OtterCoder

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by OtterCoder 7y ago
I'd tend to agree with you, except for the fact that Rust reserved words are reserved everywhere . Even if the syntax were changed, you still couldn't name a field "async" or "return". Since it's no extr
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by OtterCoder 7y ago
In fact, plenty of people in science and engineering are religious or spiritual. They just aren't as loud online, because of exactly these sorts of comments. Try to respect the beliefs of others, even if you don't share them.
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by OtterCoder 7y ago
I've translated several mathematical papers into code, and I must strongly disagree. The very first thing I do is translate glyphs into names relevant to the domain I'm applying the math to. It makes the rest of the process immens
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by OtterCoder 7y ago
Even better, traveling at c, it would take exactly zero shipboard time. Space contracts infinitely for the sufficiently fast. Only outside viewers would see it take 4.5 years.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
There's nothing ethical about the way advertising invades every part of society, every corner of your home, and every available minute of human attention. Blocking ads is eminently moral, because the only way to stop their encroach is
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Yes, Puffers: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Puffers
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Massive housing price inflation relative to median incomes, for one, which the popularity of real estate and rental property ownership as an investment/speculation tool has greatly contributed to.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
In the real world, maybe 5% do the math. The rest are dazzled or browbeaten by apps and continuous demands for some permission they don't fully understand the scope of.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Can I just mention how mind-bogglingly stupid a milage tax on car registration would be? No matter how efficient your new car is, it's less polluting to repair the old one and keep it on the road, than to manufacture a new car.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
IRC works pretty well. I really fail to understand why any tech project puts their chat on Slack/Discord/Whatever when IRC is easy and open.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
That's hardly the point. Point is, blanket statements are harmful and usually wrong.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I don't. I have a vitamin sometimes when I remember, but I don't drink booze, tea, or coffee, smoke, take antidepressants, focus drugs, anything. I also don't play with essential oils, homeopathy, crystals, or other placebos.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
See, that's the point where I usually wish I hadn't used a framework. As your design gets more and more convoluted, the amount of switches, toggles, and special cases that you have to build into the widgets tends to balloon. Mos
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Exactly this. Network connections won't fire without a visible link? Fine. Save up user data for when they navigate around the site and send it as a batched query. Heck, even if browsers always showed you the data they were about to
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Almost all people do, deep down. The Vikings, the Mongols, the Romans, the Aztecs, cannibals, headhunters, human sacrificers, they are us, and are not that far removed in time. To be human, really, is to be breathtakingly kind, selfless, an
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Cars represent $1.13 Trillion in consumer debt in the US on an asset that depreciates only slightly slower than fresh produce. Car debt contributes massively to the suppression of the middle class and is a burden many people take to their
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> it were possible to solve this in 2000 years, we probably would have.... That's a terribly defeatist attitude, especially for someone who is writing a message on a colossal web of copper and forged glass, powered by lightning and
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
No, it is a simple blog engine that has been stretched, shimmed, cranked, and jerry-rigged beyond all recognition and sanity. The very idea that people try to host e-commerce on the platform is an embarrassment and a shame to security and
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Maybe that's not their primary goal? People have taken horrifying risks to push frontiers throughout history. The Oregon Trail claimed an estimated 21,000 lives.* Perhaps they are willing to accept a higher risk of death? *Though, desp
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Ads are always disrespectful of their victims. They are intrusive and manipulative by nature. Self respecting marketers will often say that their goal is to inform, but without fail, that "information" is laced and inextricably
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Not so much with Rust in the driver's seat. Cargo, Rust's primary toolchain, only has weak support for pre/post build scripts. It's solely concerned with Rust's own dependencies and compilation. In the couple of pr
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> objective style missions I'm very curious what you mean by this. Are you talking about all the "craft this" etc. achievements in Minecraft?
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Not to mention the still-current terms: Roguelike and Roguelite (the second of which I find unnecessarily derogatory).
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
You don't sound like you do a lot of distributed/network programming. The speed of light is achingly, infuriatingly slow.
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
No, they're making themselves feel righteous, at very little gain to the minorities they're ostensibly protecting. I'm Slavic. The name for my ethnicity literally means, and is the root of the word slave . Shouldn't I h
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
What's so barbaric about insisting that rebels to the social contract learn how to work? Or demanding, even at metaphorical or literal gunpoint, that they work to support themselves, just as the rest of society must? Now, I would like
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Why would it? Thumbnail watermarks are usually too small to see, and when you click to the image to go to Pinterest, all you'd see is the 'signup now' modal, with another group of thumbnails greyed out peeking around the edge
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
Wow, I actually really like the French policy. It would make employers actually distinguish between a temp position and a full hire up front. Too many small businesses try to optimistically hire in good times, only to suddenly realize a few
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
> North Korea That's not terribly surprising, fascist ideologies are typically very family-centric, to the point of actual Darwinism/eugenics. It's one more reason why I don't think the rising, bipartisan, hyper-cap
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by OtterCoder 8y ago
I'm sorry, but you are almost certain to outlive your code, even the good stuff. Even a modest book on the bestseller lists will probably see more use than any program you will ever write.

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