LAC-Tech

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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Not knowledgeable enough to weigh in here, I just think it's very cool that 1) the authors blog was in public source control and 2) you made a polite github issue with your criticisms and 3) it wasn't deleted.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
hi, tiling window manager and neovim user here. I don't think about states much, it's all just muscle memory. Like doing a hadouken in street fighter.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Enjoyed this post. A lot of it resonated with me, here's some of my thoughts: Too many small methods, classes or modules Realized I was guilty of this this year: on a whim I deleted a couple of "helper" structs in a side pr
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Counter argument - I did this for years with neovim in all my side projects, and now I have a fast minimal autocomplete set up I enjoy it a lot more. Turns out I never did memorise the entire API surface of rust, and enjoy the editor sugges
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
You know it never occurred to me that there's probably a whole new generation (experience wise at least) of programmers who 1) know SQLIte is commonly used for web backends now but 2) don't know about WAL mode. To me the concept o
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I find the whole concept of a critics bizarre. I don't need other people to decide whether to like something or not. If I like some music and the critic does not - what of it? He's just another human being with ears and an opinion
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I thought WAL mode solves this. Am I misunderstanding the docs, or this SQLite running without a write ahead log? There are advantages and disadvantages to using WAL instead of a rollback journal. Advantages include: WAL is significa
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Enjoyed this write up. I really need to get some machines to run NetBSD on, I find virtual machines to be such a chore. Has also encouraged me to take another look at xterm.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I guess I've read a lot more 20th century stuff. I didn't even register on my radar.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I can remember tracking down "Tintin in the Congo" - I found it completely unremarkable.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
In the Peoples Republic of China they call this 寻衅滋事, "starting a fight, provoking a dispute". A lot of them are very proud of their laws as well.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Really? In '99 I had 64mb of RAM, and it was the cheapest off the shelf PC my parents could afford, in a tech backwater.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I find myself researching and thinking a lot more about things before I actually program these days. It takes longer before I write, but my code is shorter and more to the point. I don't think I'm personally capable of explorative
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S._Barton completely stolen :)
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
The high priest of a low cult
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Rust is just an aggravating language to use. Might just be a personal inability, but I lack the ability to tolerate arguing with the compiler when I know the code is correct just because the compiler can't prove it. That's what
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
As someone who is now in the rust world and very very sympathetic to the Erlang world... you both probably mean completely different things when you say "reliable". The contexts are just world apart.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I think the American public is a lot more cynical than when they were duped into war with Iraq 20 years ago. Certain people will try and drag you into an Iranian war, but I don't think it will work now. The playbook has been used too m
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
For those wondering about the tiny amount of keys, you definitely can get used to it. I have a similar sized keyboard, and the trade off is basically - I move my hands around the keyboard much less, and in return I have to to press more key
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Jaff Van Drew is endorsed by AIPAC and has received just over $100k from them.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I hope Americans are wise enough now to not believe things like this are from Iran. Remember there are powerful foreign interests in the US who desperately want you to fight Iran on their behalf - don't listen to them, your lives are w
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
My instinct was that it was more of a "germanic" sentence structure, but I am rusty on these things and there's enough bad amateur linguistics on the internet for me to add to it. Or maybe we're both right? Could be a co
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I love that 17th century word order. "Tommorow they told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play..." It's like declaring a bunch of helper variables before getting to the main body of a function.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I've never been CEO of a company that directly profited off of human misery.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Neither. I'm not young anymore but also got into computing relatively late, so the earliest machine I had was 32 bit. I think the 8 and 16 bit stuff is neat, with no rose tinted goggles of that time.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Your over-reaction sounds far more reminiscent of mental illness or drug abuse than any of his actual opinions, which are fairly pedestrian in 2024 (for the record I don't agree with them). No one is going to commit him over that grand
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Then you're locking your data into a relational model. A log is universal, and can be projected to relational, document etc. Which is why most relational databases are built on top of them.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
I didn't know that.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
Right but in Erlang when individual components (processes) "panic", the whole beam VM doesn't crash.
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by LAC-Tech 2y ago
"if let" is rusts answer to Java's "isPresent" method. if let Some(val) = my_optional_value { // perform some side effect with val }

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