EPWN3D

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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I just want a safe-ish language that doesn't nerd-snipe 95% of software engineers into creating glorious and incomprehensible syntactic monstrosities that go nuts with allocations and hidden function calls. Really hoping Zig getting so
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I think that proper defensive driving is about identifying risks around you and achieving separation from those risks proactively. That can involve "classic" defensive driving stuff like going the speed limit, staying in your lane
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
This would probably hit the childcare industry very hard. Overtime-exempt employees would still need 5 days of childcare per week, but the employees of childcare facilities are much more likely to be non-exempt. So those childcare centers w
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Salaried employees are exempt from overtime regulation, so I'm not sure how a provision saying "You can't cut salaries because of this bill" is any help. The bill doesn't impact salaried employees at all.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Human beings don't generally want to be programmers. They have other things to do with their time. I've never understood this obsession with getting non-technical people into programming with some new development methodology or pr
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
The analogy to notarizing everything you sign is misguided. Notarization is not required to prove you signed something -- it's usually required to make a legal claim about something in the document, e.g. "I am making these claims
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Decriminalization unfortunately gained steam at exactly the same time that a drug that legitimately did need to be made illegal started becoming popular and cheap to manufacture. Fentanyl is just plain bad news. It's not a coincidenc
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
So even when the market in the EU has spoken and rejected the product that is iMessage, we should consider it a market failure that demands anti-trust intervention because Apple is a "bully"? Under what circumstances do you believ
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I'm sure I'm a pollyanna about all this, but every time some new piece of tech or innovation comes out, English majors crank out "What Hast Thou Wrought" pieces like nobody's business. The truth is nobody knows how
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
> Truffle is a framework for building languages, that sits on top of Graal. wtf is Graal? That sounds like a supporting character from Beowulf.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who had this reaction. I just can't bring myself to accept that a problem that could be solved with a slightly better version of JSON or property lists requires this many buzzwords.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
This is a lot of words to say that the ideal representation of "age" is an integer.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Because no one has time to prep for meetings that probably aren't necessary.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
No, you just write useless commit messages and haven't had to maintain a project that's more than 2 years old.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. "10 years ago the Rust compiler couldn't produce a binary without significant size coming from reference counts after spending minimal effort to try and optimize it" doesn't seem like
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
"Graphics programmer thinks that their field represents all of software, news at 11. In other news, systems programmers think that anyone who doesn't want to deal with memory management is a weenie."
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I really wish the young people on the left who snark about "late-stage capitalism" every time a Walgreens declines to refund pack of Sour Patches would talk to people from countries like China, India, or Russia. We truly don'
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
It's not that cut and dry -- "the spirit of the law" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for poorly-drafted legislation. That's why we have courts. They'll weigh the text of the law versus the drafted text versus the
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I'm a pretty liberal guy, but this smacks of government over-reach. The market can sort this out on its own.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Good news, but it is decidedly not a good thing that the price of insulin is a major issue in American politics.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
It's best to think of git as a suite of primitives for building a VCS, not a VCS itself. For larger teams, you should pretty much expect to have a dedicated integrator (or integration team) with git scripts for creating branches, PRs,
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
The SALT deduction used to serve as a kinda-sorta cost-of-living adjustment for the federal tax code. Tax brackets don't consider cost of living, so taxing someone earning $200k in CA the same as someone earning $200k in, I dunno, Nebr
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
2019? Pretty sure this website is from 2003. I was looking for the CSS1 compliance badge.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Right? This is a screed written by someone who lives their entire life on social media. Yes, Instagram addicts can't have fun without posting incessantly about it. But that's not everybody, believe it or not.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
I really prefer sizeof(*c) in that expression to protect against a badly-sized allocation of c's type changes.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
Introduce an error epoch and let maintainers advance it at whatever pace they'd like. You could even select a more recent epoch for your local builds and keep your CI builds on an earlier epoch until you've qualified against the m
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
How would this even work? Web sites politely ask everyone if they're under 18 and then turn on these behaviors? Without some sort of strong notion of online identity, I just don't see how any of this is meaningfully implementable.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
They do that. They document infractions and corrective actions in their annual supplier responsibility report. https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2...
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
You could probably allow supersonic flights over the oceans and get a bit of the best of both worlds. But yeah hypersonic flights from NYC to LA are a terrible idea.
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by EPWN3D 3y ago
That's changing in CA in 2024. The state legislature passed a law permitting involuntary holds on people who are unable to provide for their own physical safety or are suffering from substance abuse disorders. What a lot of people don&

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