benc666

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by benc666 6y ago
Thank you for this well-thought (and written) comment. Human nature - ignored at own peril.
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by benc666 6y ago
That's a valid view, but some alcohol in moderation certainly helps grease the wheels of social interaction. This is probably why alcohol was known since ancient times. I'll cite: [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by benc666 6y ago
Surely home insurance is going to make it whole?
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by benc666 6y ago
A layered approach to security (onion model) is the only sane approach because any given layer will always have flaws. The notion I get from the article is that security becomes a huge problem when every node is exposed to almost every othe
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by benc666 6y ago
"the primary reason, at the core of it all, the wrong people are in the wrong positions". South Africa in 2020 is a case study for that. Inheriting the most industrialized economy in the whole of Africa in 1994, the ANC government
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by benc666 6y ago
reminds me of another one: nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. For me it just pushes the point that every situation is a negotiation.
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by benc666 6y ago
You're so right - video games shouldn't even have been mentioned. As human ingenuity goes, there's infinite ways to "waste time". I've spent many hours with the family playing MineCraft, and it's an amazi
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by benc666 7y ago
There's a term for that ..."expert beginner"
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by benc666 7y ago
Gestapo in the making.
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by benc666 7y ago
Morality is a human construct. Nature has no morality, only survival matters - by any means. That's why such cruelty (from human moral viewpoint) is found in Nature.
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by benc666 7y ago
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" means: make it work correctly first, and then - if anybody cares - make it fast. Readability/maintainability, then only as needed trade it off for speed, because not all code
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by benc666 7y ago
Many programming languages start out as 'experiments' by their creators, to combine or extend the capabilities and attributes of some prior ones. That seems like a very healthy evolutionary approach to me.
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by benc666 7y ago
Electric Light Orchestra. Music with a futuristic, but mixed pessimistic and bright outlook. And the orchestral contribution makes the backbone of it. If you like Science Fiction (especially reading it) you might like this too.
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by benc666 8y ago
There's kinds of authority. "personal authority" can easily work better than "org chart" authority since it usually has respect and trust attached - which no mere org chart can grant. Admittedly some org charts do g
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by benc666 8y ago
In Afrikaans - spoken in ZA (south africa) - that is pretty much the actual word :) "voetganger" "voet" - foot/feet "ganger" - someone who moves along using the former noun The Latin Root is what connects