sethrin

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by sethrin 10y ago
Yes, that line came out of arguments with greybeards about the problems of the younger generation and using all these fancy frameworks and wasting memory and CPU cycles. I will also add the further caveat for anyone else who arrives here th
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by sethrin 10y ago
With a few caveats: * It's a work in progress and a bit lacking in visual presentation at the moment * The target audience is the novice developer * I am writing from my own experience and I am not an expert * "comprehensive guide
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by sethrin 10y ago
I'm familiar enough with Bash to have written an opinionated but more-or-less comprehensive guide to it. I think Bash should be avoided as much as possible. Bash is great for things that you would have had to type out anyway, but using
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by sethrin 10y ago
The hole in your logic is that you have the idea that drugs are taken because people feel badly, when in fact humans simply have a natural preference for altered mental states. Also, the vast majority of human cultures condone the use of so
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by sethrin 10y ago
If you understood the models well enough to critique them you would be a scientist in that field, and presumably your criticism would be in the form of an academic paper. However, you are merely a pseudointellectual science denier with an e
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by sethrin 10y ago
There's nothing inherently bad about a lack of mental anguish (how could there be), and being poor does not automatically mean you're laboring under some mental anguish. There is, in fact, nothing more wrong with smoking the occas
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by sethrin 10y ago
It's not "job hunt mode", it's "face time mode". You want to be visible, and you want people to be aware of your capabilities. If you're accomplishing that in ways that don't cut into your other socia
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by sethrin 10y ago
Your refusal to engage with the points enumerated by the parent poster erases your credibility. Dunning and Kruger are vindicated once more.
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by sethrin 10y ago
I actually started doing that recently. I will sometimes wake up after only three hours. I don't necessarily think that genetics are necessary, on the other hand I do have some family history of this. Personally, I don't think muc
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by sethrin 10y ago
It was a focal point but I couldn't call it a major driver in and of itself. To the degree that it represented trade restraint and taxation issues, sure, but people didn't actually start a war and found a new nation because of the
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by sethrin 10y ago
I suspect at this point that Elon's entire goal in naming things these days is to troll people. The naming of his autonomous barges after sentient spacecraft from Iain Banks novels is quite clever, and his announcement of 'The Bor
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by sethrin 10y ago
Philosphically this is a valid position. Similarly with e.g. nihilism. Practically, there is such thing as an abstract concept, and your attempting to argue otherwise is sophomoric.
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by sethrin 10y ago
You're correct to say that mathematics is not empirical, but why you think that somehow invalidates it is obscure. Judging by your last paragraph, your position is more informed by mysticism than a knowledge of epistemology. Mathematic
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by sethrin 10y ago
How is that a comment on coding standards or best practices? I'm afraid the arguments against procedural code are not religious. Procedural code provides poor encapsulation and modularity. If procedural code was all that great, we woul
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by sethrin 10y ago
Voluntary association could produce hierarchies, and it's interesting to think about what sort of societies would result. But classically government is defined as a monopoly on violence, and that formulation essentially rules out the p
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by sethrin 10y ago
Wordpress is a legacy procedural codebase and should not be used as an example of good development practices.
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by sethrin 10y ago
That PDF is one of the worse documents of any kind that I have seen. Given that you're just giving general info about road wear, you could probably have simply stated that road wear is typically proportional to the fourth power of axle
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by sethrin 10y ago
or just box$ . ~/.bash_profile But I prefer zsh/prezto. I spend far too much time on the command line, so I want it to look pretty and tab-complete all the things.
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by sethrin 10y ago
No, the Mongols were nomadic, not agrarian, and the fermentation of alcohol does not require an agrarian society to produce. In point of fact, it is so easy to make alcohol that we can hardly keep people from doing so in prisons. Generally,
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by sethrin 10y ago
> This is fundamental to the economics of goods but it clearly doesn't hold for information. Right, it is clearly true that pure information has no marginal cost of production. This does not contradict anything I have said. If you t
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by sethrin 10y ago
I cannot say that I appreciate the manner in which you have chosen to express your objection. The apparent contradiction you are suggesting was the entire point of my comment. There is value in creative works, and authors should certainly b
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by sethrin 10y ago
The cost of a good should approach the marginal cost of producing that good. For digital goods, that cost is indistinguishable from zero.
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by sethrin 10y ago
I'm afraid to have to say that your argument is tangential and somewhat misleading. No one is arguing that any creative work is valueless. However, it is a fundamental economic principle that the cost of a good will approach the margin
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by sethrin 10y ago
There is some risk of harm of bad dealing at almost every level, but we try to pay attention to the people with the most financial power because they have the greatest ability to do harm. And of course the more incentive there is to subvert
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by sethrin 10y ago
GalliumOS is easy to install, on something that's not a Chromebook perhaps. In order to install it, I had to: > Put the chromebook into 'developer mode', wiping the hard drive > Physically open the device, breaking the
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by sethrin 10y ago
Well why stop there? The origin of the cosmos... Newton's remark was mostly a backhanded slur against Hooke, as far as can be told. If you can point to some novel development in rocket fuel or rocket engine engineering of the 1950s tha
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by sethrin 10y ago
What was achieved in the 60s built on what had come before. Goddard worked out the principles of liquid-fuel rocketry in the 20s and 30s, John Clark (and presumably others, but he wrote the book) developed rocket fuels in the 50s and 60s, a
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by sethrin 10y ago
You're arguing that because a gun or car is dangerous, ownership implies liability. There are few things which can be possessed which cannot be dangerous in the wrong hands, and a car is not actually intended for the purpose of murder,
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by sethrin 10y ago
This is not phrased such that it can be said to be true or false. Yes, accessory to murder is a felony itself. Accessory to speeding is not, and being ignorant of the crime is the opposite of accessory. Would you like to rephrase your objec
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by sethrin 10y ago
it's reasonable to expect that a person know where their car is, but that does not amount to a legal requirement to do so, as you have admitted. In point of fact, you are not responsible for what other people do with your things. If yo

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