uncle_j

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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Kids being picked up from school predominately by woman is a social arrangement, the kind we hopefully at least try to change if we consider there to be better options. Define "Better". Why should we be trying to change it? W
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> That doesn't justify that sort of systematic pressure. If I were a parent I would be trying to mitigate the risk to my child. As I previously stated it is unfair but not unfounded. It cannot be sexism if it is based in fact. >
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> You called the expectation of men to be breadwinners a natural consequence of sexual dimorphism, and said it was folly to "engineer" it away. That is a statement about how you think society should be arranged and why. No it i
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by uncle_j 7y ago
We know they were. But it is irrelevant. Firefox was a better product than Internet Explorer and it clawed market share away from IE mainly because techies at the time were telling everyone to use Firefox instead of IE. The fact that Micros
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by uncle_j 7y ago
That isn't sexism. There is a far higher likelihood that a sex offender is a man rather than a woman. While unfair it isn't unfounded fear and parents are naturally protective of their children.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> You're suggesting we should arrange society a specific way because of some connection to "biology". Nope. I didn't say that. > There is about 4 billion years of evolution and the thinking that it can be sociall
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by uncle_j 7y ago
This was completely irrelevant to the time frame. People started changing browser 5 years earlier because Firefox was better than IE (in terms of security). People changed from Firefox to Chrome because performance in Firefox 3.6 was horren
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by uncle_j 7y ago
There is an obvious distinction between people trying to socially arrange society and our biology. Pretending otherwise is ridiculous.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I don't agree it is sexism. It is the simple fact that our species is sexually dimorphic. This guarantees that there will be asymmetry between the genders regardless of the social engineering that is attempted. There is about 4 billion
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I do remember exactly what happened back then and what you state couldn't be further from the truth. > The reason Chrome even exists today is because the US & EU governments forced Microsoft to support other software and compani
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by uncle_j 7y ago
It is almost never mentioned but most men won't respect other men who are stay at home parent. So there is also an expectation on the man to be the bread winner. Also many women tend not to want men who earn less then them: https:&#x2
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Yes it is. Internet Explorer had something like 95%+ share on all browsing traffic and then someone brought out a better alternatives (Firefox and at the time Chrome). Internet Explorer is no longer dominate. It is now dead.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
This has to be done by the ground up by offering better alternatives rather than trying to tear down these tech companies. Also don't use their services. It is pretty easy to remove most of Google from your life. I don't think Goo
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Most employers don't care about your degree (at least in the UK), I doubt many places will care about this. I am also "Sitecore Certified". Sitecore Certified basically means your company paid for you to sit in a room and com
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The problem with this is that most public places have private places right next to them. So this will be easily circumvented.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I been working full time now about 15 years and I think Martin Fowler's blog and especially articles like this do more harm than good. Typically I find Pair Programming pretty pointless for most tasks. Where it works is when one develo
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by uncle_j 7y ago
The code sample they have there that is "messy" doesn't look that bad to me. The reality is that almost all the code that runs lots of important things is a complete spagetti.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Some of these optimisations are very similar to what you used to do in JavaScript with slower JS engines. Caching a value in a variable name than constantly accessing a property.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I work in an office with poor reception and it is quite annoying that these apps don't really work unless you are on 3G or better.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
There are a lot of smaller open source projects that are using Discord instead of IRC. I am a member of Reshade, C# OpenTK and general programming servers.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
There is a massive political community on discord, there are other groups on there such as dooxers, trolls and irl shitposters and other odd groups that are doing naughty things.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Not necessarily. It can also actually increase adoption because it fixes friction: there might always be a few tools or docker containers or whatnot which are not ported to BSD, and this provides an answer to that. It tells developers
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I am a OpenBSD / Windows user (all the VMs server I am running are OpenBSD). I haven't used FreeBSD a whole lot. 1) You get an operating system. One of the problems with Linux is the number of distros. If you want to know how to d
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> Improve linuxolator, and run Linux tests on linuxolator as part of FreeBSD CI. This is the worst thing they could actually do because people will just run the Linux versions and there would be even less demand for anyone to bother with
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> except now it has actually been true for years Sure it is true. It isn't a tech journo writing a quick piece to get some clicks. I am quite cynical these days. There hasn't been any competition in the Desktop CPU space for ye
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by uncle_j 7y ago
Every few years something like this gets written. I remember similar things being written in 2004-2005 before the Core 2 line of processors came out. There is still improvements being made to the current tech or new takes on the current tec
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> You don't need to run AROS on Linux. It's one option among many, including running bare metal on a number of hardware platforms, including on real Amiga hardware. Yep. I did have AROS running on a real machine (which has died
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by uncle_j 7y ago
I use Amiga OS on WinUAE to install it on real hardware. AROS on top of Linux for me is missing the point as a OS enthusiast. AROS is okay, but MorphOS (which I run on a G4 cube) is much better IMO.
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by uncle_j 7y ago
For example: https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Intuition_Screens Also it is just a decent desktop OS. One of the problems with Linux (and OpenBSD / FreeBSD etc) is that the OS really isn't a desktop Operating Sys
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by uncle_j 7y ago
> What we're seeing isn't a breakdown in "rationality" or "care for truth", we're seeing a global breakdown in the trust of authority. I really used to like the "This Week Tonight" show. I use

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