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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Now it is and I fully expect them to use their newfound power to oppress women seeking lifesaving medical care. I fail to see how an abortion is lifesaving medical care, can you explain what you mean by that? If you're referring t
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> If you just sent a message/request to an actor/server and it still hasn't responded after 5 seconds, you can send another. This depends on the message. I hope amazon doesn't just send another message if my transacti
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> And half of the stuff we read further is probably just his legend, i.e. not true. Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just saying this? And what stuff are you saying is untrue? None of this sounded unbelievable to me. This man
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> but because it was weaponised by a minority of people to control the studio in various ways I've also run into this. It can quite literally feel like I'm walking on eggshells. And it's not because I'm deeply racist
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
What's wrong with .NET core? It's the future of .NET afaik and it has multiplatform support and it's open source. > .NET (Core) -- A cross-platform and open source implementation of .NET, rethought for the cloud age while
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> Stardew Valley sold over 400,000 copies across Steam and GOG.com in two weeks,[13][72][73] and more than a million within two months. Stardew Valley sold at $14.99. At 1 million copies in two months that's around 15 million gross,
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> You know how annoying linked lists are? Graphs are 1000x worse. I thought linked lists were one of the easier data structures to implement? Is he saying they're annoying to use or implement here?
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> Who cares? > a "person" learns according to individual nature, while you are using it as a collective term There's a very specific definition for learn: >> to gain knowledge or understanding of or skill in by st
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> Actual language used by the ML researchers: "Intuitive physics learning in a deep-learning model inspired by developmental psychology" In my opinion, this is still anthropomorphizing the algorithms. The term deep-learning is
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Biology seems like an amazing subject, and this article helped frame it in a way that seems approachable as a programmer! One thing I don't understand after reading this and several comments, is I'll often hear stuff like "bi
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I'm genuinely curious how his presidency was a conflict of interest. All the other presidents in this list happily took their salary of $400,000 a year, while Trump donated his salary to various government projects[0] (at least until t
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> But, the 2 years of Biden demonstrated that our institutions are currently pretty helpless against brazen corruption. Many millions of our citizens will shrug their shoulders at, or even cheer on corruption so long as their side is win
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> If you think about it, does the typical journalist who probably trained in just writing really understand some of these complex topics they write about. No, but I like to think that journalism is supposed to be about finding the real e
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> But the jabs at Robox employees for furry-adjacent follows on Twitter, and another for retweeting some fan art that happened to be from a problematic account, are totally random and unfounded - what's that got to do with anything?
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I think they used that term on purpose. Non-pessimized in this case is the same as optimized, and I believe it's a reference to this video https://youtu.be/7YpFGkG-u1w
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Yep! I appreciate the thorough response and I'll be starring the project and following it's progress. It's very cool and looks great so far. Good luck with the project!
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This looks awesome! The main thing holding me back from switching from C++ to C is the lack of type safe generic programming. This language looks like it not only solves that, but adds some other interesting features like defer that I'
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Very confused by this. The C code declares an anonymous struct type, then aliases the typename "Foo" to that anonymous struct type. The C3 code seems to declares a named struct type "Foo" -- why isn't the C equ
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> The algorithm aggressively promotes freshness (things posted in the past few hours for certain queries!) and 10+ minute long videos. I mostly agree, but there are some counterexamples that provide very in depth, quality information and
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
At the last company I worked at I only used C# + WPF (it was horrible). A couple jobs ago I only used R. There are companies with entire divisions that never have to touch javascript, and I'm certain there are companies that never use
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Sure, but what if you are just being lazy and you don’t appreciate what it should look like long term? I wasn't aware that some devs have a side hustle as fortune tellers? On a more serious note, you should take a look at Sandi Me
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> You have a good point that featureful standard library doesn't necessarily result in less boilerplate, but I assumed that you kinda implied it by enumerating features. Gotcha, I appreciate the back and forth which helped me to cla
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> collections, common algorithms, File reading and writing, socket communication, async, concurrency, JSON and possibly simple XML. String manipulation, regular expressions C++ does provide all of this in the standard library except for
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Thanks for providing some specific examples! I still don't see how any of these would result in a 30% decrease in boilerplate. My main point was I feel like header files are the biggest piece of boilerplate and it seems weird to accuse
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It looks like the only big feature any of these standard libraries contain that C++ doesn't are things like networking and json/xml parsers. I would argue that those should not be part of a standard library, but you can still easi
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Very thin standard library? I'm not sure we're thinking of the same standard library if you would describe it as thin...[0] [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/standard-library/cpp-st...
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> The maintainer will respond with annoyance. The maintainer is the face of the product in certain ways. We would never defend a corporate CEO responding in annoyance to their free/paid users because it's unprofessional and put
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Why is this a nothingburger? If you're making the claim that it's safe and it actively leaks memory, how do we know it doesn't also allow buffer overruns or double frees? It would be nice if you allowed an option to compile w
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
This article doesn't compel me to give up github. It seems like it basically talks a lot about how proprietary software is evil and then complains about Copilot. Then it drops this: > GitHub's business model has always been “
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> (Or perhaps I naively still believe in an objective truth of events that cannot be easily proven to exist in digital mediums outside of our trust in math for cryptography?) This, 100% this. I do this all the time as well and try to boi

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