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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
Spare a thought in your enormous hatchback for those of us who can't even see through your back window to the road in front, as you tower over us: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/lotus-elise-2011
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
Good testing is an exercise in pushing I/O to the fringes, as that's what has stateful side-effects. (Some might even argue that anything that tests I/O is an integration test. The term "integration test" is not wel
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
I created some 3D models of a real world building and surrounding environment using photogrammetry from 20+ megapixel DSLR photos and decided the accuracy was totally inadequate and the artefacts were too hard to manually clean up. I then h
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
I think your main issue is having "two blocks of meetings" a day as a developer. That sounds absolutely nuts to me. Even two meetings a day is likely too much for a dev, let alone two blocks of meetings! I'd start by reduci
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
Have a look at https://fibery.io You might be able to build your perfect todo app with it. Don't like workflows? Don't add a workflow field. Just you and no team? Don't add an assignees field, etc. Want unlimited
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
Actually support for 1st gen iPhone SE this ended on 12 Sept, along with iPhone 7, which they only discontinued 3 years ago. They only supported the 5C for two years after they sold the last device. https://endoflife.date/ip
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
I bet if it were in monospace and you were reading code in context rather than on HN you'd have noticed. That said, NUnit has much better syntax for this, where you put parallel/multiple assertions like this in an explicit block t
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
NUnit isn't much better. You'd think that they would have good test coverage and therefore high confidence to make changes, especially to fix actual bugs, but I gave up trying to get patches in because the core devs seem so afraid
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
It has cost Musk a lot of money, but the critical point here is that it has also cost Twitter a lot of money: Because it is a leveraged buy out Twitter owns the $13bn debt that was raised to buy it out.
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
There was $13 billion of debt used to finance the buy-out. It's a leveraged buy-out, so the target company owns the debt, not the buyer. How do you think that debt ends up getting paid off? It'll be close to $1 billion every yea
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
I can highly recommend https://fibery.io . They have a comparison of Fibery vs. Airtable if you are familiar with the latter: https://fibery.io/blog/fibery-vs-airtable-we-connect-your-ba... The only thing it
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
After spending £2k on a high end HP x360 only three years ago, and suffering since from horrid thermal throttling, crazy loud constant fans, terrible battery life (2.5 hours at almost idle light web browsing usage) and a spicy pillow batter
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
I'd be fascinated to know what sort of things it is hard to write Postgres extensions for and how that interplays with their existing architecture choices, if you have the time to give some examples.
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
If you're not fussed about a bit of extra CPU usage and you are not playing games on it, you can use a DisplayLink-capable hub to run two 4k screens @ 60Hz. E.g. https://www.sonnettech.com/product/m1-mac-dual-displ
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
That might be what some weaselly lawyer argues it means in court, or what someone deeply familiar with it all would infer. But in no way is that how any reasonable lay person would read it. "Improve functionality over time" implie
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by HereBeBeasties 4y ago
GitHub code search has been terrible since forever. They keep braying about preview stuff, AI search, etc. but when will this make it into their mainstream (let alone their on-prem) Enterprise product? (This has been in preview since Decemb
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by HereBeBeasties 5y ago
LAPCE == Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor I.e. Lightning-fast comes before Powerful.
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by HereBeBeasties 5y ago
Terraform does frequently suffer from the lack of good separation here though, depending on the provider in question - a plan can often succeed where a subseuqent apply will fail. Too much external state / not enough validation, genera
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by HereBeBeasties 5y ago
These observations speaks volumes as to how testing is often done badly. It's a bit of a generalisation, but if you move your reads/writes to the periphery, the core tends to be pure functions that are easy to unit test without si
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by HereBeBeasties 5y ago
I think we'll crack fusion power before level 5 self-driving cars. And that's been ten years away since 1950. :-)
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
It depends greatly on the task. If it fits neatly into the built-in data structures or smells quite systemsy and C-like, it's probably fairly easy in Go. String and array manipulation are similarly painful to C. The lack of generics ca
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
But you don't understand. 100x less code than k8s means that using it must reduce my own codebase by 99 million lines of code! Who wouldn't want that?
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
Your argument does not hold water: Gold consumes vastly more energy and produces vastly more CO2 to produce and move it than Bitcoin does. Or does the pollution from gold somehow not matter?
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
But this is exactly the philosophy in the NPM ecosystem where things like left-pad are rife. And NPM is generally considered a dumpster fire precisely because you need 8,000 deps for relatively "simple" projects like a basic creat
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
It probably doesn't. But are you saying devs never updates their dependencies?
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
This really doesn't help when devs just upgrade everything. Or if they simply install the latest (p0wned) version of something. Pinning hashes really isn't the answer here.
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
I just don't think that's realistic for the JavaScript ecosystem, for the majority of projects. E.g. The weight of something "standard" like create-react-app.
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
How does it work in practice, though? For example, create-react-app in NPM has a bajillion deps. Do I trust 8,000 keys? Which ones are OK? I get that you could in principle namespace things (at least for package managers that support this)
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
A good look at their (public) bug tracker might change your mind about how surprising this is.
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by HereBeBeasties 6y ago
In web terms: - Element is like a browser - matrix.org is like a bulletin board In e-mail terms: - Element is like a mail client - matrix.org is like a given community of mailing lists In IRC terms: - Element is like an IRC client - matrix.

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