wildmanx

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by wildmanx 5y ago
I think you are self-contradicting yourself here. "No matter how well managed an organisation is" versus "Co-operation must be constantly fostered from the top management". You're basically saying "this can&#x2
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by wildmanx 5y ago
What's the alternative? Be honest? The moment a governor goes in front of cameras saying "no need to hoard toilet paper" is the moment right when everybody rushes and hoards toilet paper. So they tried saying "toilet pap
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Enrico Weigelt whom Linus responded to is at least one of those things.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Sadly, this comment being downvoted illustrates the bias in the HN community. People don't like the message, so they shoot the messenger.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I'm always amazed by those "you're doing Xyz validation wrong" posts. This is 2021. There should be libs out there that do this perfectly and we should be using those. Nobody should be writing this kind of thing from scr
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by wildmanx 5y ago
And how it should taste at this stage of the process. It needs experience to try some dough and extrapolate from it how the cake/bread/... will taste after baking it. Same with many sauces, for example. Things change when mixed wi
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I stopped playing at the "skip" dark pattern. "Correct" is used subjectively here, which is awful since the word has a connotation of objectiveness. It's "correct" if your intend is to trick somebody into
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Maybe because it claims "they are unrelated" and then spends some time describing the relation? That is, between cracking shareware and its language filter to avoid said cracking.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Generally, it's uploading that tends to get you in legal trouble, not downloading. (Counter to quite some propaganda out there.)
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The name.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Most people I've met who are of those "but those can't feel pain" views are from North America. US and Canada. How DNA-closeness is relevant to this is even more beyond me.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The average American who may not care that much is one thing. But it's even more mind-blowing how many vegetarians believe fish can't feel pain, so while they reject eating pork, beef or chicken because the poor animals suffer, th
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Depends on how narrow your definition of "pain" is. Take a plant and put a sharp needle into its growth path. Many plats will avoid it and adjust their growth path, once they got into contact. Just like a human, a dog or a fish. T
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by wildmanx 5y ago
You may have bad luck then. Anecdotal evidence from myself and friends tells me that there are better outcomes too.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I'm not saying we should all be artists and drop any work on improving science or technology. To the contrary, some people really thrive doing that, and who am I to outlaw it. But this is about working 80+ hours a week to achieve that.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
That's a very narrow view of "human achievements and progress". Did Mozart achieve because he was forced by peer-pressure to work around the clock? Picasso? Miles Davis? It's pretty sad if we consider Facebook, Google or
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The opposite of "hard working" is not "good work-life balance", but "slacking off". And that's one of the roots of this cult. You don't want to be perceived as slacking off, so you sacrifice work-life
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by wildmanx 5y ago
I think you are missing the point then of introducing them to programming. It's not about career prospects. It's about joy and about learning a way to structured thoughts which few other activities can provide. A computer can&#x27
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Time to find a new employer then.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Global climate is more than just average temperature. Or even "prevent ice caps from melting". It's an insanely complex system that we have only started to understand. There are currents in the oceans and the air, they have c
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by wildmanx 5y ago
The estimates are fluctuating, but a rough consensus is that we have driven in the order of 1 million species to extinction already. That's closer to an ice age than to a child killing ants in their backyard. We don't just do this
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Right, and while interpreting them, we need to be cautious. Instead of seeing an effect and think "nah, doesn't fit my theory of natural selection, can't be, let's keep going" we should be more like "oh, this e
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Scientists have to build in "rent-seeking" properties Nitpick: That's not what science is about. You are talking about engineering. Science is a knowledge-seeking endeavor. Observe, build a theory, run experiments to ref
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Sure, but random change is different from what we do. That's not random, it's deliberate and usually ends up in a disaster. Natures status quo tends to be quite robust absent discontinuous changes. If one season there was a bit le
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Interesting they integrated diesel trucks and assault rifles so centrally into their existence. I'm sure those were not around in the original colonies.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Wrong forum. The overall consensus here is that everything can be solved with tech.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
> Humans are in fact, really good at playing god over long periods of time. That's some weird god who mostly cares about themselves.
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Or what about this experiment actually working, this specific species going extinct (or at least driven out), and that 4% nice that's now empty gets taken over by another type of mosquitoes or other type of insect that has the bad prop
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by wildmanx 5y ago
Then nature got natural selection backwards too. Mating discrimination was shown to be real. Theorizing is great. But once there is evidence the reaction needs to be to adjust the theory instead of arguing away the effects that have been ob
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by wildmanx 5y ago
As much as I appreciate such material, but this is not "computer science". Maybe "computer engineering", or some mix of "software engineering", "systems engineering", those things. Computer science is

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