KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 3y ago
That's a strawman. Nobody's upset about the rockets(1), flamethrowers, electric cars, fake robots in pantyhose. The Twitter thing, though, isn't fun: it's tipping the scales for Erdogan, it's kowtowing to the Chines
902.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Actually compiler bugs or just badly documented interactions between the two models, leading to misunderstandings?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It doesn’t sound like you actually understand Swift or the Mac platform you claim it’s tied to. (a) Foundation is portable and available on Windows and Linux. (b) You are confusing language features and OS features. Async/await is part
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Ah, this is why you have a bad attitude about the “D” part of “DVCS”, right? The workflow for art is “I need to lock that graphics asset so that no one else edits it while I’m editing it,” which you can’t do with a DVCS. Disallowing exclusi
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I was once responsible for doing this with a Perforce server. Only time in my career a VCS has lost data. This was decades ago now and the data loss might have been due to hardware; I cannot definitively blame Perforce, but man was it shitt
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Counterpoint: Lots of people actually use and like the D aspect. It’s one of the best things about Git! Local git repos can be shallow or partial clones if you insist on it. You say elsewhere that a VCS should support an offline mode instea
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
> The value of the movie-going experience is not insignificant, which you get at any theater. Not arguing, just curious: what do you perceive the value to be in going to a (8) plain 'ol regular theater? As opposed to something like
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Sorry, but that's both false and defeatist. You personally not leaving a light on for a few hours is going to make fuck-all difference. You know what _would_ put a dent in it? Restricting private jet travel. Instituting some kind of ti
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It depends. If enough millennials and GenZ suddenly decide to vote, we might get enough representation in congress to override both the "Jewish Space Laser" MAGA chuds and the elderly Democrats who think there's no particular
910.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
EXIF is valuable metadata for many use cases. Location data and fingerprinting are absolutely problems and the solution is to strip that information before you post images anywhere. Having it in the spec is a net win for privacy because it
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It’s really astonishing that Joe Biden seems to be generally to the left of the Labour party leadership. By USA standards Biden is a centrist moderate. We had the good sense to eject the Mark Penn “must go right-wing” types from mainstream
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Newspapers often get details wrong.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Actually, public education has to mean public schools. Vouchers are a band-aid invented by right-wing nutjobs to allow religious schools to be funded by public money; they do this by taking money away from secular public schools. If public
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Making connections is maybe the single most important thing you will do at college. The faculty, the other students, and the alumni network, are part of those connections. However, this sounds a little like a post hoc rationalization from a
915.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
Have you been in a coma during the past decade? I can’t fathom how you could possibly come to this conclusion after COVID.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Not the whole conference, to be clear; that would be an entire weeklong video. This is just Steve's 1997 "fireside chat". It is worth watching the entire thing, not just the small portion quoted in the subject video, just for
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Wild! And when it doesn't happen this way, are you -- presumably on the "productive" side -- gonna go Galt?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The switch-to-if thing is pretty inelegant. It seems like you could fix this by mapping to a platform-neutral set of constants, so you could dereference the runtime symbol with a function -- `switch(CosmoMappErrno(EINVAL))` and `case COSMO_
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Higher video quality is and may remain hypothetical: they seem to currently be using the bandwidth for extra channels. I think you can count the number of ATSC 3 UHD broadcasters on zero fingers. You'd think the demand would be there f
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Come on, dude. C provides almost no type safety whatsoever. There’s no point in saying “C/C++” here, because you won’t adopt the C++ solutions for making your code actually typesafe.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I think the root rant here, which I personally find unconvincing, is thinking in terms of OOP vs functional programming. Procedural isn't the opposite of OO; objects are composed of many procedures.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Cassette manufacturers are restarting, but not _player_ manufacturers. Newly manufactured cassette players sound like absolute shit. The factories making high quality tape machines have long since shut down. Techmoan has an entire series on
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
reading the article might help here
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
incompatibility?
925.
by KerrAvon 3y ago
indeed, link hands everybody, and chant with me the centrist anthem: better things aren't possible and we should just give up! better things aren't possible and we should just give up! better things aren't possible and we sho
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
give people money so they can buy food, clothing, and shelter. there are solutions that have worked in the past. the problem is the US center-right doesn't like them because they can be abused, and it's far worse for one person in
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
you're from the east coast, aren't you?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
if a CEO did that to me I'd just tell him to pull the stick out of his ass. none of it has anything to do with maturity. but I'm relatively old. you can Quake (or Overwatch or whatever the current game is) during lunch breaks at e
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
notes on other WANTED stuff: NSRegularExpression uses ICU regex underneath. However, I think Swift's new native regex support is a from-scratch new engine; it pretty much has to be to work well with Swift strings and the nifty extended
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You’re either not in the market for a house or you’re extremely not picky.

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