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by new_stranger 4y ago
I know some people are afraid of change and competition, but I'm thrilled everytime someone shares their new language or library. I don't have to learn or use them all, but it's great to basically have unlimited research and
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Wait, censorship or reduction in choices? They are different concepts with some overlap. China has the most draconian censorship in the world: lethal censorship. Nothing like the "de-platformed" or "down-voted" censorshi
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by new_stranger 4y ago
I do too, but from the weight of the idea - not the complexity of the delivery
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Maybe I've read to much history, or maybe I just need to pay more attention to Musk, but I'm pretty sure he isn't anywhere close to the category of "Terrible Human Being" I have in mind - even for the West.
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Not OP, and just opinion, but I've seen markedly different career and personality/friend/family success. They seem like talented happy people able to take on a wide variety of challenges and do well. The friends with troubled
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Assuming you don't need bare-level performance and Go is okay, I love how easy and approachable parallel code is with Go. Locks and channels each offer trade offs you can easily benchmark using the built in go test. I've written s
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by new_stranger 4y ago
> The chair collapses; he is injured. He files for worker's compensation. His company paid no premiums in Illinois, no coverage. Will California cover an out of state injury? This sounds so American: Insurance and litigation for eve
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by new_stranger 4y ago
And keeping 100% of all features instead of removing the least-used features as you add new ones to keep tech debt from growing indefinitely and reaching a point where new features take months to ship.
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by new_stranger 4y ago
As a kid I wanted Zelda: Ocarina of Time - but with Pokemon
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by new_stranger 4y ago
The issue is you and I know this, but they don't
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by new_stranger 4y ago
If you were wealthier you would understand the importance of centralized power /s
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Perhaps a little better, but anything the government does is always subpar Whatever email server/system the government created would be so bad no one one would use it.
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by new_stranger 4y ago
This died because convention > configuration Most users do not want to configure fonts or anything really to use the web.
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by new_stranger 4y ago
That's the best-case scenario, the worse-case is that in trying to fix a problem we caused, we fail and end up with more problems. I mean, this isn't news to those of us that write code.
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by new_stranger 4y ago
Yes, but I think people sometimes confuse the criteria for 'good reasoning' in the moment. It's easier to paint a prophet as a crackpot if everyone else is putting time and energy into finding fault with them. You can vilify
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by new_stranger 4y ago
The sad thing is that most often, the actual villains trick everyone into thinking it's a different party. When bad people rise to power, they often do so vilifying one or more other groups. The odds are not in our favor, collectively,
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Unfortunately, whatever body you create to watch the body you create that watches the body you create will have people in it that will be the target of lobbing. You need to some how break through the selection process to appoint people of i
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Took about 10 minutes to install and most of that was just waiting for the os to transfer to the phone. Really easy install guide. Works great. I wouldn't ask grandma to do it, but the technical crowd here probably isn't scared of
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by new_stranger 5y ago
I'm not a person with lots of free time that wants to update to the latest and greatest every year. I now appreciate apple phones knowing I can upgrade when I want and not in 1 year, 9 months when Google/Samsung drop support for m
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by new_stranger 5y ago
This just hints at how toxic the fracking chemicals used are. It's not just the water, it's the pollution that is compounding this issue. Water always has, and always will recirculate - but pumping dangerous contaminants into our
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Considering there are over 150,000 people working at Google, I would assume the odds one of them would take a bribe to be pretty good. That said, it certainly doesn't prove this has ever happened.
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by new_stranger 5y ago
I'm really glad to have Rust and Go. I was worried the only way out of startups using scripting languages was Java or C++. Thanks to everyone that has contributed to these great languages! It's so nice to be able to simple things
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Great idea, there are so many games that would actually be played with even a basic co-op support like this. It's okay it's just an overlay with no shared-game state, still really fun!
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by new_stranger 5y ago
tikTok collects data like a great many other companies, unfortunately they aren't just doing it sell more ads. With a few days of interactions, you can very precisely logically profile a person enough to figure out how to socially engi
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by new_stranger 5y ago
> Up to 10k rows of data. uh, how is 10k tweets (1 second of data?) enough?
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by new_stranger 5y ago
The Pixel 3 was a great phone. If https://lineageos.org/ or https://calyxos.org/ had been able to come up with an AI assisted camera which could match the Google Camera app (The lens is trash, Google uses s
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Truth that never changes is not beneficial for planning. I recommend you find a more useful, relative truth. Don't get me wrong, it's important you know the real truth, but that isn't often the one you gain much from promotin
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by new_stranger 5y ago
You're over-complicating this. Facts come from studies that have been published which are disproven four years later when finally repeated. So for a couple years at least, it's always clear what the truth is.
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by new_stranger 5y ago
> needs at least a few hundred million dollars per year to keep going I'm pretty sure that is not server cost. This is probably the standard approach of companies hiring tons of personal and spending tens of thousands or hundreds of
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by new_stranger 5y ago
Well, "work" is a broad term. It can mean a paycheck, the gulag, or that todo you've been putting off because you want to finish the show. Lots more as well. Some are meanings are constructs, but some are limitations of compl

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