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by bccdee 1y ago
That only works for enum discriminants. What if it were modifying the data payload, producing valid but corrupt messages? The only way to tolerate that kind of error is checksums on your data, and I don't think any language has that ki
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by bccdee 1y ago
> All colleges have electives. I also took business classes [which] helped me talk my way into a lot of opportunities over the years. [...] And math classes are essential to understand machine learning algorithms [and get a job related t
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Only "not absolutely true", which isn't compelling in the face of the overwhelming other experiences. Which is to say, yes, the person I was replying to was incorrect. But you liked the vibe of what they were saying, so
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by bccdee 1y ago
Here's a systematic review of the research as of 2022: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-022-00329-8 . It's paywalled, but you can probably find the full text on sci-hub. > [T]he last 5
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Education and turnkey child proofing of devices are the only thing that will really help. Strongly agree. It kills me that nobody is seriously discussing robust, industry-standard childproofing. Even if you require a driver's lice
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by bccdee 1y ago
A 13-year-old is one year away from highschool. You're underestimating the user-friendliness of VPNs and the tech-savviness of, if not the average middle-schooler, than the 85th-percentile middle-schooler at least.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Pornography addiction doesn't exist. No major medical body in the world considers it an actual condition. Studies show that self-reported pornography addicts consume the same amount of pornography as non-addicts, but have much higher r
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by bccdee 1y ago
That's completely untrue. I paid my way through school off student loans & the wages from my internships. I got a degree in computer science, but I took a wide variety of electives outside my program because I wanted to get a broad
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Or that the game engine couldn't handle big boobs assets? Given the choice between creating new "big boob" asset models for most of the many outfits in the game and simply capping breast size, it's hardly surprising
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by bccdee 1y ago
Any tool that justifies the choice not to implement an important and highly-requested feature with "effort is a finite resource" alone is not viable for serious development work. It's not prioritizing, it's a refusal to
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by bccdee 1y ago
Okay? But "the features you need would have taken effort to implement, so we didn't implement them" is not a very good sales pitch when you're trying to convince me to use your tool to do my job.
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by bccdee 1y ago
I've never had a system crash from a lightning strike, fault-tolerant or otherwise. I have had systems crash from null pointer errors though, and fault-tolerance did nothing to fix that except turn a crash into a crashloop. I have the
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by bccdee 1y ago
Collaborative editors are imperative; files are declarative. If I want to edit a Google Doc, my edit must be expressed in terms of the Google Docs interface. If there's a Vim macro that could make that change in moments, it doesn'
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by bccdee 1y ago
We're talking about Google Docs. Ctrl-A Ctrl-C takes moments, even in read-only mode. Sure, some hypothetical technology may be able to prevent this, but that's just not how people share documents online right now.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Well I guess that's okay if you're not interested in understanding what other people are saying. Anyway, if you're looking for total objectivity, I'd suggest that you avoid interpreting things other people say altogether
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by bccdee 1y ago
Oh, whoops. I only saw that they mentioned charging a fee but thought it seemed hostile—I figured, seems like there's a way to mitigate that, but I guess they realized that too.
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by bccdee 1y ago
You could implement a deposit system. People submitting reports pay a deposit fee that gets refunded immediately after the report is confirmed not to be slop. That way, the only people who pay the fee are the ones who submit slop reports.
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by bccdee 1y ago
I dunno, I'm not willing to overlook null values or default zero-values that easily. Those cause me problems all the time, and they are not meaningfully simpler than the alternative (explicit assignment). Or mutability modifiers. Yes,
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by bccdee 1y ago
It had to be removed from the fair early because it was drawing dangerously large crowds. [1] If art moves people, Comedian was an undeniably literal success. [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/arts&#x2
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by bccdee 1y ago
> If by "art community" you mean people who make "art" like that I didn't. > what the word means in colloquial speech is defined by popular consensus If I asked for the popular consensus on the definition of,
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Dialogue has been a weak point in "interactive fiction" since the beginning Hard disagree. Dialogue is a strength of interactive fiction. Dialogue trees are unique to the medium. Titles like Firewatch, Night in the Woods,
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by bccdee 1y ago
My favourite game of all time, Outer Wilds, was released in 2019. I agree that AAA dev is too risk-averse and that there's a dearth of mid-budget games, but the indie sphere is still very rich.
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by bccdee 1y ago
"I don't think it's art, therefore it's not art." Congratulations, you're the type of person Marcel Duchamp was making fun of in 1917. 108 years later, the stance you're defending has been so comprehensive
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by bccdee 1y ago
Are you honestly tell me that you would let someone correct you on a matter of taste? That an authority could tell you, "no, you're wrong for enjoying this piece of art. It's bad and you ought to dislike it," and you wou
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by bccdee 1y ago
> explicit institutional discrimination Wild leap to a conclusion there. The article you linked makes some similarly strange leaps, based apparently on poor reading comprehension: > A baffling New York Times op-ed (“The Disappearance
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yeah—I like writing elegant test abstractions much more than I like writing clumsy, verbose unit tests, and there's an inverse relationship between those. Maybe people just don't want to ever bother to refactor a test suite, and s
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by bccdee 1y ago
Also, a poorly designed test suite makes your code base extremely painful to change. A well-designed test suite with good abatractions makes it easy to change code, on top of which, it makes tests extremely fast to write. I think the whole
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by bccdee 1y ago
They should set the standard that it's wrong to pay Oracle for anything. That's rewarding bad behaviour. The only problem with what they did is that they ultimately paid Oracle in the end. They should have stolen and then gotten a
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by bccdee 1y ago
That's not entirely true. I throw away a lot of cardboard packaging with a plastic window glued into it. Obviously this can't replace all plastic, but it can certainly replace some. Plastics do a lot of things; no one material c
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by bccdee 1y ago
The code already looks different based on different developers' opinions. Gofmt already allows this: fmt.Printf("%s %s %s %s\n", arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4) and this fmt.Printf("%s %s %s %s\n", ar

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