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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yes when you can compile from scratch it does not matter anymore, but as you mentioned it has mostly to do with software vendors (OS distros, proprietary apps, etc). There are things that are basically disallowed for upgrades in the standar
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I remember how there was that study about how "alcohol is good for you" because the "mortality vs. alcohol consumption" was a slight bathtub curve at the low end. They completely forgot that many people who don't dr
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I always wonder if it will be challenging to get people used to the idea of paying for these services from a non-Google provider. Although Google hoovers up cash hand over fist (hence the high salaries), having a well-polished set of apps t
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Although I've been doing C++ for about a decade now, the one thing that is making me somewhat wary of its future is the difficulty of versioning key components of the language. Sure there are tricks with namespaces to version things to
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
This depends on the health of the tree. The bark beetle has decimated many pine trees in the sierra nevadas, leaving many trees standing but actually sick or dead, and unable to resist a forest fire.
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The reason authoritarianism is so popular is because the Dems have not pushed for significant, FDR-style reforms that would materially improve people's lives. If they actually fought for universal healthcare, guaranteed parental leave,
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I switched over to riding a recumbant bike for long tours. I would never bike commute on one because it's not quite as nimble (e.g. if one has to swerve suddenly; you can't move your weight around), but for long touring caring ton
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
A colleague of mine died suddenly. This guy was a tech lead at my tiny satellite office for a major tech company. Within DAYS they already had an internal/external job posting to fill his position up. I mean I know it's just busin
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The thing I think that would differ is the vegetation that would normally survive the fires would be able to flourish again after, e.g. some pine trees in California have pine cones that only disperse seeds during a fire (high temps). After
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Farming on permafrost sounds like the makings for patient 0 of some previously-frozen virus coming along and causing the next global pandemic :(
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I don't know why they just don't use something like Acast which will take care of distribution (or maybe others I don't know of). The worst part of it is that Spotify's android app is buggy. Actually, that's an unde
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The one exception being any sort of chat app. Now they're going from crusty old Hangouts to Chat while plenty of other chat apps have been far more polished for a long time
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yeah I use Doom as well, but I've bogged it down with too many extensions and not enough time spent trying to load it smartly. Running it as a systmed service helps (to avoid starting up a new instance vs. connecting to the service).
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
They could just call it kerbaros instead to clear up the confusion. /s This reminds me of the way the word for "today" in French is aujourd'hui. "hui" meant "today" in old French, but it sounds like o
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
I've been using pcloud which has a lifetime plan which is a pretty good deal. I recommend waiting until black friday or August 1 (Swiss national day; they're a CH-based company) when they severely drop the price.
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Yeah for me magit was one of those "magical" Emacs apps that really keeps me sticking with Emacs despite how slow it can be when you load it up with many extensions (compared to VSCode). I hope the native comp in Emacs 28 helps so
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
My parents got a heat pump water heater (electric) a few months ago and it's great. Definitely the priciest option, but it sips electricity and also cools the area around it (basically operating as an "inside out refridgerator&quo
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
As someone who is out of the loop on this and only a basic understanding, it seems very peculiar that scientists were so quickly to just jump on the "it must be bats and a wet market" thing so early on despite the Wuhan lab being
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yes that isn't too many, but right now any device can just hop on a network and start communicating (after DHCP). Not only that, but they can start communicating with any public IP address. If people decided to take this away by adding
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Honestly most of it is pretty great. Folks who want to give it better, more reliable performance end up reinventing circuit switching, and anything involving security is difficult to solve at the IP layer. The last big things to secure are
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
As someone who has taught (or TAed) undergrad courses in all but APL and machine language, I would suggest a different sequence: - LISP / Scheme - Python - C - Assembler / machine - whatever else beyond here maybe leave out the LI
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This can work well for folks who want to stick towards the ISA / hw level, but for general coding I don't find assembly more useful than just a simple language like Python. The "simplicity" of assembly evaporates pretty
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The relaxed rule enforcement is very difficult for beginners to understand. After one has experience with other languages, we kinda understand that every language is gonna have at least one crufty WTF corner, but beginners will become reall
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
C++20, as it contains myriad major things (e.g. concepts, ranges, and when cmake supports it modules too...) and minor things as well (e.g. lambda capture issues, the spaceship operator and sane inference for comparison to avoid boilerplate
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Yeah I think this is indeed skewed. Per capita bike theft is gonna be higher if those "capita" own more bikes!
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Yeah the "highest salaries = best country!" trend is strong on HN, but high salaries can't really buy you the things you get basically for free in a different country due to culture / government differences. Turns out yo
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Ah I should be more specific: urban areas in those countries. The level of petty crime in any major city in the US is far higher than any city in those countries I mentioned. In non-urban areas in the US things are better for sure, but you
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It's things like this that make it such a shock to go to an extremely safe country / area. All the little scripts one has to keep track of to be "safe and secure" in the US (e.g. instinctively locking your doors all the
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
Most of it is basically from cppcon talks and Scott Meyer's books, but the advice I basically give to incoming C++ programmers today is this: * Start with C++20 unless you have a very good reason not to. Not only does it obviate crufty
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by _huayra_ 5y ago
This is actually on my list of "neat utilities to write": an iterator that encapsulates this "offset" for vector. If anyone is looking to write a custom iterator, I definitely recommend Boost's new stl interfaces:

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