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5,951karma·4,108submissions·November 9, 2014
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this is a really bad idea. A million lines of code per engineer per month, they say. What a dreadfully bad use of excellent technology! LLMs could help the review all that code, and help their program…
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This is going to spin out of control for those desperate not to have their details released It was stupid to accept the gift of young women Stupid to promise to release the data Really stupid to parti…
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> but it's a reality we're facing. Yes. Most software is bad The incentives between managers and technicians are all wrong Bad software is more profitable, over the time frames managers …
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> a book that describes how black people are lesser, and dumber than white people? Which book was that?
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> Popular banned books like Lolita, mein kampf are not here, but they are also not in U.S. school Honest question: Are those books banned in schools? The books that "require banning" are …
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> I certainly wouldn’t want my children getting exposed to books that normalise trans ideology, for example. If you had a trans child? Trans yourself?
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What an outrageous list! Mostly books about young people confronting the problems facing young people A window into the minds of adults. A distorted window, I hope, or there is no hole for those adul…
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> “NBC doesn’t have a television business, they have an ad business”. They do broadcast TV, the purpose of which is to display ads. That does make sense. > “Google doesn’t have a search busine…
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> So why should I pay more by €30k to install experimental thing for a decade when my low cost gas heating will last for 3 decades again. Because: It is not experimental (it is no longer 1992) Your…
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This is a very important matter....
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> Not sure why you're getting downvoted Orion browser is proprietary That would be my guess. That might be OK for you, but I have been burnt, as have many others, by proprietary software If th…
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> Linux desktop experience, however, leaves a lot to be desired. No, it does not. It is a wonderful world fill of variety, choice and diversity
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That is a sweet thought, it would be nice if it were true, it is false. "Customers" are barely holding on in a very precarious position
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Development on Apple hardware generally
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I hate this. Good people in the UK spending their time dreaming up solutions to "problems" far away The people who live "far away" have agency and can solve their own problems, if …
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> For the last 15 years of his life Yamauchi lived quietly, refusing requests for interviews, Bless Did not owe the media anything.
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> Any requirements for more modern application patterns that are emerging in the broader web development environment, like idk.... asynchronous I/O, A good article, but there is nothing new ab…
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Typical of Cannonical. What a waste of effort. Maybe rewrite broken things. But how many core utilities are broken?
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I think the (negative) point is the cost of ownership. European cars are very cool, if you can afford to keep them running
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> Even BMW can't make something that is practical. Hyperbole, but essentially true The Japanese beat everybody when ICE ruled. Their cars were miles ahead on every measure except snob value. …
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Because cooperating is better than competing
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> interference from intense solar radiation, which corrupted data in a computer which controls the aircraft's elevation Has anybody kept count of "fly by wire" failures in aircraft? …
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What are the advantages of this?
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I found it clear