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by znort_ 6mo ago
> a respiratory epidemic that killed 25 chimps naturally quickly, one would imagine that would have quite a societal destabilizing impact? there were several seemingly destabilizing factors, sort of a perfect storm, each contributing to
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by znort_ 6mo ago
> He caused a MAJOR issue for Greece that still affects everyone in his country today, after reassuring people for 2+ years it was never going to happen: care to explain what exactly he caused and how that still affects everyone in his
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by znort_ 6mo ago
if the number of tens of thousands dead is true (and i'm highly skeptical, but let's go with that) then it correlates with the number of starlink terminals smuggled into sanctioned iran way before the protests. both us and israeli
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by znort_ 6mo ago
> To have government apps work only on iOS and Android is perfectly reasonable in the current state of the world where this covers 99% of smartphones. the fundamental flaw with that approach is that it is totally unreasonable to have go
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by znort_ 7mo ago
i'm not a fan of ts either, but can see the appeal for business. of course it is bolted on ... like almost everything on the web, which is a complete frankenstein. but it works, and truth is there is no other alternative yet. otoh it i
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by znort_ 7mo ago
> with real languages now. how is javascript not a real language? > There's no reason to use an interpreted there are loads and loads of reasons to use "interpreted" languages. that you can't think of even a single
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by znort_ 7mo ago
probably this article isn't for you if "glassfish" isn't a familiar term. if curious (or fomo) it would have taken you about 15 secs to find out what glassfish is, which is still probably 15 less than what you wasted on
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by znort_ 7mo ago
> sourdough nice, but too complicated. slice a cabbage, add some salt, pound it, stash it for 10-15 days, enjoy. easy peasy and delicious (optionally pour some olive oil, vinegar and pepper on the serving for flavour). just make sure i h
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by znort_ 7mo ago
good point. i'm more than happy to pay 10x for my diesel and electricity and even change my whole lifestyle for the foreseeable future in support of iran doing the right thing: kicking the murderous usrael regime out of western asia wh
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by znort_ 7mo ago
different things. adding levels of abstraction is not the same as having a statistical model generate abstractions for you. you can still call it spec-programming but if you don't audit your generated code then you're simply doing
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by znort_ 7mo ago
> if you take code from a developer ten years ago and compare it with their output now, you can see improvement. really? it depends on the type of development, but ten years ago the coder profession had already long gone mainstream and m
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by znort_ 7mo ago
it's not just conditioning, there is likely some biological drive because we evolved as a social species, but he's right, there is also conditioning and it can be dealt with. there is plenty of people that live in solitude and ple
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by znort_ 8mo ago
it also contains no "manifesto" ... -tracker, -alert or -status would be more proper titles.
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by znort_ 8mo ago
bonjour, je suis clippy ...
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by znort_ 10mo ago
> But text wins by a mile. white on dark grey with phosphor green around? not really.
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by znort_ 10mo ago
we ought to stop these decadent crooks from plunging us into fascism and war just to rescue their waning privilege (again), but somehow i don't think we will. so, yeah, lessons to be relearned ahead.
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by znort_ 10mo ago
> This is an XY problem statement no, it isn't. we need both, they're different aspects of the same thing. hyperfocusing on the former and disregarding the latter is just as bad as doing the inverse, and is exactly the problem
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by znort_ 10mo ago
> They focus on objects when we should focus on morphisms. if you're building real systems you should focus on both. > Coupling as Hom-Set Size ... The second interface is easier to implement, test, mock, and evolve. i would doub
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by znort_ 11mo ago
funny no mention about the texas instruments explorer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_Explorer i barely got to play with one for a few hours during an "ai" course, so i didn't really fig
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by znort_ 11mo ago
that's a bit misleading. it was based on webcore which apple had forked from khtml. however google found apple's addition to be a drag and i think very little of it (if anything at all, besides the khtml foundation) survived &quot
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by znort_ 11mo ago
agile is a mixed bag with some quite good ideas and practices, but imo the main selling point for industry is that it allows complete dillution of compromise and responsibility, and it shows. this is why companies have bought en masse into
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by znort_ 11mo ago
thanks for this, you made my day! i never bothered to look. i still remember when tables were forced out of fashion by hordes of angry div believers! they became anathema and instantly made you a pariah. the arguments were very passionate b
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by znort_ 1y ago
then there's the fact that this post (posted only 25 minutes ago) doesn't appear anymore on the news feed (albeit there being older postings with less upvotes), which shows me how much i can trust this site ... then again i would
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by znort_ 1y ago
> Of course if your knowledge of HTML standards is great and Button exactly fits your current use-case you probably will use it i would have imagined that coding html should be done by people with basic understanding of it, at the bare m
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by znort_ 1y ago
it is, but i'm willing to compromise. grapheneos can be an option for a while, ultimately a linux phone. worst case i can settle with 2 phones for a while, one cheap/old stock android exclusively for the bank and such, another one
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by znort_ 1y ago
>You have the right to install whatever you want on your computer, regardless of whether that computer is on your desk or in your pocket. That's a hill I'll die on. I'm dismayed to see that this sentiment is not more wides
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by znort_ 1y ago
apropos of that: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2549
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by znort_ 1y ago
>I paid money for this book >I can only read it in Amazon's broken app >I can't download it >I can't back it up >I don't actually own it >Amazon can delete it whenever they want good that you didn'
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by znort_ 1y ago
>clear links for an evolutionary path there are clear links for at least 2 evolutionary paths: bird brain architecture is very different from that of mammals and some are among the smartest species on the planet. they have sophisticated
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by znort_ 1y ago
it is an assumption backed by considerable evidence. creationism otoh is an assumption backed by superstition an phantasizing, or could you point to at least some evidence. besides, spirituality is not a "component", it's a

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