of them, if I was the conspiratorial sort I'd think that the thread is being astroturfed. However my personal guess is there's a lot of posters from a certain English speaking nation that's anti-NATO an
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by mlindner 4y ago
> How would you know? Are you privy to all conversations between the Finnish and the U.S. government? It's usually on the person proposing the existence of something to prove that it exists rather than on the person saying it doesn&
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by mlindner 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding something. Our underlying facts we're basing our opinions on appear to be different.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Emphasis on "was". It got cheaper from mass production to the point it's cost competitive even with aircraft like the Gripen.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Responsible statecraft is a well known foreign actor site that's paid to produce anti-American propaganda. F-35 is quite cheap now.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Except Finland wasn't part of NATO nor had plans to join NATO when this deal was negotiated.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Are those numbers still accurate? F-35 was a lot more expensive early on and a lot of number comparisons are stuck on those early production numbers rather than later ones.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> I'm surprised the main reason isn't mentioned. > NATO. Because that's not the main reason or even a primary reason. There are a bunch of NATO countries that don't use US aircraft. Similarly there are non-NATO cou
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by mlindner 4y ago
There was no pressure from the U.S. to buy it and there are no incentives from the U.S. to buy it. And no there are plenty of NATO countries that care very much about indigenous hardware development and do not buy US hardware. The real reas
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by mlindner 4y ago
Veganism always struck me as focused on people making ethical claims. Whereas the love for Rust comes completely from people trying to get away from existing pain that they're experiencing (at least in my experience).
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by mlindner 4y ago
I see. I missed that point of advice they gave. However even for existing large C++ codebases, I feel you'd be better served by piecemeal writing code in something like Rust with FFI, if you're going to switch language at all. Car
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by mlindner 4y ago
> That article is a little too fannish. What article? It's a pull request by the maintainer.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not a part of the endeavor and only have looked in from the outside by reading some of the mailing list archives but it never looked to me like it was a result of what you describe. Torvalds was welcoming from the get go, even name
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by mlindner 4y ago
Interesting. My friend, who works at well known gaming company you've probably heard of, recently spent several months of his life fighting back against a group of people that came in from an acquisition that were trying to convert the
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm highly skeptical that ML will take over everything. ML is great for cases where being "sometimes wrong" or "approximately correct" is acceptable. It's not acceptable for the vast majority of computer scienc
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by mlindner 4y ago
The tremendous drop in javascript over 2021 is very interesting.
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by mlindner 4y ago
That's different than what they say in their high level planning doc. https://github.com/ridiculousfish/fish-shell/blob/riir/doc_i... > Allowing background functions and concurrent functions has
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by mlindner 4y ago
In my experience those one type of bug are also the hardest bugs to find and fix, even when you know it's sometimes happening. The system can get sufficiently complex such that it's near impossible to find the bug unless you get l
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by mlindner 4y ago
I hadn't heard of Carbon until very recently, and when I went to look at it, it doesn't seem to solve any of the real problems with C++. Their stance on memory safety appears very lukewarm. So I don't really see why Carbon is
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by mlindner 4y ago
I never got the appeal of zsh. It felt just like bash with all the interesting features of zsh hidden into advanced functionality, whereas with fish lots of things "just work" out of the box without spending a bunch of time config
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by mlindner 4y ago
As someone else who likes Rust quite a lot but has had a couple poor run-ins with 'The Rust Community™', I completely agree. A core part of 'The Rust Community™' seems to adopt extreme political viewpoints that act to al
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by mlindner 4y ago
Indeed, the changing user needs aspect is inevitably the cause of so many memory corruption issues when old code, that's only really understood by that one or two grey beard still at the company and about to retire (or have already ret

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