unflxw

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by unflxw 3y ago
Hi Kris. Thank you for reaching out in this way. I am sorry about what I said, and especially so about how I said it. My undoubtedly harsh words intended to disqualify a line of thinking that I saw as logically dishonest and ethically dubio
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by unflxw 3y ago
> I'm an actual intellectual It is literally impossible to make fun of this website. It is, truly, beyond parody. I think that I'm being hyperbolic in saying shit like "everyone in this website believes they're the sm
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by unflxw 3y ago
What a cheap blanket dismissal. Regardless of the affiliation of the site (which I neither know nor care) it links to sources that can be trusted: https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-ro... https:&#x2F
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by unflxw 3y ago
That doesn't mean that the people working to _improve_ PHP are doing anything wrong. Sisyphean, perhaps.
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by unflxw 3y ago
That's very interesting. I currently live in Barcelona, and most people would be very surprised to see Rodalies held up as any sort of platonic ideal of anything. Though it is true that it could be a great transit network, given the ne
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by unflxw 3y ago
Aren't the diagonals also being built? Primarily, if I recall correctly, by reusing existing passenger rails corridors and connecting their services instead of terminating them at the main stations. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by unflxw 3y ago
There's no rule that says that something can't be both practical and good. And it's not like it's no longer possible to write quote-unquote "bad" PHP -- if nothing else, PHP is backwards-compatible to a fault.
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by unflxw 3y ago
Agreed. I'd say the source of the problem is the lack of real third places. I like to call this "the abolition of society", but I'm a bit dramatic. While the internet is certainly addictive, I'd assume that most peo
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by unflxw 3y ago
> We have a forest in our backyard with a 2 story fully enclosed treehouse (including electricity), sports fields within a 5 minute walk, tons of hiking trails, etc. Humans are social beings. We are motivated to do things through our pee
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by unflxw 3y ago
My impression is that Node.js has to be dragged kicking and screaming into any modern JavaScript development practices, and each time, they try to support as little of it as possible as they can get away with. They have only last year actua
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by unflxw 3y ago
Not all tourists are Americans. I would expect the average person scammed by these ATMs is an European citizen from a different country. I agree the map kinda sucks, because most of the island of Mallorca is a tourist trap at this point. Bu
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by unflxw 3y ago
I agree, but that's a very generous description of what Mozilla is doing. I'd say they're less "developing a competitive browser" and more "keeping an uncompetitive browser on life support to continue to profit
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by unflxw 3y ago
I'd argue that the EFF is the main organization fighting for the open web.
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by unflxw 3y ago
Some minor product manager in Cupertino, two quarters from now: "As we can see in this graph, thanks to the improvements to Feedback Assistant over the past couple years, we've reduced our products' bug rate to nearly zero pe
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by unflxw 3y ago
To be clear, I meant "nonsensical and unrealisable" in that there's no realistic, long-term sustainable way to greater public services without greater taxation. Nonsensical as public policy for them to advocate for. I didn&#x
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by unflxw 3y ago
I appreciate your answer. It's hard to have these conversations online without it quickly devolving into a shouting match, hence my disclaimer. Not that I have any intent to defend this abstract group of people, but I don't genera
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by unflxw 3y ago
I see this sentiment expressed often, but I don't quite get it. Is the implication that if you personally enjoy a high standard of living through capitalism, it is therefore hypocritical to advocate for everyone to enjoy a high standar
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by unflxw 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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by unflxw 3y ago
Perhaps it's not great to set the expectation that any specific approach to AI "is all you need"? (or, in other words, "Is All You Need" Considered Harmful)
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by unflxw 3y ago
The public railway infrastructure is maintained by Adif [1], which is owned by the Spanish state. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrador_de_Infraestructu...
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by unflxw 3y ago
While I hope that Spanish politics continue to be based in coalitions, this is a very recent phenomenon, with a two-party political system historically dominating the country's politics, a tradition that predates the democratic system
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by unflxw 3y ago
In Spain, there's usually no "density gradient" between the core of a city and its suburbs. The core of the city is dense, the suburbs are equally dense, and the conurbation's edge is a street which has a five-story buil
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by unflxw 3y ago
In Spain, especially after the closures in the 80s [1], the traditional rail network, which was already chronically under-maintained, also became, with some exceptions, hopelessly disjointed. Many of the remaining operating routes can'
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by unflxw 3y ago
Note that any combination of two of the three "dimensions" does constitute an independent system. That is, given that q + r + s = 0, then q + r = -s, so you could use only (q, r) as your coordinates (and indeed that's likely
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by unflxw 3y ago
This is really neat! I made a space-filling curve: [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[FR]]FRR]]RRRRRRF]]FFFFFFFRR]]RRRRRRFFFFFFFFF]]FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRR]]RRRRRRFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]]FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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by unflxw 3y ago
> "Over time, this vicious cycle may convince us we don’t matter to anyone and that we’re unworthy of love."
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by unflxw 3y ago
This is going to sound snotty, but arguments were made for people who sort of knew what they were doing. You probably shouldn't be touching the comments box if you don't know what it does. These thoughts were written assuming a ba
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by unflxw 3y ago
> This is going to sound snotty The word you’re looking for is “condescending”. Regardless, there is no argument about software freedom to be made here. You’re allowed, be it open or close source, to write and publish software that defie
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by unflxw 3y ago
To be clear, the keywords to tick the boxes are all still there, just presented in the context in which you used them, which adds additional meaning and qualifies what you mean by "having experience with X" to an informed reader.
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by unflxw 3y ago
A resumé is a tool for you to guide the interviewer, and you should use it for your advantage. If you stuff your CV with a contextless list of random tech keywords, half of which are things you did a "hello world" with years ago,

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