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by _dain_ 3y ago
I think there may just be some genetic component. some people are way more susceptible to it than others.
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>This leads to bad typing practices like contorting your left hand to type both 'ctrl' (now mapped to 'caps lock') and 'x' with the same hand. wait, how else are you meant to type CTRL-X?
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Counterexamples: structured programming, version control, null safety, unicode. I don't think we're going backwards on those.
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that might have been true in the 2000s, but it doesn't apply to modern languages with things like generics, ADTs, type inference, null safety, etc. you know what really slows me down? trying to use a function in a dynamic language, and
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> why untyped languages became popular to begin with because for a long time there were no mainstream languages with a good enough type system.
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is this meant to be an argument against blogs? why would you even want the latter audience
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Poland is not yet lost!
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problem is, distributing python scripts with dependencies to nontechnical users on windows machines is its own form of hell.
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>very complex graph in one line of code in matplotlib? get outta here
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Cool, I've always wanted to allocate memory using a network drive.
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Yeah it's new. Excel is a whole different animal now than in 2016. LET, LAMBDA, and spill arrays completely change how you do things.
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>3) Vlookup, hlookup, sumif, countif and friends XLOOKUP is a better VLOOKUP. It was added in the last few years. Other really good new ones: - LET for defining temporary variables inside a formula. - LAMBDA for defining new functions
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by _dain_ 3y ago
Non-paywall link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201026054328/https://www.econo...
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Managing Complexity (2004)(economist.com)
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>Insider revealed that Decentraland, arguably the largest and most relevant Metaverse platform, had only 38 active daily users. The Guardian reported that one of the features designed to reward users in Meta’s flagship product Horizon W
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by _dain_ 3y ago
good, legacy admissions are triangulation technique, so they can pretend the quota system doesn't discriminate against white people. "look at all those white legacy admissions getting an unfair leg-up". yeah great, a few rich
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>Games just happen to have a lot of operations that need column-based access; but that's not true for all domains. This was not at all obvious when ECS first came around. It took a lot of time to convince people away from the O
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Oh you mean like Erlang
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>Object-Oriented Assembly what in the god damn
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gulags were invented by a country professing state atheism
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buddhist countries had feudalism
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>But basically I think of a serverless function as like a one-shot container that is spun up when a webhook or some other invocation method is called, handles some kind of request, puts out some kind of response, and shuts down. we use
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by _dain_ 3y ago
linux, git, ffmpeg, arguably postgres and sqlite, blender may get there someday. old school statistical/scientific software offerings like SPSS, Stata, Matlab have been mostly buried by R and Python. and when was the last time you used
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I'll pay for youtube the minute they pay their fair share of tax.
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Only if you're on a good connection and close to the data centre.
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vim run inside of WSL. i'm serious.
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>Enter htmx to turn the tide again. Doesn't htmx use server side rendering for everything? So every interaction incurs a network roundtrip?
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>On the other hand, machines are faster than ever before while doing more than ever before, and apps are more flexible and change more quickly I suspect this would fall apart the instant you try to rigorously quantify it. Put an actual
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by _dain_ 3y ago
>if you compare the Windows machine to the average spec from the time it was released you'd probably find comparable performance. This is not the case, he specifically debunks it it in the twitter thread. He took a contemporary la
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by _dain_ 3y ago
The old software isn't available, or it's full of security holes.

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