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colllectorof commented on Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border ndtv.com/world-news/googl... · Posted by u/belter

chadash · 4 years ago

This is a medevac flight and Auckland is the closest major city to where he was located. It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation.

colllectorof · 4 years ago

>It's not clear that he's being treated differently than other people would be in the same situation.

Empathy and benefit of the doubt for billionaires who vacation in Fiji and whose kids get a medevac flight to a major city when something goes wrong would look a bit more sane if those were commonly afforded to normal people as well. Which they aren't.

colllectorof commented on Google Co-Founder Larry Page Allowed into New Zealand Despite Closed Border ndtv.com/world-news/googl... · Posted by u/belter

r_singh · 4 years ago

I'm confused by the negativity here. The guy's child is not okay. Me being a nobody could get a special visa to visit Germany from India on requesting.

Of course, if someone wants to visit a country for an HCP of their choice they should be allowed to.

colllectorof · 4 years ago

You're confused by the fact that people are fed up with various elites pushing for restrictive policies, then routinely bypassing and ignoring those policies when it comes to their personal lives? What is so confusing here?

colllectorof commented on Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters nytimes.com/2021/07/26/bu... · Posted by u/_qzu4

inetknght · 4 years ago

> I can't put my finder at what's missing

I think I found it. Here, have mine: /s

colllectorof · 4 years ago

Yeah, that's an annoying typo. Fixed.

colllectorof commented on Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters nytimes.com/2021/07/26/bu... · Posted by u/_qzu4

colllectorof · 4 years ago

This is silly. I for one is fully ready to return to the office. Sacrificing two hours of my life to commute five days a week is a small price for making my boss feel more in control. And what's a bit of traffic congestion and burnt gasoline when it's offset by AMAZING culture of our open office? We will fix global warming in some other way. I am at my peal performance when I work in a bazaar-like environment with people walking and talking around my tiny desk. I miss the corporate propaganda on the walls and free snacks full of sugar and preservatives. I miss the germs and viruses that made me stronger. Even if I get Delta variant and suffer serious health damage to sit in the office, it's a perfectly reasonable tradeoff. The pointless shitcode I write at home is just not the same as the pointless shitcode I write at the office. I can't put my finger at what's missing, but something definitely does.

colllectorof commented on California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds sfgate.com/local/article/... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

colllectorof · 4 years ago

Gaslighers gonna gaslight. You don't need a Ph.D. to see this "research" was guided by motivated reasoning rather than genuine desire to figure out what is going on.

colllectorof commented on MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U news.mit.edu/2021/mit-har... · Posted by u/rolandm

unethical_ban · 4 years ago

"I am glad that something I perceive as negative occurred, so that I don't have to be wrong about my assumptions".

colllectorof · 4 years ago

More like "I'm tired of anticipating the inevitable, while being relentlessly gaslit about its probability". Whether or not edX is sold to a third party, the underlying problems are already in the system. It's the effect, not the cause.

colllectorof commented on New LinkedIn Data Leak Leaves 700M Users Exposed restoreprivacy.com/linked... · Posted by u/gargs

literallyaduck · 4 years ago

If Microsoft can't safely code its apis what hope does anyone else have?

colllectorof · 4 years ago

This is an excellent question/framing. The security model used in the industry right now is insane and doomed to fail, and yet it is relentlessly pushed forth and defended.

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colllectorof commented on Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009) gamesfromwithin.com/data-... · Posted by u/tempodox

meheleventyone · 4 years ago

The weirdest thing is that the ECS as a way of building a game is inherently object oriented. You take a set of components and compose an object called an entity. The components on the entity define not only it's data but also it's behavior by the set of systems that act on the corresponding components. And you can take these object definitions and inherit them to add additional behavior or change the existing behavior by adding more components to the new definition.

Then if you solve the entity communication conundrum with message passing and don't allow entities to directly access one another's data you basically have all the elements.

colllectorof · 4 years ago

ECS (which I have not used) sounds a lot like Traits. The name and core concepts for Traits were defined in 2003 in an ECOOP paper [1]. I think traits were first implemented by Squeak Smalltalk in 2005.

[1] http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Scha03aTraits.pdf

colllectorof commented on Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009) gamesfromwithin.com/data-... · Posted by u/tempodox

foobarian · 4 years ago

I feel like OOP always had the nerd catnip problem. Since the very beginning the various programming tutorials would have the contrived examples of animals and canines and dogs, or geometric shapes and triangles etc. which just managed to ring a particular very satisfying bell in people's heads. It was just such a neat concept with those examples that just made sense. How it turned out in practice is a different story but I feel this had a lot to do with the enthusiastic uptake.

colllectorof · 4 years ago

1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this really started, but I don't think it was "from the very beginning".

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