PopsiclePete

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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
What is Dutch food anyway? Bitterballen? Just some salted fish on a thin slice of rye? Seems like everyone there in your neck of the woods eats Italian basically? I spent a solid month in Amsterdam once and the most "Dutch" thin
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
We were extremely lucky, yes. Not to mention he was Jewish and being born, say, even just 15 years later than he was, could've meant he'd have ended up in concentration camp and we'd still have no theory of relativity. That&#
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
There was less competition but it was also tremendously difficult to even see what others are doing, or to learn from them, or to even talk to them....just being in possession of scientific texts was enough to get you killed not too long be
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
We can't prove that. It feels good to believe it, sure, but it's also possible that precisely zero people working in sweatshops have ever had Einstein's talent. Sure, it's easy to say - take away the sweatshops, provid
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
I think people are getting hung up too much on the "their own" part vs "full of geniuses" part. Ok, fine, if three - instead of one - people - out of billions - came up with a revolutionary new idea - that does not
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
And yet - why are so few others capable of standing on the shoulders of said giants? Here I am, with more giants' shoulders to stand on, if I wished it, with easy access to vast wealth of information that Newton (or someone living in t
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
>But you can't fire people because you think they probably have the wrong opinions based on things they said 5 years ago, that's Soviet level repression. "Soviet level repression" would be sending Mr Martinez to a for
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
If you started your adult life with the same help from Daddy that Trump had - and did nothing , literally besides putting all of that money into an index fund - you’d be richer than Trump is today. They did the math. So what exactly are Tr
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
Go back in time a thousand years and tell people that one day man will fly faster than a bird and land on the moon. FTL is not impossible. The only thing physics say is that you can’t accelerate a particle that has mass past c because that
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
What happens? You become the most-widely used language on the planet? The Python 2-3 wars are over. Python 3 won.
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
backwards compatibility is a bitch. But yes, there's a reason why high-visibility C++ projects like Chrome basically white-list 30% of the language and keep it that way, to some small sub-set they feel is "good enough". The p
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
> on their most important product. If Ubuntu depended on random users pointing their browsers to ubuntu.com and then clicking a download link to download and burn an ISO, they'd be long, long gone. There hasn't been any real $$
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
I think it's a pretty mediocre language because of the compiler intrinsic data structures and functions like maps and slices that cannot be created by the language proper. It can be verbose and tedious, some of the std lib stuff like &
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
If your application needs support for new emojis or some dead language, then yes.
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
So everyone is equally empowered to make decision on the strategic direction of the company? If I got hired tomorrow at Google, I should just be able to decide to kill off Android and Chrome, yeah?
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
>Avoid inheritance. Once an object is instantiated, don't change its internal state. etc. Just embrace Clojure then. You get all that enforced for you, plus the entire Java eco-system.
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by PopsiclePete 5y ago
> but simplicity trumps doing either of those things well. That's the genius (?) of Go. They gave us what we didn't know we needed. Software people love the "manliness" that comes with "serious", "rea
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Twenty years ago, I'd have been more willing to agree with that. I could see the US Gov't as some sort of sinister, hyper-competent (and even malevolent?) force that could definitely keep a secret like that forever from us, and &q
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
And after the tribunals are setup and operational and people are getting executed - would it be enough then? Or not quite yet still? What's your "this is enough, guys" point? Do you have one? We got mighty close this time, di
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
So what do we do instead? Just continue down this path until 75% of Americans "feel oppressed" and that "BLM and Antifa and Democrats are Marxists and enemies of the people"? Yeah? 'cause that's not working out
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
I'm not sure anyone in the (near) future will be able to guarantee you some sort of "right" that you can host/publish whatever you want and not be held accountable. America is a country that prides itself (to an absolute
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
I’ve been using docked on macOS for the past 5 years and it’s been quite pleasant. I had a few times when CPU was spiking and that was fixed with subsequent patches. Definitely over a year ago. I don’t think “constant CPU pegging” is a typi
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
That's Electron for ya. We decided that javascript was thew ay to write cross-OS UI's. God help us.
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
There's probably a middle ground but you know that within a day of making it optional, the various "Clean my Mac" utilities will have an option to disable it and soon enough instead of 99% of people having it enabled, 75% wil
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
I feel like there's some over-reaction here. You pretty much have to either: 1. allow blanket access to all executables 2. perform some sort of validation/verification Most people are not as technical as the people on this site,
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Or maybe the definition of "Civil War" is more fluid than we think? I don't expect large-scale devastation and cities in ruins like in Syria, no. But let's do some fun math. Roughly 70 million voted for Trump. Take away
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
This is what I try to explain when it comes to "why are you paying so much for Apple". Because when you buy a cheap Android phone from Xuoiamiaeoi or whatever, you get some custom crippled OS in god knows what ways in close to 0 l
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Do you blame them? How many cops need to be exonerated for the blatant murder of our fellow citizens before "disband the police" actually starts sounding semi-reasonable?
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Roughly 50% of voters in this election voted for Trump. His approval rating amongst his own voters is in the high 90%'s. If Trump is saying that the election is fraudulent and undermining the Democratic institutions of this country, th
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Before just telling all pollsters to get another job and abandoning/ignoring everything, shouldn't we find out why the polls were so far off...again? Were Trump voters not willing to admit they were going to vote for Trump? Was

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