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by robonerd 4y ago
The problem with this premise is that by raising the bar for any IDE that wants to support that language, you risk the creation of an IDE monoculture.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> It's more to type and read I wouldn't even say that. Using words (or multi-letter symbols generally) may be more to type, but virtually everybody uses editors with completion features and those completion features tend to
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It's like a used car salesman who claims his name is 'Honest' Freddy. You'd think such flagrantly shameless self-aggrandizement would make everybody turn and run, but evidently it works on some people.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> Don’t better working conditions attract better employees? Nope. Perception of better working conditions attracts better employees. Actually improving working condition is one way to boilster that perception but companies have fo
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by robonerd 4y ago
A union that isn't protectionist, in every relevant sense of that term, seems worse than useless.
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by robonerd 4y ago
In my view the best arguments for neoliberal globalism were international trade making things cheaper and making wars impossible. Except by now it should be obvious that efficient international trade is a race to the bottom which creates
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by robonerd 4y ago
I've 'learned' that there are always two kinds of workers; those who agree with the union, and those who've been brainwashed. There is never room for those who simply have another opinion.
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by robonerd 4y ago
When they're following the law, which is most of the time, they put "cellulose" in the ingredients list on the package. This sort of product is usually not mislabeled. In that case it wasn't, and the company was rightl
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by robonerd 4y ago
There is public opposition to building desalination plants in part because a lot of people don't like that solution. For starters, it just sounds bad; it sounds like a company brushing aside pollution concerns by saying they'll
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I don't see the problem. The holding tanks would be concrete lined basins amounting to relatively small reservoirs. Not exactly unprecedented.
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by robonerd 4y ago
The dilution can be done in holding tanks. Fill a tank a tenth of the way with the hyper-saline brine (or whatever the right ratio is), flood the rest of it with sea water, stir it around for a while then dump it into the ocean. If the h
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by robonerd 4y ago
The American government has little interest in protecting the word 'Parmesan' itself; firstly because doing so would be inconvenient to American cheesemakers^, and secondly, because Americans don't speak Italian anyway and do
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by robonerd 4y ago
> cut with fillers like wood pulp Label fraud aside, I really don't understand the vitriol that gets directed against grated cheese being sold with cellulose. It's only there to make the cheese shake out better (which it doe
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by robonerd 4y ago
> If yes then that would mean that anybody that deals with "Parmigiano Reggiano"-based-products would have to request some kind of access (userid&pwd, or some ssl-certificate, etc...) and submit transactions (basically lik
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by robonerd 4y ago
And if they think this is a good idea for hiring, they probably don't stop there. Imagine all your work emails being run through such evaluations every year during performance review.
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by robonerd 4y ago
These are such inane questions. > What was your first Linux distribution, and why did you start there? "Red Hat Linux, and I started there because I found a CD to install it in the cover of Red Hat Linux For Dummies at my local
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by robonerd 4y ago
Presumably addressing this threat is what America's 50+ SSNs are for.
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> Picasso mastered "typical" art before he engaged in the abstract forms, right? That's what makes him special. So in a hypothetical future where memory of Picasso's 'typical art' mastery has been lost, th
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by robonerd 4y ago
The family braid.
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by robonerd 4y ago
> We have hundreds of Aegis boats 113, if you count Japan's, Korea's, and the rest of NATO (with 137 more planned.) These are spread around the world, and only some of them are Aegis BMD. And not all of those will be ready
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by robonerd 4y ago
> de-orbiting tungsten rods Over-hyped I think. Sure the kinetic energy is incredible, but what of the terminal ballistics? I think these would have substantial over-penetration against anything except deep bunkers; most of that kine
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by robonerd 4y ago
They don't maneuver for shit in the terminal phase. Boost-glide weapons avoid mid-course interception by staying relatively low in the upper atmosphere rather than following a high ballistic trajectory well into space. Once they&#x
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> Except the associated plasma shielding makes it invisible to radar. All hypersonic ballistic missile reentry vehicles have this plasma stealth. That doesn't stop Aegis BDM from tracking and intercepting them. Have you ever se
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> Current Aegis and CIWS defensive tech will not hit something traveling that fast. Aegis BDM is designed to hit hypersonic reentry vehicles. CIWS is irrelevant, why even bring it up?
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by robonerd 4y ago
My money is still on Aegis BMD intercepting the missile during the terminal phase. Hypersonic glide-boost weapons are mainly for avoiding mid-course interception. When you're going hypersonic, 'maneuverable' is relative; t
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by robonerd 4y ago
All ballistic missile reentry vehicles are hypersonic too. Talk of "hypersonic" without specifying the technology and actual capabilities is quite silly. Presumably hypersonic cruise missiles is implicit context.. but I don&#x
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> in Germany and 19 per 100k is almost 3 times the maternal mortality rate here, and we're already a little high compared to most of the EU. Sure if you compare it to countries with barely any medical infrastructure it's very
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by robonerd 4y ago
> We have killed 1550 people this year for the death penalty. You're considerably off with that. In America, 6 people have been executed so far in 2022 and 11 people were executed for the whole of 2021.
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by robonerd 4y ago
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
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by robonerd 4y ago
You don't have to agree with a ruling to understand a ruling. In this case, understanding Roe vs Wade means understanding that it was argued using the 14th Amendment. Whether or not you agree with Roe vs Wade is rather irrelevant.

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