ubertoop

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by ubertoop 5y ago
I believe the point is that the "main thread" for your iOS application, is not the main thread of the OS. They're totally decoupled.
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by ubertoop 5y ago
> You are half-way through a change. Your old motivations have lost their appeal. I think I'm in the same boat as the OP, and this comment resonated with me. When I started programming nearly a decade ago, I had an abundance of int
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by ubertoop 5y ago
"Boudin was born in New York City to Jewish parents. His parents, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, were Weather Underground members, both convicted of murder."[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin
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by ubertoop 5y ago
I'm really confused as to what point you're trying to make with this comment. In order to secure religious freedoms, religious rights, and LGBTQ inclusion, we need to have a filthy city, filled with homelessness, drug addiction, a
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by ubertoop 5y ago
Interesting but, I don't really think I understand what this is. Would you mind explaining it in lay terms?
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by ubertoop 5y ago
> I just keep everything in memory in native data structures and flush to disk periodically; Can you expand on what you mean by this? I am interpreting that to mean that you are actually writing to a file and reading from a file rather
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by ubertoop 5y ago
Oh, derp. My mistake... I read the OPs comment as the opposite for some reason.
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by ubertoop 5y ago
You know what can easily induce a 10+ heart rate increase? The perception of danger, aka, FEAR. An entirely mental process.
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by ubertoop 5y ago
xamber's point remains valid though - while code may move to the frontend, the notion of scaling isn't a function of the number of users (as the original op erroneously states). maybe they meant their front end code scales as comp
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by ubertoop 5y ago
Gosh, you know... I think you've left a very novel innovation from China off your list. https://youtu.be/dnY2OtnTOcA
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by ubertoop 5y ago
The scary thing is how much ones phone number (a somewhat ephemeral thing) is actually bound to your IDENTITY. Considering your phone number is more and more being used in 2FA ... if you were to ever change your number and someone else got
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by ubertoop 5y ago
edit: forgot i was done. damnit. From what I can find, 5G wasn't invented in China, nor was the concept of electromagnetic information transfer. Nor were transitors. Nor were micro processors. Nor were personal cell phones... The l
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by ubertoop 5y ago
Most of the things you've listed here use WESTERN TECH just re-applied for a Chinese market, and you're calling that innovation? The fact that you had to list "Chinese based text input via keyboards" as a genuine Chines
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by ubertoop 5y ago
This list includes no genuinely new innovations except for maybe 5G. You are listing that China is a major manufacturer, which is true. The OPs point was that China has a record of stealing IP from the US, which is also true. Listing man
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by ubertoop 5y ago
You've listed literally 4 things. You can't really believe that compares to the innovations to come out of Silicon Valley, right?
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by ubertoop 6y ago
This is true in most languages really. It starts with people just wanting to speed up their development by turning common tasks into some macro, or annotation, or even library. But where does it end? It ends in a convoluted mess of depen
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by ubertoop 6y ago
A very good point indeed.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
I just find it amusing that the very source of the problem (humans) are themselves positing that they are also part of the solution. Why kid ourselves? 8+ billion humans are going to consume, and keep consuming, endlessly. The ONLY actual
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by ubertoop 6y ago
> have as many kids as you can support How ironic considering that the very source of earths problems are because of humans. Somehow, the solution is more. Never a better response from, a human.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
I've clearly been doing this quarantine / pandemic wrong.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
You have got to be kidding. SF, and California generally, has had systemic problems that have virtually nothing to do with the recent tech boom.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Come on dude. People aren't talking about the "weird" or quirky aspects of SF. We're talking about fucking needles, and human feces in the street. Stop protecting this shit by labeling it as something other than human
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by ubertoop 6y ago
> And ironically, restrictions here are less than in many hard hit areas What did Atlantic Canada do then?
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Wow. I would love to hear more about this. A lot of people on here suffer from burnout in some form or another, and I would imagine very view actually cut the cord. Do you have a writeup anywhere about your experience?
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Alright, so now I'm left wondering: What about big agriculture? There's a popular YouTube channel [1] with advocates for a plant based diet, low in fat, yet suspiciously says almost nothing about hydrogenated vegetable oils (cano
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by ubertoop 6y ago
> for firms that write in functional languages What does the language being a functional language have to do with it?
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Pretty much. I only fly when driving would take 6 hours or more.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Ah yes because, correlation = causation. Come on. Example: People are citing that birth rates decline in wealthier countries, yet fail to realize that wealth in those countries is a direct function of time. People exchange their time, fo
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by ubertoop 6y ago
Wealth itself is a horrible predictor. What people really need, is a different form of wealth: TIME.
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by ubertoop 6y ago
That, I believe, is a function of one material: PLASTIC. There's just something about plastic that feels cheap and replaceable even when used in a "high end" product. There are toasters from the 50s made in stainless steel

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