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I've always thought that homologated solutions are parts of a bigger whole, bigger "homo". Stating that the producing party has all the right knowledge to make the part fit and adhere to safety guarantees.
Narcissism. My grandmother was a terrible narcissist. I loved her dearly and she had a lot of wonderful qualities, but The quality that stood out the most, sadly, was narcissism. My mother was also a narcissist to a somewhat lesser degree. It didn't occur to me that I too was a narcissist until I was about 35 years old. It took waking up in the corner of the living room in my friends one bedroom apartment Early one m…
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As a white guy, I'd certainly encourage you not to worry about this -- if we're talking about an upper middle class, professional-ish activity, you can be fairly sure that all those white people feel self-conscious about their group being so white and would welcome you to join them. Anyway, I'd be interested to hear more about the psychology of this. I remember when I was growing up in the 90s and 00s in California,…
The better question to ask yourself (you the white guy), is would you join a group [insert som hobby like hiking] composed 100% of Cholitas. If yes, are you sure? if not, why not? *Not singling out Cholitas, but it's a group that may feel "other" to you.
It’s very refreshing. It’s like the USA in my youth. Back in Chicago the racial tensions with blacks is far more. But still not as bad as one would assume. There’s a few that think their purpose in life is to scold you. A lot of that is just culture though, victimhood culture is permeating all racial groups in the US.
1. Everyone is the main character in their own story. This manifest in all sorts of ways - from people not being there when you need them the most, from friends dying off as soon as proximity changes, to how and why get people get promoted in jobs. This isn't necessarily bad, but if you don't know how to navigate this it can be quite painful and confusing. 2. Representation matters. I knew this for a long time, but i…
To me, that would be the other way around: a chance to stand out and be one of a kind, act in a way nobody else had acted before, and reap the benefits of being unique, or the first at least.
(Seeing this as exciting or frightening probably depends on your level of sociopathy.)
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I find the unatonable original sin spin placed on white people these days in the USA to be a tad bit repulsive personally.
And that’s why the Proud Boys say they’re not apologizing for creating the modern world. And the idea is popular. To be clear, many Hispanics agree. Many of their ancestors played a role alongside the rest of their fellow whites. Whites are still admired by Asians as well. This anti-white thing is largely an American phenomenon and other far left folks around the world that are resentful and cannot accept responsibil…
I presume whatever fantasy it is might be a fairly common “master race” one
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This one is the same for me. I'm not even sure I still totally get it. It feels like something used an awful lot in ways that don't really add any value. But again, it must just be my lack of understanding. Maybe one of these days it'll click in.
In my animation system, I had a laser beam projecting from a fixed point to a movable point in space. There are also sprites which travel up and down the beam. Moving the beam endpoint required an animation to bring the width to 0, change the endpoint, then ramp the beam width back up. The sprites each have their own animation in different conditions, and moving them along the beam is another animation. The real key…
I'm not completely against OOP, but written code that strictly adheres to this paradigm tends to be more convoluted than necessary.
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I’m not sure > As a white guy, I'd certainly encourage you not to worry about this -- if we're talking about an upper middle class, professional-ish activity, you can be fairly sure that all those white people feel self-conscious about their group being so white and would welcome you to join them. Is as helpful as you may have intended. The comment was about not wanting to be the first, even if the group is welcoming…
I find the unatonable original sin spin placed on white people these days in the USA to be a tad bit repulsive personally.
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I didn't fully grok OOP until I saw how composition and dynamic dispatch can be used in real code to create abstractions and flexibly swap out different implementations for your interfaces. You could build a chatbot that supports Discord, Slack, and IRC dynamically at runtime, or a web app that can use multiple different database engines, or a social network with multiple types of posts that can all be rendered in a…
> I didn't fully grok OOP until I saw how composition and dynamic dispatch can be used in real code to create abstractions and flexibly swap out different implementations for your interfaces. > You could build a chatbot that supports Discord, Slack, and IRC dynamically at runtime... As a counter-point, OOP isn't necessary for dynamic dispatch. None of these dynamic features you describe are necessarily any harder in…
However, I'm not really sure why your comment is framed as a counterpoint to mine. I explained what it took for me to grok OOP, but I never said OOP alone provides composition and dynamic dispatch. It seems needlessly antagonistic to make this some kind of programming paradigm pissing contest when that has nothing to do with anything I said.