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creesch

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    Comment #49131803

    > a STEM field if they care enough and aren't the sort who are just doing the bare minimum to get the sheepskin. That's the thing though, part of it is about caring. Part of it is …

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    Comment #49131763

    > CI run pulls from npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, a distro mirror and a handful of third-party, none under your control, none with an SLA to you. To be honest, they shouldn't do so direct…

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    Comment #49131726

    Different country probably, here QA is still often part of the team. More often than not as part of a team with a title like "test automation engineer".

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    Comment #48959031

    > The missing part is the propulsion system capable of doing that. That is a pretty big missing part. Not as big as the galaxy, but still huge.

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    Comment #48956809

    > Def not rockets. OP said hundreds of years. Yeah to reach it with current tech. No shifting goal posts, thank you very much. > In hundreds of years from now our rulers will defin…

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    Comment #48956401

    > I want to know what future technologies could accelerate an object to a significant fraction of the speed of light. With all due respect, this has been extensively debated online…

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    Comment #48956384

    I mean, even there they pretty use the Astrophage as a plot device to fill in the huge gap in technology needed to cover those distances. They make it clear that they would have no…

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    Comment #48956371

    You are not wrong, but it still wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. First of all with any technology we currently have, including hypothetical proposals, we can't even get clo…

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    Comment #48950777

    Just going to recycle this comment I made in reply to an almost identical comment as yours. I don't think you folks realize how big space actually is. The speed of light is 1079 25…

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    Comment #48950760

    > Yeah, if your username is any indication of your age You might want to look up what the unix epoch is based on ;)

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    Comment #48950742

    Try 74 832 years actually.

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    Comment #48950732

    The speed of light is 1079 252 848 km/h, the fastest space craft ever made was the Parker Solar probe (using a sling shot) clocking in at 692 000 km/h. So at that speed it would ta…

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    Comment #48607061

    Also worth considering is that it is part of a broader ideology of Anthroposophy which sometimes aproaches semi cult status in how people identify with it . A lot of the principles…

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    Comment #48595731

    If you are not even here in good faith I can imagine some people do consider that a good thing yeah. No argument from me there.

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    Comment #48586298

    You reply is what we in the game call "moving the goal post".

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    Comment #48567742

    Is that what I said in your mind? I honestly had to chuckle at the extreme hyperboles you decided to use. Surely having a less favorable view of hyper capitalist economics is on th…

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    Comment #48566226

    Lol, okay bud. Lets go all in on the extreme hyperboles.

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    Comment #48566223

    Economic growth doesn't mean much if the benefits are concentrated in a small percentage of the population. And while I can't disagree it has benefited tech wages historically that…

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    Comment #48560834

    > Unlike the US, Europe has no California-level VCs. Some would consider that a good thing. There is a lot to be said for VC in recent years not being beneficial for the economy, c…

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    Comment #48519592

    That might be because of translations from Arabic. The article was also posted on a different website where the author responded > the Kashida section was contributed to this post …

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    Comment #48486103

    While purists will disagree, a little bit of javascript is fine. Having said that, you are talking about a personal website. Most companies will have a backend of some sort anyway.…

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    Comment #48486044

    I feel like there is some context missing in your story here. There is a lot of middleground between heavy SPA frameworks and creating everything from scratch. More importantly, I …

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    Comment #48480193

    Sure, but they aren't exactly widespread or even close to mainstream.

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    Comment #48476819

    > I wonder why there isn't a mobile OS that simply lets you build apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS and gives you reliable storage without all this effort. There is! You just hav…

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    Comment #48474096

    > compared to the results in the actual Gemini. Even those results have a lot to be desired, it is just buried deeper in the insanely verbose research report and impressive looking…