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This video has a pretty good breakdown of how the "encapsulation" and "decoupling" promised by OOP is mostly a mirage: https://youtu.be/QM1iUe6IofM?si=4GrOhZ31esd7rDSN&t=1089
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>1. It talks to a database. >3. It touches the file system. These are BS. Maybe they made sense in the beforetimes when when we didn't have Docker containers or SSDs, but nowadays there's no reason you can't stand u
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>"this combination of preconditions yield a business logic edge case that wasn't accounted for". Static typing doesn't really help more than dynamic typing in these cases. Depends on the language and the business lo
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I've come to believe that "statically typed" is too large a category to be useful in types-vs-tests discussions. Type system expressiveness varies enormously by language. Better just to ask "what language, specifically?&
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The same logic applies to railways, airports, cargo ships.
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Preparing for missions in difficult places(bitecode.dev)
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>Well, then, make the users of the bikes pay the full cost of the bike service. Great, so long as motorists pay the full cost of the roads.
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you know I think this guy doesn't like elon musk. just a feeling
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They both work! Ctrl-click to select individual tabs, Shift-click to select a range.
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what's wrong with the 90s look? many people like it. I hate the new generation of UIs: acres of whitespace, buttons that don't look like buttons, disappearing scrollbars, hamburgor menus.
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>Forging a judges signature, by itself, will get you jail time. So will impersonating a police officer in most states[1]. By taking this method of locating the woman, the stalker basically guaranteed himself prison time well good thing
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yes, those countries, because the alternative is a war of all against all. there were winners and losers a century ago, the lines on the map are what they are now, you don't get a do-over. deal with it.
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yep https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/small-claims-court...
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Yes, adding to the list: - blocking a sightline that pedestrians need to safely cross the road - blocking a dropped curb that wheelchair/pram users need in order to mount and dismount the curb - parking on the pavement so that wheelcha
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>ramblings of an old man wishing the world had technologized "better." it will happen to all of us someday
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>Are entire VBA projects really that ubiquitous? We have such sights to show you.
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well it's all underwater innit
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look up havel's greengrocer
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>Its about the look in your eyes. that sounds so lame tbh. i thought most people left behind this social scarcity shit after sixth form.
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halloween was last week
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exhaustiveness checking
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A friend of mine had a critique of videogames that has stuck with me. He called them "antiknowledge". Your brain's learning faculties are repurposed into "learning" something that isn't actually a thing . You
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Hell yeah, this was the book that made linalg click for me.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Thanks for that beautiful comment. It unlocked some jumbled memories of my own childhood.
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Not a maker exactly, but there is an open source hobbyist software project for certain brands of robot vacuum: https://valetudo.cloud It lets you run them without any cloud connectivity or forced updates.
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the mayor of london is for greater london, the lord mayor is for the city of london, which is the square mile enclave feudal thing where all the finance stuff lives
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With proper road design, traffic fatalities can be reduced to a negligible rate. Oslo famously achieved zero per year. Since roads can be designed with this degree of safety, it follows that high rates of fatalities are a result of poor roa
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> Hypothetically, if she figured out how to automate it on her own, would she get any kind of reward for it? If not, why should she automate it? the reward is the intrinsic satisfaction of a job well done, and something to put on the C
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>while the good craftsman learns to use what they have No, he goes out and gets new ones or fixes/builds them himself. That's how I always understood the saying; the emphasis is on the word "blame" not the word &quo
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Well I'm sure that's the case for some of them but you shouldn't let jokers and extremists poison your opinion of what is in reality a quite sensible policy.

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