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by efuquen 1y ago
And I would say the deficiencies in Profiles and the fact Safe C++ was killed is the technical decisions reflecting the culture problem.
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by efuquen 2y ago
I don't disagree with some of the points are making here, but the main point of my own comment is your last sentence from above was mean-spirited and unnecessary. You want to have a conversation about quality and ethics in computing an
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by efuquen 2y ago
> The folks that taught the author should hang their head in shame that their student is producing such rubbish. This is unnecessary and rude, you should hang your head in shame for that. I wish some people in this community weren'
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by efuquen 3y ago
In a previous blog post they basically said they will never make a Go 2, and also addressed a lot of things about compatibility: https://go.dev/blog/compat In particular they said: > The end of the document warns, “
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by efuquen 3y ago
Nice visual tool but wildly optimistic. Walk times to and from stations and during transfers can eat up huge amounts of time in a commute, and that assumes trains are running well. Discounting walking to station times which clearly can&#x27
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by efuquen 3y ago
Transfers take a very relevant amount of time, even during rush hour when the trains are running frequently. Aside from waiting on the train, which does not keep a strict schedule and can get delayed for many reasons there is the walking ti
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by efuquen 5y ago
What does the reason the police are doing it for matter? Isn't either action an egregious violation of privacy? Sometimes society has allowed these things for emergency reasons, but stop and frisk was a program that was instituted for
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by efuquen 5y ago
> You cannot compare these two levels of violence. The comparison is between two things, the police forcing you to give them access your phone for no explicit reason, or the police forcing you to allow them to physically and invasively s
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by efuquen 5y ago
> Yet somehow this is fairly obscure knowledge unless you're into serious game programming or a similar field. Because the impact in optimizing hardware like that can be not so important in many applications. Getting the absolute mo
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by efuquen 5y ago
You loose one usb-c port to get all the others. I've never needed 4 usb-c ports at a time, but definitely have needed all the others. And one usb-c port is replaced by power, which many times I have had to use one for anyway. So whethe
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by efuquen 5y ago
Because your risk becomes everyones risk. The vaccine is becoming less and less effective against variants and people talk as if dying or hospitalizations is the only bad outcome. Long term health problems from even 'mild' COVID i
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by efuquen 5y ago
> Would that change if they, for example, demanded the release of prisoners of a specific political persuasion? How would that not be classified as a political motive?
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by efuquen 5y ago
> On the contrary, as far as I can tell (i.e., based on information released by founders and employees), they didn't object at all to being called out on it. > What they did object to was the discussion being escalated to genocid
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by efuquen 7y ago
Honestly I don't understand @cciresi's position. As far as a I know anti-boycott regulations have primarily (only?) been used to prevent US companies from not doing business with Isreal. China & Russia are geopolitical rivals
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by efuquen 7y ago
If you read the article that does not at all seem to be the case.
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by efuquen 7y ago
I get you wrote something to a limited audience and didn't expect it to be shared beyond. But you really should consider any communication with a 'a few authors' as something that could possibly be shared with the whole world
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by efuquen 7y ago
> More pressingly, when it comes to plant life RIGHT NOW, we're still dangerously close to CO₂ starvation levels. This is the most provocative claim you make and coincidentally the one you don't back up with any evidence. The o
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by efuquen 8y ago
~200k in a small southern city if you adjust for cost of living is about equivalent to $500k at a FAANG in SF/NYC. When you know people who brag about how cheap their $2000 a month tiny studio in an old poorly maintained building in mi
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by efuquen 8y ago
> I think a lot of people use colourful language as emphasis. You do not need to curse in a professional environment, full stop. Letting a word fly out by mistake is one thing, it can happen to anyone. But overwhelming your emails, messa
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by efuquen 8y ago
> Anyone who's familiar with the NYC->BOS Acela route And that is literally like almost nobody. I bet less then 1% of anyone living in NYC or Boston metropolitan area have ever ridden on Amtrak, let alone the Acela.
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by efuquen 8y ago
> an unaffiliated service Unaffiliated? The company a customer that is paying Slack for a messaging service, that certainly isn't 'unaffiliated'.
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by efuquen 8y ago
I think if he was against the sale he would have said that.
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by efuquen 8y ago
> I don't get what changed? He made his billions. I know you mean in a more general sense, but I can't let go of the hypocrisy of this. He sold out millions of users to Facebook, basically the most anti-privacy thing you could
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by efuquen 9y ago
Yes, exactly my point. Blaming 'unions' for this is simplistic to the extreme. As oyhers have already mentioned many places around the world with strong unions still maintain far better, more advanced metros at far lower costs.
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by efuquen 9y ago
Denmark has one of the highest union participation rates in the world and they were able to a build a fully automated metro system in Copenhagen.
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by efuquen 9y ago
No, it isn't. Inflation hasn't event hit 2% (Fed goal) yet. https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-inflation-rate-statis...
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by efuquen 9y ago
Hacking the election doesn't mean having to actually flip votes, though the Russians clearly tried to do that and we don't know if they were successful. What is clear is that they tried to infiltrate election machines and the comp
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by efuquen 9y ago
Both Google and 'Eric and Wendy Schmidt' are listed as $1 million+ funders. https://web.archive.org/web/20170821001334/https://www.newam...
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by efuquen 9y ago
> He specifically named KKK, Nazis and white supremacists. But you wouldn't hear about that thanks to your echo bubble. It took him two days and only after great pressure from people across the political spectrum. From Saturday when
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by efuquen 9y ago
"People don't drive from DC to NYC so they can signal their independence. Pretty much, they don't drive from DC to NYC at all." Having driven that route many times over taking the train I can tell you this is false. The

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