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by papito 5y ago
Hmm. To an observer, an apple falling from a tree is random. How would you know when it happens? But all random events have precursors. To me, the idea that something happens out of nowhere, on its own, is pretty farfetched. I doubt anythin
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by papito 5y ago
I subscribe to the view of the world in the show DEVS. Basically, given enough processing power to simulate every particle in the Universe, there is no randomness. I have a pretty crazy opinion about all of this, where I think creationism a
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by papito 5y ago
Informed intuition.
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by papito 5y ago
Serious question: when was Einstein proven wrong in a big way?
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by papito 5y ago
Lack of type checking was a hot thing for a while. It made you "move faster". It was actually sold as an advantage. Until we realized that after moving faster you grind to a halt because now you have a massive codebase, with hundr
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by papito 5y ago
Because that's... funny?
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by papito 5y ago
The ASCII code 42 is for the asterisk symbol, and we all know the /*/ regex matches EVERYTHING. I am sorry I ruined it for you.
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by papito 5y ago
The newer Mars rovers use nuclear power, although obviously, not the same type needed for propulsion.
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by papito 5y ago
Go is a very hard language to work on as a team. It does not push a lot of conventions on you, and when it does, they just seem weird and anachronistic. Even the original k8s codebase was notoriously horrible in Go, and that was "from
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by papito 5y ago
"But people will never let their on-prem servers go into an obscure, shared Cloud".
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by papito 5y ago
This is why professional reviews matter so much now. I generally go to Wirecutter for big purchases, and then skim through user reviews just to verify.
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by papito 5y ago
Definitely. It was available (apparently) even with a Win95 upgrade pack, so it's very old. I was not aware of it, however. I am not sure it was as easy to launch before, by just typing in "pinball" in the Start menu.
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by papito 5y ago
We played the hell out of it on our Windows 2000 machines during particularly boring IT labs in college, in early 2000s. The physics just seemed so spot on. I installed Win2K on a VM recently, just for this. Start Menu, type in "pinbal
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by papito 5y ago
Oh, haha, is THAT what's going to do it? :)
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by papito 5y ago
# 20 - Always strive to build a smaller system, is probably the most important one. The new generation of engineers have yet to learn (again) that complexity kills. The amount of resources spent maintaining unnecessary complexity is stagger
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by papito 5y ago
Facebook already controls what you think about. Just clicking on some Republican politician's profile will hurl you into the world of anti-vaxxers and sedition trutherism.
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by papito 5y ago
Ooh! "Fake story", "mainstream US narratives", "discourse"! All the greatest hits. You forgot "alternative facts".
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by papito 5y ago
I don't think I'd want any pull requests from devs who still use Facebook.
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by papito 5y ago
Does everyone try to help? And if only one person helps in a crisis, even most of the time, how does that translate to organizational psychology?
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by papito 5y ago
I would say, the bystander effect. The more people you have, the more you have the tendency to think "oh, someone else will pick it up". I am guilty of that myself. In a small team where I know no one is coming to help me, I step
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by papito 5y ago
The difference between you and a scientist is that the scientist very well may be wrong, but at least the scientist tries . If you don't like that uncertainty, Twitter is full of people who are very, very sure.
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by papito 5y ago
As people already mentioned here, try running a free-for-all moderation-free discussion board and see what happens. Back in the day, the Internet was full of HTML discussion boards just like this one, and idiots were banned with no question
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by papito 5y ago
There is nothing political in this instance. This violates their ToS, and even without that, this is a normal reaction to what most legal experts consider an activist legislature stunt that will not stand a real legal challenge. Even anothe
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by papito 5y ago
You can also NOT host whatever you don't want. Epik and Digital Ocean picked up the baton, but I don't know if Digital Ocean has had a chance to act on this yet - it's a long weekend. We already know that Epik is not bothered
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by papito 5y ago
I should have done that more often. Open floor, combined with Slack and over-communication made me 4x less productive.
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by papito 5y ago
I can be as unproductive at work as I can be at home, but coasting in the office is so exhausting, I'd rather do work.
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by papito 5y ago
It's ironic because these people have no problem shitting where they eat, moving on to a place that has not been defiled yet but their riches and absolute lack of moral compass. https://www.theguardian.com/news/201
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by papito 5y ago
Oh, this is nice. While the mortals are talking about surviving a self-inflicted societal collapse, the trillionaires are busy building penis rockets, fighting taxes tooth and nail, and building doomsday bunkers. Ironically - in New Zealand
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by papito 5y ago
My journey with this started back in Java and Play 1. Now it's a Scalatra project. I am rewriting the front-end because the original was written with JS5 and Knockout, becoming essentially dead on arrival and pretty unmaintainable. The
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by papito 5y ago
Heh. Yeah. Been building something like this, where you can have your choice of metadata storage and file storage. Out of the box, it would be Sqlite and the local FS, and then you can become adventurous. Postgres and S3? Elastic and S3? Su

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