twwl

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by twwl 10y ago
The the people downvoting this thinking they're cute: totalitarianism is no joke, and your apathy infringes on my rights. You flat out do not get to be this lame. Get rid of your toys before your toys get rid of you.
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by twwl 10y ago
Is there anyone marketing cigaretts able to claim they're unaware? Aren't those also adults?
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by twwl 10y ago
There's irony in this: Do you think not judging other people for X or Y makes you better than people who judge other people? :P
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by twwl 10y ago
> I disagree, I believe it is properly using abstractions to write simpler, more straight-forward code. Straightforward for some readers, or more straightforward for the CPU/GPU?
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by twwl 10y ago
Actually, it's written exactly as often as the original construct. The idea that writing more than 5 letters, or a for loop here and there, is this giant cesspool source of errors is totally alien to me. Of all the ways in which my pro
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by twwl 10y ago
Sure, but when programinng, what the machine does and how long it takes, sometimes does matter. I have to think of all those jQuery examples floating about out there that just do $('#foo') in several places -- sure, it looks simpl
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by twwl 10y ago
> I mean from one perspective a conditional in high level code doesn't describe "what is actually happening, either." Sure, and from another perspective even the most efficient code does nothing to stop the heat death of t
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by twwl 10y ago
It's not simplifying it though, it's just hiding the complexity in syntactic sugar. I prefer the first way of doing things vastly over the second. Yeah, it's more code, but it's also more or less "what is actually h
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by twwl 10y ago
> It comes from Greek words "demos" meaning "the people" and "kratia" meaning power or authority. A democracy doesn't specify which people Of course it does -- the people. Demos, not anthropos. >
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by twwl 10y ago
If you have to be forced in order to act moral, you're immoral. People can call corporations "amoral" all day long, but they're made of people, and their decision to not be moral also implies the decision to be immoral.
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by twwl 10y ago
> facts and data are objective Sure -- it's just a pity neither you or me or anyone will ever come in contact with them. Everything we think/write/read is based on assumptions/axioms. You don't even have to &qu