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10 months agodiscuss

I'm inclined to agree, this was a weird read. after the first few no's, there was definitely an opportunity for alexei to make it clear to anna that she was always welcome, but he was going to stop inviting her every single time.

this kinda ties into a more general blind spot for nerds on the internet. there's no obligation for people to include you in their personal lives (or vice versa) just because you vaguely know them. if someone chooses to do so and you want it to continue, you gotta reciprocate somehow.

10 months agodiscuss

probably depends on what kind of stuff you're working on. I mostly build web services and data pipelines on AWS, where java is still the best supported language (even if others have joined the list of officially recommended).

java might not see the same brisk pace in library development as other languages, but it's also 30 years old. aside from core issues with the language that can't be papered over by 3P libs, what's missing?

10 months agodiscuss

the advantage of var is not clear in toy examples. in real life, people write stuff like

  Map<String, MyExtremelySpecificAndVeryLongTypeName> myExtremelySpecificAndVeryLongTypeNameMap = myExtremelySpecificAndVeryLongTypeNameMapProvider.provide();

literally anything to reduce the number of line breaks needed for a single statement is welcome.

10 months agodiscuss

it consistently works and has a huge ecosystem, but "beautiful" is never a word I would use to describe java. off the top of my head:

* no type level concept of a const object (ie, you can have a const reference to a List, but never a reference to a const list). this makes const-ness an implementation detail of the class itself! so frustrating that List:add() can throw depending on the underlying class.

* lack of tuples (and no, record doesn't count). this is just a syntactic sugar thing, but I really miss it from c++ and python.

* var is far less powerful than c++ auto.

in most cases, I actually prefer the syntax of c++, which is really saying something.

3 years agodiscuss

by the same logic you could argue that prison is strictly worse than probation, because you can always swap probation for prison by violating it. and yet, most people at least try to satisfy the terms of probation when given a choice.

3 years agodiscuss

unfortunately people don't just steal large sums of money and sit on it. it's rarely possible to make the victims whole without unwinding a web of (plausibly) good faith transactions involving others. having the perpetrator's transgressions officially recognized and issuing a sentence that may deter others is about as good as it gets.

5 years agodiscuss

$40 in 2000 is about $65 in 2021 dollars. so if you pick that point of comparison, not much has changed. but IIRC, AAA games were already $60 by 2005, so compared against that, we are paying substantially less.

at the same time, I really hate to pay $60 for pretty much any AAA title that comes out these days. AAA games are in a weird state. so much time and money has been spent patching and optimizing a fundamentally broken lighting model. bigger, prettier open worlds are created every year, and they really are impressive. but 95% of the map feels like no human has ever actually thought about whether it would be fun to play in. I kinda wonder who is playing all these 100+ hour games with mind-numbingly basic mechanics.

5 years agodiscuss

are we talking about the same game of life? in conway's, the update logic for a cell depends only on the immediate neighbors of that cell. so the time to update an entire frame is O(m*n), which is not hard for any matrix size that would reasonably fit on a laptop screen.

5 years agodiscuss

known by whom? I got halfway through my CS degree before I realized software paid significantly better than other STEM work, and I'm in my twenties. my parents weren't convinced it wasn't all a waste of time until I showed them my first offer letter.

5 years agodiscuss

keep in mind we are talking about a city in california. the "mind your own damn business" crowd has mostly self-sorted elsewhere.

5 years agodiscuss

you already established it was illegal. is that the only reason it bothers you, or is there something else?

5 years agodiscuss

kind of a tricky topic. a lot of modifications people make to their vehicles are not legal to begin with (emissions, noise, "stancing"), and a lot of that is for legitimate safety reasons. especially with tunes, people know this and flash their ECU back to stock before going in for state emissions tests. but anyways, there is a subset of white people that also enjoy modding their cars or simply doing the routine maintenance themselves. there is certainly a stereotype about a certain kind of white person that has multiple non-functional cars rusting away on their front lawn.

all of this is not to say that that particular law at that particular place and time wasn't racially motivated.

6 years agodiscuss

honestly I disagree. I found the show pretty boring at first, but I stuck with it on the advice of a friend and due to the universal acclaim. I've now watched it at least five times, and I still enjoyed it as much the last time as almost any other show. some of the subtler details may be hard to appreciate if you aren't really familiar with baltimore.

6 years agodiscuss

the greeks make up for how annoying ziggy is.

"did he have hands? did he have a face? yes? then it wasn't us. idiot." fucking brutal.

it's interesting that, aside from certain politicians, the greeks are the only people that really "win" in the show.

6 years agodiscuss

I've watched it in 4:3 and 16:9. there are a few scenes that look awkward in 16:9, but for the most part they did a great job on the HD cut, easy to forget it was originally aired in 4:3.

6 years agodiscuss

the guy who plays the deacon on the wire was a drug kingpin back in the 70s/80s. he was actually arrested by one of the writers of the show.

6 years agodiscuss

that shouldn't be too surprising. the lower net worth buckets are made up disproportionately of younger people who a.) are still paying off student loans (if they took them), b.) have yet to reach their life peak income, and c.) haven't had as much time to accumulate savings. if you look at the breakdown by age on the page I linked, you'll see that median net worth increases almost monotonically by age bracket.

you might also consider that there is probably some sampling bias in your social circle. I'd guess it disproportionately consists of people who have advanced degrees, possibly from more expensive schools. as a counter-anecdote, most of my friends got STEM degrees at a state university. the ones who took out loans paid them off completely within two years of graduation.

6 years agodiscuss

this is correct, the median household has a (positive!) net worth of ~$120k. you have to go down to the tenth percentile and below to find households that actually have negative net worths.

https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-net-worth-percentiles/#...

7 years agodiscuss

probably not, but I recommend checking out the whole article series. it's a fun read, if nothing else.

7 years agodiscuss

isn't OP employing the loser strategy? they are doing (what they consider) barely okay work. the prospective sociopath strategy in that serious of articles is to do below-acceptable work and vie for political advantages.