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by rumanator 6y ago
Wisdom is not a function of age. It's not a present you open on your birthday. You may get wiser as years go by, but that doesn't mean you get to be wiser than those around you. There are plenty of people who are wiser and more kn
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by rumanator 6y ago
The idea that "ok boomer" is supposed to be dismissive of opinions and personal assertions based exclusively on age is a red herring. It makes as much sense as asserting that the "Karen" meme is dismissive of women. That
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by rumanator 6y ago
> You hear responses from younger generations like "Ok Boomer" to their elders' opinions and it is so cringe-worthy. The problem I see is that some elders feel that their personal opinions hold some kind of authoritative v
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by rumanator 6y ago
> I agree but here is my take: These companies don't deserve this much of your attention or feelings. None of the arguments are emotional responses. All arguments are rational responses to the problems that both Apple and Epic Games
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by rumanator 6y ago
> How many Monad explanations need to be written before we admit that the Monad is an unsatisfactory abstraction for practical purposes? That's really not true, is it? I mean, you only need to look at how monads are used to express
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Isn't that Inversion Of Control, not Dependency Injection? Dependency injection is one of the techniques used to implement inversion of control. > I've always thought of Dependency Injection as about "declaring a clas
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Lol. Please, stop for just a second, and imagine that situation. This guy responds to a personal ad for sex. Gets a response that says "i'm 13" and a picture of a middle-aged man. Goes over to the poster's house, is
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Let's imagine all the facts were the same, but the police sent a picture of Nancy Pelosi instead. And when the poor schmuck showed up with a condom in his pocket, Nancy herself beckoned him in. Are you still going to convict him b
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by rumanator 6y ago
> volatile is good for thread coordination. He has a point, though. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/cv > Every access (read or write operation, member function call, etc.) made through a glva
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by rumanator 6y ago
Indeed fanboyism is a thing, but personally I don't see it in this case. I see arguments accusing a monopolistic app store manager who is enforcing draconian guidelines to abuse it's monopoly, and I see arguments accusing a softwa
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by rumanator 6y ago
> That's a separate issue from technical debt because whether code is generalized is only one aspect of many that determines whether the code is a dream or a nightmare to work with. That's one of the problems attributed to gold
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by rumanator 6y ago
> - competent programmers who do a good job write the best code in the shortest amount of As much as it pains me, this is an undisputed fact. If you get two developers to implement the same ticket and both hit the definition of done, but
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Unfortunately, supporting a brand as team sports is a thing like supporting a political party as team sports is. My take is the exact opposite: this episode is an opportunity to air grievances regarding each company, which by themselve
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by rumanator 6y ago
> “Creating technical debt” is about not spending the time to find a good way to initially write the code, leaving it to a later point in time. This is the wrong way to describe and explain technical debt. It fails primarily to sell the
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by rumanator 6y ago
I don't see your point. In C and C++, volatile is just a compiler hint to disable some classes of optimizations. It was never intended to be used to sync threads because it offers no such assurances.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> At my current place of work, we have a rack of Mac mini’s in a closet as our build server for the iOS app. One of the main selling points that Apple uses to sell Mac minis is their use in build farms and render farms. If you click on A
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by rumanator 6y ago
> There was no age mentioned in the ad. The underage girl featured in the ad repeatedly stated her age. When he replied to the ad, the convicted sex offender prompted her about her age and she made it quite clear to him that she was ind
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by rumanator 6y ago
> No, it wasn’t, it was written by a police officer. The ad was posted by a police unit conducting a sting operations designed to catch child predators, and not only did the underage girl depicted in the ad stated repeatedly she was 13 y
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Yeah and the 60 year old man that cat fished him also repeatedly stated that he was an attractive 21 year old women What's your point? Having sex with a 21 year old woman isn't a crime. Perhaps you could have a point if he t
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by rumanator 6y ago
> You are mixing up fiction and fact. She wasn't 13, at best she was (poorly) trying to pose as a 13yo. The sex offender caught in the sting was trying to meet a 13 years old girl. That fact was even admitted by the sex offender be
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by rumanator 6y ago
> And happened to look like a 24 year old. Would it matter to you if it was a middle-aged man with a moustache? I mean, the same sex offender also admitted he once tried to meet a girl for sex even though it ended up being a 70 year old
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by rumanator 6y ago
> It's more like a lottery because you "know" the what you are doing So do Ponzi-scheme victims.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> So just to be clear, is it your belief that Craigslist personal ads are mostly written by children? The ad the convicted sex offender replied to was explicitly written by children, a fact that he was repeatedly made well aware and ackn
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by rumanator 6y ago
> Odd, the article describe a 24yo girl actively trying to meet a 20yo for sex The article describes a sting operation led by a 24 year-old police officer that caught a man actively trying to have sex with a girl he was fully aware was 1
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by rumanator 6y ago
> No. One officer sent the man pictures of a 24 year old woman and lied to him that she was 13. No, the officer conducting the sting happened to be 24 years old. Yet, not only was the girl making it quite clear she was indeed 13 years o
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by rumanator 6y ago
> I think you’ve made a big error in your reading of this story if you got the impression that he regularly hooked up with underage girls. I said he admitted he already had sex with 5 or 6 girls of unspecified age the same way he was cau
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by rumanator 6y ago
> No, you'd be insane to make bets on Tesla, for the simple reason that there are a lot of people making crazy bets on Tesla. Sounds like a Ponzi scheme.
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by rumanator 6y ago
> I'd agree with you if the supposed victim wasn’t a 24 year old who provided pictures of themselves in the lead-up to the meeting. That's quite the disingenuous take on the case. You're just cherry-picking the age of the
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by rumanator 6y ago
> The subject of this article certainly displayed poor judgement, but wasn’t any kind of danger to society without this scenario constructed by the police. I don't agree. The whole point of sting operations is that they enable polic
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by rumanator 6y ago
> However the article is a bit click-baity as it was really about a decrease in sales for Tesla due to the pandemic, not because someone else outsold them. I doubt you read the same article as me, because a) the article quite clearly sta

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