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Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, give me a second, singularity exists.
Comment · 4 years ago
Here to verify, there's a fair bit of software where the state of the art is in Rust. How it happened so quick is a little surprising, but here we are.
Comment · 4 years ago
Quick to repair is also a lot more versatile. Unfortunately, I had to work in a lot of environments with proprietary, vendor-locked software and hardware. Usually all you can do is make sure you design the system so that you can chuck entire parts of it (possibly for rework, but sometimes not) if it breaks or gets compromised.

Definitely relevant for, say, SCADA controls with terrible security.

Comment · 4 years ago
The answer is yes, now quit guessing so accurately
Comment · 4 years ago
You don't think I'm qualified? Why? Because what I said made you feel bad for some reason? Well jackass, you're definitely not qualified, keep reading. Or maybe don't, because what people put in books must also be wrong because you're a special snowflake.

Sigh. There's another conversation I had on here that went similar to this one. Basically, a guy was saying, "the tough road I took to get to my position is what made me who I am" which is perhaps literally true but also trash. There is always a way you could have gotten to where you are today, or indeed even a better place, with less hardship. If you rubbed a lamp and a genie asked if you wanted to change anything about your past, saying "no I'm perfectly happy with who I am today" is a brazen lie and about the stupidest thing you could do. You have no regrets? You don't want to be a better person? The hell is wrong with you?

Likewise, why want hardship for your children just for the sake of hardship? They could learn without hardship just as well, though you may not be smart enough to figure out how.

Comment · 4 years ago
The first step of consistency is determining and agreeing on what you want the computer to do. I don't see this happening, and it kind of removes the point of having multiple DEs, etc, for experimentation. Though perhaps after investigating in this direction, one might understand how users want to interact with the system key bindings, if at all, and be able to break down user interaction into digestible chunks.

Everyone has heard (or... most people) about a lot of the clever Apple shortcuts, but they are intensely not discoverable. People still need to go out of their way to learn them. It's just it's Apple, so no one cares.

Comment · 4 years ago
Feint - Mirror signal

IC3PEAK - Зеркало (Mirror)

Feint - Stairway to Heaven (You Are Slaves)

FACE - Коттон (Cotton)

The Russian Futurists - Let's Get Ready To Crumble

Scarcity of Tanks (band)

Comment · 4 years ago
If the work is repetitive I'm not sure you can say it was good experience. Your time would have been better spent learning or creating, I assume. No reason to want your children to work.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is how it's supposed to work in the US.
Comment · 4 years ago
You're right however what he is saying I suspect is more about the perception of leading as opposed to actually leading.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think it's objective badness but more the perceived and probably real lack of social mobility.
Comment · 4 years ago
> EDIT: oh, and heart disease is the #1 cause of death in the US, while heart surgery is one of the most difficult specialties to get in to. They are absolutely never short on patients, lol.

This is still relevant to his concern, but from the other end. They might be making the labor artificially scarce to increase pay.

Comment · 4 years ago
That's unfair to the cat. I trained mine (possibly halfway by accident) to fake bite hands. They tend to run away if they don't know you still, but if it's someone they know they can tell them they don't want pets without moving.

He also missed #4. Cat bites you because it wants pets.

Comment · 4 years ago
There are plenty of areas with too much red tape.

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