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Comment Re: Variety of languages (Score 1) 175

I was taught first C and CAML. I really learned a lot from the difference of reasoning between functional and procedural languages. My teachers at the time rejected students complains about learning C++ with 2 arguments: 1. objects are organizational sugar and students must understand what needs to be organized first 2. C is compatible with C++ so learning C is learning (part of) C++ I did most of my career in C++ and occasionally a few other languages (java, C#, python, JavaScript, C ...) and I agree with my teachers: start with basic features of procedural and functional languages then add complexity. So, I would rather pick a language that allows students to learn the basic without the need to introduce advanced features.

Comment Don't and if you do have a backup OS ready (Score 2) 300

If you don't need it, don't do it. I am a software developer, I have been for the past 25 years working with Linux on the server side of all the software I have worked on. My 2 main computers at home runs on Linux. It's great. But it's not easy. To be clear, installing it is easy and having the basic environment ready is easy too - these days, it's mostly a browser anyway. The Linux app has plenty of apps alternative for you to use, which is great if you don't have professional constraints. And lots of software companies offer browser based version of there apps. But as soon as you get outside of this, you will need computer skills - including searching internet for a solution adapted to your distro, probably running some command lines and eventually looking for failure reasons. Example from my personal experience: you are working from home. The company you're working for is using Citrix to allow you to connect to there system. Citrix is a private company, they don't do open source, which means there app is not in any of the Linux app repos. Which means manual installation and manual upgrades. Plus, it uses moderns encryption, and the app needs keys from the OS, but again, not open source keys so, manual installation again. It took me 2 hours splitted in 2 sessions : first session manual installation, realize it's not working and use an alternate OS for the day. Second session, look for failure reason and fix it. But, yes, as a software developer, it's great.

Comment Fusion (Score 1) 81

When will fusion be controlled as a power source? 1. 10 years from now 2. Same as 50 years ago, 10 years from now 3. CowboyNeal fused last year

Comment Re: Oh, I forgot: (Score 1) 165

You cannot compare two diseases by there number of deaths alone. You must at least add the number of cases. Then you can extrapolate how many deaths covid will have caused with its 1% to 2% death rate. Also, it would be more fair to compare it to another mostly unsupervised pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu and its ~2.5% death rate - which is pretty low given the state of the medicine in this post WWI era. And I would like to add that we do care about the common cold. It happens that this disease is quite complex and labs have not find any effective way to prevent it for now. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

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