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541.
by Too 3y ago
Phone failing is a temporary inconvenience solved by getting a new one. Backups failing mean 15 years of family photo memories forever lost. Risk mitigations should reasonably scale in proportion to the cost of loss.
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by Too 3y ago
Cheap, fast, quality. Pick 2. Which one to pick isn’t as linear as the article portrays and it changes over time. You can’t religiously plant yourself in one corner of the triangle forever. Low quality will loose users and eventually also p
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by Too 3y ago
Are you saying that editing .sln and .csproj files can be done without tooling? It’s only convenient as long as you stay in visual studio. Not that I would write C# any other way, but the comparison isn’t exactly fair. It’s very easy to cre
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by Too 3y ago
I’m sure there are 100 good reasons, just to play with the thought, why not a chain? Like on a motorbike. With all those extra gears, the efficiency should be comparable? Would only work for real wheels of course.
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by Too 3y ago
Volvo used to have exterior airbag on the V40.
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by Too 3y ago
Yes. So much easier to reuse other common helper functions. Once you’ve finished exploration you can just copy the code into production instead of translating.
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by Too 3y ago
That’s like saying a roll of dice is deterministic. In theory and under controlled circumstances, yes. In the real world and how people use it, no. The OpenAI docs even mention this, it’s only about consistency. If I encounter a new unkno
548.
by Too 3y ago
”mutates IO”? Anything is better than /{}. I don’t know, maybe one gets accustomed to it after a while? It would be rather verbose to write “returns Foo” everywhere. I’m just looking at this with fresh eyes and this aspect of the langu
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by Too 3y ago
No gates = No tracking. Some cities in Germany do this. Instead they do regular ticket inspection with high fines. Makes for much smoother entry and exit to the stations and making the metro feel part of the city.
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by Too 3y ago
Why not something human readable? pure vs mut? Other languages already have readable keywords in the function definition; extends, raises, where, having, Optional, and so on. They don’t feel unnecessarily verbose.
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by Too 3y ago
You don’t get config drift or “Works on my machine” with docker, compared to scripts on the host.
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by Too 3y ago
Don’t tell this guy about Helm-charts. Oboy, if you thought docker images overriding default configuration options was bad. Wait until you add yet another layer of new config parameters on top, that do absolutely nothing at all, just transl
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by Too 3y ago
Not my downvotes but this is factually incorrect. A LLM will give you the highest likely suggestion. If that happens to be a DROP, it will not stop. Now that is of course going to be extremely unlikely in your example. What is more likely t
554.
by Too 3y ago
Both could be equally wrong and hallucinated.
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by Too 3y ago
Not dissing excel, it’s fantastic, depending on your shop there are plenty of scenarios it doesn’t fit. Windows only, this can be a big one. Deployment and auth difficulties when having connections to custom data sources. Customizing visua
556.
by Too 3y ago
In-house tools, reports, dashboards.
557.
by Too 3y ago
Cloud providers are (counter to intuition about their lock-in incentives) improving the space of this. Lots of tools now allow configuring storage by just pointing to various cloud stores, most often a S3 compatible api, not exclusively tho
558.
by Too 3y ago
The fact that seasoned developers have to discuss how to write 1+1 correctly, says everything you need to know about the language.
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by Too 3y ago
Wasted lines is a syntax sugar problem. It can be solved in the language level. Python for example has dict destructuring where you can solve this in under 10 characters. You could also imagine wrapper functions to execv taking in modificat
560.
by Too 3y ago
What is yuck about copying the existing environment first?
561.
by Too 3y ago
That's more a technicality of the carrier. There's nothing lost in the value, you just have to replace them with newer version. Any sane country would do this if old bills turn out to be easily forged.
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by Too 3y ago
Text editing is mostly about reading, not writing. Scrolling up and down code is actually one of the worst scenarios i can think of, where you absolutely don't want to have tear. Because even as the document is moving you are still rea
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by Too 3y ago
Building a type checker on global inference is the kind of thing that sounds romantic in academia - "no type definitions and yet get type checking!" - but ends up being a nightmare to use in practice. Nilability of return values s
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by Too 3y ago
Panics are definitely one of the bigger design mistake of go. They should have either removed panics entirely and made error as return values the only way to do signal errors or they should have made defer+recover more mainstream like excep
565.
by Too 3y ago
Host language is rarely ever declarative. Declarative languages are often necessary because they don’t leave any escape hatches that tempt you into writing incorrect code. Build system dependency graphs one common example. It’s also needed
566.
by Too 3y ago
Doesn’t necessarily have to be the host language. Just any other existing language. If it’s static and declarative, just use yaml. (Yes it sucks, but you get it point) If it’s imperative, just use the host language. Then you have some hyb
567.
by Too 3y ago
One more from me - Any expression that may likely include a user-generated variable should have a strategy for how to inject it safely. To avoid sql injection class of attacks. Native templating is the best. If string templating is the only
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by Too 3y ago
C compilers are funny on this one, because instead of warning you about code that don’t do anything, they take advantage of it, in the form of UB optimizations. Like you say, macros often make this very hard to enforce in practice.
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by Too 3y ago
For one, Linux is OSS, so contributions made there are available for anyone, forever. I don’t think voluntary developers are very keen on dedicating contributions to a business entity who by the next major release would have stolen your co
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by Too 3y ago
A formal proof is only as good as its requirements. Leaving out features and reducing complexity is for sure going to be more secure.

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