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by zanny 8y ago
Theres plenty of research showing how homework is often of negative value. It, like the unhealthy hours of school for teenagers, is a product of parents wanting babysitters in many ways more than they wanted well educated children. Homework
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by zanny 8y ago
The worst part is that on average developers are still often underpaid. In some cases grotesquely. Some individual engineers can easily account for millions in revenue in a year to the company they work for, but they are only paid upwards o
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by zanny 8y ago
This might have been true 20 years ago when software development meant everything from a fundamental understanding of hardware (including how pixels are laid out, how to manage gamma, etc for the front end) to knowing a lot of theory (becau
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by zanny 8y ago
If there are no consequences to lying and lying gets you power and influence you are at a disadvantage to not lie.
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by zanny 8y ago
It also doesn't help that almost all arena shooters support cooperative team deathmatch, capture the flag, etc. The only difference is a lack of role specialization between teammates. But the scene isn't as big for those as it is
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by zanny 8y ago
Arena shooters are "dying" for the same reason chess isn't as popular as online poker. Back in the day arena shooter popularity was because there was no low hanging fruit alternative like modern military shooters or Fortnite
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by zanny 8y ago
PUBG was not nearly the first survival shooter. I still remember Hunger Games style maps in Minecraft back in 2010 and those were derivative of older survival mods from ARMA. Nothing is completely novel, or original. Everything made today i
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't want to really derail the thread into a discussion on overloading - I was citing it more as an example of a common desire that also introduces a lot of compiler level complexity without really modifying the language syntax - bu
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by zanny 8y ago
Your clients don't though, you can have multiple versions of a crate in your build tree. Your failures aren't then compositable with newer failures as failures but they do impl Error and can be used as standard errors. The alterna
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by zanny 8y ago
Since when did you need to read, comprehend, and digest every language feature in Rust to ever use the language? The absence of HKT / GATs / overloading / default arguments from the language doesn't make it easier for a
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by zanny 8y ago
Anything that would break failure in libraries written now would break all libraries because it would mean the fundamental Error trait has changed. Since failure is Error compatible you don't lose anything using it. Its only ~2500 line
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't feel like C was ever meant to be the permanent foundation on which all other computing was built. It was a language for its time. It took assemblies of the 70s made them much more palatable with an imperative syntax. C++ was al
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by zanny 8y ago
The practical real world beneficiaries of IP law in modern time are nigh exclusively international business conglomerates using it for rent seeking. The number of individual creatives who use the courts to enforce their copyrights as a reve
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by zanny 8y ago
Is there anywhere in the US with a baseline property tax credit? Its not something I have looked into thoroughly but it seems so backwards that states aren't giving everyone 400 square feet worth of exemption from property tax. If the
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by zanny 8y ago
Except participation on anonymous forums is wholly voluntary and you have no immutable paper trail to stalk you across the whole Internet. You can at whim make a new account and be a new person, and avoid the parts you didn't like on y
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by zanny 8y ago
You can use auto-flow: dense to have the grid backfill gaps. I haven't had much chance to test its limits cross browser yet though but trivial examples have worked for me so far. It isn't as optimal a layout system as you can get
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by zanny 8y ago
When someone stupid enough to think ending the species over this or any of Chinas crimes is an appropriate response. You don't declare war on a nuclear power, ever. That kills us all.
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by zanny 8y ago
Because like writing this exact comment its not really doing anything. I'm not accomplishing goals reading your reply, I'm not really forming a connection with you or anyone else on these type of sites. Once you use them for a few
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by zanny 8y ago
You would only (in this example) need enough bandwidth to satisfy the traffic of your immediate friends and family you interact with online. Your IM client is already doing that.
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by zanny 8y ago
Except having a legitimate personal website is a challenge you can't automate away. Even if you managed to produce a rugged installer script for, say, Mastodon so you can one click deploy a working instance you still need to somehow A.
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by zanny 8y ago
Violating principles and respect for others is a vector for profit, which is why it always feels like a losing race. Its people in their spare time fighting against substantial revenue streams accrued from the violation of the freedoms and
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by zanny 8y ago
I could count the number of good, modern, high featured XMPP and IRC clients on one hand. At least compared to their proprietary counterparts. Matrix has at least as many either mature (Fractal, Riot) or up and coming clients as I'd co
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by zanny 8y ago
> We would need some sort of aggregator. It could be a protocol, independent of the browser. But the browser could support it inline, so you could just click a button to follow a content stream. It shouldn't be complex, it should be
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by zanny 8y ago
I've been actively denying myself access to my phone when I wake up. I had gotten into the undesirable habit of reading reddit for like thirty minutes every morning. Yea, that means I sometimes doze a bit sitting on the john. It does m
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by zanny 8y ago
As someone who does need 8 hours I can't help but be jealous of those who function on 6. If I only get 6 hours of sleep I can't even see straight all day.
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by zanny 8y ago
I'm pretty sure about 90% of professional creatives (artists, animators... programmers fall under almost all the criteria, too) are paid a salary as well. They work for DC, Disney, Amazon, etc. Tons working in either direct ad agenci
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by zanny 8y ago
Poor, starving Nintendo and their substantial revenue stream from Super Mario Brothers 1 might be three generations from now Disney when it comes to copyright extension.
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by zanny 8y ago
Why exactly do artists need copyright for 20 years after they are dead, again? ... why exactly do they need copyright, again?
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by zanny 8y ago
The original posts problem wasn't a matter of "taking the thief to court" it was getting the police to actually find out who it was. You need someone to id them, but OP couldn't even get the video released to him so wh
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by zanny 8y ago
We, the people alive today, are going to be written in history books as generations who had the potential to achieve unbound greatness but decided the potential was better spent lining pockets and feeding dopamine addictions.

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