pif

98 ms·

961.
by pif 6y ago
I can't understand the downvotes you got. You pushed may be a bit on political stereotypes, but other than that you just stated the facts.
962.
by pif 6y ago
I agree with you on most of your comment, apart from: > maintain what we have until it can be replaced with renewables We cannot be sure renewables will ever be able to replace nuclear/fossil/hydroelectric, thus we should be a
963.
by pif 6y ago
> I think that's one area where modern compilers are going wrong And I think people should stop to approach software development as if building the next shiny web CRUD application was serious software development.
964.
by pif 6y ago
> "semi-portable C" camp Do you mean the "every CPU is an x86" camp?
965.
by pif 6y ago
Just for the record, you share you unpopular opinion with me.
966.
by pif 6y ago
356 - 320 = 36 "up 35 percentage points" does not mean the same as "a 35% increase".
967.
by pif 6y ago
I'd like to understand where he buys his legal heroin. Because, if he is choosing to pour his money into the worst criminal businnes existing, either he is a piece of scum or he does have a drug problem!
968.
by pif 6y ago
> Sustainability at all costs has its own costs: the good which isn't done while waiting for the perfect. This! In my experience, most people agree that ecology is _one of_ the priorities, but people who define themselves as ecologi
969.
by pif 6y ago
Sahara sand likes long journeys: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
970.
by pif 6y ago
Lens compression only works if too many people are there to begin with. If people are sparse enough, no picture will make you worry. Take the two examples in the article: the picture with the trees, when compressed, looks less dense than th
971.
by pif 6y ago
> Two photos taken from the same spot show Tokyo's Harajuku district on Jan. 21, 2021. [...] In the left image, the distance between the people is obvious, but that sense of perspective is weak in the right image. That is true, and
972.
by pif 6y ago
No, you are wrong. The purpose of money laundering is to prevent government from getting too curious about where that money is coming from.
973.
by pif 6y ago
Yes and no. Yes, information can travel with infinite speed. No, cause-effect relationship cannot travel faster than light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality
974.
by pif 6y ago
One more article based on the assumption that web development covers the full span of software development...
975.
by pif 6y ago
So what? Social rules only matters in your intercations with people surrounding you now and here. We are not talking about dogmas!
976.
by pif 6y ago
No! It's just the normality, from a statistical point of view. People have the right to expect statistical normality in other people. Respecting everyone is fundamental, but people cannot be required to anticipate anyone's quirk.
977.
by pif 6y ago
I am a particle physicist and when I worked at CERN I helped building the data acquisition software of the ATLAS experiment. The empty promises she is talking about are the equivalent of the promises by politicians during a campaign: they a
978.
by pif 6y ago
> If I paste something into Excel, I want what I pasted to be what's in Excel. And that's what you have in Excel. What gets displayed is a separate issue. And no, you don't want to see exactly what you typed in, not in the
979.
by pif 6y ago
> Excel interprets a number and then formats it as a number, Unless you instruct it to interpret the field as a string. > but in healthcare, 10 digit numbers are really strings. I'm wondering, if you expect 10 digits and you get
980.
by pif 6y ago
> But Britain is not America. Actually, the rest of the world is not the USA. But it looks like too many people in theUSA are too thick to get it.
981.
by pif 6y ago
> Being able to pick up tasks reliably Based on the people I met, this usually comes with a great talent in completing tasks within the imposed delay, by putting in the least amount of effort as possible (especially with regards to unde
982.
by pif 6y ago
You are right. I don't understand why developers should take into consideration any possible psychological quirk of any potential user.
983.
by pif 6y ago
I agree with you, and I expressed the same point four years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11908567
984.
by pif 6y ago
What did they do in order to promote peace?
985.
by pif 6y ago
> my first instinct is "no that can't be right" There's nothing wrong with that. It's also the normal reaction when you are presented with more advanced concepts, like relativity and quantum mechanics. It's
986.
by pif 6y ago
You're right. Zero Kelvin means no _entropy_.
987.
by pif 6y ago
> Loccount on my "ugly, not modular" backend[...] > > all SLOC=2284 (100.00%) LLOC=0 in 13 files > > Loccount on the "very clean" backend of the previous contractor: > > all SLOC=12507 (100.00%) LLOC
988.
by pif 6y ago
> Very clean. Also, changing the slightest things required to go through 5-6 files. No, it was not clean at all!
989.
by pif 6y ago
> humans are a complex chemical reaction that has reached the point where it can release energy through splitting of atoms Could you expand a bit on this point? What are you talking about, exactly? By the way, a reaction concerning split
990.
by pif 6y ago
> The tendency to blame the victim in grade-crossing accidents exasperates cognitive psychologist Green: “That lets the authorities off the hook. Then they don’t have to redesign the system.” And why should they? Some people die, but how

More ›