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Comment Re:Short Bus? (Score 1) 67

On the contrary, your position is the "short bus" one. The idea that your vim/emacs whatever "god-tier" editor that lets you write code at speeds only modern processors could feasibly handle in the terminal with a bajillion customization is your idea. That's right, your idea. An idea that you're pushing off to everyone with a smug sense of superiority.

The code written in an IDE is the same as the code written in notepad, or vi, or emacs, or whatever you want. Cool if you can do without all of that stuff like intellisense because you've been working in C++ for twenty years and you know all of the commands and library calls you need off the top of your hand. The syntax is second nature to you. Who cares? I know thirty digits of pi and it doesn't make me better than you.

If you can deliver the results the business needs then that's all that matters. It doesn't matter if you can do that with a vim, vi, emacs, spacemacs, eclipse, vs code, notepad, notepad++, intellij, or whatever floats your fancy. If IDEs are not your slice of cake hey man I'm not going to force you to eat it like you're forcing me to eat yours like you are and your "special needs" world view where you feel the need to be superior to everyone around you because you type words into a different box.

Comment Re: Netherlands has been doing this (Score 2, Insightful) 316

Absolutely not. Under no circumstances is this a good idea or morally just. If someone decided to make bad decisions that end up harming innocent people or infringing on their rights, it's game over and they should be removed from society, since they can't be trusted to reside in it.

Must be nice to think that way because it's not your stuff you're thinking their stealing. It's someone else's. I guarantee if some homeless person stole your wallet you would be upset.

I don't owe these people shit. They made bad choices and now they're forced to pay the consequences. You can argue with me from a practical standpoint, but from an ethical one you don't have a single foothold. They can go die as far as I'm concerned, at least then their drain on society would end.

It sounds cold until you use empathy to realize that time and time again these people decided that drugs were more important to them than their children, their families, or themselves. Imagine having to choose between making sure your kid has a lunch to eat or getting high. You want me to take the side of compassion? That's a fucking riot. Try for once actually think about the people being harmed by their drug use instead of this pseudo-ethical crap where we lie to ourselves that the drug users are just victims when there's kids that aren't going to have lunches to eat because of the choices these people fucking make.

Comment Re:Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful (Score 1) 217

Chemical bonds are already vibrating aggressively. Adding more energy to them causes a change of state, not a change of structure. The point at which you're breaking apart chemical bonds occurs in plasma, which requires temperature and pressure not very different than the sun.

You can make structures more susceptible to damage by heating them, but by the time your DNA is that hot you're already dead.

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