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by avgcorrection 3y ago
I don’t get it. I give the search engine a string. Who is arguing against them searching for the string? They’re arguing against using location tracking and third party tracking in order to figure out that, actually, you’re not searching fo
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
> I did not meet or came to know of existence of any one person who willingly gives consent for companies to use their data. Get ready to be lectured on users being freeloaders/hypothetical users who would love to give away all thei
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
So you saw a post about C++, it didn’t mention “Rust” once, mentioned “memory safe” languages which there are dozens of, and yet found a way to shoehorn in a dismissive comment about a meme. Nice. We’ve reached the rewrite-in-rust meme st
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
We’re still in for another 20 years of hardcore veteran Cxx programmers insisting that either the memory safety issue is overblown or just a theoretical issue if you are experienced enough/use a new enough edition of the language.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
> I think this is just another opportunity to create new services. So maybe cool for people with itches or startup aspirations, more hassle for everyone else.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
OK Drone.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Okay great. Thanks Ron :)
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
What do you mean? I’m talking about Java code inside javadoc, like code example docs.[1] That’s straightforward if the doc markup is MarkDown with code fences. The MarkDown code character backtick is especially great for Java since it’s not
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
The worst thing about HTML as docs is that you have to encode your code. You should just be able to write the code for the programming language you are using directly in the docs. Anything else is just nuts.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Java programmer argues for another level of indirection, using XML. More news at noon.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Et tu
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
An OS distribution is a whole OS because you need an OS. An Emacs “distribution” (quotes) doesn’t include Emacs because you can already install vanilla Emacs yourself. Que Emacs is an OS jokes.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Plain Emacs is not Emacs. Customization or at least the option to customize is the whole point.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Intellij hotkeys at least are a Ctrl+Alt+Shift nigthmare. Are Emacs keybinds really that bad? Well, I wouldn’t know anymore since I use Evil…
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
OK Great Leader. People are noting that the “Homebrew guy” is behind two back-to-back stupid ideas (that package thing and this). You can’t deny that he was involved with Homebrew and that’s all that’s being said. The OSS CV thing can be a
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
The great thing about modern living is that a thousand variables have changed in the last 70 years so we can pick our own favorite pet peeve and just hammer on that point in every conversation.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
I think with these things it helps to reflect. If you reflect you can either glean the truth about it or make up some intuition that is instrumentally useful. I think a lot of use manage to reach some wisdom milestones completely independen
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
That’s just some made up math-as-psychology that makes sense to nerds for some reason. Just conflating two completely different concepts. Any explanation that doesn’t say anything about the mind is just baloney. Time here is an experiential
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
What are you arguing against? This is an experiential thing. Or phenomenological. Evidence? This is just something that people often report. No one cares if there are counter-examples. That doesn’t make it less true for those that experienc
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
(1) is nonsense (and literally not needed to explain this phenomenon) but (2) is true.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
That the mind compresses oft-repeated experiences makes more sense than this math-as-psychology nonsense. Notice how when you have to wait for an hour, you’re bored, time seems to pass slowly, yet for those last ten minutes time passes more
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Around this? Assuming that it’s something that needs to be gotten around.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
With some smudge/clean filter or wathcamacallit you can make your job easy at the same time.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
I have a confession to make. I am so bad with dynamic programming languages that I prefer to make scripts in Rust rather than Python. It has all the modern conveniences that I want, it’s impure, I can simplify if I want (maybe allocate more
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Sorry. I interpreted it as “if you got nothing nice to say…”
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
Oh no. Someone had the grit to document their experiences with a technology that they dislike and share it with us. What a tragedy. Most people don’t have the energy for that and just move on. Which doesn’t help others.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
> "golang" seems to have similar statistics: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q= ... But Go is a working programming language.
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
We can’t just appreciate that someone took the time to evaluate the technical merits of a particular technology? What the hell does all of this peripheral stuff (“is the author otherwise well-known?”) matter?
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
> However, they have also been subject to profoundly unreasonable – even unhinged – criticism, and this has created a rather unhealthy dynamic where both reasonable and unreasonable criticism are all treated the same by the developers. Y
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by avgcorrection 3y ago
None of these points apply in this context. The context is that this project has been going on for many years, is popular (using the GitHub stars proxy), and has been criticized before. This isn’t a fourteen year old kid trying to make a la

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