blep_

20 ms·

181.
by blep_ 4y ago
> causing me to wonder at how someone who does gene sequencing thinks of programming as being more technical Everything you don't understand looks complicated from the outside.
182.
by blep_ 4y ago
As a person from The Future, making a whole new computer model specifically for one specific hotel chain is really weird to me.
183.
by blep_ 4y ago
They do if you legitimately think the long-term thing will kill everyone. I don't think that myself, but it's internally consistent.
184.
by blep_ 4y ago
That kind of gets into philosophy of what governments are for: should they protect people who make bad decisions from themselves? Does the answer change if people are actively marketing the bad decision? Does the attempt at doing so suggest
185.
by blep_ 4y ago
There's also `git pull --rebase`, which is just "pull like normal, then rebase onto the thing I just pulled". Remember that it's okay to screw around and break stuff! Sometimes that's the best way to learn. Git&#x27
186.
by blep_ 4y ago
Stash -> pull -> unstash is just manual rebase, though. You're already doing the thing you're claiming not to do, you're just doing it the hard way. Which is fine, if that works for you! Just know that you're using
187.
by blep_ 4y ago
I'm not disagreeing; "not my fault" was intended to be read more flippantly. "Not my problem" may have been better.
188.
by blep_ 4y ago
Mastodon accepts whatever content it receives. The character limit is only for posts created from that instance.
189.
by blep_ 4y ago
It exists, it's widely supported, and it's good enough. There's no reason it has to be XML, but there's no good enough argument against it to justify fragmenting an already shaky ecosystem.
190.
by blep_ 4y ago
That's still a subscription, it's just not attached to a YouTube account. Not my fault if someone generates statistics based on redefining words to suit their business model.
191.
by blep_ 4y ago
Some instances have larger character limits. It's not configurable, but it's fairly easy to patch.
192.
by blep_ 4y ago
I do this, and more people should. People on huge multi-user instances are completely missing the point of federation. The downsides are the usual sysadmin stuff that comes with running servers for anything. People also get excited about th
193.
by blep_ 4y ago
> they need watered Until they grow into the plumbing.
194.
by blep_ 4y ago
Legitimate question: what do they do about immigration into those countries from countries without such laws?
195.
by blep_ 4y ago
Look closer at the signs. The person above agreed USD * GBP was weird and wrong, but disputed that USD * USD was any better.
196.
by blep_ 4y ago
A lot of this is pure preference, and if we try to debate the merits of prefix vs infix operators we're just going to yell MY PREFERENCES ARE RIGHT AND YOURS AREN'T at each other until we get bored. But there are some places where
197.
by blep_ 4y ago
"Realist" is a bit non-neutral in the attitude it expresses toward the view. Compare it to "planet shape realist" and it'll be more obvious.
198.
by blep_ 4y ago
Some areas of reddit do similar things with similar results. AskHistorians and AskScience are the first two to come to mind. This may be a lot easier in places where there's an explicit point to discussion beyond the discussion itsel
199.
by blep_ 4y ago
re Haskell: I just looked at a few arbitrary files in arbitrary Haskell projects on Github, and I retract that part. I was either thinking of another language, or had seen a lot of bad Haskell code before that I cannot find now. ---- Isn&#x
200.
by blep_ 4y ago
> prefer simple built-in data structures (primarily hashes) over custom objects I've found this is actually one of my biggest problems with functional code as currently written: people seem afraid to just declare a struct/recor
201.
by blep_ 4y ago
The typical argument for vaccines is much less shaky than the typical argument for pure FP. For one, vaccine people can actually explain why vaccines are good. FP people seem to mostly just repeat variations on "it's easier to r
202.
by blep_ 4y ago
Most languages have already taken the good parts. We barely even consider them a "FP thing" anymore. Callbacks and map() are just things you can do in most languages. What remains when people advocate for more FP is the more e
203.
by blep_ 4y ago
> and perhaps should an effort be made to help people understand the comparison? I would recommend that, because the connection isn't obvious to me.
204.
by blep_ 4y ago
Tiling window managers help.
205.
by blep_ 4y ago
If you flip the scissors over, you also reverse the side each blade is on.
206.
by blep_ 4y ago
> happens far more often than buying one in the first place In the absolute worst case, wouldn't it be exactly as often (if every fridge immediately fails)? Though now I'm imagining someone having a fridge fail and then buying
207.
by blep_ 4y ago
This might work for libraries (with the addition of the obvious "and doesn't obviously game the system by special casing all the test inputs" rule, because as soon as you add financial incentives, someone will try that). I&
208.
by blep_ 4y ago
I've only one experience with airbnb support (a host that blamed a cracked window on us that we had not touched or looked at) but they were reasonably okay to deal with that one time. I'm more inclined to think they're very i
209.
by blep_ 4y ago
One of the immutable laws of Raspberry Pi usage is that, for every application, a Pi will be either massively overpowered (this) or completely unnecessary (using them for "learning programming" when you have a perfectly good compu
210.
by blep_ 4y ago
> did they delude themselves that people want “recommended content” against their will? Probably. In fact, I think you're underestimating the degree to which they can. Very few evil people actually think they're evil. Most thin

More ›