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by pif 3y ago
> It stands to reason that... No, it doesn't! The scale of the universe is huge, as in HUGE! There is simply no way a microscopic bug like us can influence anything at an inter-stellar distance.
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by pif 3y ago
Light needs four years to travel from Earth to our nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Light need 1.3 seconds on average to travel from Earth to the Moon. Do you still think your comment makes any sense?
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by pif 3y ago
> the shop you bought it from wanted to sell at a lower price Actually, it's a bit different: the shop you bought it from knew you only seek for a lower price.
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by pif 3y ago
> that leads to more heat loss With global warming, that is becoming more and more an advantage, rather than a defect!
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by pif 3y ago
At last, a counterexample to Betteridge's law of headlines!
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by pif 3y ago
> It's not about touch It's exactly about touch! The fundamental point is not needing to turn your eyes from the road.
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by pif 3y ago
Clickbait? What else did you expect to be "humanity's older art"? Some digital photo with less than 4 million pixels?
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by pif 3y ago
> you need to look beyond its direct, first order effects. Sure, I agree! But too many developers, in order to look beyond the first order effects, have a tragic tendency to forget about looking at the first order effects. And that
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by pif 3y ago
> I don't find that writing short, single responsibility code that is well labelled takes any time at all. Writing it takes no time; designing it does. > That initial "bottom up" process is the "getting it to w
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by pif 3y ago
> I'm OK rewriting code, say, every decade If it is your code, or your company's code, why not? But think about dependencies!
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by pif 3y ago
Out of topic, sorry! > Backwards compatibility is hugely important Why is this always considered a Good Thing (TM), apart when applied to C and C++? Why is it OK when languages and systems are bent backwards in order to avoid breaking st
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by pif 3y ago
You mean someone who learnt Visual C++ from Microsoft and was conned to think he knew C++?
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by pif 3y ago
There is no modern C++ without the old C++. C++ is the success that it is exactly because it has been able to evolve with no shameful past to cancel.
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by pif 3y ago
> they nailed it for bigger projects. Yeah, indeed, big projects did not exist before!
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by pif 3y ago
I've not stated the opposite.
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by pif 3y ago
> Apologies for the gender specific terms, It doesn't make any sense to apologize for using a language in its current form.
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by pif 3y ago
As long as it cannot be oppressive to the majority of the population, and until you are free to emigrate taking your belongings with you, calling "oppressive" a modern democratic country is a huge lack of respect to those people w
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by pif 3y ago
> doesn't "commodify" mean "to make saleable", like commercialize? As fas as I understand, no, it doesn't. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commodify > to turn (something,
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by pif 3y ago
As an example, and admittedly in a completely separated energy range: neutrons emitted by uranium have to be slowed down in order to keep the reaction going at the desired speed. If you don't slow them down, they'll just traverse
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by pif 3y ago
Not really! One extremely-high energy particle is way, way less dangerous than a bunch of billions of less energetic particle... repeated every 25 nanoseconds!
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by pif 3y ago
Much likely, nothing at all! The more energy a particle gets, the smaller the probability of interacting with anything. And if it does interact in your head... nothing at all! At such an energy, it is so tiny that at most one electron or
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by pif 3y ago
> I respectfully disagree. Bringing this issue up again and again is important even though it has almost nothing to do with the topic being discussed. You are respectfully wrong.
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by pif 3y ago
Oppression is against people's will. Democracy is the expression of the people's will. Please, do not confuse the two concepts.
444.
by pif 3y ago
- you define a template class accepting 1 constant integer for each dimension you want to consider (length and/or time and/or mass and/or temperature); - you define addition and subtraction between objects of one type returni
445.
by pif 3y ago
You don't need a new programming language for something that C++ templates with integer constants give you for free.
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by pif 3y ago
> Unlucky people skip over opportunities right in front of them. This idiot does not know what she is talking about. Unlucky people are those who don't get opportunities in the first place.
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by pif 3y ago
What I meant is that I think I know something about academics in science in general, and in Physics in particular. Getting my PhD was not easy for me, as it wasn't for the most people I met, because none of us is a so-called genius. Ra
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by pif 3y ago
???
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by pif 3y ago
> Both fields embrace a sort of masochism and active desire to keep knowledge impenetrable I have a PhD in particle physics, and I've been a researcher at CERN with colleagues from multiple countries. And I cannot understand what y
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by pif 3y ago
Well, do they have any alternative to high density?

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