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> The trouble with "Modern C++" is that nothing gets deleted from "Classic C++". This is not exactly true. For example, with the introduction of smart pointers, manual memory management is kicked out of C++'s h
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> Professional engineers working on buildings aren't liable for someone who decides to take a bulldozer to it to find its weakness, (...) Actually, they are. Engineers are tasked with designing safe structures taking into account
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> If I remember correctly they even removed C1 instances thus increasing the price of their “cheapest” option from ~€3 to ~6€. I went ahead and checked Scaleway's pricing[1] and indeed their cheapest "development instance&quo
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Speaking of backend development, recently I gave Jooby[1] a try after discovering it was one of the world's top performer in Tech Empower's web framework benchmark[2]. Surprisingly enough, it's terribly easy to put together a
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> That makes me think you might've forgotten what it's like to be a beginner. Let's put things in perspective: the parser bit of putting together your own lisp is by far the easiest task of all. Complaining that parsing
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> It's trivial for you, but are you sure you've got the OPs best interest at heart? It's trivial to anyone. Furthermore, there are already s-expression parsers out there. Suggesting JSON is simply poor, ill-thought out a
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> Here's the thing; that doesn't actually work well to make good products. Sure, a bunch of companies (...) Respectfully,you know nothing about what you're talking about. Async work is already the norm for some companies
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> Best example are C++ stdlib classes like std::vector. Sometimes you just need a trivial growable array implemented in a few dozen lines of code, but std::vector pulls in roughly 20kloc of code into each compilation unit, and only if y
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> I asked them to create a library (...) I showed them a two-line solution with a single function (...) and nobody liked it. I was ridiculed right there, for not solving the problem "properly" . And did you solved the problem
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> The software industry is generally run by the latter. Obviously. The latter adds value way faster, instead of wasting time "absorbing" stuff he will never need to touch. Also, the latter understands code is ephemeral and th
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> This seems a very short sighted attitude to me, like saying that there is no time for testing, there are too many bugs to fix. This is not true at all. The definition of "clean code" is highly subjective and context- and ex
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> And that's how the long tail becomes long tail. Not really. Developers should only touch production code if there is a good business reason to touch it, whether fixing a bug or adding a feature. If there is no good reason to tou
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> Do they make a difference? Perhaps a placebo? A must have? It really depends on where you're coming from. I have one of those air purifiers from Ikea (Förnuftig). It's cheap but not the cheapest. On any high dust/polen
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> Yes. Because we have no idea how to define 'fair'. Well, we do. I mean, we have a pretty solid idea of what represents the absolute bare minimum. For starters, minimum wage should be a living wage. It should be enough all
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> I would be willing to bet the CEOs of these ultra-large, ultra-powerful tech firms provide far more than 700x the value of their average worker. This assertion is amusing given this ultra-powerful tech firm has been systematically wa
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> Damn near everyone in America, at least, has access to YouTube or other streaming services. I learned how to program in R (...) Enough with this pseudo-moralistic perpetuation of abuse, specially the tone-deaf ones based on survivors
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> There are (conservatively) hundreds of thousands of defensive gun uses per year in the United States, and evidence to suggest this actually lowers the rates of various types of violent crimes (including "hot robberies", wher
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> I cannot believe that folks think k8s is a good thing. If you are ever in a position to do professional work on web apps, you'll quickly learn why container orchestration systems are invaluable.
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> k8s ecosystem tools are fast changing and native package repos are woefully out of date. Minikube in particular has a habit of just straight up breaking and requires a lot of reading long github issues only to realize there's a f
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> Is there a reason these aren't just in the native package managers? Some major Linux distros do ship with official k8s packages. For instance, Ubuntu even dedicates an article on how to deploy multiple k8s choices. https:/
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> If you are bottle-necked by reading data (eg over networks or slow storage), zstd will be faster to decompress since you are transferring less data. This should be stressed. Benchmarks show zstd's compression ratio being 75% of
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> That's the thing, even at its fastest setting, zstd is still slower than lz4. So clearly, it's not the right answer if you're serializing from a fast medium. It really depends on what you want to do, as decompression s
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> Agriculture consumes the vast majority of CA water. Just do add some sources: https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/ > "Water in California is shared across three main sectors. S
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> This just two weeks after California decided not to build a water desalination plant since it wasn't "necessary". Helpful link to a recent submission to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392912
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> You realize ISO is physically different, like, (...) That is only relevant as far as picking keycap sets go. As I've pointed out, there are plenty of ANSI+ISO sets on the market. Beyond this point, the relevance is zero. It's
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> No, you cannot convert an ANSI keyboard to an ISO layout. A cursory search on Google returned plenty of search hits on how to convert keyboards between ANSI and ISO. Also, apparently there are ANSI+ISO keycap sets on the market. Anyw
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> Opened the website. Almost everything out of stock. Amazon seems to have no problem stocking up on Akko keyboards. The ones I'm seeing listed as out of stock on Akko's page seem to be low-volume special editions with custom
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> How many layouts do they have besides en_US? Beats me. I do not represent the brand. I guess worst case scenario you're a keycap set away from any keyboard layout you wish to have.
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> Me, or anybody who needs a no-fuss, one-shot, buy-and-use-it-till-it-dies type of consumer. You can get a cheaper no-fuss mechanical keyboard from reputable brands with respectable components for far less than this logitech keyboard

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