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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> the best inoculation against naïve realism—the illusion of personal objectivity—is a healthy dose of fact, aggregated from non-biased sources with no skin in the game. This seems to immediately contradict the prior statement: > Ross
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
From the article you linked: > I know some programming ecosystems, such as C++ does not have a default way of handling libraries and dependencies, and in that case it might be good to look into submodules. > Please, if there is any de
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I think the author was implying if branches add complexity, which adds more points of failures. If your code doesn't branch, that's one less edge case to test :)
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
According to Websters, to generate is: > : to define or originate (something, such as a mathematical or linguistic set or structure) by the application of one or more rules or operations[0] Creating something from the application of rule
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This doesn't sound like it would be possible. Depending on how strict your definition of generated code is, it would be impossible to copyright any compiled code. If you have a looser definition, I don't see why you wouldn't
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
git reset HEAD~1 Usually works good enough for me. Idk if this is the proposed way to undo stuff
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So if you need the assistance of a mechanical ventilator are you no longer human since you can't breathe on your own? Why would taking your first breath suddenly transform you from nonhuman to human? Further, is it ok for a hospital to
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I know, it's almost like when it comes to harming other people the state has some sort of power over us. I'm sure there are some people that would love to murder their neighbors. I mean, if that's their preference, why should
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> they want a React developer, or a C#/.net developer who can pump out web APIs in it or something. All web APIs follow the same basic pattern. The OP said: >> try identify the 'timeless' things. Software design over
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Violent, nationalistic, performatively Christian, law-and-order, hero-worshipping big-man conservatism as a front for both fascism and corporate profiteering is pervasive from the beginning. Yea, and this stuff is pervasive in any big
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> The villain of season 2 was literally a Nazi named "Stormfront" who riled up a cult-like following on social media. Yes... and? I don't know you personally, but if you truly believe that the vast majority of conservative
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> But who knows -- I think it's entirely possible to mix contemporary trendy politics without hurting the quality of the actual piece. I feel like The Boys Season 3 is a stark counterpoint to this opinion. I didn't mind the lef
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Vaccines causing long-term damages more than Covid while Covid causes long-covid with long term damages 1 in 10 times and vaccines cause long-term damages 1 in 100,000 times. Do you know what long term is? We literally don't have
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I know the author ended up with code that was the same speed at the end of all this, but if you're ever intentionally refactoring code just to make testing easier (and not to aid in the readability or overall architecture) isn't t
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
This article seems to be saying that science and religion are trying to answer the same question, how did we get here. But I feel like that's misguided. I've always been under the impression that science is descriptive, it answers
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I think some people may do it out of a misguided perception that an older translation is more accurate. I used to read the NKJV out of this misperception, but I tend to stick with ESV these days. It's much more readable (imo), and if t
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I'm not sure this makes much sense. If you work for a large corporation you can easily make 100K+ a year and work a very reasonable 40 hours or less a week and live off of 4K a month. Unless you're actually realizing those gains a
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> in the late 1800s there were heated philosophical debates about whether life required a mysterious “vital force” or if it could be produced through ordinary physical interactions. As biochemists learned more about the chemistry of life
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
PNG is a compressed format, so right off the bat it would be weird to have 1GB of compressed image data. According to this[0] out of 23 million analyzed images from web pages, PNGs comprised around 14.4% of those images and averaged aroun
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> For example there is a single header library HTML renderer and its fast, but does not run JavaScript. What library is this and does it support CSS? I'm using RML UI right now, and I'm pretty happy with it but it's pretty
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> Could we have it run in 010ms vs 250ms? Modern games can render 100s of thousands of polygons, run a physics simulation, run complex audio processing and mixing, run several post processing effects, and provide consistent multiplayer
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> but I think this is just the cost of the incredible volume of software that we have. But it's not. The author gives specific modern examples of individual people absolutely destroying our concepts of how fast an app should be: &gt
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
Typescript is ranked number 4 according to Github statistics in 2022[0]. VSCode is also very popular. I couldn't find any good statistics comparing different text editors, but atom is sunsetting this year, and VSCode continues to grow
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
If you toggle that response to "All Respondents" instead of "Professional Developers" Windows goes up to 45%. Plus, 3% of users are using windows subsystem for Linux. So 48%. Whereas Mac and Linux are both at 25%. Even f
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> False beliefs about vaccines, climate change, and the 2020 U.S. presidential election (to cite but a few noteworthy examples) Any statistics to back this claim? These are all heavily politicized topics. The truth is not being sought on
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
> secure C code. There is unsecure code hidden in every project that uses any programming language ;) I get what you're saying here, you're specifically talking about security vulnerabilities from memory related errors. I hones
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
It looks like windows is supported, but I couldn't find anything non-experimental for MacOS. Is MacOS still officially supported by react native? Edit: I just found this https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-ma
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
I agree with what you're saying here. Except what you're saying is the antithesis of what the article is saying. > The mistake you're falling into is that you're assuming that this means that _everything_ has to be de
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
As an experienced engineer, you should know that you can never give a good estimate. Very few things are as you would expect them to be. I looked for an article on how to estimate latency. When I Google "how to estimate the latency of
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by _gabe_ 4y ago
So are artists all idiots? Storyboards usually don't start with a full script. They start with sketches. Architectural designs start with sketches. Mathematical theorems start with tinkering with equations and notes. Are these people a

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