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by andrewmcwatters 9mo ago
What’s your point? Say everything you just said again, but with software engineering and Indians, instead of manufacturing and the Chinese, or textiles and Vietnam and Pakistan. There’s no reason American cars need to exist either, they bas
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by andrewmcwatters 9mo ago
The only thing I've never understood about the HPV vaccination is that for some reason after a certain age as an adult in the United States, no primary care provider appears to recommend you get it in addition to your regular vaccinati
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
Module exports with side effects, and setting environments doesn’t guarantee global access.
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
Interesting, it looks like you can use ´global myvar’ now, as compared to ´myvar’ implicit globals, say from back in 5.1, or ´local myvar’. It’s worth noting that global is a reserved keyword now, so environments that had a ´global()´ funct
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
There's a lot of ecosystem behind it that makes sense for moving off of Node.js for specific workloads, but isn't as easily done in Rust. So it works for those types of employers and employees who need more performance than Node.j
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
I don't care what you other people in auth do, I work in auth too, please stop making signing into anything 5 steps. 1. First I get redirected to a special sign-in page. 2. Then I sign-in with my email only. 3. Then it finally asks me
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
I do this qll the time ! C’est parce que AZERTY, oui.
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
I am aware that I am banned. I appreciate you taking the time to check with me, though. And thank you for vouching my comment, too.
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
More often than not, I’ve seen web pages that are more easily scraped than one could connect to an official API. It’s so weird. It’s like in many cases companies don’t really care, so of course people are going to scrape your pages instead.
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by andrewmcwatters 10mo ago
It’s such an uncreative name, anyway. It’s like something you’d read from a hardware engineering GitHub repository where the author was oblivious to how searchable the intellectual property would be.
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
One of the most popular API frameworks is called “FastAPI” but in any meaningful benchmark it’s one of the slowest commercially used pieces of web software the industry has adopted. There is no hope for large segments of the industry. We ac
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
That commenter’s syntax notation looked pretty neat and intuitive.
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
Why would you tree-shake your backend?
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
You’re not missing out on a lot. Coming from someone who has used their products for many years now. Their products have more compromises and trade-offs now than they did during Apple’s Intel era. What you will tangibly miss is low noise, l
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
Casks won’t be able to bypass Gatekeeper, so now you can’t launch .apps from brew that aren’t notarized. So, you might as well just use the App Store.
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
Yeah, I'm aware the same behavior is available, but this proposal creates a call trigger on the dependency which requires far less analysis on larger projects to understand where the import needs to be moved to. You have to create wrap
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by andrewmcwatters 11mo ago
I've noticed that instead of defining requires at the top of Lua files, if you can know your own program well enough, defining them right before the dependency is actually used makes large Lua programs much, much quicker. Generally spe
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
I haven’t actually seen it in the wild yet, just talked about in technical talks from engineers at different studios, but I’m interested in designs in which there isn’t a traditional main thread anymore. Instead, everything is a job, and ev
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
It’s common in phishing schemes to either have a non-functional site hosting only the payload or one that hosts a full front appearing like a normal website, usually a blog with news.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
I've also gotten good results just dropping the connection if it hits the application layer, and you can't get CloudFlare to return the desired behavior first. Not ideal, but it seems to work against primitive bots.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
Just so others here know, it’s possible to have a graphics context and a Win32 menu bar in the same window.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
Stack Overflow also famously ran on very little hardware.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
> Every relationship that lasts long enough or goes deep enough eventually hits a point where expectations meet reality. I think about this all the time and it’s nice to see someone explicitly say it. It is, of course, a part of life, bu
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
> It's fine if you yourself prefer to hold cash for whatever personal reasons you have, but please stop talking nonsense. A comparison of any currency in the world vs a roughly diversified index would invalidate all your points. No,
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
No, they haven't. You're thinking specifically about how the US market has been lucky enough for that to occur. There is absolutely nothing intrinsic about that happening as a guarantee. Look at other countries' stock exchang
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
Equities also lose and gain value. There's a reason to hold cash when it's preferrable to lose real, time and inflation-adjusted, value versus losing to speculative equities or other securities. But go ahead, downvote me since you
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
This also isn't true.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
This isn't true. You're all implicitly claiming that all assets return nominal value above inflation, which isn't even remotely true when we teach it to pimple-faced undergraduate students.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
At some point, inevitably, bonds have to appear more attractive. Until those, too, get bid up until their coupon rates become effectively worthless compared to bank deposits or worse, inflation.
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by andrewmcwatters 1y ago
As someone who pretty strictly adheres to Apple Human Interface Guidelines, it's really off-putting to see them slip so badly backwards on their own published work. There are now portions of iOS that use either iOS 18's UIKit, or

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