wott

63 ms·

541.
by wott 9y ago
I can't tell if the comment to which you answer (and its other reply) is serious or sarcastic: great, lucky, be able to, addicted, team, super, responsive, science of email, next level . Sounds like a bingo (I almost had to keep 50% o
542.
by wott 9y ago
+ the lack of lateral movements of the rider, + the regularity of the 'effort' around the crankset, not "pressure on the left, then pressure on the right and so on".
543.
by wott 9y ago
What are those numerous advantages? Apart from picking apples. Probably not hitting low doors/beams. Probably not breaking one's back each time one does the dishes or anything like that (or cleaning or picking low garden stuff), a
544.
by wott 9y ago
That's the rhetoric of "the pressing 'demand' that must be satisfied". Each time I ask where the mass that actually 'demanded' something is, I get no answer.
545.
by wott 9y ago
> I'm sorry, but get real. People use technology because it assists and speeds up areas of their life. Get real: people waste a lot more time on 'tech' than they save, compared to doing without. The goal of most of those &
546.
by wott 9y ago
So, recommendations and references from people who never saw you at work. There's something wrong about that. I am not saying it doesn't happen, it does, but it still makes very little sense.
547.
by wott 9y ago
The Perl 5 version was indeed also 3 to 4 times faster than the Python one.
548.
by wott 9y ago
> it's like the citiest slickers ever decided to try to become instant permaculture heroes and were disappointed... It looks so, he probably never saw a farm, since he didn't think that poultry and vegetable garden should be se
549.
by wott 9y ago
Yes, I haven't tried lately, but for my own small text manipulation program, Perl 6 was still more than 100 times slower than Perl 5 the last time I tried. Probably because of some JIT delaying the startup time. But since my use is cal
550.
by wott 9y ago
> IMHO a 6502 is too limited to be effectively programmed in C; even this part of the article gives all the limitations: https://nesdoug.com/2015/11/15/2-how-cc65-works/ In my not so humble opinion, a
551.
by wott 9y ago
> Modifiers (i for case-insenstive is the most important one) can appear inside a regex when preceded by a colon. For example, this Perl 5 regex: > (Male|Female) (?:[Cc][Aa][Tt]|[Dd][Oo][Gg]) > would be translated to Perl 6 a
552.
by wott 9y ago
> most people (currently) have a pretty good chance of entering the 1% at some point in their life I beg your pardon?
553.
by wott 9y ago
No matter how big money people make and how comfortable their way of life is, they always think themselves as lower-middle-class and claim they are on the verge of financial difficulties.
554.
by wott 9y ago
> We get paid ok but most of us barely have one home. If the average 'tech' worker is 28 and single, that's normal, not a sign of 'squeezing'.
555.
by wott 9y ago
> if your neighbours are worth keeping around as permenant friends Social bonding =/= friends
556.
by wott 9y ago
> Have you been in a similar situation? Not in a work setup, but otherwise each time I have to deal with a customer service.
557.
by wott 9y ago
Yes, HN and Reddit are very-high-traffic forums, so it is mostly read-once--write-once--do-not-come-back. Not only the comment go by hundreds on each thread, but the threads themselves have a life expectancy of 24 hours only, 48 hours max,
558.
by wott 9y ago
I am not sure how you managed to insert GMOs in this list.
559.
by wott 9y ago
> A shrinking population can't hope to support the older generation. Yes it can, it's just a matter of productivity.
560.
by wott 9y ago
Competitive with whom? Many countries in Europe at least have the same strong regulations on the same professions (pharmacies, notaries, taxis, etc.). Get out of your liberal dreamed land and check the reality.
561.
by wott 9y ago
> You probably have no idea how it is to live in a country that has capital controls Give me a break, young man, it was a common thing in many places until the 80's.
562.
by wott 9y ago
> to extort the Germans Come on...
563.
by wott 9y ago
That's even more true with small spendings: with cash, you easily see the amount stocked in your wallet decrease item after item, shop after shop, drink after drink; you also need to "refill" at the cash dispenser when it get
564.
by wott 9y ago
Nope.
565.
by wott 9y ago
The price of the mainboard is almost divided by 2 compared to Talos 1, but the workstation bundles are as expensive or even more. I bet it will fail as Talos 1 did, for the same reason: way too expensive for what it is, for the concerned&
566.
by wott 9y ago
> possibly cargo-culting others that did it. Agreed, I don't see the point of mentioning the language for compiled, stand-alone programs and standard, C-compatible libraries. The resulting binary is the same (well, of the same natur
567.
by wott 9y ago
> but to blame JavaScript or modern web development in general is ridiculous. This is what I call toxicity: 6000 lines (up to 1.3 million characters long) 170,000 words 2.4 MB
568.
by wott 9y ago
> What do you base this on? Experience? One does not get 'proficient' in a week in any given language. One can build up a program in a new language in a week, but that does not mean proficiency. It takes between many months and
569.
by wott 9y ago
Er... you cannot use future tense to claim that. It can be your fantasy, your dream, your oprinion, that's all very fine. But you cannot say that is what is going to happen, that's just one bet, one possibility (and not the most
570.
by wott 9y ago
> It's not like users are forced to use these applications. Nowadays, everything in this line of business is designed to be addictive.

More ›