Ragnarork

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by Ragnarork 1y ago
The first part of your statement feels true, although that's... unverified and lacks actual backing up. The second part of your statement is very debatable based on what safe means in this case, and whether it's an enormous benefi
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by Ragnarork 1y ago
> As far as I'm aware, VideoLab has nothing to do with the VideoLAN non-profit VideoLabs is a company which has been founded by one of the creators of VLC/VideoLAN and president of the VideoLAN non-profit. It's basically a
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by Ragnarork 1y ago
> I feel like once a language is standardized (or reaches 1.0), that's it. You're done. No more changes. You wanna make improvements? Try out some new ideas? Fine, do that in a new language. Thank goodness this is not how the s
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by Ragnarork 1y ago
Aside from "the right tool for the right job" kind of conversation, there's one inherent aspect to chasing the most popular language (given that you find an actual ranking that's put up meaningfully, which I don't t
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by Ragnarork 1y ago
> Anyone has ideas on which frameworks those could be? I would imagine stuff like ReactNative for example, which lets you write JS for mobile apps in a platform-agnostic manner.
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
To address your concern, you could look into avante[0] [0] https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
If a city enforces a new speed limit somewhere and only people living outside of the city break that speed limit, you argue that the law isn't applied equally because no resident of the city has been fined so far? That's the most
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> What is the "Price" of Instagram and Google Maps? Those are free for consumers, but Google Suite (Mail, Calendar, etc.) for enterprises definitely has a price.
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, there are 7 million unemployed in the U.S. currently. I don't know how you expect these to cover for all the manufacturing you imply might come back to the U.S. with these tariffs, and that&
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Judges sitting in those courts are not politicians elected to take decisions weighted by how their constituents will like them and reelect them, but people who've studied law and its application (unlike politicians who can be anyone),
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
If it's been proven that a politician will cheat democracy, how is banning them from running for office a bad thing? And who should decide that if not the courts? How would that be any different than banning someone from running a comp
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
"The left". Would be nice to see how you came to this conclusion. Justice applies the law and she was found breaking it. Also the current government is, by the most lenient definition in France, center-right. Although it shouldn&#
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
A class that is not interactive then doesn't have to be a class. It could be a book or a set of slides with an audio narration and that'd have the same result. Teachers that can only read their notes and write stuff on a board wit
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
If the presence of regulations and taxes destroys a portion of motivation to innovate, then that specific portion was likely harmful to society and I will not mourn that loss.
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> if you've done great work, if you've produced superb software or fixed a fault with an aeroplane or investigated a problem ... without telling anyone, your work is wasted Completely disagree though. That work hasn't been
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> There was so far no measurable negative impact of Brexit Uh... Disagree. > On January 11, 2024, the London Mayor's Office released the "Mayor highlights Brexit damage to London economy". The release cites the independ
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
I'm not sure about this. Why do we constantly need new ways of presenting data? My main concern is that eventually it becomes easy to read and interpret data, especially for people that are not used to it, that are less data- or scienc
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Thank you for saying that. I see this divide all the time, and I can't bear seeing this used time and time again to make the rural vs. the urban populations angry at each other, which in the end only detracts from trying to see how to
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> no more performative regulations which are so poorly designed that they are basically impossible to meaningfully enforce It's difficult not to imagine that as a jab towards GDPR which, despite far from perfect, is neither performa
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> A multi-polar world is a tinderbox Meanwhile, a unipolar is totally fine....
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Bit of a tangent but nice seeing you here and offering support. I remember your name from my time when I admin'd one of Liquipedia's wikis (IIRC you were going through some hardship with one wiki provider or something at the time)
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> one of the most notoriously slow and bloated video game ever? I like how you conveniently focus on that aspect and not how that didn't prevent it from being one of the biggest video game hit of all time. Those two can be true at t
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> They don't have to make affordances or adjust for third party users. If they released it with no intention to play nice with the community then all they open themselves up to is criticism and bad press when they inevitably break t
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
A painful reminder as it is, that for many projects / components in the open ecosystem, there are very few if not a single person actually keeping it alive, maintained, and updated. Mandatory: https://xkcd.com/2347&#x2F
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Not sure if if this is way overblown in my head but this society, domain, and economy don't take asymptotic progress for an ok answer, and always have the pressure to deliver ever increasing performances and results, even when the law
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
I commend author for not shying away from writing such a take on one of the generally assumed consensus about code. However this just underlines again why globals are usually good to avoid. It takes rigor not to make mistakes that can compl
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Definitely agree with you on the fact that there are tests which are complicated to write and will take effort. But I think all other things considered my impression still holds, and that I should maybe rather say they're easier to w
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
I also think that this is a great way to emphasis their value. If anything I'd only keep those if it's hard to write them, if people push back against it (and I myself don't like them sometimes, e.g. when the goal is just to
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
Writing tests isn't free but writing non-regression tests for bugs that were actually fixed is one of the best test cases to consider writing right away, before the bug is fixed. You'll be reproducing the bug anyway (so already co
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by Ragnarork 2y ago
> They dissolved shortly after Overwatch 2 came out. The move to 5v5 did not help as suddenly one of their tanks was redundant. This is so sad to read. :( Grassroot competition like that is the basis on which esports scene thrives... Bli

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