ByteJockey

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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> What is the advantage of paying 270€ per month for a 60GB RAM instance with 8 cores if you can get the same instance on Contabo for 27€? For some random raw EC2 server? Zilch. Zero. EC2 isn't really worth it by itself. But EC2 isn
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
There's a long tradition of just naming things what they are. ed (editor) vi (visual) and emacs (editor macros) all stem from this. They're shorter, but when they were released (70s for all of them), there was a 6 character limit
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Local development, usually.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Depends on the size of the company. Over $X revenue or over Y employees and you have to pay. Note that it says revenue, not profit there, be careful with that.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Pretty much. People say that tech people switching doesn't do anything, but when tech people switch, semi-technical people get it via osmosis (forum posts for FF the first time, presumably reddit posts today). Suddenly when someone ask
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> JS isn't supposed to have only one relevant implementation I mean, alright, but the way things are supposed to be doesn't have any bearing on the way things actually are. And if you plan based on how things are supposed to be
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Yup. That's considered an acceptable trade-off in the circles I'm talking about.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
That's fine in a language with a bunch of implementations, but JS only has one (relevant) implementation. V8 powers Chrome, all Chrome-based browsers (Brave, Edge, etc), node, and deno. Sure, you can switch your backend to some esoteri
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> a tertiary use case of paying for illegal goods and services? This is the use case mentioned. The OP is saying that everything else about it is useless. Having the option to do something illegal should the need arise is a benefit to so
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
TOTP isn't inherently tied to phones.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Google makes enough money off Chrome and youtube Chrome is free and youtube notoriously doesn't make a profit (unless this changed in 2021). Their money comes mostly from search.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
That does seem to be the case in a lot of countries. The big exception being the US (including mineral rights). As someone from the US, it was actually quite surprising finding out other countries handled things this way.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> they just don’t want to pay licensing fees to use them Can you blame browser makers for this? When was the last time you saw someone pay for a browser? Pre-2005 Opera?
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Depends heavily on the country. I know in the UK, treasure belongs to the crown, but they will usually pay you a percentage for finding "their treasure". In the US, as long as it isn't something that would be sacred to native
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
It worked pretty well for them for >150 million years. If we can't deflect an asteroid by the time we've been around that long, we kinda deserve it.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> political (“about how society ought to function”) I feel like this is a technical definition of political, but that's not how the layman uses the word . I tend to hear the word political used as a synonym for the current arguments
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
That might be the difference, nobody (that I've met) in the US would count a public holiday in PTO time. Google's not super exceptional in this matter (that's mostly their pay/on-site experience). I have 4 weeks (20 days
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> but I think intentions provide a higher floor for the downside risk. The quote at the end was supposed to convey the opposite message.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> For example, if f is defuned in a file, throughout that file you can assume (f x) refers to that f and does not have to be looked up dynamically at runtime. Unless you declare them "notinline". http://www.lispworks
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
The CLOS is more dynamic than python. You can do things like specialize a method on multiple types based on the runtime types (that is to say, the method conceptually belongs to the intersection of the classes, not any single class). I like
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> the CDC is at worst going to do what it thinks is best for you I don't want to get involved with what the CDC is doing here (because they're probably not doing anything too nefarious), but I would like to pull this point out.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> Wait, I don't think that's how work and meetings work. I'm not including all of the things that come up that don't require a team meeting. But if we're assuming that something is discovered that requires a full
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> And I was thinking "not even!" It's been my experience that scaling up employee count, has diminishing returns, with even some net negatives with some adds. That's fair, but I don't think you're going to h
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> A 4-day work week usually means that a work week is reduced from 40 to 32 hours without a loss of compensation. Is that what's being discussed here? My mind immediately went to a 4 10s situation (which, while not the norm, is fair
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
I think the implied problem is that the CS programs are passing these people. Someone signing up for a class and not learning anything is a problem. Someone passing a class and not learning anything is a big problem for the signaling power
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Aside from the fact that I don't want them to win this, I kind of want them to win because the fallout would be hilarious.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
I think everyone working in perl 6 calls it Raku now. Perl generally means perl 5 (or possibly older versions in a really legacy environment).
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> I don't know if it's possible to make a die that always rolls the same The easiest way would be to put the same number on every side, which would probably fail a superficial human inspection (but might pass a surprising numbe
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
Blocking could be filtering out the replies rather than preventing a reply.
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by ByteJockey 4y ago
> I particularly abhor Go style uppercase for public visibility and much prefer Rust's explicit syntax. I don't want to comment on Go's visibility here, but is it that much different than how in Rust the lack of a semi-col

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