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  • There's a solid reason for goto in C.

    Bringing goto into Java was (and is) idiotic.

    If you're trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out of your code then you'll need those optimizations.

    But any higher level language than C the entire point is to write easily maintainable and useful code that any idiot can go, read and update. A goto is antithetical to readability.

  • Amigo - the corpos already know. They also know that anyone who hates ads enough to install and maintain ad blockers is also not going to click on ads. They're wasted impressions. The amount an advertiser pays to put an ad in front of you is a rounding error compared to the amount they pay when you click.

    When I worked at G I had a Linux laptop. It came pre-installed with Firefox and uBlock origin in addition to Chrome.

    If Google is distributing Firefox with uBlock internally to employees they know about ad blockers.

    It's similar to how scam emails always have egregious spelling errors: they're trying to select out the people that won't fall for the scam.

  • I'm not positive I'm understanding your term naturalistic but no neuroscientist would say "we are just neurons". Similarly no neuroscientist would deny that neurons are a fundamental part of consciousness and thought.

    You have plenty of complex chemical processes interacting with your brain constantly - the neurons there aren't all of who you are.

    But without the neurons there: you aren't anyone anymore. You cease to live. Destroying some of those neurons will change you fundamentally.

    There's no disputing this.

  • Approximately the same number of people die from gun homicides as homelessness in the USA.

    I don't want to solve either/or - I want to solve both.

    And while deprivation is a common root they have other uncommon causes that need addressing. The gun craze of America needs to be clamped down on and regulated.

    We have the ability to do both. Why would you argue against one?

  • You can both engage in immediate harm reduction while also working towards solutions to poverty and deprivation.

    Providing for people's needs will be the most effective way to reduce the violent crime rate... But it won't go away entirely. Ever. Some people have their heads screwed on backwards. Some people have fringe religious ideologies that encourage violence. Some people are raging alcoholics even with money and security - they'll commit domestic violence no matter how wealthy they are.

    None of them should own guns.

  • Work gave me a 16gb laptop for Android development.

    It took up to 20 minutes to incrementally compile.

    They eventually bumped me up to 32gb when I complained enough that my swap file was 20gb.

    Suddenly incremental compiles are <2 min