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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Go type in: <p>Hello <br></br> World! And see the errors that now show up because of the wisdom we gained… wait, it still renders alright? I guess we still have much to learn then. Or , there might be some
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
You’re getting downvoted for some reason, but OpenGL is absolutely easier. It abstracts so much (and for beginners there’s still a ton even with all the abstraction!). No need to think about how to prep pipelines, optimally upload your data
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
The engineers at Apple aren’t somehow imbued with any sort of special intellect that the engineers at Meta lack to do the same thing. And to be clear here, I’m no fan of Meta. But, in echoing @laserlight here, let’s not pretend that the eng
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> We all know that Meta is capable of neither designing nor manufacturing Apple Vision Pro According to what? What limitation is there that stops Meta engineers from being able to do this?
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> “context matters and programmer cycles are more important than CPU cycles in the majority of contexts”. I think this is something we could all agree on, no? I don’t think people agree on this (I don’t at least). I like the story false
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> can move existing "learned the hard way special cases" byzantine business code to something that can run on a web server and be accessed by the companies employees rather than passing around scripts for them to run Or… you co
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
You’re being overly pedantic to a fault. Here’s the definition Wikipedia gives for UI: > a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur[0] Further, Wikipedia lists a ton of different kinds of user
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
A programming language is absolutely a user interface. The error messages and diagnostics emitted by the language are the feedback mechanisms. The syntax and semantics are the design of the interface. The documentation is the user manual. T
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I’m not joking. > but you have to be delusional to think that someone taping their favorite show on their own or waiting for it until it ends is nearly the same as dropping all episodes at the same time on principle for every show and on
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> terrible shows being greenlit, homogeneity of camerawork, casting, identity-politics pandering that nobody asked for, oversaturation of the market with streaming services that is almost as bad as cable etc. … Binge-tv model is also not
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
The difference is that in that review there were plenty of remarks like: > Fortunately, we can report that on the whole, the touchscreen and software interface are easier to use than expected. What's more, we didn't miss a styl
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> Better, IME to make it clear that while you may have some agreed guidelines, moderation isn't going to be according to a legal code. Yes. Some would say, it’s almost like using the spirit of the rules ;) In all seriousness, your t
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I don’t know if you’re actually looking for an answer, but after having managed a small 1,000 person community I think the “spirt of the law” makes a lot of sense. You’ll get a few community members that are great, but then they want to be
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I understand everyone has a different situation. OP literally said that it’s impossible for anyone to review their finances in 10 minutes, and I provided a counterclaim. Additionally, my point was that in this day and age, the majority of
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I pay through the apps. I have a password manager. There were a couple transactions that took me a couple seconds to recall. I’m single, but this whole thread is about _personal_ responsibility. I would trust my spouse to also keep up with
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
It’s really not though. Seeing all these comments concerned me a bit. So, I opened up my credit card apps and scrolled through the last six months of transactions to make sure there was nothing unexpected. It took 5 minutes while I was sitt
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> There’s a reason they’re able to charge 30%, have a dominant market position in the US, and people continue to release apps for iOS (and prioritize launching there over Android). I keep seeing this line of thinking in the comments (som
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> But they’re simply gaming the admission systems by studying rather than spending all their waking hours on TikTok and Fortnite. That is the point, is it not? The whole reason for higher education is to study and research . The p
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> The particular problem is they made up a whole bunch of shit and when the sciences in general came around, people when "wow, religion is a bunch of controlling bullshit". I think you have your history a bit backwards. Galileo
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
This isn’t true. I’m reminded of this interview with some women who lived through Victorian era England (before any phones existed)[0]. Towards the middle of the interview she talks about the mud in the streets and how they spent hours brus
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
This is also beside the point. I think both of you are trying to warn against the dangers that lie on both sides of this coin: people can invest too heavily in a specification and waste an enormous amount of time, and people can immediately
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
My point about metrics is why I think the research is inconclusive. It’s very difficult to get a metric that’s meaningful in this context. If you said: this code base on average has 1 bug per 100 lines of code, that doesn’t say anything mea
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Why would you need an empirical study for this? It’s trivially provable. Runtime exceptions in a language like JavaScript can arise from type mismatches. That’s impossible to do in a language like Java, because the compiler catches it befor
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
And here I was thinking the author must have been using a higher level language. I remembered reading this blog[0] where the author stated that the worst case scenario for an insertion at the beginning of a 2mb file only took 2ms on an old
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
You’ve just shifted the goalpost twice here. I never learned about Paxos, but I did learn about consensus algorithms. Second, learning about something, and implementing something are completely different. Most CS graduates have an idea of
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Ah sorry for the confusion! I chose atheism because it seems diametrically opposed to Christianity in the US, but my intention wasn’t to single out atheists :) . The same sentiment I voiced in my first comment could be said about any religi
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
Because the second sentence mentions the Bible? Or some other reason? If it’s the former, I’m a Christian but I don’t just close out articles if they’re written by Richard Dawkins or quickly proclaim that they’re an atheist. There’s still a
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
> Considering both iPhones and Macs represent minority positions in their respective markets in the US A 54% market share, compared to Google’s 46% market share doesn’t seem like a minority to me. It’s not a large majority, but it’s defi
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
This is definitely not true. Whenever I have a question about a C++ language feature I typically go here first[0], and then if I’m looking for compiler specific info I go to the applicable compiler docs second. Likewise, for Java I go here[
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by _gabe_ 3y ago
I didn’t mention this, because it doesn’t matter. I use an iPhone. I’m writing this on an iPhone. I use a MacBook. Why the heck should I care about my friends and family paying some “Apple status” fee to get an iPhone just so I can share pi

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