LinXitoW

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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I really liked Kotlin in the beginning, but it's error handling story is non-existent. They removed the ONLY decent (not great, very flawed) complier validated method for error handling, checked exceptions, and gave us nothing in retur
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
As someone that has done some Haskell, and does Java for a living, I think their metaphor is extremely accurate. It's not about purity, it's about how the functional parts were grafted onto the language, and therefore don"t &
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
You can still use VSCode and just use the Vim plugin. Vim is not an editor, it's a language you speak with your editor. Like with real language learning, some of it is just rote memorization. There are, however, some tricks that I find
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
But that's ask culture in the end. Guess people can only guess, whereas ask can always guess, but then fallback to asking. Guess also assumes a very similar shared context and understanding. This leads to xenophobia, because "thos
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
But most askers can still implement some level of guessing, and fall back to asking to clear up any misunderstandings. Guesser CANNOT. Asking is superior. And it is guessing, because at some point it requires mind reading to accommodate. Ag
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
The biggest issue with that is autocompletion in IDEs. I agree that it's nicer "ideologically", but being able to just go "I got this thing, what can I do with it?" with a simple dot is really nice. Maybe LSPs will
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if I use TF in a Petstore-as-a-Service to provision new machines for my users, does that not count as embedding TF? So if HashiCorp decides to do Petstore-as-a-Service tomorrow, no matter how shitty
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
One of these my IDE can typecheck and apply code hightlighting, the other is just a blob of text.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
This feels like the perfect level of SQL abstraction. SQL is great in theory, but gets really hard too read once you throw in joins with subqueries.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
That feels like a false dichotomy. You can have beliefs outside of consumerism without resorting to religions or traditions.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I have Tarot cards exactly for this reason. It's also just a fun party game. But of all the esoteric things, astrology seems the most boring to me, because it's static and determined just once when you're born. It feels like
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Text is a universally understood file format. That means it can be easily diffed, compressed, smartly stored (like storing only changes). That's not true of binaries, at least most of them. That's why I'm pessimistic about a
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Go has succeeded because it's not horrible and supported and used by one of the biggest companies out there. That means you end up with a long list of decent libraries, which to me feels like the main factor of success for a language.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I somewhat like Intellij too, but it seems insanely slow, esp. with the Vim plugin. I have to slow down my editing sometimes, because all it's fancy features can't handle the speed.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Unless we go with a very cheap option (kill all the houseless), housing them is actually a net positive for the city. Being houseless as a lot of negatives that cost us directly or indirectly. Think police enforcement, garbage cleanup, emer
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
This is a bug, and should be fixed in the next version. It happens in Top Day too sometimes. A simple trick is to browse page 0 instead of page 1, by editing the URL.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I have to ask: Did you just quit Vim the editor or also Vim the keybindings? Because I can totally see not using the editor, but the keybindings, even the basic ones every emulation plugin manages to do well, are such a big win it's ha
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Android is the perfect example. As far as I can tell, the horrible evils of sideloading everyone keeps talking about have SIMPLY NOT HAPPENED.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Their profits exist solely because they exploit and steal from other ordinary people. Most ordinary people will lose far more money to labour or wage theft than they'll ever gain from profits.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
One could argue that the relatively high compensation for programmers is the main reason so much cool opensource stuff could even get started. A universal income for everyone could, hypothetically, put everyone in a similar position of bein
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Our company is trialing/thinking about going fully remote, but then having a few big "meetups/workations" every year. Maybe rent a nice cabin (big cabin) for a month, and people are free to show up for a week or more. Yo
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I mean, most companies had 2+ years of changed culture. RTO office IS the culture change, not the other way around.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Which can only work if you have a team entirely located in the same place, working on the same project.
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
This demonstrates the most important difference between In-Office fans and remoters: They ALWAYS have the best possible situations thinkable, far and away better than any average or median. A 30 minute walking commute is INSANELY rare, as i
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
I'd bet money that most people that vegan or vegetarian are also far more active about human suffering. It makes sense that someone that believes we should (and can) act to reduce/end suffering would apply that concept universally
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
1. Moral agency: Humans can reason morally, and (at least in theory) strive to act morally. Lions are not capable of that (afaik) 2. Necessity: Lions have no supermarkets. 95% of the people reading this can most definitely go vegan (and 99%
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
For one, it's incredibly hard to believe that anyone genuinely believes that "killing" a carrot and killing a dog are in anyway morally similar. Secondly, this is utterly IRRELEVANT IN PRACTICE! Your consumption of animals ca
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Similarly weak, unscientific protections. There's no sane way to acknowledge that these animal are sentient and should therefore not suffer and still be ok with farming and eating them. In practice, the vast majority of animal products
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
> Why? Most of it is perfectly logical. Pigs aren't humans. It's not illogical to treat them differently from humans in very substantial ways. That is specifically NOT what speciesism is. Speciesism is about making moral decisi
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by LinXitoW 3y ago
Necessity, which is also the important difference between murder and self defense. I so wish people would think of dog or cat meat in these supposedly difficult questions. What's the difference between killing and eating a dog for surv

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