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Software guy

  • whotd uses brave

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  • The article you linked is over 3 years old at this point. You can't use that as the basis for your argument for software that's likely had hundreds of patches since the time that article was published.

  • TIL that a gram of uranium contains 20 million kcals so if you ate just one gram of uranium you would have enough calories for the rest of your life.

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  • (me, an American) Well, forty isn't that many.

  • Valve engineer says Steam Machine performance beats 70% of PCs, and can play all games

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  • You can install Windows on it and should be able to play those games.

    They are obviously saying that their hardware is powerful enough to play all games; not that all games support their choice of OS.

  • "Logic and reason"

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  • We're social animals with big brains. Other great apes, elephants, whales, even some birds like parrots and corvids mature slower.

    We rely less on our instincts and more on what we learn from the previous generations, and that takes time.

  • No one can stop you

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  • Well, I know how I'm starting and ending all my emails now

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  • People whose parents have become fascist, how are you dealing with it?

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  • "You are what you eat". If someone only consumes fascist propaganda right-wing media, then they will become more fascist right-winged.

    To OOP: You might not be able to turn off their TV. But you should share unbiased or left-leaning articles, shows, news, etc. And try to get them to "eat" a more balanced diet.

  • The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.

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  • There are novels that don't measure up to the writing of visual novels.

    There are comics that don't measure up to the art of visual novels.

    There are video games that are less engaging than visual novels.

    Broad generalizations like this are so useless. It's okay that you play one or two visual novels and they weren't for you. I don't particularly like visual novels either, but to discredit an entire genre because of it is just ignorant. I've played some visual novels that were excellent and pushed the boundaries of video games. See Slay the Princess and Doki Doki Literature Club. I'm playing Date Everything right now, it's not exactly innovative, but I'm having fun with it.

  • Rome BIG

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  • I'm not a geographicist, but this looks right to me.

  • So so unfair

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  • Hormones can play a role as well. Anecdotally, my wife's hair during pregnancy became fuller and less brittle. Duckduckgo "pregnancy hair". A monthly cycle, being on hormonal birth control, etc. will likely have some effect. I definitely agree that genetics does play a bigger role, but claiming that gender/sex plays no role is definitely incorrect.

  • So proud!

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  • I like how OOP gets the name wrong also. Shane not Shawn. It really makes it feel extra condescending.

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    Would the creation and implementation of a bona fide Dyson sphere megastructure to capture energy more directly from a star ever be feasible or viable were it to succeed? Can the risk be underwritten?

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  • Well, I'm pretty sure the Earth is in orbit around a star [citation needed], so I would think solar panels on Earth would also be in orbit around a star.

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    Would the creation and implementation of a bona fide Dyson sphere megastructure to capture energy more directly from a star ever be feasible or viable were it to succeed? Can the risk be underwritten?

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  • I mean, I suppose that technically a lone satellite with solar panels in orbit around the Sun is probably an extremely limited form of a Dyson sphere --- it's not as if there's some firm lower bound on what percentage of energy output from the star that needs to be captured. One could presumably scale up incrementally.

    By that definition the solar panels that are already on the Earth are a tiny Dyson swarm. And honestly, I approve.

  • Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong

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  • Damn, what a wild take.

    Nintendo might not be as innovative as some indie games but they constantly innovate and define new genres.

    I mean, look at the consoles. Wii, Wii U, and Switch are all crazy innovative.

    Some of their more innovative stuff might not be as popular, e.g., ARMS and LABO. Even their mainline series have some innovative mechanics for the genre.

    Serious question. What company is more innovative than Nintendo?

  • Guys this is the future!

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  • Eh, English probably isn't his native language. I try to be pretty forgiving spelling and grammar on the Internet.

  • James Gunn gets over a billion on a single hand for the first time

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  • Or multiple invisible jokers. But yeah, those are the only ways

  • Cursed

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  • What? No. The divisibility of the side lengths have nothing to do with this.

    The problem is what's the smallest square that can contain 17 identical squares. If there were 16 squares it would be simply 4x4.

  • Which are your favorite podcasts about programming?

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  • RIP Coding Blocks. I listened to them for years but they are on a permanent hiatus.

  • Anon watches The Whale

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  • Similar vibe, but I think about this scene/meme a lot as well.

    Likewise, Don Draper is being an asshole in the scene. But, in reality most people don't think about you.

    They could say something that offended you. They are going to forget about it. So there is no need to be upset, chances are they forgot about it.

    You could say something dumb or embarrassing. People are going to forget almost immediately.

  • Fucking SAME

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  • The War On Drugs is mostly a racist political policy from Nixon to prevent minorities and hippies voting.

    Alcohol is hard to control and too closely tied to many social occasions.

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    cancel landlords

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    as a Jeff this is extra concerning

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    Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

    www.paulgraham.com /makersschedule.html
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    Whoa, you're a hacker!

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    self-taught developer

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    Personally, I like my milk and sugar with a little bit of coffee

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    Elon Musk Certified Genius*

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    People on the street might assume you're homeless though

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    Why did you become an engineering manager?

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    The customer is always right. 🪞

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    It still counts if I only used it in a 3 day hackathon 7 years ago, right?

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    The Programmers' Credo

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    Welcome to Engineering Managers!

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    Are you still using AI tools to help with development?

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    AbstractObjectFactoryBuilderFactoryInator

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    COBOL inheritance

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    👨‍💻🟰🧙‍♂️❔

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    I'm looking forward to new O'Reilly book