KerrAvon

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811.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Using the C for loop syntax is looney tunes, though. Do range support and leave that 70's stuff in the dust.
812.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
For what it's worth, a lot of us CS autodidacts from the 1980's didn't grow up in the Bay Area. Bill Gates is from Seattle, Johns Carmack and Romero from flyover country, etc. You could learn this stuff anywhere. What defines
813.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
BEGIN/END needn't be a showstopper for one-line lambdas. Ruby has nice one-line lambda expressions where you can substitute `{` ... `}` for `do` ... `end`. A Pascal implementation can't do exactly that, but it could use an al
814.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I was under the impression that COBOL's English syntax was intended to be a more human-readable approach, not so much a workaround for character set limitations.
815.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
> Valve is more concerned with meeting games were they are, not where they hypothetically could be. I have no comment on the rest of it, but this is clearly false. Valve has been trying to make gaming on Linux happen for a long time now.
816.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Dude. TFA is literally about the core data structures for a text editor. Many people care about large text files. It's something people actually do. BBEdit on the Mac can edit files much larger than RAM without thrashing. If you don&#x
817.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
> If a 1mb text document takes up 5mb of ram Text files are sometimes not that small. It's not that unusual to have a multigigabyte text log, sometimes larger than system RAM on the machine.
818.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes. That's literally the explanation. Motorola wanted to move people to their 88k RISC CPU. Apple was planning to move the Mac to 88k; the 68k emulator on the first PowerMacs was originally for the 88k.
819.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Doesn't fly. He'll lose more money if there are fewer eyeballs. Users are the metric he uses to attract advertisers.
820.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
People who have been too lazy and uncaring to leave may not realize that Xitter no longer allows you to read threads if you’re not logged in. So if there’s interesting content here, it’s effectively walled off for an increasing number of pe
821.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Where in the world are you that you get to choose your emergency services provider? Certainly not the USA.
822.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Hitler: good or bad? Millions of dead Jews: good or bad?
823.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
The notion that Gaetz is in any way a good guy here is a little bizarre. But he didn't live up the bargain he struck with the Democrats either.
824.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
This is a small child's view of how things work.
825.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
They either need to make peace with the Democrats and lose their primaries in 2024 to total MAGA nutjobs, or make peace with the MAGA nutjobs and lose the Biden districts in 2024. Either way, they lose the House in 2024. Making peace with t
826.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
They've created artificial scarcity through overhiring and bullshit layoffs. The total pool of workers is shrinking thanks to the pandemic and we still haven't seen the full impact of that. Future COVID waves will shrink it furthe
827.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
This is all fine, but the focus on deaths is sort of missing the larger societal problem. The COVID devastation is also about long COVID, and even people who had COVID but either recovered “fully” or never displayed symptoms. None of this i
828.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
"simpsons weird nerds defending elon musk from valid criticism".gif but for Tim Sweeney
829.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Reading the responses to this makes me wonder how many people have read the Mythical Man Month and not made the connection that config files are modern JCL -- the original instance of "this config file format should have been a real pr
830.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Unity merged with a bizarrely-managed malware company a while back and shouldn't be used as a measure of anything.
831.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I remember this being a huge issue with MacPorts. It would never keep up with the damn releases, so if you were working on a beta OS, you were hosed until they caught up.
832.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
That is absolutely not true. The other available package managers would work 70% of the time on a good day. Homebrew is bulletproof on a current OS.
833.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I doubt they care about Mac customers. If they did, they would have avoided ruining the app's UI so that customers don't have a good reason to jump ship at the first opportunity.
834.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
The two things that have made airplane travel safer since 2001: 1. reinforced cockpit doors 2. widespread knowledge among passengers that you have to actively fight the hijackers instead of letting them alone (previously, the assumption was
835.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
It's not gotten worse strictly because California passed a very strong net neutrality law and the telcos were hoping the legal system would kill that so they could do whatever they pleased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
836.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Cruise and Waymo are level 4. https://www.sae.org/blog/sae-j3016-update
837.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
In fairness, some of the people being punished here are the car manufacturers, who didn’t support Brexit, because they knew (and did point out at the time) that stuff like this would happen.
838.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
No. The eradication of pollution sources, even coal, is not at all inevitable. Remember that there's an active and large pro-pollution element in US politics right now. it Any money spent in a positive direction is useful to help avoi
839.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
False; a lot of programmers were interested in the Mac. The Mac had a vibrant developer community for a long time, and the early Mac had a lot of developer tools. It started to die when Windows 3.1 made it viable to ship (ugly) graphical ap
840.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
The Apple Silicon Mac Book Airs are a totally different beast. The Intel ones were unbearably slow for heavy computing tasks. The new architecture is really fast and doesn’t get very hot while being really fast.

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