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by badrequest 3y ago
The matte-black laptop they shipped out to beta testers for ChromeOS is still the best laptop I've ever owned. Maybe not processing speed-wise, but the size and everything else was perfection.
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Encoding/JSON/v2 proposal for Go(github.com)
2 points by badrequest 3y ago|0 comments
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by badrequest 3y ago
If those calls can cause errors, then yes, it's necessary to handle them. Maybe you're content to have a contextless stack trace printed whenever things fail, but I like a little order.
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by badrequest 3y ago
It's absolutely idiomatic to use panic in main. In fact, that's basically the only place it's allowed in "Go programming standards."
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by badrequest 3y ago
He bamboozled as much money from rich people as he did from poors, they're throwing the book at him.
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by badrequest 3y ago
Genuine inquiry: are there broad-reaching unions in the music industry involved in creative work? I know they exist for things like stagehands, not sure if they exist for songwriters (who might be covered under the WGA agreement) or other p
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by badrequest 3y ago
Map Men is such an underrated YouTube channel IMHO. Consistently informative and cleverly humorous.
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by badrequest 3y ago
"I care more about revenue than most people" is a very nice way to phrase "I don't give a rat's ass about the user, I want my money!"
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by badrequest 3y ago
Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to th
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by badrequest 3y ago
You can enter a DPA (data processing agreement) with OpenAI that forbids subsequent training on submitted content.
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by badrequest 3y ago
It literally says in the original post that it only works for English videos.
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by badrequest 3y ago
I use sqlc and it makes this a non-issue.
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by badrequest 3y ago
Please point to when Go has broken backwards compatibility.
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by badrequest 3y ago
I write Go every day, and can count the number of times per year I have to involve an `interface{}` literal on one hand. Unless you're doing JSON wrong or working with an API that simply doesn't care about returning consistently s
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by badrequest 3y ago
Are you suggesting Rob Pike has no experience designing a programming language?
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by badrequest 3y ago
I also can't imagine a case where it is useful or even truly intended to rely on this behavior.
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by badrequest 3y ago
People are allowed to write code/tools that are useful to only themselves. They're also allowed to post about these tools. Nobody is going to make you use them.
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by badrequest 3y ago
When Goland launched it wasn't that much different from IntelliJ IDEA with the Go plugin. In the intervening years it has come to feel like a significantly better product than that combination.
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by badrequest 3y ago
So to have an old phone that is still secure you have to know how to flash an OS onto a phone?
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by badrequest 3y ago
If I generate a base image with Midjourney, and then apply a mild gaussian blur in Photoshop to a 10x10 pixel space within that image, can I say I've created it? If not, why not?
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by badrequest 3y ago
I'm sure Cloudflare provides a great service, but putting both DNS services and domain registration under one umbrella feels like too large a single point of failure to me. Switching registrars is super annoying (I'm so glad I did
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by badrequest 3y ago
"Google gives lobbying firms $20M to make boogeymen out of the independent development of AI models"
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Sylvia's Law(blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru)
2 points by badrequest 3y ago|0 comments
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Bring Your Own Interface(blog.verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru)
1 points by badrequest 3y ago|0 comments
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by badrequest 3y ago
Everyone I've ever interviewed who currently works at Amazon is desperate to leave an environment ripe with overwork, backstabbing, and nasty office politics. You create the culture you want.
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by badrequest 3y ago
/shrug He is to me.
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by badrequest 3y ago
Since when are highways more important than the first amendment?
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by badrequest 3y ago
What is unpeaceable about gathering on a highway?
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by badrequest 3y ago
It feels like they buried the lede, because the referenced Go code is horrendous. I'd be afraid to put that on the front page of my repo, too, if my library lead to code that reads/looks like that.
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by badrequest 3y ago
> Python made it through a backwards-incompatible source change. It took them a decade and permanently tarnished their perception with many programmers. They "made it through" in a similar way to how cancer survivors enter remi

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