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451.
by pif 3y ago
> At the risk of being very directly contrarian Please, be! Discussion is welcome. What I despise is only immature people ignoring important societal issues with a sweep of their hands, while crying a void "because privacy".
452.
by pif 3y ago
Thank you for expressing your opinion, I appreciate it. Actually, I don't have a strong opinion because I recognize the issue to be very complex.
453.
by pif 3y ago
To the downvoters and commenters who do not get that "the children" is just a straw man: The issue at hand can be described very, very easily: law enforcement agencies' mission is going to get harder to fulfil if they lose th
454.
by pif 3y ago
> You're defending this guy so much… why so defensive? Do you reject the notion that incompetents exist? I'm not defending him. I'm just refuting that a developer's competency can be judged without taking into conside
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by pif 3y ago
> But the functionalities don't work and generate customer support load… And this is the first issue you should have mentioned! All the rest is peanuts...
456.
by pif 3y ago
The real challenge is that none of the ones screaming "protect my privacy" can offer a solution to "protect the children" as well.
457.
by pif 3y ago
> There is a basic level of standards. I agree with you, and it's very simple to define such a level: use as much discipline as you need to ensure shipping features at an acceptable rate in the long term. Too much polishing lowers y
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by pif 3y ago
> His code is not elegant, it barely works, requires constant full rewrites, is an endless source of segmentation faults, deadlocks, sleep() in the main thread and whatnot. A lot of negative points, indeed, but the first priority is to s
459.
by pif 3y ago
Uphill in both directions.
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by pif 3y ago
> the Mac version was never even close to as good as the Windows version Care to add any detail, and reason?
461.
by pif 3y ago
Finished software is not feeding any developer's children. I hate it.
462.
by pif 3y ago
You are partially right in that Italian is not perfectly phonetic, but it's in such a different league from English that (100% - Italian) is a rounding error with respect to (sanity -English) ;-) Still, Italian is still perfectly phone
463.
by pif 3y ago
"Scholars from cultural institutions rooted in England" is different from "the first person crossing the street in a random English town".
464.
by pif 3y ago
> There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have. Well well... as it is called English, scholars from cultural institutions rooted in England are the refer
465.
by pif 3y ago
> The English spelling is guided by meaning As a native Italian, I'm convinced that using the Latin alphabet without embracing phonetic spelling can only be driven by idiocy ;-)
466.
by pif 3y ago
I still think that developers (both of gcc and linux kernel) should be free to choose the tools serving them better. The opinion of us, non-paying users, is irrelevant.
467.
by pif 3y ago
> difference between shopping at costco and shopping at walmart Could someone please explain to me what is implied here? I've been to the USA only once, and I didn't visit neither a Costco nor a Walmart. The only difference I c
468.
by pif 3y ago
That would be "500 mi" or "500 M". In no way can the lack of a space be excused.
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by pif 3y ago
> Uppercase L is the correct symbol for liter adopted by CIPM. Uppercase L is the alternative symbol for liter adopted by CIPM.
470.
by pif 3y ago
Height without wave length is pretty useless. Normal storms come with waves way higher than most tsunami, both when approaching the shore and even more in the open sea.
471.
by pif 3y ago
Please correct the title: "500M" should become "500 m".
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by pif 3y ago
> "works for us must work for everyone" You are wrong. It was rather a poor decision on the buyers' side: "It does NOT work for us, but who cares?".
473.
by pif 3y ago
Wanna try it yourself?
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by pif 3y ago
> We need to deliver: reliably, predictably, ... Every divorce starts with a marriage. Any delay starts with a planning.
475.
by pif 3y ago
From the article: The new syntax is appropriate for source generators, so don't be surprised by its clunkiness
476.
by pif 3y ago
> It is true, I think, that most of our body fat comes from our diet I am pretty sure your assumption is wrong. Stored fat has no correlation with the composition of your diet, but only with the amount of excess calories.
477.
by pif 3y ago
Programmers are supposed to trust official interfaces rather than undocumented implementation details ;-P
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by pif 3y ago
> it is not a portable assembler And it never was! Just keeping this point in mind would reduce the plethora of discussions about undefined behaviour to the essential, i.e. the useful discussions, i.e. the 0.1%.
479.
by pif 3y ago
The question I didn't find answered in their documentation: why?
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by pif 3y ago
> the regulations also mean that some people die because they can't afford the healthcare. Healthcare costs have no relation with how many people can get coverage. Civilised societies provide healthcare to all residents; the related

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