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by nercht12 9y ago
Interesting article. Thanks for linking! I think the statement could also be succinctly summarized from a simpleton's perspective as: "Have a problem? Science and tech will eventually find the answer." Science and tech keep a
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Someone has to front the money though, and there have to be developers who believe that they are going to make their money back. sigh The US is profit-driven, so developers go where the money is at. No promise? No money.
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by nercht12 9y ago
Where do you draw the line for the "ban" though? ISPs, Google, and many of these companies collect PI for payments and associate these payments with invoices/receipts/etc. so in effect, they already have some of this inf
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by nercht12 9y ago
>> most bad actors don't own a time machine You mean besides me, of course. XD EDIT: It's a joke people, for Pete's sake.
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by nercht12 9y ago
I don't know about you, but I always found Rust a real pain to use. One could say Rust is "secure", but you can still break Rust too. Incompetency knows no bounds. It's better just to learn to be competent than complain
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by nercht12 9y ago
What happens if I extern a C function with no "void" then? Do I get a variadic in C++?
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For younger candidates, how about questions like: "Do you have a passion for this industry? Why?" and "What have you done in the past that demonstrates your commitment to completing anything you set your mind to?" For ol
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and "humor".
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You forgot "humor".
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>> LIDAR is not a hack. Depends on what one considers a "hack". Epistemologically, yes, it is a hack because it already assumes a 3D world identifiable via such means, and therefore may make the AI incapable of "reconst
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by nercht12 9y ago
You could build legs for cars. It's harder, yes, but it can be done. // Your argument doesn't work against his point. The fact is that yes, a computer could, in theory, gain a calculable 3D perspective of the world witho
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That's not true! ... Some of them are articles about publicity and marketing stunts! / ;)
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It should not be surprising then that many software engineers are interested in philosophy. :) The personality type of many programmers and philosophers is INTP, which tends to be geared towards these sorts of things.
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>> The fact is that our brains have been so incessantly bombarded with propaganda from different places that we start noticing it even when none exists. In other words, Apophenia. An interesting point. I would say that everyone does
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My sympathies. We're stuck in the same boat. That said, assuming you have some steady work, have you looked into quicker loan payoff services like Sofi?
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by nercht12 10y ago
Pay is offset by the cost of living because everyone out there thinks you can afford it. I suppose it would help pay off my bills faster, but that's assuming steady work. That said, I'm so-so as to whether or not to take a job the
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by nercht12 10y ago
Working on an embeddable programming language (think Lua, ChaiScript, etc. use-cases) with simple yet powerful syntax, NO null pointers, static typing, and memory management WITHOUT A GARBAGE COLLECTOR (XD). It's not ready for public e
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by nercht12 10y ago
Maybe you could have people peer-review each other's photos and help them pick which one looks best. It could be based on a photo-liking mechanism whereby the most liked photo is the one shown to people first in the organic search. EDI
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by nercht12 10y ago
Even STEM can be a bad investment, depending on what you do. I graduated with a degree in Chem, wanting to do nanoscale computers and -later- optical computing. Found out 3rd year that unless I got a doctorate, I'd be a glorified lab r
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> You can certainly tell them that, and they may even find it easier to remember, but it won't actually be the reason that one convention is better than another. Indeed. But it was arguing against the logic of the parent post, which
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> How do you explain the massive transformation of China from a backward rural basket case. It's not as if wealth doesn't get redistributed for a variety of reasons (war, theft, taxes, communism, etc.). But the reality is, any
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by nercht12 10y ago
>> I believe that the best leverage workers of the world can have is the ability to live a decent life without the threat of starvation or extreme poverty. This dream is attainable, and worth planning for and building towards as a spe
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I think he means you're taking from one to give to another, which eventually results in the former being as worse off as the latter was, so the sum total of your "humanitarian effort" ultimately amounts to zero. But that&#x27
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That got revised and rewritten as the FOSS game ZeroK [1]. The original is still under copyright, but the guys who did ZeroK started with it as the code base and then gradually removed all the proprietary code. Surprisingly for a FOSS game
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>> it's much more clearly done using a 1D primative than a 2D one Or you could just tell people that pi is the edge length of half of a circle. Pi and Tau are both 1-dimensional numbers that happen to be related to these things,
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>> I'm not sure how to "escape" an asterix... You can't, sorry. It's automatically formatted. >> Even if you were to bind it locally to pi and tau I use things like Math.PI2 or PI2, so it's not any
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by nercht12 10y ago
I'd definitely like to start a biz, but to start a business you need to fill a need in the market. Where else to get ideas but working for someone else? Oppsdaily is good source, although it'd be nice to find more sources of need.
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Thanks! I did stretch out alittle at a meetup I regularly attend and dropped the word and I got passed the word about a job offer, so it seems to be paying off.
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Yes. But that's an odd question. What god? What is "God"? I have a number of preconceived ideas about "God". I think most people believe in something as fundamental as "god" - although they don't call
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No. I do post my resume on places, but some places ask for info I'm not comfortable giving, and I've been made aware of the fact that one's resume is a relatively boring piece of paper that isn't going to get your foot i

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