UglyToad

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by UglyToad 5y ago
I didn't see it mentioned in the article but is swapping out the battery entirely an option being investigated, i.e. you roll into the truck stop and some process takes the depleted battery and inserts a charged one. It was discussed o
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Yes. From my perspective one benefit of 0 major version in 1-person OSS projects is it gives a clear signal that "yes this code is available for you, but no I'm not an enterprise support solution, I'll do what seems useful&#x
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by UglyToad 5y ago
There's a world of difference between going for a nice cycle or taking the train to see a new place or even going for a drive in the country versus cramming onto a standing-room-only train or risking your life in rush hour traffic or c
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Thanks for re-iterating this. Granted, due to where the emissions take place, air travel is slightly stronger/higher but I feel like the sole focus on air travel is an annoying feature of a lot of climate-change discussions. It's
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Wow, you really kicked the hornet's nest with this one! My hot take is that people not knowing this is a good thing and is a sign of progress. Our (range of) languages are just - better - now. We still have languages for situations whe
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I feel like the hype made a lot of people (not you) forget there's a middle ground, like you can't just have "services". I therefore propose a new hype cycle "mesoservices", i.e. only split out a service from t
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by UglyToad 5y ago
As far as I understand it it went to wherever there are still poor souls writing COM Interop stuff primarily. Luckily I've never had to touch it so outside of Dapper for SQL I've never really had cause to use dynamic. I imagine th
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Hydro-mad Georgia cool on wind(eurasianet.org)
1 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This is sort of tangentially related, since TFA doesn't really talk about long hours as such but I definitely prefer the following angle: https://ericlippert.com/2019/12/30/work-and-success/
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Shade(placesjournal.org)
1 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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Kazakhstan: Russia’s Yandex taxi in court trouble as China’s Didi circles(eurasianet.org)
1 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I must admit I'm a little confused at this (but not downvoting), I think the speed of development is probably equivalent but with the benefit that as the codebase grows you at least have types to make scaling easier but having not trie
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think this probably relates to fundamental differences in how people think. Like the "imagine an apple" test of people's mental modes of imagination. I'm quite a visual thinker so I use the shape of the surrounding cod
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think my problem with this approach and why I lean to favouring the more obvious and verbose comment is, if I'm reading the code it's probably because something is broken (or I need to change something in the area). With the fun
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Stats would certainly suggest the police focused on putting the wrong drug dealers in jail: "In 2019, an estimated 10.1 million people aged 12 or older misused opioids in the past year. Specifically, 9.7 million people misused prescrip
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Georgian cartographers accused of selling a slice of the homeland(eurasianet.org)
2 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This is my take from writing object oriented code (I don't know how broadly applicable to functional languages it is). I started off writing code in a procedural style with no organisation. I was told that was bad so I created fragment
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Modern-day “Robin Hood” inspires Georgians in debt(eurasianet.org)
1 points by UglyToad 5y ago|0 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I use this as something of a meme/joke myself when talking with friends. I think it was widely used on Twitter in the form "I would simply just". For example when a friend is complaining about their job "I would simply j
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by UglyToad 5y ago
At some point I'm going to get round to adding heuristic filter selection to my PNG library BigGustave [0]. I have a TODO note for how to start implementing it. Though to be honest using Palette for colors tends to produce a huge savin
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think this ties in to something I've been thinking, though it might be project specific. Good code should be written to be easy to delete. 'Clever' abstractions work against this. We should be less precious about our code
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I'm so miserable that I finally got around to embracing open ecosystems after almost a decade of being Microsoft-poisoned and now everyone is all in on some baffling walled garden with abysmal UX and about 300 different services that y
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I wonder if C# is a bit of an outlier here. I work mainly in C# but also sometimes do Type/JavaScript. While I've got the VS Code debugger running for JavaScript projects I'll rarely use it and generally use print debugging.
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Govbins: A gallery of UK government bin designs(govbins.uk)
44 points by UglyToad 5y ago|11 comments
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Plus as a lapsed-vegetarian I'm excited for lab grown meats even if there's an animal killed at some point in the process. It's impossible to choose a food without at least some harm. How many fish are killed by fertilizer ru
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I'm probably just agreeing with your agreement but being pedantic but. Isn't effectively the entire problem with university/college in the current age that instead of its original purpose it's treated as a hiring filter
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by UglyToad 5y ago
This was a fantastic post, it covers a lot of the things I've been thinking about but in a comprehensible and readable way. I see it has been submitted here before but not gained much traction, do you mind if I submit it again?
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I understand your point. But, and forgive the vagueness and wooliness of my thoughts around this subject, does this not highlight the "software has made everything shit"-ness of academia? Wouldn't a little less software or a
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by UglyToad 5y ago
Haha, thank you, I'm going to sleep a lot better at night now! Your post was a really interesting insight into these systems, thank you.
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by UglyToad 5y ago
I think it's actually because I'm beginning to realise how much I used to believe the importance of software and how maybe I no longer do. For context I used to live in the UK which is probably, outside of South East Asia one of t

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