LAC-Tech

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by LAC-Tech 10mo ago
I don't understand, why don't they just make the whole internet out of down detectors?
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by LAC-Tech 10mo ago
I always LOL when the midwit lefty Americans on this board trot out the whole "America's left wing is akshually center right by global standards" routine. Meanwhile, here on planet earth, India (by far the worlds largest demo
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
Mitläufer The English phrase you are looking for would be "fellow traveller".
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
I think a good comparison would be the word "puritan". At one point puritanism was an existing social movement that mattered, and lead to a lot of upheaval. But the context in which it existed is gone. So if someone calls someone
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
Even in democratic Taiwan they have this mindset to an extent - private land must not stand in the way of infrastructure.
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
How well do Chinese characters mesh with Vietnamese? I mean I note that there are some Chinese languages , with millions of speakers, where the largest written text they have is a bible written in a Roman script. If those are a challenge s
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
People need to have realistic expectations of large corporations. The old microsoft is dead. It's not coming back. I'm sorry if you used to like what they did - all those people are gone now. Just the name is the same.
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
I got that far but... what is the technical solution?
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
Probably my favourite tech talk of all time. I did at least read the actor model paper! (though the 1973 one doesn't say much, you want the one with Baker, "Laws for Communicating Sequential Processes". I still don't kno
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by LAC-Tech 11mo ago
I wish I could make a list like this about rust in this place and not be flagged.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
Really? I always thought people made a massive deal about an incredibly poor country that become... middle income, and seems to be stuck there. I'm glad they don't have self-induced famines anymore I guess, but it's not exact
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I don't think Russians are the group English speakers get the most propaganda from.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
It's amazing to see how support of Israel has started collapsing. Scores of US-aligned nations now recognise Palestine. Even inside their traditional support base in the US, it's on the decline; 50% of Republicans under 50 don&#x2
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
Islands off the cost of a continent are still generally considered to belong to the continent. IE Japan is still in Asia, Cuba is still in North America, etc.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I never understood why Denmark still bothers with Greenland. It seems to cost them a lot of money while at the same time they demand more and more autonomy. Danish isn't even an official language anymore. What does Denmark gain out of
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I'm a native English speaker and I feel like dale and valley are two different words for the same thing.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I talk to a few Iranians online. All very nice people. You'd think they had horns on their heads and cloven hooves the way certain people in the US talks about them. Even the regime itself.. look I wouldn't to live there. But comp
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
It's genuinely too difficult for most developers. It may sound smug but I spent a lot of time trying to understand how to sync things offline. I'm not saying I am incredibly talented, just that I put in the hard work here. It&#x
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
If you're a computer programmer, coding in a high level language with closures and garbage collections, and you are confused by flatMap: I think you should find another career. We need to have a basic level of competency.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I don't think it's a general-purpose programming language at all. Great systems language though.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
The value proposition of Zig is it's the most ergonomic way to do systems programming I've ever seen. First class allocators, arbitrary width integer types, top notch bindings to OS syscalls in the std lib without relying on libc,
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
In English west/east has two meanings; geographic, and cultural. I'm in New Zealand, which is far east of Japan, but still a western country.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
Sites like jobs.now show the H1B situation is incredibly corrupt. So many hard to find jobs where they ask applicants to physically mail in their resume, so that later on they can make it an H1B job. I don't think being against explo
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
The latest updates to Windows were just too much for him.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
In Taiwan there's usually a little shrine dedicated to someone deceased, and if you miss them you talk to them there, or maybe place some flowers or offerings. I feel like this kind of ancestor worship is a pretty natural and normal wa
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
I personally can't think of an all-rounder language that is better than C# I didn't ask about whether it was good. I asked about whether it's past its peak.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
Is .NET entering its twilight years as a tech people build new things with? I just can't imagine Gen Z wanting to start a project in C#. I realise there are still .NET shops, and I still talk to people who do it daily, but ours is a fi
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
At least they're not re-inventing the wheel though!!
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
Thank you for your kind words :) I used to be very anti-react, but I realised my real issue is it was just too high an escalation for simple problems.
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by LAC-Tech 1y ago
A lot of it is smaller companies trying to ape bigger ones. Your 1-10 person team probably does not to use the same tech facebook or google are using, most of the time.

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