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by _dain_ 4y ago
What on Earth are you talking about? There's nothing "iamverysmart" about the blogpost at all. The guy literally cites an example where the code broke in production, it isn't an esoteric hairsplitting point at all.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
people also love getting filthy fucking rich, how's that working out for you?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
use mypy? it can enforce the type hints.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>The result was a disaster. wtf? metres and centimetres are not different types! they are just different ways of writing same type: Length. radians and degrees are just ways of writing a dimensionless Angle quantity. you made the absolut
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by _dain_ 4y ago
isn't this just a parametrized test? or do you want to generate the test cases automatically like in property-based testing?
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by _dain_ 4y ago
don't kid yourself, those brain interfaces will be emulating 80-character width terminals
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by _dain_ 4y ago
if you live in the fucking shard, maybe. london is expensive but let's not exaggerate: a £150k earner is not worried about the cost of living.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>While it's of course good by local UK standards understatement, £150k is outstanding, london or otherwise
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> Where did I say that FP was obviously beneficial? You're reading too much into my question. I was questioning the GP's epistemology. cmon fuckin guy
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I honestly didn't know that dd just did the same thing as cp or cat. I thought you had to use it for making bootable USBs because it was doing some kind of special arcane magic behind the scenes .. this intuition was reinforced by the
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by _dain_ 4y ago
good catch, it's one of the more infuriating modern thought-terminating cliches. as if all that matters is how things look , rather than how they actually are .
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The cult of dd (2017)(eklitzke.org)
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by _dain_ 4y ago
yeah that's technically correct, none of these problems would happen. there would just be different problems.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
It's a load-bearing just.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
as a rightwing maniac myself, I'm insulted you lump malcolm gladwell in with us
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by _dain_ 4y ago
nope, check the most recent polls lol
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by _dain_ 4y ago
> The Arts Commission’s Civic Design Review committee will be responsible for conducting a “multi-phase review” of the project, like it does for all projects on public lands. this part stands out to me, they have no incentive to say &quo
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by _dain_ 4y ago
this mindset is why you have terrible public services.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I prefer wait style, but I don't mind occasional interruptions so long as they are very brief and immediately yield control back to the original talker. Like: --- A: We just got a new shipment of XYZs, we need to -- B: Woa woa sorry, w
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>We just upgraded our brains to handle that. You mean, downgraded.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>There is no widespread infrastructure for heating with electricity, the dominant sources for heating homes are gas and oil Yes and why is that ? Electric heating is not some space-age technology. It has been around for a century. There
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by _dain_ 4y ago
They're down because of deferred maintenance, pushed back because of corona.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Minority parties can make the governing parties do things. UKIP wasn't in government but they made the Conservative party promise a referendum, which the eurosceptic side won -- and that was in a FPTP system! The Greens weren't i
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>Germany heats with gas [...] Germany isn't heating with electricity And whose fault is that? Why can't their much-vaunted Energiewende manage to keep people warm? After half a trillion dollars of public investment in green ene
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>The whole political position of this party rests on their fanatic opposition to Nuclear power. Btw if anyone thinks this is exaggeration, it's not. They are evil fanatics: https://twitter.com/giuliasaudelli/sta
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by _dain_ 4y ago
>I am assuming when a user interacts with one control button / dial / interaction it has a cascade effect on other controls / displays etc? Sometimes yes, it depends on the instrument. Some have user interaction, but most
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by _dain_ 4y ago
Those nipples tend to get stuck in one place for me, so I have to disable them.
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by _dain_ 4y ago
I like to keep both hands on the keyboard. Every mouse movement incurs the cost of reaching the right hand for the mouse, then moving the right hand back and re-finding my place on the keyboard. I don't like that constant back-and-fort
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by _dain_ 4y ago
How well does this approach scale for systems where the state is inherently large and complex? I write code that controls industrial machinery. There's just loads of different knobs and settings and modes that I can control with code
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by _dain_ 4y ago
My favorite subgenre is when my commit looks like: 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 562 deletions(-)

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