biorach

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by biorach 1y ago
> I should stop comparing Rust to CL, better learn Rust first Yes
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by biorach 1y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1-OmAICpU "Brooklyn is not expanding"
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by biorach 1y ago
You don't need to have read Homer
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by biorach 1y ago
> Finally, that's a much smaller number than I expected for a country of 3 million. 172.7k yurts. Assuming that these are family residences for the most part, if we take an average occupancy of 4 (which is probably too low - the fer
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by biorach 1y ago
> I find a lot of programmers don't know how to write an array of floats to disk what does that have to do with it?
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by biorach 1y ago
The legal fees were small change to Google
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by biorach 1y ago
> Yeah but that's because they cut the price to to 1/4 of it's price!! They were offloading unsold stock at huge cost. That's not necessarily a bad business strategy... Sometimes you take an initial loss by underprici
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by biorach 1y ago
The Thing!
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by biorach 1y ago
What were the most significant missing bits?
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by biorach 1y ago
I've read some more. He's just nuts. Your talking nonsense.
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by biorach 1y ago
> Read the news. That's why the maintainers forked it It looks more like one maintainer, and it's really not clear if his problem was with corporate control, or if he just fell out with everybody.
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by biorach 1y ago
Exploitation of the indebted is a symptom that should be addressed regardless. Plus I think your diagnosis is simplistic.
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by biorach 1y ago
They can use a different name. If someone in a position to push this really felt that advancing the cause really needed a rename they could come up with a name today, get consensus tomorrow and move on with life. This is a non issue
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by biorach 1y ago
They are referring to a convention, not a language restriction. If you want to mutate two parameters just pass them to a function like you normally would. It's sloppy and a bad habit, I would not let it pass a PR in production code. Pr
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by biorach 1y ago
I think you do not understand what A Google SWE actually does
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by biorach 1y ago
> I don't think picking various commodities as the "true" measure of what is "valuable" is a useful exercise. No one said that a commodity is a "true" measure of value. A commenter simply said that it i
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by biorach 1y ago
(Not the person you were replying to) You asked a question, they answered in good faith, and now you've dismissed their answer. I would also point out that you're dismissal is actually about a related, but separate issue - you&#x2
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by biorach 1y ago
wonderful rebuttal
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by biorach 1y ago
https://fly.io/docs/mpg/overview/
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by biorach 1y ago
ah ok, sorry. I thought you were saying that they tried an EEE play on ActiveX. You meant they used ActiveX in an EEE play in the browser wars.
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by biorach 1y ago
> I think it’s supremely risky to hitch your wagon to their tech or services OK, finally, yes, this is very true, for specific parts of their tech. But banging on about EEE just distracts from this, more important message. > Make it i
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by biorach 1y ago
> A classic example is ActiveX. Nah, even that was based on earlier MS technologies - OLE and COM A good starter list of EEE plays is on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingui
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by biorach 1y ago
None of those were independent projects or open standards. VScode and pyright are both MS projects from the get-go. Sabotaging forks is scummy, but the forks were extending MS functionality, not the other way around. GitHub was a private co
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by biorach 1y ago
> Well, you sure managed to avoid that by setting up camp on that hill. Kudos on so much time saved. Why are you picking a fight about this?
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by biorach 1y ago
Well they could just say that instead of wasting people's time with oblique references
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by biorach 1y ago
> CPython is an organization that overpromises, allocates jobs to the obedient and faithful while weeding out competent dissenters. This stinks of BS
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by biorach 1y ago
At this stage the cliched and clueless comments about embrace/extend/extinguish are tiresome and inevitable whenever Microsoft is mentioned. A few decades ago MS did indeed have a playbook which they used to undermine open standa
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by biorach 1y ago
ok so very uncommon. why are you even bringing it up?
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by biorach 1y ago
> A <1% risk of loss, if catastrophic (e.g. thrown off the platform into an oncoming train), how common is it for people to be thrown off the platform into an oncoming train in NY?
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by biorach 1y ago
> Why would the filmmakers make the re-enactment though? because, as you'll see in the article, people thought it was cute and funny to dress up very small children as chimney sweeps > by the late '20 programs were running f

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