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by rimliu 5y ago
I do miss some people. I do not contact them, because I do not think they feel the same way about me, and I do not want to bother them. Social anxiety is a thing.
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by rimliu 5y ago
Look where big bosses from FDA ended up.
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by rimliu 5y ago
This is the exact example I use too. Now self-driving till AI has a proper world model, so maybe not ever. Another case: I drive and see an empty paper bag blown onto the road by the wind. I know it is empty because of the way it flew, but
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by rimliu 5y ago
There is nothing easy about XHTML. Or rather it is only easy if you ignore the essential parts of it.
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by rimliu 5y ago
I am in Lithuania. For the last 10 years all companies I worked for were dominated by Macs.
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by rimliu 5y ago
"If you mix science and politics, you get politics"
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by rimliu 5y ago
In Russian the very informal version is "Пока". Literally "Till" with implied "till we meet again".
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by rimliu 5y ago
Is "dedicated to the company" mentality still a thing? Let's say the same company buys supplies form supplier X. Then supplier Y shows up with 30% reduced price, same quality. Do you think the company will show "dedicati
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by rimliu 5y ago
I came to conclusion that very few people actually understand what a good OO design is and ever fewer have skills to implement it. All this talk about SOLID patterns and what is more likely to result in overengineered monstrosity than in so
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by rimliu 5y ago
This is so annoying. They measure X and then claim that effect is Y. Which was not measured at all.
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by rimliu 5y ago
Can we please stop repeating this "normal behaviour in many countries in Asia"? Because those countries still get flu and covid. Something being normal somewhere does not mean that it has any measurable effect.
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by rimliu 5y ago
My take is: the love for SW is cultural. When you grow up in the culture where it is adored (no matter how justified that adoration is) you keep it in higher regard. I am not from US, I was not exposed to SW or anything around it as a kid s
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by rimliu 5y ago
> It’s fairly easy to pass a driving test. Not in EU.
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by rimliu 5y ago
What is "real"? Do you count infrared? Ultraviolet? What if you are color blind? For me photo is how I see it, not some "representation of reality" whatever that reality may be.
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by rimliu 5y ago
And yet iPhone is one of the best examples of accessible product. Can you provide any examples supporting your "IMO"?
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by rimliu 5y ago
What could those whims be? To go out of business?
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by rimliu 5y ago
I'd argue that never learning is the primary reason those frameworks exist.
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by rimliu 5y ago
"It has never been easier to sweep things under the carpet."
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by rimliu 5y ago
But how many of them are ObjC only at this point.
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by rimliu 5y ago
And this is that makes practice deliberate and not just repeating things over and over.
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by rimliu 5y ago
So do not think, and go and look. Turns out that's exactly what scientists have been saying for a few months already.
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by rimliu 5y ago
Yes, not at all. For young kids flu is way worse.
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by rimliu 5y ago
That's an outdated source.
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by rimliu 5y ago
Also in Lithuania: it is forbidden to use hong in urban areas unless it is to prevent an accident.
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by rimliu 5y ago
> Deaths lag on the order of two months Pure BS.
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by rimliu 5y ago
How about this thought experiment: what if we had no PCR tests. We would not care about asymptomatic or mild cases.
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by rimliu 5y ago
If anything, Fukushima shows that even doing it wrong (not accounting for one-in-the-hundred-years disaster) is still very safe.
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by rimliu 5y ago
For a long time I am considering anything coming out of F an anti-pattern and an example of bad engineering.
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by rimliu 5y ago
I wonder when will diversity require to also be skill-wise: like it is required to have someone on your team who cannot code at all, just for the sake of bringing "different perspective".
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by rimliu 5y ago
You mean Safari, that browser that does not kill your battery?

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