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901.
by pif 5y ago
> Except almost everyone always means #2 Only those who think that the graphical part of an information system represents the whole of software development.
902.
by pif 5y ago
> No one asked for strings to be ruined in this way They only got ruined for people who could not realize that the word is bigger than their backyard.
903.
by pif 5y ago
Hopefully the community has something more interesting in their life to care about.
904.
by pif 5y ago
> If a technology works well, we can ignore it most of the time. This, a thousand time this, absolutely!
905.
by pif 5y ago
I think everybody accepts it as a fact that polio vaccine never gave any advantage concerning, for example, influenza. Then, why would we expect that a vaccine against the original strain of the Covid 19 virus works as well against a new va
906.
by pif 5y ago
And the vaccine _did_ curb transmission of the original variant. Variant Delta came later.
907.
by pif 5y ago
> engineers that are helpless, or never ... or even read the error message from the tool If they don't read the error messages from their tools, they are not engineers: they are idiots.
908.
by pif 5y ago
> Convincing, nutritious, cheap artificial meat could turn the world vegetarian. Then, by definition, it's not meat. Please, let's keep calling things with their proper name!
909.
by pif 5y ago
> Where is the lack of supply exactly? There's a terrible lack in moving capacity. Sea, ports and warehouses are full of static containers, and that's bad: the optimal state for a container is "moving".
910.
by pif 5y ago
> the expected behavior Which part of "undefined behavior" is not clear to you?
911.
by pif 5y ago
> As far as I understand, there is no “expected behavior of main without a return” under ANSI; it’s undefined behavior You are right. There are still a lot of so-called developers who cannot understand the concept of _undefined_ behavior
912.
by pif 5y ago
I see. From the other comments, I'd say at least in Spain it works like in Italy, and it is best described by the first sentences of the two Wikipedia articles: All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, Hallowmas, the
913.
by pif 5y ago
I think you are confusing "All Saints' Day" (November, 1st [1]) with "All Souls' Day" (November, 2nd [2]). In Italy as well, people will go to cemeteries on the 1st, because it's a bank holiday, but the ce
914.
by pif 5y ago
Indeed, it's "All Souls' Day", November, 2nd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Souls%27_Day
915.
by pif 5y ago
Casinos are not a scam: they are in the entertainment industry. Casinos are just the only place where gullible people go to entertain themselves and expect to get paid for that.
916.
by pif 5y ago
> Lots of people see globalism as a attack... I agree with you on this point. It's worth noting that they are usually the same people who actually push for globalism, every time they choose "cheaper" over "local&quo
917.
by pif 5y ago
> Lots of right wing parties in the EU advocate for a "countryname-exit" Not anymore, that was the past! Bellies are still aching from laughter after Brexit, and EU has got the final approval stamp after 2016.
918.
by pif 5y ago
> "Keeping one's word is the condition of trust between democracies and between allies," he said. "So it is unthinkable to move forward on trade negotiations as if nothing had happened with a country in which we no lo
919.
by pif 5y ago
Sure I did, and that is fine when talking about the last fad in web programming. But we don't need such nitpicking for articles on more stable arguments.
920.
by pif 5y ago
2019... so what? Chemistry didn't change a lot in the last two years, thus such an article is as good as it had been published yesterday.
921.
by pif 5y ago
Let me sum up for you: we spent 40 years looking for "cheaper". Whether it was the right thing to look for, I don't know. But "cheaper" is the word that has shaped the world in the last decades.
922.
by pif 5y ago
I couldn't care less. Proper grammar can be sacrificed for my own sake (read: laziness) but never for someone's "I'm in the mood of inventing a new rule thus a I state that...".
923.
by pif 5y ago
It's always a matter of price. Be ready to pay enough and the no-ads option will magically appear.
924.
by pif 5y ago
> it meets some high-minded criteria about how I think software should be: privacy-respecting, open-source, controlled by the user, etc. Software like that will be easy to find when people will be ready to pay.
925.
by pif 5y ago
As an industrial software developer, my golden rule when dealing with support requests is: I will not do anything until they tried whatever they can try. If they just want to offload the issue to me, it will be a dead end.
926.
by pif 5y ago
The root problem is that current technology doesn't help us: processed food can only be either palatable or calorie poor. The person who will invent low-calorie bread and cheese, she'll be the Messiah :-)
927.
by pif 5y ago
> Mystery 8: Diets Don’t Work As an obese person who tried several times to follow medical advise, this does not surprise me, not at all! Every diet is about calories and sport, which cannot hurt. But every diet completely misses the ele
928.
by pif 5y ago
> Whatever we can do You need too large a we to able to do anything at a global scale. Much better to start facing it: install AC, move to fresher countries, accept that a big change is already happening and do whatever you can to cope
929.
by pif 5y ago
US citizens help Saudi royal family get richer by driving their cars, not by extracting carbon.
930.
by pif 5y ago
I've been saying this for several years now: global warming is here to stay. Let's stop wasting time talking about giving up comfort in the hope that maybe the whole world will follow and the 2° will maybe become 1.5°. Stop it! Cl

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