motorest

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by motorest 1y ago
> When you mention QGIS, you should also mention GDAL (...) GDAL should be front and center. It's the xkcd 2347 of earth observation and geographical information systems
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> So is he lying about his opinions on Israel? You should cut the act. Playing dumb doesn't help your case.
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> I don't have specifics (...). I don't have any personal anecdotes (...). I see. > I did live specific situations over several years in a support engineer role where a double digit percentage of customers in enterprise conf
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> Because in this case most politicians are performing double speak and failing to directly answer questions about recent Israel conduct. Many of these politicians claiming in private what most of us are seeing in the news. It is refresh
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> So what you mean by "honest" is "they believe the same things as facts like I do, and draw the same conclusions?" I think it means "I am a sucker with no critical thinking skills and fell for their propaganda&q
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> Or you could read the linked BBC article and form your own opinion. If you by now aren't aware of the likes of Tucker Carlson being a Russian asset, either you have been living under a rock or you are purposely playing dumb. Do yo
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by motorest 1y ago
Are you talking about the same Tucker Carlson which is paid off by the Russian regime to spread Russian propaganda? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrlv7jdnq8o
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> So, there are still behavioral issues here I take it? From the past discussion, it's mainly grave behavioral issues but they also end up being technical. Such as trying to push new untested features into RCs and breaking builds, a
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> A great deal. Which is why my cringe reflex (...) Can you provide some specifics? So far all I see is vague complains with no substance, and when complainers are lightly pressed they go defensive.
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> Ah yes, the famous "holding it wrong". Is it wrong to ask how to reproduce an issue?
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Ultimately that's the right call, and the inevitable one as well.
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> I always wondered -- was this an actual experiment, or is it a just-so story? That's not relevant though, just like it's not relevant for a boy who cried wolf to actually have existed for the allegory to send a clear message.
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> Have we already forgotten the absurd amount of support the murderer of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare? I hope not, because that would mean people would already forgot why supporters were describing it as reacting towards violence with vio
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> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use w
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> Gerrymandering is hardly a new problem (...) Gerrymandering is not new, but the overt and direct and very public claims that gerrymandering is being used to push an authoritarian regime against the people's wishes is something rec
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> I remember being grateful about how that doesn't really happen in the US (Trump being the most recent, but he survived). You are clearly not paying attention. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgv4y99n7rt
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> When you're around other people, even ones who share your beliefs, and say 'I think we should murder that guy!' then in most crowds someone is going to say 'Hey fellow, are you okay?' There are crowds where tha
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by motorest 1y ago
> If you don't want there to be sides during a pandemic, (...) Why do you believe a pandemic has sides?
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> Isn't that just a comforting fantasy, though? Germans also embraced the myth of Hitler as a guy who just somehow hoodwinked everyone and made good people do terrible things. Another way this observation is manifested is how out of
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https://wiki.c2.com/?TheFiveMonkeys
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> C++ is still trying to catch up with (...) C++ modules are indeed a mess, but you are fooling yourself if you believe that the preprocessor of all things is a compelling reason to switch. In fact, I think you unwittingly proved my poin
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> I find it dubious that adding the people who don't find it financially feasible to use childcare to cover working hours will generate tax revenue to cover this due to the low income and low tax nature. You can actually think throu
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> There are many things that may be better overall, but because they're not financialized, they don't show up on GDP and so are deemed "worthless." I think you're confusing GDP with a measure of worth or quality.
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> D is the result of lack of interest by the C++ committee, and I had little interest in spending literally years trying to get useful things adopted into C++. I think you are leaving out the fact that your comment applies to the post-C+
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> And the rich parents who can afford childcare are also given a subsidy. That's fine. > A married parent who wants to stay home but can't quite afford it is forced to work. I don't get what point you think you're
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> Good, we can ignore them. Who do you think you're representing? At best you only speak for yourself. It's perfectly fine if you choose to never update any tool you use, but that's just your personal opinion. You are free
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> Stay at home moms do not provide a less valuable service than childcare providers. I don't know how can anyone arrive at that conclusion. > This policy appears to disincentives children staying with their mother even when it is
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> The vast majority of C programmers will agree that they don't care for any of the new features,(...) I think this belief is based on faulty assumptions, such as survivorship bias. C++ became popular largely because it started off
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> It was proposed by Walter and denied by Stroustroup, probably to save C++. Citation needed. For starters, where is the paper?
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> The complexity of C# and C++ should be a warning, not something to strive towards. I think this talk about "complexity" is a red herring. C++ remains one of the most popular languages ever designed, and one of the key reasons

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