Posts by Blank Reg 1091 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2011
Yes code reuse is more efficient than writing everything yourself, but in some cases it has gotten way out of control. I recall when I first tried to learn node I created the most basic app with just a few dependencies. But when I dug into it I found that there were actually thousands of dependencies dragged in with just this simple app that did almost nothing.
No it's not the same at all. Accidentally changing the indentation of any other language only changes how the code looks, not how it works.
And what is gained by this stupidity of making indentation meaningful? You get to skip typing curly braces. If typing curly braces is what is slowing you down then you are writing some extremely simple code.
The “bureaucracy” is what allows you to write millions of lines of code and not have things fail apart down the line when in some long forgotten code path somebody passes the wrong type to a method.
Python is an awful language, who in their right mind thought spaces should be important? For anything of meaningful size you want a strongly typed language, it will save many hours of time when learning someone elses code or debugging failures.
Continuous growth never works, we need periodic recessions to reset prices, and most importantly mindset. When people believe things can only go up they make a lot of stupid investment decisions and all asset classes become overvalued.
Commercial real estate is in for a major correction. With trillions tied up offices that are not likely to return to pre-pandemic occupancy rates for as much as a couple decades there are a lot of banks that will have problems in the next few years as leases start coming up for renewal
The whole concept of flying cars is bollocks. People can't drive on the ground, it won't get better in the air, and the consequences of failure are much more severe. Then there is the noise issue, do you really want these things buzzing overhead all day long? If they ever get off the ground they will be relegated to rural areas only.
I'm ok with the stock options as compensation, though the amount given is often ridiculous. But they should have at least a 5 year vesting period. One of the problems of modern corporations is that there is far too much focus on the next quarter at the expense of the long term. That leads to some very bad decisions
I was taking a more global view. in places like Paris or Prague as much as 20-30% of apartments are short term rentals. In the USA you have corporations buying up 10s of thousands of homes. Where I live , during the peak of the market, we had about 1/3 of home sales going to people that already owned multiple homes in the city. If 20 or 30 percent of homes came back on the market then prices would go back to normal levels
The solutions to home affordability has too many with vested interests fighting against it. Step 1,ban corporations from buying single family homes. Step 2, change tax laws to make it non viable to invest or speculate in single family homes. Step 3, ban short term rentals, Step 4, NEVER REPEAT THE MISTAKE OF NEAR ZERO INTEREST RATES.
The key exchange only needs to happen once when the machine is first started, then stored encrypted in some WOM memory on the chips. That isn't foolproof, but tapping into the internals of the TPM or CPU is a lot more difficult than connecting to some pins on the motherboard
He's a potential billionaire. Until he sells his assets their value is undetermined. And selling his assets would greatly diminish their value, that is why he has come up with several excuses for selling assets over the years. The real reason being he wanted to cash in while the price was insanely and unreasonably high. Had he kept the proceeds he would be a real billionaire many times over, but instead he decided to flush it down the toilet
No, my problem with Aristotle is that he would come up with some hair-brained idea and declare it correct without bothering to check. He thought women had fewer teeth than men, surely that is easily verified. He thought heavy objects fell faster than lighter ones, again he could have done a simple experiment to prove it.
Basically, he would declare a hypothesis as fact and leave it at that.
And they really tried to screw him on the severence. In ontario you typically get 2-4 weeks per year of service for IT roles, and given his title and age it would be at the higher end if the range. The one time I was let go I got 14 months severence after 17 years, and I was almost 20 years younger than he was when they fired him.
While an EV can certainly beat a ICE supercar in speed and acceleration, it can't do it for very long. High speed and acceleration isn't sustainable due to the high drain and resulting heating of the battery. That's why formula e races are so short, and until very recently they had to swap cars half way through the race as they could only last around 25 minutes.
Routine repair costs should be lower for well made evs, which leaves out Teslas. But repair costs from accidents can be huge even for relatively small accidents. If the battery is damaged then the car is often written off.
Russia has no chance of winning, they just don't have the capacity to keep their troops armed. meanwhile, the west can just keep production going as long as they like.
Besides, it should be obvious by now that the Russian military is completely incompetent, they really aren't good at this war thing.
I've always found it funny when conservatives claim that you will shift to the right as you get older. I like to point out that this means that there is a correlation between those likely to be in cognitive decline and the tendency to be right wing. But it makes sense, you'd need to be out of your mind to support the right these days.
yes there were a number of companies working on roll up screens a decade ago if not more. I saw a few prototypes but as far as I know none ever made it to production. one likely problem is that bendy screens will tend to not lay perfectly flat after a while, then your very expensive phone would end up with a screen resembling a fun house mirror
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