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by bluGill 1mo ago
It shows the sad state of user experience that applications completely ignore how different platforms function. For websites, I would expect them to follow the web conventions of UX. However, as soon as you're in a "native" a
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I don't know iOS so I can't say, but a good UX does depend in part on platform expectations and every system historically been different. The compromises mean the each have good reason for what they do (sometimes anyway), but swit
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Most of the time the rust way is just as good, just different.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Outlook is native. There is the new web version that it says don't use (yet)
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Real numbers. I can't say what directly, but you can make a good guess if you read my comment history. (I don't think this would be worth your time, but you could)
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Work should be worth. I'm not sure if that is me or autocorrect.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Too Soon often we thought those were obvious and didn't comment. Meanwhile there are detailed comments about things nobody cares about.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Exactly - we have been using C or C++ for decades and most of us have a lot of experience. We think like programmers in the languages meaning we often do things that Rust won't allow without unsafe. A small percent of the time that is
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I can't count how many times I've said "this is really bad, I it is worth rewriting to fix all the issues", only to discover that there were good reasons for all the past decisions and so we end up with the same mess as
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by bluGill 1mo ago
The problem with tomorrow is sunk costs. There are many places I wish we had made a difference decision in the past - but we need to balance that with cost to make changes when what we have works okay.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Good. As a C+++ programmer Rust has some things that intrigue me. However I have no desire to rewrite everything in rust and so interoperability has been what is holding me back. We rewrote everything a few years back, completing in 2014
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Try, but what skills are work keeping? We need something cogntive, but not everything. I know a few people who blacksmith as a hobby (often for the physical exercise as much as the work), but most people are happy not knowing how to do t
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Most people don't have a choice. Corporate IT has choosen what I run my machine on. I have used a native linux machine, but since my email is still on outlook, everybody uses teams, and all the non-code documents are on windows I end
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by bluGill 1mo ago
The other things I've seen beginners do is throw unsafe at everything.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
there are a lot of really bad plugins that are used. Also there are a lot of really bad admins who have out of date versions that are misconfigured.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
The greybeards rarely used debuggers, and then only to see the stack trace of a core file. They found printf better. I can't find my copy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming but that is w
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I can't remember which is condenser... This heats 300 or 400 liters - about the size of a US tank water heater. Tankless is typically a lot smaller. I have a tankless in my house and I'm not going back... I wish someone made a h
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by bluGill 1mo ago
OTOH, CO2 uses much higher pressures and so I'm more willing to DIY a F-gas based one. CO2 if there is a leak can cut a limb off. F-gas is generally not that high. I wouldn't want a leak/mistake, but CO2 is less personally
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Many people have thought about the drain heat exchanger. However drains need to be way oversized for various reasons and so you can't get good contact with the water: it is mostly air in the drain pipes.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I don't see how that is possible. Either way you need the same amount of heat added to the tub. Maybe you save a little because the return pipes are not cooling the water, but otherwise the needed heat should be the same. I personall
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by bluGill 1mo ago
If I'm in the bath I'm either reading a good book, or talking with my wife (I have a tub big enough for two - takes a lot of water to fill) - either way I'm going to be in it for an hour or two. As the other poster said, if
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Exactly, the harmed party is not subject to binding arbitration. The harmed party isn't going to bring someone to court for their bad devices - nobody has enough assets to be worth suing (other than perhaps to compel them cooperate wi
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Fortunately you only need to find a one of the many possible devices to sue. Just winning a couple of these will send a message. The goal isn't the $$$ directly (the lawyers are the only ones who win) it is to send a message that you
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Even in New York City, a very large number of people are not taking transit, there are a lot of cars. Generally gets about a third though different boroughs have different numbers, Manhattan, most people are walking, everywhere else cars
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I propose we be very slow and careful because everything I've seen anyone come up with has some unexpected unintended consequence. Some of them are absolutely awful and worse than the current situation. Others are on balance a good com
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by bluGill 1mo ago
That is your opinion. Which is fine. However try not to judge others.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
How about prison for attempted murder? I've lost enough friends to drivers who made a mistake. If self driving is better in just that, but worse every other way: I'm for it. That might be a big if above, but of true them I support
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by bluGill 1mo ago
I know many couples today living on one income so the other can raise the kids. They are a tiny minority but you can find them all over. They just have to make life style sacrafices that most are not willing for.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
1950 proves it is possible. It doesn't prove it was ever common.
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by bluGill 1mo ago
Each culture is a little different. What are you going to do with your kids when the parents are working is a problem? At what time do you trust them to stay home by themself?

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