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futharkshill··on She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)
> The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.

Americans tend to overestimate the importance of their events to describe the world changing.

futharkshill··on Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees
Poland has a collective memory of Russian oppression and aggression
futharkshill··on The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
> Overlay a semi-transparent competitor logo for a single frame.

I have to ask: is this serious or not? While extremely funny, are you guys all working for places where this is not potentially billions in damages?

futharkshill··on Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser
There is nothing worse than library or language maintainers who do not understand that "pure" error messages are absolute hell. If 99.99 % of the time a user should simply write x instead of y, the message should absolutely state that if possible.
futharkshill··on Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
I don't understand why was the next version of IP not just identical to IPv4 but with more bits in address space? Were they trying to do too many things at once in the 90's?
futharkshill··on The harsh truth of video games programming
> Your boring programmer maintaining a 10 year old Java app written with vanilla Js earns more than most game programmers.

I have a feeling this article is not written by any professional programmer

futharkshill··on Why won’t anyone teach me math?
I find it so hard to believe American Universities give out grades based on hand-ins at all. It seems more similar to High School
futharkshill··on Why won’t anyone teach me math?
from the coursepage

>Brief Course Description: More abstract than calculus, this course aims to develop basic algebraic tools for work with problems involving many variables. Starting from systems of linear equations and vectors in 2-space and 3-space, this course develops ideas about length, angles and resolving a general vector into useful components, identifying features of linear systems or processes in order to choose a basis that is well-adapted to studying a particular phenomenon and move between different points of view to reveal the essential underlying structure. Companion course to 201 (Multivariable Calculus). Discusses matrices and linear transformations, linear independence and dimension, bases and coordinates, determinants, orthogonal projection, least squares, eigenvalues and their applications to quadratic forms and dynamical systems.

Definitely NOT a math class

futharkshill··on Why won’t anyone teach me math?
this is an exceptionally bad take imo and seems extremely degrading towards women
futharkshill··on Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018)
Most truckers in Denmark own their own trucks?
futharkshill··on If Looks Could Kill
Before/while they have an important exam where they need their phone
futharkshill··on If Looks Could Kill
Because of the people continuing to defend this kind of behavior, and blaming the poor sales guy for not being "technical" enough.
futharkshill··on If Looks Could Kill
Imagine someone messing with your car. Might be an easy fix if you are a mechanic. Most people are not.
futharkshill··on If Looks Could Kill
and retold with pride
futharkshill··on If Looks Could Kill
That was extremely inappropriate behaviour from you if this story is true. I feel bad for everyone else involved.
futharkshill··on Sweden approves plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100k years
> It'll solve all of their energy woes without becoming dependent on Russia.

Could you stop being so xenophobic?

futharkshill··on 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
Please see this https://www.indeed.com/career/semiconductor-engineer/salarie...

I promise you that there are not millions of kids. Your argument may still hold, but the was majority of children knows no one with this level of technical experience, let alone any programmers.

futharkshill··on 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage
> Zeloof’s family was supportive but also cautious. His father asked a semiconductor engineer he knew to offer some safety advice.

As impressive and independent as this is, you have to wonder if any other gifted child could have done the same feat. The article seems to skip over this point, how many people know a "semiconductor engineer"?

futharkshill··on The case for a modern language
Another programming language being popular by no means mean that it is a derived language of any sort. Any development is of course retrospective, but it is sorta like saying all music is descendant from pop.
futharkshill··on The case for a modern language
While a programming language and ecosystem includes some of the culture, bad code and project structure IMO should not be blamed on C. Modern C projects are a breeze
futharkshill··on The case for a modern language
If a user wants to parse integers etc. from a string, the function snprintf and family is often applied. It is a neatly simple function. This article seems to invent a problem rather than an organic one.
futharkshill··on The case for a modern language
the build process of C is one of its absolute benefits. Each unit compiles on its own, producing an object file. The fact that people have now started to make header-only libraries makes the story even better! Each function gets a name. No namespaces, classes, scopes, modules, w/e. You can even just declare a function as extern at compile time!
futharkshill··on The case for a modern language
Why would you think Java is a descendant of C++? There may be overlap in some syntax, mainly from C. C++ is not, and was not, the only OOP language, and I have heard no such that that is should be descendant of C++.
futharkshill··on Danish government makes its new economic model open source
An actual belief in this is ridiculous, and taking light on literal war and anti democratic effort and meme'ing it as "freedomed" is absolutely disgusting. You know that these are real human beings we are talking about right?
futharkshill··on Danish government makes its new economic model open source
Why is it that all weed enthusiasts always believe that MJ has any relevance to the, in this case Danish, economy? The amount of MJ use in Denmark is minimal compared to other countries, and certainly there is no where near "billions" of Euros sold. Certainly "drug tourists" make little to no impact on the tourism of Copenhagen.
futharkshill··on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review
Why is it that everytime a bad story about MJ is mentioned, there are always so many people in comments doubting authenticity and relevancy? It is almost like an agenda or something
futharkshill··on I automated my job over a year ago and haven't told anyone
On a gist?
futharkshill··on The Central Problem: the world of Late Antiquity from its Persian centre (2021)
What on earth are you talking about? Some science yes, but certainly there were scientist from the "West", e.g. aristoteles
futharkshill··on Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
That should be strictly related to the rendering
futharkshill··on Failing to Learn Zig via Advent of Code
Of course it is incorrect, the system is of course not stochastic, not even floating points.
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