sametmax

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by sametmax 6y ago
I predict it will rain after a sunny day. Some day.
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by sametmax 6y ago
What do you think we speak when interracting with the germans ? English.
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by sametmax 6y ago
The only reason we can even have this important debate is because the whole thread can communicate in english.
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by sametmax 6y ago
> And that's not necessarily a good thing. Nothing is 100% gain or loss. But I believe there is nothing in our current situation that is worth more than having a united humanity, which can only happen if well all can understand each
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by sametmax 6y ago
I know. And I believe it's ok to lose that too. We will develop different ways of thinking or improve the language we use. I don't think there is anything in what we currently have that can compare to a united humanity. And this o
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by sametmax 6y ago
I think it will have the opposite effect. Once we see the benefit of being able to communicate freely with anybody, and losing the protective aspect of being able to communicate in a language others can't understand, I think people wil
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by sametmax 6y ago
> Preserving their traditional alphabet and de-colonializing their culture is a good thing, no matter how I look at it There are downsides to any situation. E.G: - cost - available resources for education and work - adding one more obsta
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by sametmax 7y ago
> One difference between them is that a dangerous concentration of power is inherent to communism You mean in opposition to a system that promotes the concentration of capital, which is power ? Or do you think non capitalist systems don&
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by sametmax 7y ago
Don't worry, they will be plenty of exceptions and deals in France to bypass that after the fact. We just won't hear about it.
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by sametmax 7y ago
Investing is privatizing the risks and the benefits. Bailing out is privatizing the benefits but mutualizing the risks. It's taking what favors you from both capitalism and socialism, call that a free market, and pretend it's for
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by sametmax 7y ago
Yes, but should not have to learn about fire by putting your hand in it for 20 years. In a room full of pyromaniacs calling themself firefighters. As a defenseless kid. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/gallery/Yiql
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by sametmax 7y ago
Not that much related, but it's one of the reason I love the game "baba is you" so much. It explains nothing. But it is carefully crafted to drive you in the right direction so that you discover things by yourself, step by st
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by sametmax 7y ago
As a kid, it's very easy to make friends. You don't need school for that. Three of my child hood best friends were not in my schools. I sill visit one regularly, 20 years later. In fact, I'll argue that school distort the chi
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by sametmax 7y ago
+1. Even as an adult, If I could do it all again, I would avoid school as much as possible. School is an upgrade from child labor, but I now have enough experience to know it's a downgrade from what I can learn of my own. Not saying ev
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by sametmax 7y ago
It's not a matter of morality, politic leaning or envy. We collectively agree, as a human specy, that fairness, equality and democracy are quality we want to cultivate. A high difference between rich and poor is a sign of power concent
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by sametmax 7y ago
Thanks. French here, I need this.
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by sametmax 7y ago
I like positivism. And I think given what we see in the news all the time it's important to promote good things. But stating "best decade in human" history is really tongue in cheek. You could has well hand pick other indicat
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by sametmax 7y ago
The problem here seems more unwanted pregnancies than with teenagers having sex. I se how less sex is an easy solution to the problem, but it is also the wrong one. Your teenage years are when you have the more energy and hormones, you are
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by sametmax 7y ago
It worked for Microsoft. They started as liked hackers. Then they went full throttle with monopolistic practices, corruption, patent trolling, litterally and publically insulting the competition... And now, they just use a tiny fraction of
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by sametmax 7y ago
They do that because it works. I remember clearly an interview of a very famous IT billionaire going this way: - What's the most annoying myth about you? - A myth migh be that I'm the most generous philantropist of all time. [...B
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by sametmax 7y ago
+1 to that. Add on top of it that by design, a lot of Python coders are not professional programmers, and you get yourself a better model of why migrating was so long. People coded an untested unstructured project that worked on their machi
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by sametmax 7y ago
> Everyone suffered. Everyone had to deal with Python2 versus Python3 bullshit. It's not just about migrating some codebase. Updating software version is part of the job. Like creating tests, writing documentation, training newbies
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by sametmax 7y ago
The science stack is also the one that starting migrating the earliest. Hell, numpy started supporting Python 3 eight years ago, while five years ago people were still complaining so much they got the EOL delayed. Not saying there are not s
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by sametmax 7y ago
By experience, people with large Python projects often overblown the difficulty of porting in their head. Unless you have a very rare irreplaceable dependency or some terrible C extension, porting is easy. It's tedious yes. Boring even
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by sametmax 7y ago
Ordered dicts and f-strings are also very sweet!
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by sametmax 7y ago
Windows 10 now offer you to install Python 3 if you do this.
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by sametmax 7y ago
> I'm still surprised that it's taken this long to finally close support That's because the Python community is too nice. When Ruby or node broke compat, they just said "move or die". People moved. When Python br
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by sametmax 7y ago
I don't understand the goal though. What to gain ? Training for another big target ?
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by sametmax 7y ago
Compared to where ? $2 isn't even worth the same, depending of the place you are in the US.
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by sametmax 7y ago
Intel ME is not a conspiracy. It's a feature.

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