Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> I've heard before stories about solo closed source developers who suddenly and unexpectedly die, and they'd left the source code on an encrypted disk, and even if their family gives some technical friend permission to try to
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
More like if the motor maker gets replaced by a motorised machine. And yeah, that’s poetic. The electrician is more like the person laying fibre optic cable.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I see it more as replacing shitty code monkeys because it leaves the hard parts behind.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Email made the corporate mailroom obsolete and the letter carrier.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I have meetings, but those are very focussed. I crave the human interaction around the coffee machine/water cooler. A cafe doesn't really lead to casual friendships. But yes, I have started going out for pizza at lunch just to be
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
That code will it just needs to be in the proper context. No the same file will not compile, even if only because javac needs files to end with .java .
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Heh, I’ve recently toyed with running a VAX in SIMH in a Docker container and installing NetBSD on it.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
No mention of loneliness? There are times when I end up going days without seeing another human soul. You don’t always notice it until you start disassociating and reflect. I try to go out to buy lunch just to see people.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
For those who missed it, “antimony” is element 51 so it’s not just a pun on “anti-“ but a reference to another element. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> Supporting the work is supporting the author so they can continue doing terrible author things. This has always seemed like the flimsiest argument. It costs nothing for JK Rowling to tweet. On the flipside, the joy and wonder her books
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
First thing I noticed was > rule = definition; comment CR LF ...so it uses CR/LF as a line terminator as opposed to just LF like POSIX does so you are gonna have text editors and other tools just breaking the format on save.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
int fibonacci(int n) { if (n <= 0) return 0; if (n == 1) return 1; int a = 0, b = 1, temp; for (int i = 2; i <= n; i++) { temp = a + b; a = b; b = temp; } return b; } ...if only th
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Isn’t “сад” more like orchard?
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
That’s just obtuse. Compare Lisp, Forth, APL, Prolog, Ada, or Fortran. Java is just C++ with a few twists. You can literally write code that will compile in both.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Are you talking about performance or behaviour? I’ve never seen an issue caused by a GC.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> because those things are good for me and good for my business Spoken like a true philanthrope!
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> software developers ... prioritize selfish goals like ease of development or profits over the quality of the product. What is an unspoken assumption in this type of complaint is that the software would still have gotten written if it h
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Sorry but no, even medium-sized, enterprise doesn't have the exact problems that people complain about government. I can share stories with government employees and we have the same dynamics. Large dis-organizations with many stakehold
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I think "insane tax levels" means having to contribute back to the society that made their success possible in the first place.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Yes, tax Honda specifically. I mean, it can't just tax Honda specifically as a "bill of attainder" issue, so it'd need to be phrased as something like "companies whose production has been deemed transferred due to f
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Hopefully Canada slaps a tarriffs on companies that relocate production.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Whenever I see that I think of the Itanium where it was destined to be a success, the compiler just needed to...
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Only thing I can imagine is that each black & white pixel becomes a red or green or blue subpixel taking the dpi down to a third unless they have some subpixel hinting.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
> taking pre-orders for $749. ... There’s also a black-and-white only model that sells for $679. So only $70 more for color? I find that surprising unless there are some massive differences like DPI or longevity or something.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I wonder if the distros that have it in their repositories already do this.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
During boot my shell took 2.5s to start up. Now, it took 0.9s to start up. I have trouble imagining a scenario where scripting is adequate, but a second or two of start up is too much. I'm thinking maybe high-availability migration or
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
i386 isn't even supported by Linux anymore and has less power than a Raspberry Pi. It's not the indicator of the future of anything. It might be nostalgic, but it's ewaste and better served by a Pi.
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Well the problem is that what should be the lingua-franca in a post POSIX/Bash world? My preference is PowerShell. It's now open source [1], it has a wide install base, and is cross-platform. It is a bit heavy and slower to start
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
Another *-nix shell written in Rust[1] (but neither POSIX nor Bash compatible[2]): Fish [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/4.0.0 [2] https://fishshell.com/docs&#x2F
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by Pet_Ant 1y ago
I mean it is one of the oldest areas of human study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

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