peoplefromibiza

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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
The shuttle program was killed by costs. Keeping it flying safely was really expensive. Despite the safety record you mention, it was the best approximation of a spaceship that we, as a human species, ever created. A spaceship program is so
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> rather than decreasing them Romans used sponges to clean their butt in public toilets, but sponges were shared. I guess that didn't help...
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
I could be wrong, but I reckon I read somewhere that the "considered harmful" was added in review by Niklaus Wirth, who, at the time, was editor for CACM.
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
Anyway, what you really don't understand is how much the context changed. Nowadays "leaving it to the kids" means grandparents living something to their grandkids. In the past it meant a 30 year old man leaving something behi
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> You think those are infrastructure? Those are innovations and technology, i.e. ideas. You still haven't provided any example... Last time we left something valuable to future generations was the Romans with their aqueducts. 1800-1
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> Do you know the difference between infrastructure and ideas? Do you? Can you make an example of "We were leaving some of the best products of our labour in the 1800s and early 1900s"? Have you ever read Slavery, Capitalism a
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> We were leaving some of the best products of our labour in the 1800s and early 1900s And also all of the mistakes of the industrial revolution... Including pollution, horrible living and working conditions, deadly workplaces, child lab
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> We're leaving the maintenance of poorly build infrastructure to our kids That's standard practice by the book though. No generation has ever left anything better than that to the future ones. [1] Also: future does not exist
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
many functional languages (if not all) do not have arrays (intended as a contiguous areas of memory containing indexable elements of fixed size) they are usually left as an implementation as libraries (i.e. Haskell's Data.Array) There
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
No offense, I simply wanted to show that, even if what you say it's true, there is no "police state" trying to monitor and eventually shut down the Internet, like many are suggesting here and that there is a lot of leeway for
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> how many artists are there nowadays that's the wrong question, it is like asking "how many peasants are there nowadays"? of course there are many more people that do not need to plow the fields all day to provide for the
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
quantity over quality has never been a good idea for art.
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but they have the right to not let Disney use it for free, without giving anything back to anybody. Don't they?
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> Problem is that, such regulations give ideas to other governments That because Europe has always been the front runner when it's about advancing the human species and where the best ideas, sooner or later, always win.
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> [1]: I'm making up that number but I'm probably lowballing it anyway. uhhh, the popular "I don't know what I'm saying, but I'm sure I'm right, because it's me saying it" But even if it was t
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> Never even heard of one of their "prominent" supporters no surprise here, you don't seem the type to appreciate art, in any form. I guess you don't even watch Netflix... > very mediocre European domestic content
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> The first edition wasn't even available in English Does it even matter? The Grimm brothers were German, the books in German do exist. Pinocchio is an Italian work, in Italy it's always been available and a huge success, does
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
The thing is that the original fairy tales are surely not "sanitized" versions of the ones we know. So if the idea is that we should clean-up the original stories so that they can replace the ones we know now in the future, we&#x2
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> They don't have singular authors True, but that is true for everything before the press was invented, it's also true for music, before music notation was invented or for kitchen recipes... What we are talking about here is pu
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
Well, if the authors believe it, the authors have all the rights to change their books. But not the rest of us. EDIT: if the Grimms edited their books, it was in their rights. If we decide to edit Rolad Dahl (or the Grimms) and still call t
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
we should absolutely make the originals available, next to the "sanitized" versions that are clearly labeled as "not original" or "loosely based on the original story" Even "The Shining" is labele
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> Has the rise of these memory safe languages caused any shift in the proficiencies of the average developer? That's a good question, but I have no answer for it. AFAIK the data is missing or is inconsistent. But I can link to you t
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> This is true. But it only tells about the cultural dominance that France French is still very much relevant, but it took centuries to make it less relevant than before to the point where we are now. Rust in comparison is minutes old an
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> - French itself does not add much value to diplomacy. Funny, given that the word diplomacy is a French word, together with embassy, treaty, alliance, passport and protocol :) > Rust is going out of its way to prevent writing memory
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
legalese is a subset of English. BTW Rust (or any other so called "memory safe" language) is not the equivalent of legalese, it's the equivalent of using French because it's the "language of diplomacy" (that&#x
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> in languages that don't maintain strict memory safe contract? for the same reason people still use the English language, despite being full of crazy inconsistencies and being very hard to become a native speaker, coming from anoth
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
Liberal democracies are relatively new, but the process of deciding norms that satisfy different groups with conflicting interests is as old as the human history. In Italy, for example, it's already like that: legislative proposals tha
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
That's a common misconception on how democracy (modern democracies at least) work. Let's now imagine that we want gay marriages or abortion rights or something minor, like the right to repair, and the proposal is rebutted by the
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usually, but this app is not even exposed publicly to the internet
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by peoplefromibiza 2y ago
> They mostly hire morons yeah, same here, that's part of the problem though, which reinforces the idea that police can be replaced by autonomous robotic agents. Which is not true. Some examples from my country, some are laughable,

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