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by sacado2 8y ago
The problem with the nuclear bomb is it's a weapon to kill civilians, not to destroy strategic military targets. Plus, it's a horrible way to die. Dying because you have a building fall on you, or because a bullet goes through you
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by sacado2 8y ago
I can totally buy the narrative that the first bomb was a necessary evil. But, yeah, launching the second one was definitely avoidable.
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by sacado2 8y ago
Khaddaffi (not sure about spelling) was a friend of France just a few years before he got killed. He was even invited to put his tent in the gardens of the Élysée by newly elected president Sarkozy, four years before. And back then, Khaddaf
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by sacado2 8y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted there. Regarding Syria, the same thing happened as with Iraq. In Iraq, the US and UK said "Saddam has mass destruction weapons, we must attack him", and the French said "okay, just show
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by sacado2 8y ago
I'm not especially a lonely person, I have a job, I have hobbies almost every day of the week, but I live alone and sometimes wonder how long it would take for people to notice "hey, this is really strange, anybody got news?"
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by sacado2 8y ago
> So we should expect a decline in sexual relationships as the prevalence of obesity rises. I don't have the numbers at hand, but AFAIK it's the case. People on average have less and less sexual relations, despite the so-called
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by sacado2 8y ago
Not parent but I tend to think there are broadly 3 "languages", with 3 very different cultures and mindset: - C, which is, well, pure, raw C, - C++, which tends to gravitate toward modern C++ (C++11 and later), and focuses on avoi
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by sacado2 8y ago
I agree, there is more C code used in everyday life than anything else. But, regarding job offers, there's a bias, because this code tends to be very stable. The code in your microwave was written 10 years ago, and didn't change s
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by sacado2 8y ago
And Pascal was a big language back then. Big software like photoshop were written in it, IIRC. The very first version of GCC, in the late 80s (when it was not even called that way) was written in a pascal dialect, too (and compiled both C a
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by sacado2 8y ago
I didn't mean it in the sense "C developers can't find a job", but in the sense professional C programing is a niche; low supply, low demand. When you're a freshly graduated student and there are 10 companies at 30
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by sacado2 8y ago
C is a weird language, in the job market. It's at the core of all our electronic infrastructure, it's important to learn it if you want to be a serious developer, yet nowadays you can hardly find a job that is "pure C".
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by sacado2 8y ago
Actually that's why series on TV are so addictive. They have different plots with different lengths at the same time. Typical schema: one plot episode-length (the case being solved, this week's bad guy), one plot season-length (th
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by sacado2 8y ago
Which one is it then? Oedipus? Cinderella? Man in the hole? That story looks like a perfect sine wave, and has no defined ending (I heard it with more or less steps). It does not fit any of those 6 predefined patterns.
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by sacado2 8y ago
This is not a novel, but it's a traditional oral tale (from Tao Tö King apparently). I've heard it several times from different storytellers. It usually lasts about 2-3 mins, no more. But the original article is not especially abo
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by sacado2 8y ago
You still need a resolution, though. (1) conflict (2) either conflict is solved or it is definitely unsolved.
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by sacado2 8y ago
Not sure you even need the first part. A character has a problem and tries to solve it, until he either succeeds or definitely fails. Lots of stories start with a conflict at the very first line, without any kind of setup (especially thrill
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by sacado2 8y ago
There's a traditional variant of this schema: A poor man uses all his money to buy a horse. "You must be happy", his neighbor says. "I don't know", answers the man. The next day, the horse escapes. "Your h
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by sacado2 8y ago
You might like go, indeed. At first, when I tried go (just after 1.0 went out), I wrote a small program with it and thought "meh". Yeah, the program was doing its job, but the language was pretty boring. A year later, I decided to
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by sacado2 8y ago
I firmly believe you need both theory and practice to be a good engineer (note I neither said technician or company founder/manager). Now, I tend to think most Universities / public schools tend to focus a little too much on theor
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by sacado2 8y ago
In the University where I teach, fees are below €500 a year, AFAIK.
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by sacado2 8y ago
Are there any studies proving the effectiveness of CoCs ? Like, more active contributors, or a bigger market share, on projects after they adopted their CoC?
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by sacado2 8y ago
For strength training, I can only recommend the "minimalist routine" from the bodyweightfitness subreddit[1]. Basically, push-ups, rows, lunges and planks. Works all major muscle groups, needs very little to no material, and will
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by sacado2 8y ago
Plus, static typing acts as a formal documentation, which is more than welcome when you get to maintain someone else's code.
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by sacado2 8y ago
I'm using tokei for that. EDIT: it gives you the number of lines of code, blank lines and comment lines, for each language in your project.
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by sacado2 8y ago
Yep, but life expectancy is not a very intuitive concept. When they read "life expectancy was 25 years", many people tend to think a 30 year old was some kind of lucky but senile guy back then. Dying of old age was just not the no
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by sacado2 8y ago
I'm using typescript, so I already have a statically-typed language for my web apps. What is compelling with WASM is that it lets me provide a web-browser version of my C++ libraries, for stuff which needs decent execution speed and ca
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by sacado2 8y ago
Not easy, because you want the best of all worlds: safe(1), low level(2), efficient(3), easy to learn(4) and easy to implement (5)? All of that seems quite incompatible to me. And C remains the language of choice, because it fulfills all th
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by sacado2 8y ago
Not OP but I'd say it's the shortest path to obesity, unless you have a very strong will. I never buy anything at the automated machines at my workplace, but when my colleagues bring some food for others to share, I always take so
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by sacado2 8y ago
We have a hard time making them pay their taxes, I'm pretty sure we won't be able to regulate them anytime soon.
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by sacado2 8y ago
TBH, people don't really care about who owns what. We know it because it's our domain of expertise, but, for instance, I couldn't tell you if Uncle Ben's rice is owned by Nestlé, Unilever, Kraft Foods, Mars, Coca-Cola or

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