DinaCoder99

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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Surely folks aren't generally so unimaginative they think the only two options are "shitty" and "shittier". Anyway, given our massive encarceration rate and our love of solitary confinement, being "disappeared&
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
While I do have a lot of fun coding, I can't say I've ever had this experience at a paid job. Maybe if I had the opportunity to write open-source software but that seems like rather a niche career path at this point.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
The metric might also be straight unreliable, either via people filing false applications to make their own look more respectable, or from LinkedIn lying about the metric to give the appearance of value added.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Seems like a very poor fit for the Fed's needs outside of a honeypot for people actually trying to launder money.
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> Nobody has death panels Arguably this is just a description of private insurance, ironically. A group of people decides who gets treatment and who doesn't—except the scarcity here is "profit", not a real resource.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
> People should strive to achieve things professionally; it's a very human thing to master a craft for a living. These two concepts may seem related but they often aren't.
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> I'd argue that unless you're literally curing cancer, it should be the least important part of your identity. This is not an easy task when many (most?) adults spend the majority of their waking hours either working or going
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Like what?
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> Do startups produce shining examples of high-quality code? Presumably this is about the quality of the end software, not the code that feeds it. some classes of startups are certainly known for attempting to improve quality apparent to
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
I disagree: it's just that the quality presented is from the perspective of management, not the users of the software.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
You'd need three types: immutable slice of an immutable array, mutable slice of a mutable array (ie basically a reference to a mutable array), and an immutable slice of a mutable array.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
In my experience, JRuby is a lot easier to work with than The C version, if only because you don't have to deal with linking to a TLS/crypto implementation.
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
QT is probably the closest you'll get, and at that point you might as well just learn cocoa (or whatever the swift version is called these days, i forget)
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Why is it restricted to location data and not all PII? What possible benefit do his constituents get from limiting protections to just location data?
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
Further evidence Apple is not responsible enough to middleman payments between two other parties.
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> Your Mastodon timeline is only made up of posts from accounts you follow, and does not pull together posts from the whole network like Bluesky’s custom feeds. This seems like a major win for Mastodon. Bluesky is clearly spinning this
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> built on first principles and scientific rigor. Are you joking? This is private enterprise we're talking about. We'll all die before this company or anything similar is built on "scientific rigor" unless it directly
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by DinaCoder99 3y ago
It's worth noting that most of the programs affected would not be the ones people used on their private pc.
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Depending on which Y2K bug you're referring to, this very much happened and is an easily believable scenario. I don't think this is a comparable situation.
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Theoretically this is the military's entire job.