[-] bluGill@kbin.social 32 points 5 months ago

Which is true only in the rare case you only have one office that everyone is in. As soom as you don't have everyone in the same room teams is better. So once you have more than 50 people

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 30 points 5 months ago

While they have been around forever, courts tend to take kindly to the argument that you need to be able to earn a living doing what you are an expert in, and so unless very narrow they tend to be struck down. You need a good lawyer though to get far in court which often makes the fight not worth it.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 72 points 7 months ago

I was a lot more productive in C++ 15 years ago when the current project was 100% greenfield. Now that the code is 15 years old I'm much less productive because over the years we have discovered mistakes we made. I suspect I'm still more productive than the average C++ programmer because 15 years ago modern C++ was known (c++11 was still a couple years away though) and so we didn't do a lot of the mess that people hate on C++ for.

Which is to say I want to know how productive those programmers will be in 15 years when the shiny of rust has warn off and they are looking at years of what seemed like a good design but current requirements just don't fit.

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arrgh, just hit report and submitted for spam, then realized I meant to report the post below the one I reported. Sorry about that, I don't see any undo.

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[-] bluGill@kbin.social 41 points 9 months ago

A terminal is something like a DEC model Vt220, or IBM 3270. These are physical machines with a keyboard, and a display. Most often the display was a CRT, but some were just a printer, I supposed some must have had a LCD but I've never seen one. A few did have a mouse, but that was rare. They might look like a computer, but they do not have a CPU (or they do but the CPU is very under powered). The point is you can have 100 cheap (cheap as in 4x the cost of a modern PC, without factoring in inflation) terminals connecting to an expensive powerful computer (expensive as in millions of not inflation adjusted dollars, powerful as in a modern smart phone is faster by nearly any measure). Every terminal had some special commands that programs could use to do something more fancy than plain text, but different ones had different abilities.

These days a powerful PC is cheaper than any terminal could be and vastly more powerful than those old computers, so it doesn't make sense to have one except as a collectors item. However terminals themselves did leave a useful of program design. Most command line programs know how to control a terminal to do some pretty printing. Thus we often use terminal emulators which let our computer pretend to be one of those old terminals. The DEC vt100 for whatever reason ends up being the most commonly emulated terminal when someone says terminal emulator - there really was a model vt100 terminal at one time.

Note that a web browser counts as a terminal emulator by the above definition. Nobody thinks of them that way, but they fit.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 59 points 9 months ago

It works even with 0 and 00 - but only if you have infinite money and there is no limit to bets. So long as there is finite money, or limited bets you will - statistically - hit a run of losses that exceeds your money.

Maximum bets and the fact that money is limited is what breaks this, once you hit the maximum bet odds are slightly against you winning on that next turn because of the 0 and 00; and so eventually you will lose as you hit running up to the max bet and then lose on that turn.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 40 points 9 months ago

No you don't. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn't want them.

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submitted 11 months ago by bluGill@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

@ernest I'm trying to reply to a federated toot and the add comment button changes to "sending" for a while then comes back without posting anything.

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/3447135/Maybe-someone-well-intentioned-once-thought-we-could-make-Portland-into

Anything more I can do? this problem has happened before but I can't figure out when/why

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[-] bluGill@kbin.social 51 points 11 months ago

The exhaust won't work, but included with my grandpa's 1952 8n ford tractor came with an adaptor that you would replace a spark plug on one cylinder, and then pump up a tire using the unburned air fuel mixture into the tire, and running the enigne on the other 3 cylinders.

So the idea is very close to something that was actually done in the real world.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 41 points 11 months ago

Labels are not safe. Drivers need to keep their eyes on the road.

Maybe you are right, but it better not be because of a label

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

War is normally a slow process. In historical terms Ukraine is making good progress.. it is mostly fiction where wars are one in a couple days.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

I live in des moines. The water was taken out of the river, and put right back in to flow downstream. That is what typically happens in to water.

The did this in des moines because 80% or the power comes from wind making. Apple is building a large data center near my house. Google has one someplace as well. The large number of wind farms around the state make us a very attractive place for anyone who wants to use a lot of reporters energy.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

Or they can become more in favor of it.

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago

I recommend kbin just because some of the people behind Lemmy are vocal far left wing. I want to support more moderates in the world.

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