DarkUranium

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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Solar isn't exactly squeaky clean either. Look into things like lithium mining (for batteries; yes, I am aware that other options exist, but lithium is still a very common one). That one is straight up nasty .
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
The cookie consent dialogs were never required in this form. That was literally just malicious compliance in order to get people mad at the law instead of the companies (at least at first, there's also a huge amount of cargo-culting no
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
"Historically" is doing a lot of work here. It's a well-known fact that while productivity kept increasing, wages have stagnated since the 70s. So you're right in an academic sense, but not for any practical purpose what
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
I'd say it's also a great strategy for throwaway prototypes (which I'd count as a kind of learning anyway: learning about your future product, its requirements, obstacles, etc). The problem/trap in that case is, a lot
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Organic Maps is amazing. I actually find that it blows Google Maps out of the water for cycling (which is why/how I discovered it). I haven't really used it for driving much because my own car has a builtin nav, so can't real
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Right, I must've forgotten. I know I had it working, but I don't have code at hand right now. I probably worked around it with a CTE or subquery then? Something like: WITH ids AS ( SELECT id FROM foo WHERE ..
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Same thing for "oh, but HRT is experimental " (and similar things). It actually predates many well-accepted medical therapies & processes, some by decades. Fun fact, I did a cursory look on Wikipedia to remind myself, and i
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
I'm curious, what's the ratio of: - deciding to inform the game developer & wait for reply vs not waiting for reply vs just fixing it yourself without informing the developer; and - if informed: developer actually fixing it vs
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
He didn't write it. The C runtime authors did (presumably Microsoft, if it's MSVCRT). He's hooking into ReadFile, a layer below the stdlib. By the time it reaches the hook, it's already split.
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
There's a (IMO) great, if a bit long, article making exactly your argument. I found it on HN a few days ago: (lost the HN link, sorry) https://matthewbutterick.com/extinction-level-capitalism.htm...
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
One thing I did a while ago was to make deletes part of inserts, to amortize the cost. The main reason was to avoid a separate cron job, but it had other benefits (and downsides) too. Something like: DELETE FROM foo WHERE expires_at &
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Because of the guarantees they provide. Storing some data in a binary file isn't very hard. Making it so that you can do quick lookups on it (indexes) and implementing joins in a sane way is kinda hard, but easy compared to the real pr
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Fancy running into you here. Anyway, as it turns out, while the STL container situation is better than it was, it's still really terrible performance-wise. So even nowadays, you're better off writing your own containers for pe
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Addendum: I, for one, have used software that would constantly show exception-related error message dialogs. Hell, I'm forced to use such software at work because we're (at least for now) stuck with a horrible legacy vendor. It is
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
I think one of the issues is that WASM is notoriously hard to generate code for because they decided to use an IR that's fundamentally incompatible with literally any existing native compiler backend's IR (not counting very specia
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
LyX is specifically advertised not as WYSIWYG, but WYSIWYM ('M' = "Mean"). Note how the exported/final document looks very little like the in-UI one. Typora & Obsidian apply the same ideas to Markdown. I do thin
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
Addendum: I've been wanting to make my own shading language (for a number of reasons), and this feature is one I'd definitely include. Think (for example) using a pluggable PBR module in this way, where you give it a config/o
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
I use this all the time in C (specifically, C99 or later). I first saw it used in anger in `sokol_gfx`, and loved it. `FLECS` does something similar. C makes it much better than C++ in that the designated initializes can be set in any order
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
How did you manage to get Hotmail/Outlook to accept your email? I got everything setup correctly, but Microsoft seems insistent on silently dropping my email.
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
My favorite browser by far, especially since Mozilla/Firefox pissed me off one time too many. Keep up the good work!
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by DarkUranium 4mo ago
I feel like CSS would be in a much better place if they went with the Cassowary proposal for layout. It would avoid the whole mess of block vs table vs float vs flexbox vs grid (and also absolute vs relative vs fixed) positioning. Basically
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
Voting with one's wallet pretty much never worked (with few exceptions). The conspiracy theorist in me suspects pushing this is astroturfing by the very aristocracy, to shift blame onto people (same with environment and such, but t
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
Leantime, Plane, Wekan come to mind. Jira is absolutely huge, so it's hard to tell what parts of it you're interested in.
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
Someone was selling an Epyc machine with 512GB RAM @ 500 EUR last year. I regret not buying it now ...
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
Because maybe the choice of serialization format isn't under your control?
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
It's actually the reason as to why I wanted to get a thermal printer a few years ago. To be honest, I'm surprised someone else had this idea, too. Alas, that never materialized as the in-person campaign I was DMing fizzled out.
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
To be honest, with how bad a target WASM is for any existing compiler, I feel like what killed that possibility was WASM itself. Its IR design is horrendeous.
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
You don't need a truthful reason to have an excuse. Remember the whole Iraq WMD debacle? Or, for that matter, Ukraine giving up its nuclear capabilities.
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
Considering Microsoft's been making more and more of VSCode non-FOSS, I'm pretty sure using it as your base is at odds with your goals.
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by DarkUranium 5mo ago
I mean ... rand() is notoriously bad, plenty of actually good options out there. Even back in 1990s.

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