Cyberdog

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by Cyberdog 5y ago
With most things, yes, if the implementation for that feature supports your operating system, and it doesn't take long enough to be noticeable, and there's no weird caching issues at any given level, then yes, it's transparen
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
So many people are bringing up TypeScript here as an example of how JavaScript isn't so bad. I kinda feel like that's cheating. Like saying eggs are absolutely delicious when baked into a cake - you're praising something afte
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I didn't know JS had `??` for a nil coalescing operator, or, more specifically, I thought it already had `||` for that purpose, since I've been using it for that for a decade or so without any problems. How do the two differ?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Lack of those roadblocks Typescript implementations. Is it JavaScript's job to improve the lives of transpiler implementers instead of improving the lives of JavaScript developers?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Did you seriously just use Urban Dictionary to bolster a political argument?
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> What makes you say it’s biased towards AGM? Well, partly because the author begins with: > I’m biased, because I know Antonio Garcia-Martinez and something like the same thing once happened to me…
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Is the waitlist thing reflecting a true concern about availability, or a desire to give a perception of scarcity and allowing those "selected" to use the service early to feel special about it? If the former, why show how many peo
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
A take biased in favor of Garcia-Martinez which argues he's not the monster he's being made out to be: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I do not yet think that humanity's capability to destroy is stronger than nature's capability to heal and grow. But ask me again in a couple decades.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
There's a tool I use called Dash for quickly looking up documentation of coding languages and frameworks and it works offline. It does not have a subscription model, but it does have very frequent paid upgrades; without charting them o
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
I'd presume that heavy usage of personal accounts on company time would have already been frowned upon purely for productivity reasons.
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Also, the fact that programming languages have any sort of remainder operator might not come up in a typical web dev coding bootcamp or a self-taught programmer's education. That may be true, but as a web dev, I use the modulo qui
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> The biggest issue right now is COVID and when discussing it the topic can and will inevitable lead to something political. Will it? I feel like I've had dozens of conversations about the coof (most recently, about getting the shot
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
Do you think people in charge of hiring, particularly outside of the SV bubble, are going to be eager to pick someone up who left their last job because they couldn't agree to stop bitching about politics on the company dime? I don&#x2
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by Cyberdog 5y ago
> Japan itself has a homegrown industry of claiming it is utterly different from all other nations. Pretty much all countries have this sort of narrative about themselves, at least among each country's patriots.
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
> a .git directory on the VPS hosting this site was exposed to the internet by a configuration mistake, providing enough information to allow an attacker to access the site's database. I had trouble figuring out how they got from po
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
Thanks!
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
"ft" is a common ligature. When characters are often used together, fonts are often designed with those characters grouped together as their own character so they can be given certain design flair such as having the "branches
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
Do you want to kill your neighbors and rob the convenience store down the street? If the government were to disappear right now and there were no more government-imposed consequences for doing so, would your answer to this question change?
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
> You realise that the failure of these "government projects" is routinely down to their hiring private companies to manage and execute them? Okay, so then why do governments keep contracting with these failing companies? Why d
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
> Are Japanese high speed trains build by private investors? Early shinkansen lines were built by Japanese National Railways, a state-owned enterprise; currently they are operated by Japan Railways Group, a private company. Certainly the
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by Cyberdog 6y ago
The last election I voted in was in 2008, voting in California against this stupid boondoggle-in-the-making. At the time, I lived in the northern third of the state which won't even share a line of latitude with a roadmapped high-speed
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
Yep. Hell, I'm narcissistically micro-publishing right now!
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
The article hinted at this possibility, but perhaps Google has been using reCAPTCHA to train their systems for so long that the value of identifying yet another stoplight or crosswalk is no longer worth the cost of running the service to th
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
You're asking on Hacker News if people still use IRC? In this same discussion thread where people are talking about writing Gopher clients? Yes, it's still in very wide use. The numbers might be declining as greybeards retire and
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> What do we do? Keep rewriting everything every 50 years? Uh… sure? What would you consider an acceptable minimum amount of time to be after which rewriting a large but fairly critical codebase to modern standards becomes acceptable? &g
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
I'd say yes to that in a heartbeat. Thirty days is probably not enough to someone new to programming, but to experienced programmers in various other languages it's probably enough to get the basics down and get over the "kno
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
I am curious about this as well. If we take this "volunteer" word being used in these articles at face value, it means these states are asking for people to work on their systems for free… you've got to be frickin' kiddi
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
A question to people who might pay more attention to the functioning of Congress than me: Is much of their day-to-day business actually secret? If Congress is about to pass a bill which will benefit company X, can't we all go on to the
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by Cyberdog 7y ago
> The current state of the U.S. is so damn embarrassing and shameful. I literally cringe when I imagine internationals seeing what we do here. Sadly, the concept of politicians using their positions for personal gain is not a uniquely Am

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