otabdeveloper2

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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> What Exactly is Docker? For 99% of the world, the answer is "a file format like .tar.gz except composable". These guys are really missing their target audience needs by a mile.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Quite a lot of artists, writers, video editors use an iPad. Maybe, but that's accidental, because every tool sucks and you might as well use a sucky tool if it's trendier.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Why is creative work the only 'real work'? I didn't say that. I'm just explaining what the original article writer's phrase ('real work') means here in this context - the context of personal computer
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> But why are we saying that this isn’t ‘real’ work? Because by 'real work' we mean creating stuff, not consuming stuff. Using a tablet as a fancy embedded device with pre-loaded industrial apps isn't creating stuff.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Rust is both more complex and uglier than modern C++. If your complaint is having to learn new stuff, then Rust isn't the solution.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
'Interpersonal communication' is not a skill. It is a weasel word for when you don't want to say 'social status' for whatever reason.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> taking 5 seconds to load I want to live in your alternate reality, because in ours anything under 45 seconds is a miracle.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
The 'written in Python' you speak of is actually Fortran under the hood.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Of course a rolling release system is going to have more breakages. Well, no. The point of a rolling release system is that you upgrade by little increments, so you never have a moment when a 'major upgrade' happens and break
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
If we're honest: Arch is annoying, but the reason people (including me) run it is because they don't want their OS to explode in a shitstorm every time a 'major upgrade' cycle happens. (Looking at you, Ubuntu.) So, your
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Lawns are aesthetically pleasing to humans. Citation needed. My anecdotal experience doesn't agree. > It has been widely observed... Really? By who? > ...that humans, having adapted to life in the African savannah, Citation
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Science is a method, that is, a tool. As any tool, its applicability is limited.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
You're nuts if you think the USSR didn't have penicillin and other antibiotics.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Chess is better than all the games on your list bar Agricola, possibly. Agricola is a four player game, though, so not playing on the same field as chess.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> It offers no help. Try using a compiler that wasn't made in the last millennium.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
A modern C++ is head and shoulders above Rust. Rust might get there in a decade or two; not today. Go is a complete joke if it wasn't so sad. Just no.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Why? So you can tar, feather and throw him into the fire for crimethink?
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> becoming
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Both are C++: developers are more expensive to hire, and stuff takes more time to develop and debug. Have you seen the state of Javascript 'ecosystem' and job market?? Both statements are false. The real reason is that C++ to
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
49%? Way too low, something's wrong with this study.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> I thought this idea that humans had short lifespans historically was thoroughly debunked. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” Genes
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
The Greek 'daemon' seems like a pretty accurate translation for '神'.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Where do you get that? An easy analogy to explain why curved surfaces are stronger: imagine an egg that is a cube instead of a spheroid. You see how an eggshell cube would be vastly more brittle than an egg, right? > chose these fla
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> you can use that truck and do a lot of work with it without having to worry about the paint or breaking something No. The flat shiny surfaces are more expensive, harder to manufacture, more brittle and more susceptible to denting&#x2F
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Is it sobering to realize that you will never multiply 12-digit numbers as well as a $0.99 calculator?
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language Maybe because what 'you consider' is not a universal metric of utility? I, personally, care not one whit about
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> I hope to see a lot of things in my lifetime: life discovered outside our planet, human cloning, artificial organs and blood, AGI, humans on Mars, cures for a broad spectrum of cancers and Alzheimer's, human life extension /
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> That's a pity the FB2 format is not nearly as popular as EPUB is. It's made for readers by readers, so no DRM. A non-starter for publishing corporations, sadly.
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
Oh yes, I'm sure your daughter needs a double dose of feminism, because feminism, is, like, something that our current society totally lacks. Because if some cure isn't working (or even having the opposite effect) of course the pr
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by otabdeveloper2 7y ago
> I'm actively preparing to move all of my machines over to BSD You remind me of all those people who are going to move to Canada "any day now" because of Trump.

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