simplotek

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by simplotek 3y ago
> Good points until you showed obvious bias with the "fake food" comment. What leads you to believe that the clear conflict of interests pointed out by OP changes in any way if OP doesn't use a marketing term to refer to t
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Europe is probably being hit by some sort of hardship right now meaning people can't eat as well as usual. Isn't Europe experiencing an inflation wave of around 10%? That tends to take away meat from the diet. Edit: Eurostat
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Isn’t using James Gosling example as a question a fallacy in argument (i.e., loaded question)? No, it's a clear way to refute the absurd argument that a company struggling or even failing automatically means all their engineers ar
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by simplotek 3y ago
I don't know if the article changed its clickbaity headline, but I definitely see other news sources using the headline "US warship collides with tugboat in disastrous launch". Case in point: https://www.independen
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by simplotek 3y ago
All I can say is that, after watching the vid, "disastrous launch" is not how I would describe it. This seems to be the result of the clickbaity spirit that brought us "X destroys Y" when referring to uneventful disagree
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Concepts seem great, but do they/will they always depend on using templates? I don't get your question. By definition, C++'s concepts are requirements specified on template arguments. Do you foresee any scenario where re
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by simplotek 3y ago
> You have to re-architect things so that the UI is optimistic, commits to a local database and that local database is synced up to the server when you come online. I'm not sure you got the point. The design guideline that "Off
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by simplotek 3y ago
> This is not really a merger because the other company is a “blank check” holding company (a.k.a. SPAC). This reads like a non sequitur. The corporate structure is irrelevant if there is a radical change affecting how strategic decision
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I agree with both of you - there's no reason why software should be as inefficient as it is, Except that it is, and it tends to be development speed. For example, real world React apps tend to suffer a lot from performance issues,
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by simplotek 3y ago
> To do that the team needs experience with performance, and most of internet programmer culture is just to lecture people about how programmers are cheaper than hardware if anyone asks or talks about performance. But this is an absolute
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The hard part is knowing what "stupidly inefficient things" are. There are things that are quite obvious non-critical in terms of performance. One time I had a junior engineer insisting in a PR that we should use a few low-le
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by simplotek 3y ago
> This is by design in a democracy. I'm not sure I agree. It's one thing to claim that opinions changed, but an entirely different thing to feign support for topics you have no intention or expectation to act upon just because
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Team work makes the dream work. Except there is no team, and people dream differently. More often than not, open source creates problems for developers. See Rust's Actix framework.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's objectively a terrible idea until a single coal power plants is still running anywhere in Europe (well approximately anyway...). That's not an explanation or rationale. You just repeated a personal belief. Do you have an
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The laws of physics remain the same, Yes, this means the half lives are still the same, and the original claim was patently nonsense. > however the ability to reduce waste half lives by reusing spent fuel rods has changed, This is a
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by simplotek 3y ago
> It's not false, it's just probably not easy to understand. In other words, the thesis has no basis and you have a hard time coming across people who swallow nonsense. > It's easy to understand if we consider a hypothe
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The obvious downside of this decision is that nuclear generation that has been shut down is replaced by coal and gas. This is patently false. Isar plants were built in the 70s. Back then Germany's share of renewable energy sources
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) when half lives were incredibly long. I'm sorry, did the laws of physics changed in the last couple of decades?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> What I don't get about all of this is that the hard, expensive part of nuclear power is building + certifying the plants. Not really. The hard part is ensuring that nuclear can be safe throughout it's service life. This is wh
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) and renewable energy expansion creates the illusion that turning off nuclear power plants now is a good idea. What exactly leads you to believe that shutting off nuclear power is anything other than a good idea? > Personally I
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I guess it is you that is living in a dream world. There are no epub3 compliant implementations then, because none of them display math properly. To start off, you already have posts in this very discussion rejecting your misconception
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Unfortunately MathML doesn't get you proper typesetting in epubs (...) Wrong. MathML is a part of the Epub3 specification. All e-reader implementations that comply with the epub3 specs get you proper typesetting in books published
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by simplotek 3y ago
> (...) comparable to what katex would deliver. You're comparing real world working implementations based on mathml with your hopeful expectations of how you wish katex could work in an epub implementation. It's good to have ho
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by simplotek 3y ago
I believe MathML is still the only way to get proper math typesetting in epub, and I doubt katex is an option.
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by simplotek 3y ago
Thanks for the near-academic preciseness and clarity of your explanation. Puny!
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I've found in my experience in in life that those whom comment are others use of swear words are often lacking individuals whom attempt to use their felt'superior language' to demean others. I wholeheartedly agree. This
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Swearing might be dumb if used to express harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know. If anyone expresses "harsh, negative opinions among people you don't know", the dumbness does not lie on whether they s
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by simplotek 3y ago
For the oblivious like me, what's the pun?
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Hard disagree, it's exceptionally obvious - the hands aren't just a little off, they're anatomically incorrect. It really isn't. It's fine you tried to play Catch the Differences after knowing what to look at.
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Misses the most important reason for swearing completely: to fine-tune the tone of the conversation. I agree. Not only does swearing have a modulating effect on conversation, it is also a way to covey the tone in the relationship betwe

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