stevecoalbear

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by stevecoalbear 26d ago
Most importantly, it makes investors think dumb people are smart.
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by stevecoalbear 26d ago
Did you know that to have a .cat domain, your content needs some link to the nation of Catalonia? That is why they offer a Catalonian translation.
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by stevecoalbear 27d ago
It should instead trigger a little germ icon, like a virus, because it's like a virus.
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by stevecoalbear 27d ago
It doesn't matter which one you mean, because Go has neither of them.
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
Go's full of hacks, and holds no shame over it. Zero-initialized everything, and proceeding to 'defer' instead of RAII, generic builtin types despite lack of generics (until recently), no builtin list type, slices having capa
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
Go's entire schtick is being simple, eschewing language complexity in favour of letting the programmer handle it themself. Like C, but with pointer safety and garbage collection. We learned from C++ and Rust that languages can be so sm
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
In most cities it's illegal to build a new neighbourhood without an HOA
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
Wealthy neighbourhoods get actual protection, rather than protection-as-an-excuse-for-surveillance.
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
You're absolutely right! If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. That's why I installed a camera in your bathroom and made it publicly accessible to the internet. If somebody commits a crime in your bathroom, they&#
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
2026
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
It once came up whether my grandmother went to music festivals in her youth. Of course not, she said, they hadn't been invented yet! They didn't have electronic music, because they didn't have electronics. And nobody was play
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by stevecoalbear 1mo ago
Other things that are surprisingly less than 100 years old include electronic music, Germany, Croatia, capitalism, the end of slavery, worker's rights, fiat currency, central banks, stock markets as more than a niche thing, and so on.