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by wlll 6y ago
I can't find an authoritative source for the original quote, so I found something that I believe to be close but didn't want to give it the authority of "quote" as it could be innacurate.
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by wlll 6y ago
To paraphrase Red Dwarf: Newsreader: Good evening. Here is the news on Friday, the 27th of Geldof. Archeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what is believed to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated
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by wlll 6y ago
I'd phrase it another way. > Flat earthers believe in something that empirically and rigorously has been proven to be false by there existing a contradictory proof that the earth is mostly spherical. I'd suggest that rather tha
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by wlll 6y ago
I could, but it would materially change my outlook for a comfortable/safe future. It wouldn't for the super rich. That's kinda the point. Me: I could help people, but it would weaken my future outlook The Super Rich: Could he
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by wlll 6y ago
I'm criticising two things. 1. People with so much money that they have enough to save thousands of people from starving to death, or dieing from prevantable diseases etc. etc. without ever noticing the difference to their wellbeing. 2
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by wlll 6y ago
What is your point? I have to be perfect before I can criticise other things or people? I happen to be trying to make enough money so I can safely retire, hopefully before my mind and/or sight gives out, and so I can send my kids to un
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by wlll 6y ago
I don't really get what your point is. I was aware that Bill Gates had given away at least half his money, given that he's still been left with more money than he could ever need by some large margin I'm not too interested in
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by wlll 6y ago
I don't know what that is though, hence my question.
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by wlll 6y ago
Nope, I figured that. He's still absurdly rich though.
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by wlll 6y ago
I would love to know what goes on in someone's head when they could use their money to massively improve the lives of millions of poor or un-privileged people, or even save them from a premature and/or painful death, withough ever
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by wlll 6y ago
The quest is ~72Hz. We (the VR community) moved on from 75 Hz many years ago through 90Hz, and my Index currently does 120, with an experimental 144Hz mode. Research (mostly by Valve I think) has shown that the higher the framerate the less
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by wlll 6y ago
While some people will never be able to handle VR, the choice of equipment can have a massive impact on the comfort of the user. One of the worries repeatedly expressed by people on subreddits such a /r/vive|valveindex is that com
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by wlll 6y ago
I have not pre-rinsed for a dishwasher ever. Have had Two in the last 15 years, current one is less than 5 years old and made by Siemens. They’ve always worked fine.
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by wlll 6y ago
Right, I had that mac and the KB was fine, as is the 2014 wireless model I have, despice neother being long throw. I'm fine with short throw, it's a preference. The 2016 keyboard fiasco was too far for me though, and even now with
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by wlll 6y ago
I still use a 2014 era Apple wireless keyboard and prefer it over any of the mechanical variants I’ve tried. Key travel distance is a personal metric.
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by wlll 6y ago
When I had work done in my house I just made sure that they knew that before they boarded up a particular ceiling I needed to run a cable. In the end we all ran the cable together, and now I have a 1Gb/s Ethernet connection to my offic
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by wlll 6y ago
A company I contract to for backend and server stuff made the jump from static HTML to client side rendering with react. They did it because the consulting company they went to receommended it "because it was the future", and I am
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by wlll 6y ago
There is also the missing other side to this argument, and that's without third part apps Apple couldn't sell it's phones that it surely makes a decent amount of money on. Without third-party app authors Apple couldn't s
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by wlll 6y ago
This demo brought back memories of being a teenager in the 90s. Wired magazine with the number of people on the Internet written on the spine, people and companies that saw the Internet as an amazing new medium but didn't know how it w
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by wlll 6y ago
Thanks for doing these, they're incredibly interesting, useful, amusing (Oh no! the schadenfreude!) and also, incredibly inspiring to me to be a better engineer, so thank you again :)
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by wlll 6y ago
I absolutely believe that PHP is worse than many, if not most, other langauges. I have programmed (in a non-trival way) close to 10 programming languages (and fiddled with more) over more than 20 years. Of all those, there are only two that
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by wlll 6y ago
Are you saying that PHP is only suitable for trivial non user-facing apps? We are in agreement! The reason you need to know all the edge cases though is because when you write a sigle line of PHP you need to know how to avoid the edge cases
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by wlll 6y ago
Well that's just odd because I happen to live in Marple the town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marple,_Greater_Manchester
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by wlll 6y ago
> The amount of PHP you need to know to avoid the sharp edges depends on the complexity of your application and what you're trying to do. Not really. You aren't insulated from the edge cases until your application reaches a cer
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by wlll 6y ago
You might be interested in this study I found. There might be more, but this was the first one: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/11184-which-... "The languages with the strongest positive coeff
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by wlll 6y ago
Not to mention array_reverse (or is it reverse_array, I forget) which returns a new array leaving the original intact, whereas the sort functions return 1 and operate on the original array in place. Also, why is it array_reverse, but rsort?
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by wlll 6y ago
> If PHP is a rusty saw, what isn't? There are hundreds maybe thousands of languages. I was curious, there's about 9000 according to a cursory google search. > And when you measure all things (expressiveness, stdlib, product
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by wlll 6y ago
There are edge cases in many languages, there are more in PHP. It would be better to not have the edge cases than to have an IDE that tried to pretect you from them.
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by wlll 6y ago
Here's some that are utterly trivial to find. There are plenty more. Feel free, as a supposedly competent PHP programmer, to go and find the rest, becayse you definitely need to know about them to be able to write code that's goin
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by wlll 6y ago
> I mean your proof is I seen PHP code then conclusion is PHP is bad. You're over simplifying my point to make yours. I have seen bad PHP code. I have seen bad Go code. I have seen bad code in many languages. The proportion of bad P

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