KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don’t think they want a plan to get Dorsey back — he seems to be an idiot.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Land famously wasn’t very politically savvy, nor did he want to be. He was simply being honest in his reasoning, by his lights.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You’d might think that — seems obvious, right? — but you’d be wrong! Private equity killed Sears. https://prospect.org/economy/sears-gutted-ceo/ https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/16/invest
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
As slow as Python is, though, Bash is more slow. Much more slow.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Just curious, did you write that up anywhere? Sounds potentially interesting to this audience.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Here's a good talk on that very subject from one of the key people whose fault that is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzt36EGKEZo
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Opinionation Incoming! Objective-C is completely irrelevant outside of Apple because Interface Builder was the killer app for Objective-C and there was never a version that worked well with anything except AppKit -- even UIKit has always be
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
It’s an attempt to create plausible deniability — “I bought it from someone else who said it was real.” The problem being that no one would think such a thing was valuable back in 2001; Apple was in much better shape than in the mid-90’s, b
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You can’t seriously write an article like this without reckoning with the rise of right wing fear and rage machine in the West. There are no mentions of Murdoch, Fox, or Limbaugh in this article.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I think that’s a reasonable argument, but in practice if Unix and C weren’t free it would have meant universities using tools that were closer to free — things like the UCSD p-system would have been more widespread. Different world; possibl
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Sure but what we really want to know is whether Ternus had to avoid human excrement on the BART car like a normal commuter.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Anyone considering using this should be strongly looking at using Swift or Rust instead. You can build almost any given language idea using the C macro preprocessor, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to ship production code u
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
How can I have mint choc and pineapple swirl ice cream when there are children starving in Africa?
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Uptime can be pretty long on iOS devices, and the developers have no legitimate use for that information.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Every Unix and most Unixlikes have always done this. It’s standard practice in that world.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
If RFI interference is the actual problem, this is a terrible bill because it does nothing to limit that. Regulate for the actual problem; unintended consequences will always have other unintended consequences.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
It would be a service to non-Lisp users if someone could describe why this matters. Is this debug pretty-printing?
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
I don't know if it's a good story for telling said friend, but the point would be to get out of the relationship before the cat eats you.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
It was, and he was right, in the end, yes.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
There are plenty of ways the wealthy can avoid or reduce estate taxes -- giving most of it to charity is one unselfish way. The problem with lottery winners, as someone else has mentioned, is that they're often easy prey for grifters,
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
(note to author: LaserWriter, not AppleWriter. Recall that AppleWriter was a word processor for the Apple II.)
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
You may already know this: there were pretty decent chess programs for 6502 CPUs back in the day; you don’t really need an ARM unless you want to run a modern chess engine.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Starlink can't currently compete with cable and fiber speeds, and it's a Musk business, so it'll probably collapse when his house of cards comes down.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
The quality of a rental Chevy head unit is not a good indicator of the CarPlay user experience in a decent car.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Do you Oregon folks not think Oregon fucked up the implementation? You can’t simply decriminalize and not have adequate resources to handle the results.
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
> `if(x==1) elseif(x==2)...` because switch was "faster" and rejected my PR Yeah, that's never been true. Old compilers would often compile a switch to __slower__ code because they'd tend to always go to a jump table
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
That’s not the whole picture. Most of western civilization is in severe danger of collapsing into fascist dictatorships or being taken over by same, egged on by truly deranged billionaires who somehow don’t think it will negatively affect t
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
Seeing some confusion. This is using what are effectively FFI interfaces to the Objective-C runtime. There’s really no good reason to do this in production code that isn’t a language bridge. It’s not as efficient at runtime as writing the f
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
This is a completely reasonable take, though do note that they’ve come a long way over the past decade, in both improvements to materials and active management to reduce burn-in risk. I use a newish OLED TV for gaming and it’s both glorious
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by KerrAvon 2y ago
> On the other hand, if the US is happy to be just a regional power that doesn't care about what happens on the other side of the Atlantic and the Pacific, it has no duty to support Ukraine. The consequences of such a mindset need t

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