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by plikan13 11y ago
The war of drugs has been done badly. Of course it's ridiculous that people's homes get raided because they have some pot. That doesn't mean legislation needs to jump to the other end of the spectrum. You can forbid trade of
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by plikan13 11y ago
Legalization may provide a net health benefit for Mexican gang members. Whether legalization will provide a net health benefit for American citizens is still a point of contention.
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by plikan13 11y ago
Generally there is not much happiness in software development. More often than not the job is little more than prostituting your brain for some cause that you don't really care about. That's why many people have shitty attitudes,
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by plikan13 11y ago
It's a junkheap of human banality -- deleted my account many moons ago.
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by plikan13 12y ago
You still need an algorithm to decide when it's time to handle control to a remote driver. Who's going to handle the edge cases of that algorithm?
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by plikan13 12y ago
At some point you got to wonder whether the practice of programming itself can make people unhappy. Maybe it's just not natural to put your mind into that straightjacket of formal thinking for 8+ hours a day.
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by plikan13 12y ago
Yes, but the number which indexes the position in PI where your book starts will probably be longer than the book itself.
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by plikan13 12y ago
> Likewise, if someone fails to use intoxicants or other recreational drugs responsibly and develops a debilitating habit, it makes more sense to do as we do for people who want to quit drinking or smoking, not as we do for people who ra
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by plikan13 12y ago
I'm not sure history can be repeated so easily. Back in the eighties you were impressed when a program managed to change the screen from blue to green. With today's kids playing Counter Strike on high end computers, it's not
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by plikan13 12y ago
It's funny how many people recommend exercise or meditation as if this is going to make you forget that you hate your job. If anything, meditation is only going to make this more clear. Hating your job is a pretty big problem that you
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by plikan13 12y ago
The problem is that when you hire the services of a prostitute, you will probably have no idea about the situation of that person. Maybe this person is in charge of his/her life and is making a well-informed choice. But maybe this pers
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by plikan13 12y ago
> Couldn't agree more. Evolution as a process has no regard for simplicity or elegance. The solutions that Natural Selection "comes" up with are random. I guess you could say that all organisms have a design, but that the
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by plikan13 12y ago
> is this really more profitable than actually making good games? I know I'm going to sound like a terrible elitist snob, but the target audience for today's mainstream video games are not exactly the top layer of humanity. It&
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by plikan13 12y ago
My guess, and of course this can be no more than a guess, is that you are depressed because of loneliness.
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by plikan13 12y ago
Attitudes towards women in Tech would be a little more relaxed if a fair number of developers would have the courage to face the truth and come out of their closets.
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by plikan13 12y ago
> a job market that doesn't need cashiers, janitors, gardeners, cooks, taxi drivers, car washers, many farmers, or most menial labor? The job that I consider most threatened by advances in AI is actually the job of programmer.
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by plikan13 12y ago
int get_number(char buffer[]) { long int i = 0; char *p; if(fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin) != NULL) { sizeof(buffer) will always be 4 (or 8 if you compile 64 bit) because sizeof(pointer to char) is 4 (or 8). It
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by plikan13 12y ago
Attitudes towards women in IT environments would become a little more relaxed if a fair number of programmers would have the courage to stop denying and come out of the closet. There, I said it.
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by plikan13 12y ago
My main gripe with Windows at the moment is the amount of time I'm staring at Windows updates. It gets ridiculous at times.
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by plikan13 12y ago
I have been visited by deceased relatives a few times in my dreams and for me these experiences were convincing enough to serve as evidence that death is not the end of things. Of course this is just personal, but it's good enough for
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by plikan13 12y ago
If you want to try this, don't wait too long. Being an electrician is a though job physically. If you're past 35 and you're used to sitting in front of a screen for a living, your body will have difficulties readjusting to th
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by plikan13 12y ago
You ignore the fact that the radioactive potassium will be distributed more or less evenly over your body. Secondly, and more importantly, you bring up this number of 4900 decays per second as if it means anything by itself. Those 4900 deca
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by plikan13 12y ago
Aside from waste storage there's also the cost of dismantling old reactors. The Wikipedia article on nuclear decommissioning makes for some depressing reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_decommissioning
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by plikan13 12y ago
The statement that nowadays reactor engines can be designed that are "far safer" always riles me up a little bit because, of course, a few decades ago the OLD designs were already sold to the general public with the promise that t
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by plikan13 12y ago
What people never seem to understand is that the proximity of the source matters. Compare a tiny amount of radiation coming from a long distance (say the core of the earth) and a tiny amount of radiation coming from speck of decaying radioa
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by plikan13 12y ago
I've been wondering about another somewhat intuitive way to see the problem: suppose a third person enters the room and he is allowed to finish the game, knowing nothing of what went on before. In particular, he doesn't know your
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by plikan13 12y ago
Before the conditional expression was introduced to Python I sometimes wrote things like foo = [baz, bar][qux is None]
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by plikan13 12y ago
I didn't read the book, but from leafing through Stephen Hawking's "On the shoulder of giants" I got the impression this book tries to reconstruct how Copernicus, Kepler etc... acquired their understanding of the univers
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by plikan13 12y ago
You're right about the implicit conversions but "buffer" is not a pointer to char. The type of buffer is "array of 10 chars" and sizeof(buffer) equals 10, not sizeof(char*) which usually will be 4 or 8. Personally,
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by plikan13 12y ago
I always thought the obvious reason for this is that it allows the banks to hang on to your money a little bit longer. At least that's how it works where I live. The money disappears from your account immediately, so essentially you gi

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