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rantwasp
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rantwasp
5y ago
4 line functions everywhere is insanity. yes, you should aim for short functions that do one thing, but in the real world readability and maintainability would suffer greatly if you fragment everything down to an arbitrarily small number.
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rantwasp
5y ago
Uncle Bob makes a living selling snake oil. Which one should we listen to?
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rantwasp
5y ago
why not both? get the money and do something you enjoy?
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rantwasp
5y ago
you’re making Bezos richer while you get rich yourself. the 2nd part is important
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rantwasp
5y ago
you’d be just fine at FANG. you are taking horror stories and thinking that is the way things happen at X. Your experience at a big company is mostly dictated by 1) your boss and 2) your team. There are good pockets in the worst places and
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rantwasp
5y ago
hah. nope. you are simplifying things a lot. working hard does not mean shit. whenever you hear someone saying they want hard workers you should turn around and run. delivering results is where it’s at. people do this at startups and compan
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rantwasp
5y ago
nah. the bad news is that a lot of energy is generated with coal. so you get the arsenic and other crap with our without bitcoin. now, the question is: who decides what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable for energy use?
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5y ago
so you saw what i was trying to point out. the problem is not political things. it’s people that are turning a difference of opinion into “cancelling” someone else. my opinion is that you literally cannot ban politics at work. people will s
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rantwasp
5y ago
you do have tolerance. you just don’t know it. a lot of things are “political”. You cannot share virtually anything about you or your life without some political subtext. Try sharing something, anything and I’ll make it political in 2 easy
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5y ago
you’re right /s
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rantwasp
5y ago
Once all the cryptos crash this will be a moot point. Also all cryptos are bad for the environment. The reporting should be for transfers less than 5$. /s
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rantwasp
5y ago
yes, decentralized. That's why you were using Github? (i'm going to completely leave out issues such timings of updates in the repo, failed nodes, etc) the groundbreaking innovation when it comes to blockchain is distributed trust
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rantwasp
5y ago
once you compare it to CP it’s clear you have a valid argument. democracy? data privacy? thanks for the good laugh
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rantwasp
5y ago
i have some bad news for you when it comes to how lot of electricity is generated. Also, how do you decide which computing is good and which computing is bad?
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rantwasp
5y ago
here is a starting point for you: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00917... if you workout (strength + cardio), you eat properly, you minimize stress level and you sleep well 10 yea
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5y ago
yup. it is silly to compare the banking system with bitcoin. bitcoin is obviously better. does it close at 5pm? does it close on the weekend? my point is that you don’t get to decide what i consume. and banning bitcoin == banning any type o
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5y ago
consuming energy (and paying for it) is not even the same species with dumping toxic chemicals
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rantwasp
5y ago
normally i would agree with you but no. not for C++. having worked with C++ in the past I would not venture to say I know C++ today (it’s been a while) or have high hopes that I would just pick it up in a few weeks like any other normal lan
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rantwasp
5y ago
if you’re afraid now, wait until you learn that these people vote. democracy! f yeah!
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5y ago
“communities”. it’s all fun and games until I ban something you rely on for your livelihood
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rantwasp
5y ago
yes. also let’s start capping the amount of oxygen people are allowed to breathe. I mean, without oxygen you cannot produce co2, amiright? /s
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rantwasp
5y ago
whatever happened to the efficient market? i find views that want to ban anything for energy consumption ridiculous. also what the people advocating for this kind of thing are missing is that it’s all fun and games until something you rely
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5y ago
also https://reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal since you’re here, you should also learn about: https://reddit.com/r/dolphinconspiracy https://reddit.com/r/GiraffesDontExist
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5y ago
so fire the underperforming kids? got it
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rantwasp
5y ago
well. it depends. most people i’ve talked to are not afraid of being old, they’re afraid of all the health issues and poor quality of life that comes with being old. so, my question is: if you could have the life quality of a 40yo at 80, an
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5y ago
Best: Trust is a two way street. When people trust each other and build on top of what others have built magical things happen. Worst: Giving the benefit of the doubt for more than a few times will inevitably end in a disaster if the person
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rantwasp
5y ago
i believe you can add 10-15 years easily if you: eat right, exercise and avoid nasty chemicals. Easily. It does not take that much more time, but it can be more expensive when it comes to food and products you use. If you go into the exper
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5y ago
okay. so the vaccine itself is different, but the end result spike protein is the same. I assumed that the spike proteins would look similar (99.5%+) and was actually expecting differences in the “area that holds the protein together at the
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5y ago
https://status.salesforce.com/
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5y ago
here. do the diff yourself: https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV... I’m not gonna go into how the virus was sequenced or what the process to generate the vaccine was, but in this case, I believe
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