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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I don't really care enough to gather it. Even if I did it would likely be suppressed. Do a straw poll of some random teenagers near you and ask them to tell a story of how they've been wowwed at the movies. Or perhaps the last tim
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Why do we not choose to broaden the range of species that we cultivate? Are most just another species of rat or weed? Maybe more varieties of carrot are just better. Or just more carrots in general for that matter.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I'd say 'constrain' is the wrong word to use here. 'tailor' may be better.
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I'd say we're more limited by failure of imagination than anything else.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Tell me without looking it up, What was the name of the one after infinity war?
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
>Would you feel bad for a software developer who learned Visual FoxPro in the 90s, refused to learn any new tools, then complained that their occupation was no longer relevant? Indeed I wouldn't
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Rubbish. I have many friends who play instruments. Paying to hear certain sounds is the aberration of history.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
In one of the quotes from this article "We think the public will tire of mechanical music and will want the real thing". It seems to me the public is now tiring of CGI explosions at the expense of character based stories in films.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Apparently, three-quarters of Earth's food supply draws on just 12 crops and five livestock species. Is that a good thing? a bad thing? Or, as I believe, not really either good or bad. That situation has been sustained for quite a whi
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
If it's so wonderful Western nations having fewer kids why are uneducated people from elsewhere being brought in in such numbers?
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exactly
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That's not your decision to make one way or the other.
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The universe is effectively infinite btw. Most people quite like potatoes and if there's a larger population more people can be musicians. The bloody minded bean counter mentality is more religion than anything.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
It seems the goal of these types of policy decisions is to ensure continuity and prevent catastrophes (i.e. a sudden loss of diversity). A range of potential populations could fit these criteria. Beyond that, agonizing about what you should
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Well they are a company that needs to sell magazines/newspapers. Good for them I say. I think predictions can still be useful even if they are wrong.
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2 quarters
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Who cares? It's all funny money anyway.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
The Economist remains uncompromised in my view. Maybe out of touch though. Another reason for more vigourous debate. I still think all these troubles are just engineering problems to be solved. I relish the task.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
The US government has had it's own policy failures that give it cause to consider saber rattling also. The best option seems to me to stay local and hunker down but keep talking to each other. Fibre optics are cheap. Can't Xi and
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
This is a thoughtful critique of the world-view of publications like the guardian. I think there's nothing more dangerous than wanting no viewpoints other than your own to be heard.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
The Japanese only separate their rubbish into 'burnable' or 'non burnable' items. I think that's a more honest approach.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Have you heard of wolfssl? But if your idea of reliabilty is network connected computers that must never fail fate has bad news coming for you. Better to engineer systems with the certain expectation everything fails at some point. So air g
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Castles in the sky are evocative to us because intuitively we know they will eventually crash.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
I wonder what portion of that 1971 'White British' were actually Irish, Huguenots French, German Jewish or one of the other myriad dispossessed groups that have been coming to London for centuries.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Obviously most places have their racists but I'd say the east-end of London is one of the least racist places anywhere in the world. People come to live there from all over. When visiting someplace unfamiliar it's easy to see any
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Restaurants also can have a number of tables pre-allocated to third party companies on the assumption someone can book them though that third party. Similar to this, I once tried to stay in a hotel by just showing up to the reception desk.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
> That’s one reason I love studying history. To learn what we’ve lost and find it again. Same here. There's a lot of amazing things which we have yet to learn from the 'also ran' systems of history.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
They should've made this tank with transparent aluminum.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
Ah ok. Well if that's the case then that's correct, fputc does operate on octets right? The only reason it returns an int is to distingush EOF AFAIK. To be honest I found the article hard to follow.
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by nuc1e0n 4y ago
The main point of contention seems to be that fputc is defined to return the value that was written to the stream. However, TI's implementation of it returns the character passed in as a parameter (eg 0x1600), but actually writes (unsi

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