reallydude

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by reallydude 7y ago
> Other species are intelligent, but none of them have our innate ability to communicate using complex language. That isn't proven. There is plenty of evidence, that "complex" is relative and humans have limited sensory or
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by reallydude 7y ago
If a condition is already bad, why bother trying to make it better? ie: > Any claim that Google would have helped China censor Chinese citizens ignores the fact that Chinese search engines are already censored "...so it isn't h
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by reallydude 7y ago
Hard is being used in a "type the keys" sense. It's more complexity to borrow idioms from languages then slightly change the syntax (PHP!), which isn't necessary. Like most languages, choices are made without evidence (b
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by reallydude 7y ago
> I think MySQL smells like poor engineering, and PostgreSQL like good engineering > It’s like Python vs PHP, in some ways. Not just the ordering of the characterization, which would paint PHP in the positive light you clearly think i
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by reallydude 7y ago
> So generally whenever somebody in America mentions treason, they're being hyperbolic or misleading, Some people simply don't need to understand the distinction between similarly used terms. In the end, prosecutors can file mu
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by reallydude 7y ago
Elixir is Ruby like wrapper to a prolog based syntax to do actor based programming. It's more of a mess trying to move Erlang's syntax forward than interesting, but ok. Ponylang is listed as "--" instead of "concurr
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by reallydude 7y ago
Nicest for Python, I assume. Many languages have FFI. Lua, PHP, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface I don't understand the choice of Python for things like gluing together C programs. Se
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by reallydude 7y ago
> I would not include such bad behavior from some bad actors as part of the "human condition" It is. You take the good with the bad. There's not a lot of evidence this is "bad" within that spectrum. It's ver
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by reallydude 7y ago
> A good programmer will write readable code in any language, That's a fantasy, pure and simple. Taking the statement on its face, let us ignore the undefined boundaries of "good" or "readable" and focus on the p
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by reallydude 7y ago
> It's never good enough to excuse the behavior. The behavior of click-bait ads isn't terrible in a way that should cause someone to question their own ethics. You may disagree. So what? You aren't going to fix the human c
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by reallydude 7y ago
You have to jump through the link to the original article which then has a link to relevant papers, eg: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/339/6116/178
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by reallydude 7y ago
since it's clearly a fabrication to serve some sort of fear-monger campaign.
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by reallydude 7y ago
Historical average is relevant. I have an 18 year old cat. It's an aberration. We evolved under specific pressures. Only recently, have we removed specific age gates.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> what could be changed in the ecosystem to support this goal? 1. Change the syntax. Elixir wasn't far enough. Not at all and BEAM doesn't need to know, so we have a chicken-egg problem of people entrenched don't want to s
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by reallydude 7y ago
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean, but I assume it has something to do with arguing about choosing the alternate source of fact on top of the discussion about criticism of wikipedia, which is used as a source of fact. This
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by reallydude 7y ago
> n what way could Britannica possibly be better than Wikipedia. > Mind giving some examples? Google can help you with these questions, to your own satisfaction.
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by reallydude 7y ago
My friend, Tiana Baldwin, focused on the statistical correlation between Nursing Home costs and survival metrics. She got an award for her master thesis (and graduated), before becoming the city planner for Anaheim, CA. I would have thought
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by reallydude 7y ago
> getting rid of racism and gender inequality You can't get rid of racial and gender inequality, because we're inherently inequal to each other AND between the genders. It's in our DNA for the foreseeable future. We can di
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by reallydude 7y ago
As is the Himalayan Blackberry - https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/himalayan-blackberry The himalayan environment spawned some very pernicious and hardy species!
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by reallydude 7y ago
> What we (programmers) normally mean by working we mean "It fulfills the requirement that it was developed against". > Things like code quality, maintainability etc. are separate issues. That's your characterization an
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by reallydude 7y ago
> It's not just ineffective, it's dishonest. People don't understand, so they ask for more information. That's about as honest as it gets. > tax incentives are the way the government pays people and companies to c
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by reallydude 7y ago
There are special gloves, that I have, which allow for gestures on my phone. It uses some sort of special mesh on the outside.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> including tech debt Tech Debt is not little, or we wouldn't carry it around, rather than devote time (and risk of revealing new unknowns) to fixing it. My agile experience has always favored conquering little stuff first, since pp
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by reallydude 7y ago
> If the requirements change then the code should change. That's the nature of the term "Legacy", that you are using. It met requirements that are not the same today (sometimes it's just standards of coding). It didn&
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by reallydude 7y ago
> Legacy means it worked. No and shame on you for pushing this idea, is my first reaction. "worked" doesn't mean anything. Positing this redefinition of Legacy (and implying what "worked" means) rubs me the wrong
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by reallydude 7y ago
> US had no problem when they supported Sadam attacking Iran with poisonous gases And that was in the past? The US had no problem segregating schools at one point. It's not compelling to bringing up an ancient relationship, where no
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Australia is not a national security concern. This is political wargaming.
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> As others have pointed out, that's hardly a contrary opinion. Opinions are almost universally contrary, despite the knowledge that the URL can be a tool. How often is it put forth that the URL is meant to be indempotent or the URL
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by reallydude 7y ago
Yet people did this all the time (2advanced, HomestarRunner, etc) because the web as an application (a product) was served particularly well by an application platform.
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by reallydude 7y ago
There are no consequences. You don't need additional oversight. This is not semantics, at the core of the issue. The idea that oversight (ie another layer of bureaucracy) is a solution to a problem is what the US legal system has to av

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