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by antod 5y ago
How and why sound to me like slightly different questions and the best one might depend on the answer. "Why is something still standing" could be circumstances related - eg all the other ones got demolished except this one for rea
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by antod 5y ago
One I've heard is "free, as in puppy" ie good, but comes with responsibility
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by antod 5y ago
In the early 2000s, ElementTree was such a relief after trying to use the stdlib DOM or SAX parsers. That was my first conscious use of effbot code, and I was grateful for it.
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by antod 5y ago
> If you look at the history of chemistry, mechanical engineering, or astronomy then you kind of get the impression that we're probably 150-300 years away from software development working the way everyone already imagines it worki
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by antod 5y ago
> Everybody thought OpenSSL was well-maintained since it was used as critical infrastructure by multi-billion dollar megacorporations I wasn't under the impression anybody who knew the project ever really thought that. Some other
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by antod 5y ago
I've long dreamed of that. Everything becomes stateless and everything to do with GDPR/PCI/Disaster recovery/anonymisation/performance/scaling/etc/etc becomes so much easier.
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by antod 5y ago
> I cannot be the only jaded nerd to have looked at all the highly integrated "smart home" crap on the market and scoffed. I have absolutely NO desire to sysadmin my goddamn house. You are not the only one. The only saving gr
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by antod 5y ago
To me that kind of observation seems subject to all kinds of biases. You seem to be equating "prestige" in a topic with being an expert in a topic - the two are not necessarily related. eg the more outrageous or unusual the claim
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by antod 5y ago
I'm in the same boat. The syntax sugar for shell integration in quickly hacked up scripts is the main (only?) area I prefer Ruby over Python.
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by antod 5y ago
It all depends on what the "manager of managers" are like in the organisation. If you get well supported and developed as a manager, and your manager cares about your people as much as you do it can be great. But if you kinda get
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by antod 5y ago
except without the "tile" or "cascade" or just drag and drop rearrangement of them
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by antod 5y ago
To me, the biggest fundamental difference between Ruby and Python seems to be that: In Python methods are implemented via callable attributes (it's dicts all the way down) In Ruby attributes are implemented via methods (it's messa
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by antod 5y ago
> Do everything perfectly, and a U-Boat could still land some Nazi commandos on the tiny island Reminds me a bit of the coastwatchers (but warmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastwatchers https://www
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by antod 5y ago
Seems a bit over the top to use the Vietnam War as a benchmark for the size of any bombing campaign, unless the benchmark is going for "largest ever by quite a margin".
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by antod 5y ago
> What's the rationale for keeping RSA as a default these days? I think they recently changed this, but for the longest time RSA keys were the only kind AWS supported for EC2 keypairs. For staff that weren't deploying EC2 in
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by antod 5y ago
I thought the reason PHP doesn't have a GIL, is that out of the box, it doesn't even have threads at all? Is my PHP knowledge out of date? Is the this the current state the art: ? https://www.php.net/manual/en
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by antod 5y ago
Works in Firefox 92 on Ubuntu 21.04 for me. Took a while to load though.
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by antod 5y ago
yeah, describing git as a stream of change events sounds more like the way svn or mercurial worked than git.
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> Weddings are ceremonies. Meetings at work are just meetings. Sometimes stuff in this field gets so ridiculous and pompous sounding. I like that they're called ceremonies because it highlights just how ridiculous and pompous this
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by antod 5y ago
It's also possible that objections from some left leaning people to (for example) GMOs or nuclear power aren't scientific objections as such. They may very well believe that those things work the way "science" says they
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by antod 5y ago
I had a Spectrum (couldn't afford a C64), but my friends had C64s. I was the only one I knew who ever did coding though. The C64s were still used lots, but just for games.
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by antod 5y ago
> I learned sine and cosine from the diagrams in the manual years before we covered them in maths. You too? I didn't fully understand them, and thought they had more to do with circles than triangles, but yeah that circle drawing
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by antod 5y ago
The actual report had a histogram comparing the relative results of all those options against each other. The point I'm trying to make is that what you're calling out as a bad question is a summary in 3rd party reporting and not t
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by antod 5y ago
>Let's say people in the 70s knew climate change was happening. The broad understanding of it was known in the late 70s, and even accepted by politicians by the early 80s as a policy requirement before it became politicised later.
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by antod 5y ago
You're reading the reporting wrong. It is meant as: afraid and/or sad and/or anxious and/or angry and/or powerless and/or helpless and/or guilty ie the last "and/or" is defining what the com
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Are you advocating a holiday in cambodia ?
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by antod 5y ago
> Would you not consider Java as write once run anywhere? I mean, that was basically its whole selling point. No, frankly. Java GUI apps on Linux back in the day were often a complete disaster unless it was an open source app with a la
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by antod 5y ago
Firefox is debatable. Netscape 6 which it descended from was a total rewrite and never really had much/any closed source release history to it (unlike earlier Netscape releases)
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I hate it when my precious limited boredom gets intruded on by nagging feelings that I need to learn or achieve something to avoid falling behind. I seldom have the energy/willpower to learn or achieve well anyway, and end up wishing I
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by antod 5y ago
Agreed. What experience and talent gives you are instincts that improve the chances of whatever it is "you're making up as you go" working well. I would much rather work with people who have a good track record of making it u

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