PopsiclePete

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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Ok, but... a few cells? You're shedding hundreds of millions of cells daily if not hourly? It's not like you're feeling pain, right?
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
To me the problem with LISP's was never the syntax, I understand s-expressions and homoiconicity and all that, the problem was also....this is embarrassing...the dev setup/environment. In every single non-LISP language/enviro
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Oh man. It's like Visual Basic all over again! "It's so easy - just fire your entire department and have the secretary write the codes - look, you just drag and drop!" I'm waiting for the predictions about how self-
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Not that I expected different from a "l337" Arch user, but "Windows plebs" have had "chocolatey" and the Windows Store for a while now...
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
All that's happening with or without Palantir. We have Big Data, we have data scientists, we have ML/AI....it's going to be used for all of these goals no matter what. The genie is out of the bottle. Blaming Palantir here is
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
I agree. Installation is kind of fun in an old-school UNIX-y way. I feel Desktop Linux spent the better part of two decades endlessly tweaking the installation experience, as if people spend 50% of their time installing and reinstalling Lin
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
Operating systems are basically a commodity. Browsers? Doubly so. I don't care who's in charge of Mozilla - if your "product" is your browser, you better hope your "customers" feel charitable. "If everyone
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
It's shameful period, non-profit or for-profit. But - don't hate the player, hate the game. Our entire system has been setup like this for decades. 99% of earnings have been going to the top 1% for decades now. I understand peop
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by PopsiclePete 6y ago
>Do you suspect there are any 0day/worms still targeting Windows 95 systems? You'd be surprised how much malware is "legacy" 32-bit and works without issue on WinXP. A lot of malware even shies away from Unicode API&#
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by PopsiclePete 7y ago
Does this change the whole heat death/big freeze question about the End of the Universe?
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by PopsiclePete 7y ago
When they talk about ray-tracing, they don't mean that real-time ray-tracing at 60fps is suddenly possible. We're a decade if not more away from that. They're talking about extremely limited applications for a few effects her
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
The blogspam must flow. How exactly was this an “update”? Just regurgitating what’s already out there and hasn’t changed in a year?
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I wash the plants that "GREW in the shit" before I eat them, though? And no, you can't put your shoes up on my coffee table after walking through the hospital, nope. Go spread that MRSA somewhere else, my immune system is fin
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Look, there are core Go developers who admit that parametric polymorphism is a good idea. In fact, I'm not aware of anyone on the Go team arguing against that. Which is what you mean by "generics", right? In fact Go alrea
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
The first time I saw anyone wearing shoes (and putting them up on coffee tables and such) inside their own house was in America. That’s not an option in the tiny European country I grew up in or anywhere in Asia I’ve been. I think it’s barb
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
That’s what Go’s bets and rc builds are specifically for - to test your code against a new version before it’s available. The only changes to Go during an rc are ceirical bug fixes.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
For whatever unknown reason suspend/resume was completely broken on my laptop with vanilla Debian and works mostly ok with Ubuntu. Stock XPS 9350 Dev. Edition. Trackpad driver was also the wrong one, but easy to fix. Ubuntu feels more
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
FWIW, recent Ubuntu versions support a “minimum” installation. You get vanilla Gnome with Firefox and that’s about it. No LibreOffice, no Amazon anything. Quite lean and nice.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
The Touch Bar replaces the entire top row of keys. No more escape key. Vim users were pretty pissed.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
I wouldn’t say that was the only thing...error handling was a mess and I don’t even want to remember what I had to do to make a hash table - there were definitely low level calls to RtlMoveMemory and such.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Here I was, eagerly ready to drop $60 on a new Diablo, but no, I have to endure cartoony multiplayer "Battle Royale" crap, because all gamers are spastic high schoolers I guess? The only way Blizzard can sink lower is if their nex
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Of all the stories Rust tries to sell me on, concurrency is by far the weakest of all. Rust concurrency is a mess compared to (yes, I'm going to say it) Go. Async/await are still far away from being anywhere near figured out nor
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Ah yes that. That’s an (old) bug about how logind interacts with gdm. A quick workaround is ctrl-alt-fn-F1 to force the screen to lock itself. Makes the flicker go away.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Linux is just consistent. When it works, it works. When it doesn't - god help you. There's no rhyme or reason. Sometimes, my wifi is broken. On a different distro, it's not. Right now, under Ubuntu 18.10, my suspend from res
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
what works for me 1. brew install pyenv 2. pyenv install 2.7.x 3. pyenv install 3.x 4. cd work; pyenv local 3.7.x (by default, all projects under "work" will use 3.x) 5. cd work/legacy; pyenv local 2.7.x (but this one will be
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Thank the GPL v3 for that one. Same reason GCC is frozen at 4.2.1 on mac. I switched to zsh, personally - the one Apple ship is pretty current. macOS is still a pretty solid developer machine.
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
How is this problem fixed on Linux? Headers/libraries on an Ubuntu LTS may be years out-of-date. Am I supposed to just download a tar.gz and do the configure/make/make install dance to /usr/local or /opt or som
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
It’s weird how I’ve managed to write so much reliable, production code at my work without “sum types” and “real generics”. Man, all those people who wrote OS kernels in C or mobile apps for iOS in Objective-C need to just throw away their w
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
Curious - what about Linux in particular made people interested in it so much as opposed to contributing to some *BSD, or Hurd? Strictly the license?
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by PopsiclePete 8y ago
That's ridiculous though. You can't prove that I, having looked at some super-secret "purge list" and proceeded to not hire you, did it because of the "purge list"? I'll just say you weren't a good

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