Karellen

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> Fixed point numbers cause an enormous programmer overhead and do not fix the problems. How so? Is that because of inherent problems with the outcomes of fixed-point arithmetic, or are they just clumsy to use and no-one's written a
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the "smells" in the industry term "code smells" can function as both a verb and a noun. As a noun, it can describe specific ways that hypothetical code might not follow best practices. For instance, code fragments that h
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> TIOBE and StackOverflow have different ideas of what a programming language is. To be fair, the StackOverflow survey used explicitly concerns "programming, scripting, and markup languages", whereas TIOBE specifically refers o
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by Karellen 3y ago
> We have different tastes but, socially, "beauty" is intended as an average. That sounds like a subjective comparison then, not an objective one. Edit: If people were to judge beauty subjectively, rather than objectively (as y
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OK, can you tell me, objectively, how attractive Tom Holland and Hailee Steinfeld are? I can tell you objectively how tall they are, if one is taller than the other, and precisely how much. Height is an objective measurement. What are the a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_Bridge#Maintenance
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Go stick your head in a pig (h/t Douglas Adams)
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Lending libraries don't create new copies of a work. Copyright is about the right to make copies. It's right there in the name. Piracy creates new copies. Lending an existing copy for which someone has paid the copy-right holder,
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by Karellen 3y ago
For me it's just part of the language of cinema, like a dolly zoom or a oner or slow-mo. I can notice those things, particularly when they fit the scene well, and still appreciate them as a part of cinema on one hand, but still maintai
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The call of an eagle, or almost any bird of prey, which is actually always that of a red-tailed hawk. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=156187... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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As I get older, all the people I've remained friends with and kept in regular close contact with since we were all teenagers/early 20s together, don't look as old to me as other people our age. I still see parts of the teen
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* since worldwide direct measurements began, in the '80s. But also, we have no indirect/proxy measurements from before then to suggest that the ocean was warmer before the '80s than it was when those measurements started, let
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* generic
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I'll admit, to me the point that the author considers 90% is where I consider 99%. IMO, getting from 90% (it works and does the right thing with any valid input) to 99% involves things like - paying down all technical debt - handling m
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> When people are surprised they don’t put the information through their usual bullshit filters. Huh. When I see information that's surprising, that's when my critical analysis and bullshit filters naturally spring into life. S
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Well, I hope you inquired as to whether he was born that much of an asshole, or if he had to work his whole life to achieve it, and then refused to address him as anything other than "fucking wanker" for the remainder of the meeti
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Have you not ever found any value in `git bisect`? If you have a bug which is reproducible, but whose cause is complex, do you not think it's useful to be able to find the commit that introduced the bug in order to see which change cau
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> I think any site that people use primarily to interact with others (in public, I guess) is arguably social media. Isn't that just "the internet"? If mailing lists and newsgroups and BBSs and blogs with comment sections a
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Is HN social media? I tend to distinguish social media from internet fora in that, social media is user-centric. You follow people . But a forum is topic-centric. You follow a discussion group with a specific purpose, and it's an impl
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I saw an interesting comment a few weeks ago, but can't remember where now, so I am unable to properly credit the original author. There's probably an irony there somewhere. Anyway, the gist of it was: In the '90s, FOSS devs
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Such a pity GTK3 and later aren't intended to be themeable, and the devs make no release-to-release compatibility guarantees for the theme engines. If this only affected Gnome, I wouldn't mind so much. But so many regular non-Gnom
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I was in that position, and then one of the creators I watch on YT had a Nebula offer at the end of a video to get a year's subscription for about $30. For $2.50/mo, I figured it couldn't not be worth it. Then I checked their
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If your core target audience is people who use their phone for 99% of their computing/internet needs, why would a desktop client be part of your MVP?
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> how does this not seem crazy? Yeah, it kind of is. But it's the best solution that works in the most cases, and fails in the least bad ways possible, given the constraints available. It's a hack, and technical debt. Sometimes
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As someone else has pointed out, this is only a deprecation at this point. For comparison, support for `cgroups v1` which is being removed in this release, was described as "legacy", and to be removed in a later version, happened
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Check the date of publication for the RFC.
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The Long Now Foundation is dedicate to "fostering long term thinking". The date format they use is one attempt to head off the Y10K problem. See also RFC 2550 Y10K and Beyond for an alternate discussion. https://www.r
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"Every pirate wants to be an Admiral" -- Cory Doctorow https://nitter.net/doctorow/status/1387098297282621442
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More formally: > With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

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