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by atoav 1y ago
> Telling people at the coal face to stay cheerful seems unlikely to help. That isn't what they said tho. They said you have to do something, not that you should just be happy. Doing something can involve things that historically
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by atoav 1y ago
> That is quite the defeatist attitude. Society becoming shittier isn’t inevitable, though inaction and giving up certainly helps that along. Correct. But it becoming shittier is the strong default, with forces that you constantly have t
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes but this is about the difference between: engage_turbo_encabulator(True, False, True, False, True, False, True, False) and: engage_turbo_encabulator( enable_hydrocoptic=True, allow_girdlespring=False, activate_ma
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by atoav 1y ago
Well, that just means the function might be named wrong? copy_from_to_by_key(objectA, objectB, "name") Or, much better, you use named parameters, if your language supports it: copy_value( source=objectA, targe
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by atoav 1y ago
Well as long as you know the difference betwen lowercase ß and uppercase ẞ (introduced in 2008) everything is probably just gonna be fine.
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by atoav 1y ago
So you say they gave the rights of that new typeface to... Microsoft?
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by atoav 1y ago
Sure, FYI I am teaching Germany. Not exactly known to be a country of rule breakers, in fact more like the opposite. But rules that you don't know are easy to break. E.g. beginners with electrical wiring may or may not know what is up
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by atoav 1y ago
I don't feel the need to give dangerous advice. As an educator that has to do with the stuff people build more or less unsupervised I can assure you that dangerous is the defacto default starting point for anybody who has no idea what
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by atoav 1y ago
I believe when people run one of my programs and read the manual, it is my job to not waste their time and respect why they chose to do that. And that means the first screen they read should cover all the basics if possible.
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes, but I think this is an aspect where the European wingnuts and the US wingnuts differ. The religious angle is much less pronounced over here. There are of course crazy religious conservatives that make an extrimist religion their whole
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by atoav 1y ago
From embedded experience I would say it could be benefitial to do paging only if you operate under heavy memory- or latency-constraints. But most APIs certainly are not. Of course the should be some sort of maximum size, but I have seen API
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by atoav 1y ago
Yeah sure, I didn't intend to paint it as if these problems were easy to solve. They are not.
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by atoav 1y ago
You Americans always tell me (European), just how big your country is. When we talk about nuclear energy my worries of nuclear waste are always countered with: "We have enough empty space". There are literally oil fields with mill
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by atoav 1y ago
As someone who grew up in a right wing environment: It isn't all that complicated. Windmills are read as clear and visible symbols of an "ideology" these people hate. You're a bigot who is already angry about a world tha
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by atoav 1y ago
How does that change my point about an order by frequency of use being superior? If it is a memory helper, then the stuff people tend to use more often is certainly the stuff that needs to be looked up more.
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by atoav 1y ago
Good point.
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by atoav 1y ago
I always understood the myth as: "When you traveled somewhere and didn't know about the water-quality, you drank beer instead". Not that beer is immune against making you ill, but chances are random beer in some random villag
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by atoav 1y ago
Afaik one of the main problem with the software of his is that it tends to sacrifice ergonomics in the 99% common cases for some obscure theoretical observation. This is of course about tradeoffs and about the complexities of the problems y
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by atoav 1y ago
I parsed (2) in the obvious way of: A manual should start with the common stuff 99% of people need and not with something obscure that you will only need once you are at the level that you know the tool you're using inside out. That is
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by atoav 1y ago
My entry drug to Linux was WSL. When I started at my current job I started with a dual boot machine (Windows/Linux) with the thought of testing Linux as a desktop OS out for a bit. After a year I realized I wasn't booting into the
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by atoav 1y ago
Doesn't bringing up the topic of different projections still act as a good reminder that maps of spherical planets will always have one issue or another? Graphical representations of things have an impact on preception and then by prox
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by atoav 1y ago
Yeah, pagination ia a great option — maybe even a good default. But don't make it the only choice, give developers the choice to make the tradeoff between number of requests and payload size.
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by atoav 1y ago
I think this is one of the smaller problems the US might have right now.
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by atoav 1y ago
Unlike censorship on US-owned social media platforms where the female nipple is banned for some reason.
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by atoav 1y ago
I one had quite good experiences with it, but the roles were very clear: he was the domain expert who knew how things should be handled and I was the person knowing the code and the processes. This way I didn't have to come up with pot
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by atoav 1y ago
And I saw a ton of racist, genozidal, sexualized and otherwise unhinged content that the worst people would think call "freedom". So again, tell me what you're unfree to write there?
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by atoav 1y ago
Okay to me it answered in Russian only, convo went like this: > Bot: Составь таблицу на русском языке, где в столбцах указаны номера позиций, а в строках – типы элементов, для таблицы, которая описывает управление проектами (Translation:
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by atoav 1y ago
In most European countries I have traveled to during the past months the popular opinion regarding the US is that we have to operate under the worst-case-assumption that the US won't assist or would even actively use their tech as leve
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by atoav 1y ago
Ah the good old "freedom to" that totally forgets that freedom also should contain a "freedom of". Free like in a chaotic war zone, where you can commit any kind of horrible attrocity, but if you just want to have a nice
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes, and in addition a drivers job isn't just to drive the vehicle, but to make the right call in a million different emergency situations, help people e.g. with a lack of mobility, etc. One could argue the business-as-usual-driving is

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