jackmott

Why is it so slow with that kind of funding?

>Do these kids not think that Twitter has the ability to do this.

Don't know, but they aren't.

Just act on the abuse reports and delete his account for real and do the world a favor.

please stop starting articles with please stop

a good start! you can get most of that half of a percent with just the 4 largest asteroids.

maybe we need to sacrifice our own moon.

dumping the comets and moons onto the surface is to help with that. But I've done some napkin math and it looks like we need ~40 billion commets to bring it halfway to earth mass...welp

>Even if they are wrong, why would we take the chance

Because the economic consequences of fossil fuel regulation could be massively deadly or at least disruptive as well, that is why people and companies spend millions of dollars lying about it.

The balance of power of nations and corporations would be totally upended.

just need to drop a few hundred thousand comets and asteroids and mars, and mar's moon, then float a few hundred thousand giant mirrors around it to warm it up a bit, seed it with plants, wait a few thousand years.

no big deal!

that argument started in early 2000 and continues to grow. it is a dumb argument but you can be sure that is where the rhetoric is heading.

Pounds of CO2 emitted per million British thermal units (Btu) of energy for various fuels:

Coal (anthracite) 228.6 Coal (bituminous) 205.7 Coal (lignite) 215.4 Coal (subbituminous) 214.3 Diesel fuel and heating oil 161.3 Gasoline (without ethanol) 157.2 Propane 139.0 Natural gas 117.0

natural gas is a win over coal, but not a big one.

> And I don't need that last drop of performance either.

If Nim could mature a bit it would be really nice. There is OCaml but it is a bit goofy to work with if you prefer more imperative style coding. There is Go but no generics.

I haven't used it myself but the Ionide plugin for VSCode, which creates a full featured IDE experience for F#, is done in F# transpiled to javascript. The maintainers seems to enjoy it.

welcome to the language vision quest. may you find what you seek. you probably won't!

gentle/kind souls don't usually want to be CEOs/leaders and accept that stress and risk. People who are cutthroat and willing to step on other people to get ahead DO want to be CEOs.

such is life

The unsprung weight thing is usually a bit overstated, though it is true. It doesn't sport luxury cars from sometimes having extremely heavy wheels for the sake of looks at times, for instance.

Whatever Alan Kay thinks OOP is, it isn't what we think it is.

Counterpoint:

The words he says are nice, and his depth of knowledge is profound, but he hasn't actually provided any evidence making the case that lisp is better and/or in what scenarios it is better.

That this sort of rhetoric is the way almost all programmers and language designers try to find truth and communicate ideas is probably why we ended up all programming in javascript. We have no rigor, we are like Freud era psychology with flowering and impressive sounding prose but no real data. And while psychology still has a long way to go, we have even further.

Can someone ELI5 why one would want sway vs just using i3?

Java desktop applications tend to be slow and bloated. Java server applications tend to be pretty ok if well designed.

For desktop applications you suffer some more from innate disadvantages of JITs and the common graphics libs. People experience Java when using eclipse and minecraft and so perceive it as slow. When a java server provided data fast to a wevsite, people don't know that is java.

so write a specialized GC for the task in C or C++.

C++ can always win!

JVM has hotspot? use profile guided optmization in C!

There is no escape!

malloc isn't part of the language and not necessary for typical intro course projects usually.

yeah having insurance, even for some of us with six figure jobs is "we give you a small tax break on the first 10,000 you spend on health care every year in exchange for paying us $300 a month!"

thanks?

since they already have a 1060 in the surface, they will only be losing customers with TB2 SSD raid arrays on their laptops I guess.

So like 3 people.

High pay, interesting work that makes the world better, and flexible low hours =)

F# or OCaml then.

yes we are and it indicates the man is nonsense.

I've gone through the first 20 and don't think you are accurately characterizing them. Maybe 2 or 3 of them involved significant time hunting down a bug.

You would likely still encounter bugs while building the abstractions to not have bugs. It might be neat if you could pick out a particular example and show how your approach would have avoided the problem or be quicker though.

You can start with handmade penguin, which uses SDL2 instead of the windows API, this should be relatively easy to get working on a mac https://davidgow.net/handmadepenguin/

>This problem cannot be solved.

identify verification when you create your account. charge a small fee when you create your account.

>Consequently, I think instead of trying to solve the issue of bots, it's more important to start educating people that just because they read something on the internet does not mean it's true

now THERE is a problem that cannot be solved!

well the AP comp sci test stuff is not all contrived. it is also useful to know (mostly)