adhocfungus

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much evidence do we have for this? I want to believe it since it's my favorite fact so far, which means I should be extra cautious before believing it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I loved the show, but never would have guessed it was based on reality. Great facts!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I agree. Several authors and editors I follow have recommended using 'said' and 'asked' for the majority of your writing. They are basically invisible to readers; just subconscious tags at this point. Using different words in every sentence is distracting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Making your own meaning is Existentialism talk! Embrace the lack of meaning!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I used to write extensively with C++, but it has been a long time since speed mattered that much to one of my applications. I still marvel at the cache-level optimizations some people come up with, but I'm in the same mindset as you now.

My workload split of Data Movement vs Data Transformation is like 95:5 these days, which means almost all the optimizations I do are changing batch/cache/page/filter settings. I can do that in any language with http bindings, so I choose those that are faster to write.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For a second I thought you meant that you watched Hacksaw Ridge in class.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most importantly, since there are infinite other options in-between that are just as likely as God existing, some can have negative reward values if you choose "worship God anyway". It is just as likely that there is a vengeful Anti-God that will torture you for eternity if you worship the Abrahamic God, which would completely negate the rewards from the original wager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is what I've seen too. Directors come back from a conference and suddenly we're learning a newer but objectively worse system. Obviously the grunts using the systems aren't consulted, but are expected to be team players through this educational experience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Nothing in this article, sadly. I want to know the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

"I've heard it both ways."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Blood Machines OST is my favorite album of any genre, and I've never even seen the movie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It was definitely considered piracy by the public at the time. Everyone I knew called it a "legal grey area", but as far as I know it was legally permissable.

The media companies tried their hardest to make it sound like you were destroying the entire industry and you'd go to jail for life as soon as they caught you.

What makes me mad is the boomers I watched copy rentals and NFL games are the same ones telling me I'm stealing by using an ad blocker.

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