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by _pmf_ 5y ago
: They don't even stop and wonder any of the issues discussed in the article, they simply make the project type they want in visual studio and start learning the guts of programming. As someone who did exactly this 25 years ago with VB
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by _pmf_ 5y ago
Hasn't cache handling in the kernel long reached the timing complexity of a garbage collector, mooting some points about system programming and GC?
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by _pmf_ 5y ago
> The last 1%, jumping to java is not a big difference That's where you're wrong, kiddo.
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by _pmf_ 5y ago
Some very true points. The fact that terminal protocols are modeled on top of linear output streams is a historical accident.
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by _pmf_ 5y ago
All projects that follow economic constraints have technical debt. It's meaningless for the silent majority of the industry that delivers product and maintains them only when the customer pays for it, otherwise never touches them again
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> zero-cost interventions like “wear a mask” People who told me banning plastic straws was helpful are now calling billions of disposable masks per week a "zero-cost intervention"?
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
All heavily internationalized software should have error codes.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Ziz iz a gud aidi.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Unsure if this is a low key jab at Wayland breaking screenshot tools ...
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
If I know that the user changes what he originally wanted, damn right I give the thing to the user instead of wasting effort on perfection and edge cases that get thrown out.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy" is only getting started.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> So a less misleading headline might be: Couples that refuse relationship counselling have higher divorce rates. But that would surprise noone. Relationship counseling is delegating responsibility for your relationship to a third party.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Rust is the systems language of choice for overengineering Silicon Valley procrastinators.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
For me, this magic was in playing the shit out of demo games that came with my PC Games magazine subscription. I fondly remember playing Diablo I and War Wind (a WarCraft 2 clone) demos over and over again.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
OSS was the last time I had Linux audio in a state that I would call "basically working".
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Privatizing profits and socializing losses. A staple of modern entrepreneurship.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Layering leaky abstractions over leaky abstractions and calling it security is what the web has turned into. All the while introducing new side channels and attack vectors like WebGL that allow completely covert access via unknown access pa
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
It's very common in German universities that taking exams for a particular requires acquiring a "Schein" (certificate) for that course. Which are often harder and require much more work than preparing for the actual exam.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
It has also been in stock Eclipse since at least around 2010, when I started using it.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
How is this a UI design issue? There is no UI design involved. It's a generated form.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
It's a casserole, not a pizza. That's what's wrong with it.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> This review was not accepted by Amazon, saying that seller feedback should be given on the seller page. Gold.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Why not make GitHub fast? Why do I have to use an editor embedding a web browser instead of using a web browser?
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> the huge amount of spam and abuse that such systems correctly identify and remove. Maybe allowing single service providers to capture several billions of users is the problem here.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Then it's time for solutions that take it into account instead of fairy tale measures like riding the bike to work.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> just to maintain that broken pile of shit. > It has a real cost, you know, being a dick to maintainers. Which way is it, chief?
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Look, desktop Linux has enough things that barely work (I haven't had working sound since the switch to Pulse Audio). The strong reaction to Wayland is due to breaking even the few things that used to work.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Modern C++ is the anti-pattern.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
> for a country to have a grasp over the communication of its citizens It's never the country that has this power. It's particular government bodies.
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by _pmf_ 6y ago
Reframing pointing out hypocrisy as "whataboutism" is the greatest trick the devil ever pulled.

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