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901.
by barrkel 4y ago
In a company, code you write yourself is a dead end. You want as little of it as possible. Staff turn over. What was a first party piece of code well understood within the company inevitably turns into a poorly documented piece of code writ
902.
by barrkel 4y ago
To be useful as a comparison between implementation languages, it should be idiomatic. Otherwise it just tells you what it's like to transliterate one language into another, something which is usually only done for interop purposes - r
903.
by barrkel 4y ago
They have less reputation to risk. Big tech and so on can't put out AI prototypes as easily without ending up on the front page of NYT when it comes out with some egregious learned biases around race, sexism, Nazis, and so on.
904.
by barrkel 4y ago
Implicit result var is also in Delphi, as Result. The original Pascal is to assign to a variable with the same name as the function, which looks kind of odd, and is overloaded in recursive scenarios, since functions with no args don't
905.
by barrkel 4y ago
By who? I always have to stare at list comprehensions very closely to understand operation being done. The source of the data is in the middle, where it should logically come first. The filter is at the end, where logically it should come a
906.
by barrkel 4y ago
I actually prefer irrelevant ads; they're easier to ignore. To the degree that ads work, they're a distraction from my current task, whatever it is. Irrelevant ads are less of a distraction.
907.
by barrkel 4y ago
FWIW, most of Google's Ads services share a database - the catch is it's F1 on top of Spanner. Latency is highish, but throughput is good. In the outside world, for an application that may truly need to scale, I'd go MySQL -&
908.
by barrkel 4y ago
Services generally have a stateless request/response architecture, inherited from the success of HTTP, and contra the experiences of CORBA and COM, the latter being much better suited to Office Object Linking and Embedding and VB visua
909.
by barrkel 4y ago
Microservices, while often sold as solving a technical problem, usually actually solve for a human problem in scaling up an organization. There's two technical problems that microservices purport to solve: modularization (separation of
910.
by barrkel 4y ago
Honestly, that first paragraph sounds like a self-justification for not improving one's social skills. By choosing to make it part of your identity, learning to improve would be self erasure. https://m.youtube.com/watch
911.
by barrkel 4y ago
How many times have you tried this? Text editors are not easy to write. There's a wonderfully fractal level of detail. The differences in text editing experiences between platforms abound. The boundaries the cursor moves to for differe
912.
by barrkel 4y ago
I assume you're sarcastic, because creating a good native editing experience from the ground up is not trivial, when you try to make context menus look native, have native editing keyboard shortcuts, integrate with system IMEs and acce
913.
by barrkel 4y ago
Splotchy hard to read type, low quality paper and binding, poorly aligned text, rough edges from blunt cutting, weird cover possibly in a different language, and the knowledge that the authors aren't getting money from your purchase.
914.
by barrkel 4y ago
It's closer to 4 hours a cycle, not including procrastination and stress, and it's usually at least two cycles a year.
915.
by barrkel 4y ago
That's 33% less memory, or conversely, UTF-8 uses 50% more memory.
916.
by barrkel 4y ago
I have a pair of motorcycle boots with Gore Tex liner for about 10 years and they're still good for hours of rain. I also have no complaints about my Ecco shoes, but they only last a few years of wear.
917.
by barrkel 4y ago
You notice this if you wear Gore Tex lined gloves on a motorcycle with heated grips in rain. Your hands get steamed, effectively, and the inside of the glove ends up wet through.
918.
by barrkel 4y ago
This isn't the case in law in many countries. Whether an image is illegal or not does not solely depend on the means of production; if the images are realistic, then they are often illegal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
919.
by barrkel 4y ago
The most likely expensive dud you're going to see is aged Burgundy reds. Many don't make it. Very old red wine (e.g. 30+ years), if it's not fortified or a dessert wine, is also not particularly pleasant. I've had some v
920.
by barrkel 4y ago
Bret and the weird hay / mousey flavour from natural wines are different things. I too am not a fan of natural wines largely because of the additional flavours, but normal sulphite-laden wine can come with a dose of bret and it's
921.
by barrkel 4y ago
Round trip it through a translation service.
922.
by barrkel 4y ago
Malta also has English as an official language.
923.
by barrkel 4y ago
Repeated success in life is correlated with both those things, but they are not naturally correlated with one another. There are a lot of very smart people who dropped out of the race. Being smart can mean you don't need to learn grit,
924.
by barrkel 4y ago
> FTX did what banks do, which is to take a cut of transactions, and especially use customer funds to make bets Their terms of service didn't give them the right to do this, as I understand it. > None of the Digital Assets in
925.
by barrkel 4y ago
I use cascaded windows. It doesn't need a window manager and it's more useful & productive for me than tiled layouts. It looks like this: +--+--+--+--------------------+ | | | | | | | | |
926.
by barrkel 4y ago
Well, there you go. Jupyter isn't very much like binding.pry, because it lacks the debugger-ness. REPLs without the debugger bit aren't nearly as good. That's why I mentioned debugger for JS and binding.pry (implicitly, for R
927.
by barrkel 4y ago
Concepts can often be simulated in many languages, but only clumsily, and the lack of ergonomic affordances in syntax, control flow and type systems can lead one to believe that a different paradigm doesn't work very well - it can be h
928.
by barrkel 4y ago
That's exactly what it does already. The maintainers are objecting to the existence of the links.
929.
by barrkel 4y ago
The problem is people being wrong, and the upside is feeling good about punishing them. IMO.
930.
by barrkel 4y ago
There's a certain type of person who gets pleasure from following rules exactly, particularly when other people don't follow those rules. A kind of smug moral superiority. If they get into a position of power, they can make life w

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