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by code_sloth 3y ago
Do you expect all memes and jokes to be absolutely harmless and 100% politically correct for every nation/culture/race/gender/<group>?
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by code_sloth 4y ago
You might be genetically blessed, others might be genetically cursed. Some are genetically predisposed to becoming fat. Its still a fact that they are fat. And being fat comes with associated health risks.
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by code_sloth 4y ago
This seems a slow death in the long term to me. 1. Customers that balk at this cost will switch to other cheaper/free vendors. 2. Oracle imposes even more onerous costs to maintain revenue. and repeat. At some point either Oracle gives
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by code_sloth 5y ago
> JVM is written in a mix of Java and C++, let me know when they start rewriting it in Kotlin. This is less relevant today. The host blessed languages do have an advantage, but I would not say it is insurmountable. It might have been the
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by code_sloth 5y ago
Both of my last 2 large bank gigs (kind of the last places you'd expect cutting edge tech) were going all in on Kotlin. New projects were Kotlin only, and there was active work on sunsetting/migrating Java applications towards Kot
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by code_sloth 6y ago
> Do you really want to copy from a development computer to your production? ... > Are you really sure that everything works exactly the same on different versions of GoLang? ... He mentions he does have a build server which runs a 10
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by code_sloth 6y ago
If you judge the coding style of the early 1970s with modern standards, it isn't going to look great. 50 years is a loooong time. dmr was one of, if not the first C programmer(s).
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by code_sloth 6y ago
> Imagine living in a society where saying either of these things is a banning offense. These tweets HAVE to be taken in context. It would be disingenuous to take every single one of his tweet at face value without considering his influe
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by code_sloth 6y ago
I actually have family there, and they have literally transitioned from near poverty to upper middle class in 2 decades. This was pretty widespreadc, but gradually becoming forgotten as the younger generations grow up in comforts that their
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by code_sloth 6y ago
In the "old" days, people had to actively look for or click through to get misinformation on platforms. Facebook's algorithm now shoves posts into user's feed, which is optimized for engagement. We're all seeing now
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by code_sloth 6y ago
Are there any ethnicity statistics (or estimates) on actual applicants to yale? It's apples vs oranges when we compare to the US population.
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by code_sloth 6y ago
> I have. And you know what, civil rights laws did jack all to protect me. I'm not you, and I can't imagine what your situation is, but I'll bet whatever precious little civil rights laws that are enforced wherever you are
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by code_sloth 6y ago
> The great thing about this, is that someone else will realize there is now an under-served market, and create a business to fulfill that need. Except that every other business can now refuse to serve that business services, because
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by code_sloth 6y ago
In a your version of a free society, what happens when everyone refuses you EVERY single service because random-reason ? They sure as heck aren't murdering, stealing, nor threatening you. They're just refusing to sell you anyth
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by code_sloth 7y ago
You can basically approximate a 1F change to 0.5C change (or 0.55C) for non scientific purposes. 50F -> 10C 51F -> ~10.5C 52F -> ~11C Unless you hate decimals, I don't think there's much granularity gained.
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by code_sloth 7y ago
DMCA was a reaction to the digitization of media. People were sharing pirated media faster than companies could take them down. Some of these people hid behind websites that provided varying degrees of anonymity. How the tables have turned.
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Is the point that it's different than the rest of the world? I can see that point, but am I missing anything particularly bad about the Fahrenheit scale? Mainly that it doesn't make any sense. Why was 32F made the magical num
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by code_sloth 7y ago
You're still assuming ALL of that remaining land area in the circle is habitable. Eg. India has 43% of it's land classified under "others" [0]. A large chunk of that 43% is not likely to be habitable. 0: https:/&
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by code_sloth 7y ago
52M km^2 of land on our planet is habitable, after forests, shrubs, rivers and lakes [0]. Total land mass is 149M km^2. So only 1/3 of the world's land is habitable. That's actually ~20M square miles. Your habitable land esti
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by code_sloth 7y ago
All the instructions basically boil down to: 1. download version X of go 2. Unpack to location Y 3. Tell your OS to look at Y Sure it's not a single command, but it's hardly complicated. If by UX you mean some kind of install scri
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by code_sloth 7y ago
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", or so the industry said for decades. But IBM wasn't (always) the best, they were just safe bets. Until the world started changing and they weren't. .Net and Java have always been g
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by code_sloth 7y ago
Just taking the parent comment at face value, does it really qualify as racist / slur? Yes, it invoked a country and a race, followed by unflattering statements. Are those statements factual? Unfair generalisations or politically incor
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Companies are giving their cash back to shareholders because each individual company thinks their shareholders can better allocate the cash, rather than the companies themselves. _This_ doesn't make any sense. Companies don't
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by code_sloth 7y ago
Professional sports today are the more result of artificial selection of people that have specialized bodies for their sport. Relevant TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Banks have code from the 1960s still running The only reason "old code" still works in banks is because untold man hours are spent wrapping around it, working around it, and testing it. A long time ago, some exec saw that som
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> .NET Core vs. .NET Standard was a wtf? At least they named it core and standard so you know which mess you're referring to. With Apple TV you have to make up your own qualifiers. Apple's marketing team seems to failing at the
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by code_sloth 7y ago
I've been in the banking industry in Asia, where the compensation is well above the average local. The average quality of the Indian engineers (in banking), is unfortunately pretty abysmal. The problem, I think, is their bias towards t
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by code_sloth 7y ago
>> C++ is one of the hardest languages to use > No. Most defenses I've seen of C++ boils down to something along the lines of "you're using it wrong (tm)". I've seen enough C++ to take the side of "the
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by code_sloth 7y ago
> Trump's election was in fact also a massive populist backlash Trump lost the popular vote. It wasn't a populist backlash, it was a broken system.
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by code_sloth 7y ago
There's an ideal world we want (that might never happen) and there's the real world. We live in the latter. Voting for the 3rd party is effectively voting one of the big 2. Also, I find it curious that while our community has gene

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